From American Bondage to the Halls of Congress 1897 Size:24x36 A scene that treats the

A scene that treats the bridge less as infrastructure than as the threshold between two republics

Death of George Shifler

National Archives

The Norton Apparatus Patent No

1885 — a portrait from the general's final year

From American Bondage to the Halls of Congress 1897 Size:24x36 A scene that treats theFrom American Bondage to the Halls of Congress 1897 a commemorative lithograph charting the arc from the auction block to the Capitol's marble corridors, published a generation after emancipation when Black congressmen were already being legislated back out of the rooms they had earned. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical societies,