Evolution of the African Race 19 Size:18x24 William Henry Harrison: Ninth President

William Henry Harrison: Ninth President of the United States — the Whig hero of Tippecanoe rendered in posthumous dignity

Henry Clay of Kentucky 1842 — a campaign portrait of the Great Compromiser at the height of his Whig powers

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

Abbott Lawrence

Genl Franklin Pierce Fourteenth President of the United States 1853

Evolution of the African Race 19 Size:18x24 William Henry Harrison: Ninth PresidentEvolution 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