Eminent Colored Men: Joseph C. Price 1894 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame labor sympathizer — carried New

labor sympathizer — carried New York's working wards into a chamber thundering with bank fights and the slow rot beneath expansion's confidence

Builders and Rulers of the Nation 1895 assembles the republic's architects and executives into a single chromolithographic pantheon — a Gilded Age civics lesson rendered in portrait medallions

The draftsman's hand lingers over the gallery railings and the careful geometry of the focal plane

an Independence Day christening of steel and ambition that announced the river city's resurrection nine years after Appomattox

Eminent Colored Men: Joseph C. Price 1894 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame labor sympathizer — carried NewEminent 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