Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap drawn in the hand of

drawn in the hand of an era still trying to decide whether he was a man or a monument

The Inferior Planets Venus Mercury in Their Celestial Dance charts the two sunward wanderers in their endless pas de deux

Ambrose Everts Burnside 19th Century — a portrait of the Union general whose famously emphatic whiskers gave the language a word

The Gilded Prison — 1932 Patent Archive is a piece of living American history — an archival document transformed into a museum-quality framed print for your wall

The Bingham Apparatus Patent for a Gentlemans Vice reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap drawn in the hand ofHonorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861 1897 a portrait of the Mississippi minister who, in 1870, became the first Black man seated in the United States Senate, occupying the very chair once held by Jefferson Davis. The image carries the quiet audacity of Reconstruction's brief promise. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,