This image is part of a weekly series that The Root is presenting in conjunction with the Image of the Black Archive & Library at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American ...
Arresting portraits, now a part of the Smithsonian collections, illuminate the little-known role these artists played in chronicling 19th-century life Rhoda Goodridge in a 2 ¾-by-3 ¼-inch ambrotype ...
A story. An imagined future. An “intellectual funhouse” in the words of Jonathan Michael Square. Square guest curated an exhibition at the Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library in Winterthur, DE ...
EDINBURGH, Jan 22 (Reuters) - Edinburgh-based photographer Joanna Kane has transformed a unique collection of early 19th century life and death masks into a haunting series of portraits of the famous ...
William Chappel, “Buttermilk Pedlar” (1870s), oil on slate paper, 6 3/16 x 9 5/16 inches (courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Edward W. C. Arnold Collection of New York Prints, Maps, and ...
Hot on the heels of the Venice Biennale, an exhibition at the Museo di Palazzo Grimani pairs objects and illustrations from 19th-century life sciences from the George Loudon Collection in England with ...
VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Archaeologists are using broken pottery, bullets and buttons found over the past 60 years to piece together the history of a 19th century fort along the Columbia River. Some 2 ...