an enslaved African who died a free man at a very old age, comes from the diary of the man who painted his striking portrait. Charles William Peale was an American portrait painter who established ...

In 1951, George Whitman opened a bookshop-commune in Paris. George, 92, still runs his "den of anarchists disguised as a bookstore," offering free, dirty beds to poor literati, cutting his hair ...

click image for close-up The portrait of Agrippa Hull, a freeborn black man and Revolutionary War veteran ... Hull was 85 years old when his image was captured. Painted in oil in 1848 by an ...