Martha A Sandweiss
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Clarence King is a hero of nineteenth-century western history. Brilliant scientist and witty conversationalist, bestselling author and architect of the great surveys that mapped the West after the Civil War, King hid a secret from his Gilded Age cohorts and prominent Newport family: for thirteen years he lived a double life--as the celebrated white Clarence King and as a black Pullman porter and steelworker. Unable to marry the black woman he loved,...
Pub. Date
1991.
Description
Artists and works in the exhibition: Ellen Amanda Andrus, Charles Dudley Arnold, Alice Austen, George Barker, George Barnard, William Bell, Henry Hamilton Bennett, James Wallace Black, Mathew Brady, John C. Browne, John G. Bullock, Solomon D. Butcher, Joseph Byron, George Cox, Franics D'Avignon, F. Holland Day, John William Draper, Thomas Eakins, Thomas M. Easterly, Sarah J. Eddy, Jay Dearborn Edwards, Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr., Frank Eugene, George...