Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 sacramento_antique cherry blossoms crowding the Tidal

cherry blossoms crowding the Tidal Basin in pink drifts

and hung upon a parlor wall

in one shot

1868 — a domestic lithograph staged in the year the general traded epaulets for the presidency

rendered in the grave engraver's hand reserved for men whom the Republic had not yet finished asking to serve

Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 sacramento_antique cherry blossoms crowding the TidalEminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886. Issued in the long aftermath of emancipation, this lithograph honors the AME bishop and Ohio legislator among a pantheon of Black leaders a portrait drawn in the sober register of a generation insisting, against the receding promise of Reconstruction, on being seen. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,