Evolution of the African Race 19 Size:18x24 The Celestial Mechanics of Wandering

The Celestial Mechanics of Wandering Worlds charts the planets in their solemn errantry — those bright vagabonds the Greeks called planētes

and lithographed views of Michigan Avenue back when the boulevard still smelled of coal smoke and lake wind

where the boys who flung papers onto stoops at dawn presented their patrons with rhymed verses begging a coin

flophouses

rendered in the engraver's solemn flatter on the eve of his ascent to the Senate

Evolution of the African Race 19 Size:18x24 The Celestial Mechanics of WanderingEvolution of the African Race 19 belongs to a didactic print tradition that sought to chart Black American life in panels and plates a chromolithograph plate that bears the weight of how the nineteenth century insisted on narrating a people whose story was already being told by themselves. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of Congress, the National Archives, regional historical