Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 1866 — a commemorative lithograph

1866 — a commemorative lithograph issued in the first uneasy summer after Appomattox

Drafted for the fair that announced America to itself

The portrait of Lincoln's indispensable man — the New Yorker who once expected the presidency for himself and instead negotiated the Union's diplomacy through war

The Singeing Apparatus of Poindexter Victorian Hair Burning Device Patent comes from the great age of the American barbershop — when a shave was a ritual

Cinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 Frame Style:Bourbon Frame 1866 — a commemorative lithographCinque the Chief of the Amistad Captives 1840 renders the Mende leader in the dignified portraiture usually reserved for statesmen a deliberate provocation in a republic still arguing whether the men aboard La Amistad were cargo or kin, and whether the courts would dare answer. 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