Man with Bowler Hat

Probably late 19th century

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Black and white press print of a National Guardsman (left) standing in front of a multiple story high school building while two white girls in dresses look on from behind. Includes caption "On Guard, Little Rock, Arkansas: A National Guardsman continues his vigilance at the Central High School in Little Rock to bar entrance to Negroes. It was the second day in a row guardsman were stationed around the school on orders of Gov. Orval Faubus. The Justice Department has ordered a full probe in Little Rock for the Federal Judge whose integration order has twice been ignored."
The work is dominated by two squares at slanted angles to each other. The square on the left is divided into four uneven quadrants by white paint. The upper left quadrant is dominated primarily by brown paint and the upper right quadrant has a mix of brown, red, black, and white paint. Below, there are two adjacent circles, both a mix of black and white paint and the left circle containing some yellow. The square on the right contains dashes of brown and red paint on the right and a large vertical stroke of white paint on the left. Below the right square is a stroke of green paint with several black lines emerging from it to the left. The background is primarily white with dashes of blue and gray paint throughout.
Bird Lives, Carmen Louis Cicero, lithograph with graphite framing lines
This image is created with black ink on yellowed paper. It represents the façade of “The Bank for Savings & Trusts.” In the lower portion of the image a sidewalk is seen, and people have been drawn onto the sidewalk in graphite.