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Prominent Colored People — a composite portrait gallery of African American leadership assembled in the long decades after Emancipation

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The Astronomer's Vigil Uranus Neptune Orbital Study charts the two outermost wanderers in the Victorian firmament — Herschel's pale discovery and Leverrier's mathematical ghost

The Baron Cigarette Patent of 188 belongs to the smokehouse era of design — when the act of lighting a cigar carried enough cultural weight to justify a patent application and a draftsman's afternoon

January 1st 1863 — a commemorative lithograph of the New Year's Day quill stroke that turned a war for Union into a war for emancipation

August Willich, Brigadier General USA, 1863 Size:24x36 Prominent Colored People — aAugust Willich, Brigadier General USA, 1863 the Prussian forty eighter turned Union officer, photographed at the rank he earned through the smoke of Stones River and Liberty Gap. A portrait of the immigrant radical in shoulder straps, fighting an American war with the conviction of a European revolutionary. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional