Eminent Colored Men: Hon. John R. Lynch of Mississippi, 1884 Swiss Flag Decor Each focus and radius vector

Each focus and radius vector reads less like calculation than liturgy

the Last Frontier rendered in linen and real-photo before the highway ever reached it

when the sixteenth president's gaunt features were studied as closely as battlefield maps

frigid orbits

19th Century — a portrait of Old Hickory rendered in the iron-jawed iconography his partisans demanded

Eminent Colored Men: Hon. John R. Lynch of Mississippi, 1884 Swiss Flag Decor Each focus and radius vectorEminent Colored Men: Hon. John R. Lynch of Mississippi, 1884. Lynch sits among the dignified ranks of Black statesmen the post war republic had elected and would soon abandon a Mississippi congressman rendered in the careful portraiture of a country still arguing, against itself, over whom citizenship was for. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,