1827 fusion of art and cartography, A Bird's Eye View of Niagara Falls, likely struck 19th-century viewers as highly ... Catlin, anxious to record an America in the process of disappearing ...

The narrative illustrates the evolution of travel in America during the 1840s. Keywords travel, 1840s, blacksmith apprentice, stagecoach, Erie Canal, barge, steamship, Illinois, transportation ...

where an exhibition of art representing Black subjects from the 17th to 19th centuries opens in November. During that era, Black figures in art, if they appeared at all, were usually anonymous and ...