Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 chef_definition The Publicans Vessel — Patent

The Publicans Vessel — Patent Drawing of the American Beer Mug is a drawing from the era when American brewing was a serious industrial science — pumps

regimental colors arranged with the cool taxonomy of a plate that knew these banners had already passed from rallying cry into relic

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

The Barbers Implement 1892 Thinning Shears Patent belongs to the era when every neighborhood had its barber and every barber had his preferences — and patents like this one were how those preferences became standard

Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 chef_definition The Publicans Vessel — PatentEminent 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,