Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 walla_walla_wall side streets pooling into dusk

side streets pooling into dusk

Battle of the Thames

and finding the soul outranked by Saturn

a map of what stands above it

and anyone who keeps a leather case in a desk drawer

Equality for All Men Before the Law 1877 walla_walla_wall side streets pooling into duskEquality for All Men Before the Law 1877 a chromolithograph issued in the very year federal troops withdrew from the South, its allegorical title insisting on a principle that Reconstruction was already conceding in practice. The image carries the cruel arithmetic of its moment: a creed printed in bright ink as the law itself was being unprinted. About the Source Bella Frye sources artifacts from the great American historical archive the Library of