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

cherry blossoms crowding the Tidal Basin in pink drifts

General Douglas MacArthur 20th Century — a press-photograph likeness of the young officer whose name would outgrow the century that produced him

and Dewey was its calm

These postcards trade in pastel conch houses

Andrew Johnson and Others

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,