William J. Simmons, 1891 framed beer patent The Presidents of the United

The Presidents of the United States 1842 assembles the republic's first ten executives into a single engraved gallery

An astronomical lithograph for the contemplative hour

a commemorative document compiled in the long shadow of the war — the republic taking stock of itself at the Exposition

The Celestial Sphere Its Earthly Boundaries draws the line where mortal cartography surrenders to the firmament — horizon

The New Cathedral

William J. Simmons, 1891 framed beer patent The Presidents of the UnitedWilliam J. Simmons, 1891. A portrait of the Baptist minister and educator whose advocacy for Black self determination culminated in the founding of the National Afro American Press Association rendered with the dignified gravity reserved for men who built institutions in the long, unfinished aftermath of emancipation. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National