Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap as if he knew the

as if he knew the whole vessel of a sailor's night depended on inches

drawn in the hand of an era still trying to decide whether he was a man or a monument

The Bingham Apparatus Patent for a Gentlemans Vice reads like the instruction manual for a vanished social ritual — the pause

Abraham Lincoln 1865 — a portrait fixed in the final year

Honorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861-1897 Frame Style:Canvas Wrap as if he knew theHonorable Hiram Rhodes Revels, ca. 1861 1897 a portrait of the Mississippi minister who, in 1870, became the first Black man seated in the United States Senate, occupying the very chair once held by Jefferson Davis. The image carries the quiet audacity of Reconstruction's brief promise. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,