Abraham Lincoln in 1863 4th of july art Eminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass

Eminent Colored Men Frederick Douglass 1884 places the great orator at the center of a post-war pantheon

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1863 — a wartime portrait of the Ohio congressman turned soldier

and dates marshaled to insist that emancipation was not an ending but a ledger still being kept

A rendering of cloistered ambition

Abraham Lincoln in 1863 4th of july art Eminent Colored Men Frederick DouglassAbraham Lincoln in 1863 a portrait fixed at the war's grimmest hinge, the year of Gettysburg and the Proclamation, when the President's face had already begun its slow erosion into the gaunt, gathering mask the country would later remember as resolve. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic publishers