Afro American Monument 1897 Size:18x24 drawn with the patient precision

drawn with the patient precision of an engineer who knew this river demanded a steady

The street unfurls in the gaslit clamor of haberdashers and theater-goers

issued a hundred years after Philadelphia's audacity

It is an orrery flattened onto paper — Victorian astronomy at its most devotional

The lithographer's grid imposes order on a hundred years of contested elections

Afro American Monument 1897 Size:18x24 drawn with the patient precisionAfro American Monument 1897 renders in commemorative engraving the long civic argument over Black memory in the post war republic a tableau of figures, allegories, and dates marshaled to insist that emancipation was not an ending but a ledger still being kept. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies, and the lithographic