Heroes of the Colored Race 1883 Size:36x24 These linen postcards trade in

These linen postcards trade in eternal afternoons

to be seen

a republic walking its martyred president home through streets that had only weeks before celebrated the war's end

Grant at the Capture of the City of Mexico — a documentary engraving of the young lieutenant amid the smoke of 1847

Aug 1861 — Union Gen

Heroes of the Colored Race 1883 Size:36x24 These linen postcards trade inHeroes of the Colored Race, 1883 a chromolithograph of Frederick Douglass flanked by Senators Blanche Bruce and Hiram Revels, ringed by vignettes of Black Americans claiming their place in the republic less than two decades after emancipation. It is the work of remembrance and assertion, both at once. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional