Eminent Colored Men: Joseph C. Price 1894 Key_West_wall_art Each nebula is engraved with

Each nebula is engraved with the reverence of a cartographer charting territories no ship could reach

Franz Sigel 19th Century — the German-born Union general rendered in the formal idiom of his adopted republic

16th President of the United States

Abraham Lincoln 19th Century — a portrait study of the wartime president

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Eminent Colored Men: Joseph C. Price 1894 Key_West_wall_art Each nebula is engraved withEminent Colored Men: Joseph C. Price, 1894 a commemorative portrait of the Livingstone College founder and orator, issued in the long shadow after Emancipation when Black achievement was catalogued in lithograph as both tribute and argument. Price's likeness here belongs to a gallery of race men assembled to insist, in ink, on a citizenship still being contested. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive