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The Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 assembles Frederick Douglass and his contemporaries into a chromolithograph of Black achievement printed eighteen years after Appomattox — a composite portrait insisting

labor sympathizer — carried New York's working wards into a chamber thundering with bank fights and the slow rot beneath expansion's confidence

The likeness carries the weariness of Appomattox and the unspoken charge of Reconstruction still ahead

a commemorative document compiled in the long shadow of the war — the republic taking stock of itself at the Exposition

The Stone Sentinel Minots Ledge Lighthouse Engineering Diagrams chart the audacity of building atop a half-submerged Massachusetts reef

Charles Sumner 1874 NY_Giants_Fan_Gift The Heroes and Leaders ofCharles Sumner 1874. The Massachusetts senator rendered in the final year of his life, when the great abolitionist voice had thinned to a whisper and his Civil Rights Bill still languished in committee a portrait shadowed by the unfinished business of Reconstruction itself. 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