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The Heroes and Leaders of the Colored People 1883 assembles Frederick Douglass and his contemporaries into a chromolithograph of Black achievement printed eighteen years after Appomattox — a composite portrait insisting

and the slow alchemy of barrel time

and the artifacts of American urban memory

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Vermont skateboarder_gift The Heroes and Leaders ofVermont arrives in greeting cards and lithographed views of covered bridges over the Winooski, sugarhouses steaming in March thaw, and white clapboard meetinghouses standing watch over the Green Mountains. The linen postcards lean autumnal maples flaring red along dirt roads that wind toward Camel's Hump and the Northeast Kingdom. About the Source Bella Frye curates American postcards from the great postcard golden age (1900s 1930s) greetings cards,