September 1899 — the hero of Manila Bay rendered in commemorative gravity
The Keepers Blueprint Baltimore Harbor Light Station Plans of 1885 charts the caisson-set sentinel that would rise from the soft Patapsco bottom — a pneumatic foundation sunk through Chesapeake silt
its iron cylinder sunk into Patapsco mud and crowned with a keeper's quarters built to outlast every nor'easter the bay could throw at it
that it had now lost three
the Scottish bard installed in Washington Park by the bequest of Mary McPherson
Eminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886 chef_definition September 1899 — the heroEminent Colored Men: Benjamin W. Arnett, 1886. Issued in the long aftermath of emancipation, this lithograph honors the AME bishop and Ohio legislator among a pantheon of Black leaders a portrait drawn in the sober register of a generation insisting, against the receding promise of Reconstruction, on being seen. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives,