Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 chef_definition Lee 1865–1871 — the surrendered

Lee 1865–1871 — the surrendered general in his postwar afterlife

The Keepers Blueprint Baltimore Harbor Light Station Plans of 1885 charts the caisson-set sentinel that would rise from the soft Patapsco bottom — a pneumatic foundation sunk through Chesapeake silt

printed in the very year the Union's survival hung on a wartime ballot

September 1899 — the hero of Manila Bay rendered in commemorative gravity

Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 chef_definition Lee 1865–1871 — the surrenderedEminent 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,