| Contributor |
Metcalf & Clark, publisher. |
| Title |
The result of the Fifteenth Amendment, and the rise and progress of the African race in America and its final accomplishment,
and celebration on May 19th A.D. 1870. [graphic].
|
| Publisher |
Baltimore : Published by Metcalf & Clark, 687 W. Baltimore St |
| Publisher |
MD. Baltimore. 1870 |
| Date |
1870 |
| Physical Description |
1 print : hand colored lithograph ; sheet 54 x 69 cm (21 x 27 in.) |
| Description |
Print commemorating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment containing a large central scene of the celebratory parade held
in Baltimore in May surrounded by several bust portraits and vignettes. Parade is led by several African American Zoaves down
Monument Street, which is lined with African American and white men, women, and children spectators. Bust-length portraits
of African American civil rights supporters above and to the sides of this scene include Abraham Lincoln; Baltimore jurist
Hugh Lennox Bond; abolitionist John Brown; Vice-President Schuyler Colfax; President Grant; Pennsylvania representative Thaddeus
Stevens; Maryland representative Henry Davis; Massachusetts senator Charles Sumner; Martin Robinson Delaney; Frederick Douglass;
and Mississippi Senator Hiram Revels. Vignettes include a plantation scene depicting enslaved African American men and women
working in a cotton field while a white man stands looking on titled, "we are in bondage, deliver us!; a Civil War battle
with African American troops; a classroom with an African American man teacher and African American students titled, "Education
will be our pride"; an African American congregation; and a parade of African American Masons holding banners.
|
| Is referenced by |
Reilly, 1870-2 |
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1870 by Metcalf & Clark, in the office of
the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
|
|
Purchase 1968. |
|
Description revised 2021. |
|
Access points revised 2021. |
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Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
|
| Subject |
Bond, Hugh Lennox -- Portraits. |
|
Brown, John, 1800-1859 -- Portraits. |
|
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885 -- Portraits. |
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Davis, Henry Winter, 1817-1865 -- Portraits. |
|
Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885 -- Portraits. |
|
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Portraits. |
|
Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885, |
|
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Portraits. |
|
Revels, Hiram Rhoades, 1827?-1901 -- Portraits. |
|
Stevens, Thaddeus, 1792-1868 -- Portraits. |
|
Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874 -- Portraits. |
|
United States. Constitution. 15th amendment. |
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African American children -- Maryland -- Baltimore. |
|
African American freemasons -- Maryland -- Baltimore. |
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African American men -- Maryland -- Baltimore. |
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African American soldiers -- Maryland -- Baltimore. |
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African American women -- Maryland -- Baltimore. |
|
African Americans -- Education. |
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African Americans -- Spiritual life. |
|
African Americans -- Suffrage. |
|
Constitutional amendments -- United States. |
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Parades and processions -- Maryland -- Baltimore. |
|
Spectators -- Maryland -- Baltimore. |
|
Zouaves -- United States. |
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Enslaved labor -- United States. |
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Enslaved men -- United States. |
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Enslaved women -- United States. |
|
Enslavers -- United States. |
| Genre |
Commemorative prints -- 1870-1880. |
|
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1870-1880. |
|
Political cartoons -- 1870-1880. |
| Printer |
Metcalf & Clark, publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *political cartoons - 1870-2 [7764.F] |
| Accession number |
7764.F |
