Eminent Colored Men: Joseph C. Price 1894 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame an Independence Day christening of

an Independence Day christening of steel and ambition that announced the river city's resurrection nine years after Appomattox

These are lithographed views of the First State's working capital

decades before Appomattox would rewrite his name

rich and historically grounded

are less observed than catechized

Eminent Colored Men: Joseph C. Price 1894 Frame Style:Verdigris Frame an Independence Day christening ofEminent Colored Men: Joseph C. Price, 1894 a commemorative portrait of the Livingstone College founder and orator, issued in the long shadow after Emancipation when Black achievement was catalogued in lithograph as both tribute and argument. Price's likeness here belongs to a gallery of race men assembled to insist, in ink, on a citizenship still being contested. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive