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Kramer, Peter,
1823-1907,
artist.
35955
The resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia
[graphic] :
Who escaped from Richmond Va. in a box 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft. wide. /
Kramer, del.
Philadelphia :
Lith. of L. Rosenthal,
[ca. 1850 - ca. 1851]
1 print :
lithograph ;
sheet 36 x 49 cm (14 x 19 in.)
Title from item.
Date inferred from variant described in Reilly and LCP copy described by Jeffrey Ruggles, The unboxing of Henry Box Brown (Richmond: The Library of Virginia, 2003), 114. Ruggles notes copies of the print had been received and advertised by the "Anti-Slavery Bugle" of Ohio before March 8, 1851.
Variant reproduced in William Still, The underground railroad (1872) p.70. [LCP Am 1872 Still, 56405.O].
Reilly
1850-4 (variant)
Weitenkampf
p. 101 (variant)
Antislavery print celebrating the moment freedom seeker Henry Box Brown emerged from his crate in Philadelphia. Brown, with the assistance of the Vigilance Committee of the Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society, escaped slavery by having himself shipped to Philadelphia where he emerged in the presence of abolitionists Professor Charles D. Cleveland, J. Miller M'Kim, William Still, and printer Lewis Thompson. Depicts Brown just emerging from his box with Still holding the crate's lid labeled, "Wm. Johnson, Arch St. Philadelphia, This side up with Care;" Cleveland with a saw in his right hand; M'Kim with a hatchet in one hand and using his other hand to help Still hold the lid; and Thompson pointing to Brown with his right hand as he holds in his free hand a walking stick.
Kramer was a German born painter and lithographer who worked with the Rosenthals, a prominent Philadelphia family of lithographers, by 1850 and through the early 1850s.
Lib. Company. Annual Report, 1975, p. 59-60.
Purchase 1975.
Description revised 2021.
Access points revised 2021.
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.
Call number in location based on Reilly entry.
Brown, Henry Box,
1815 or 1816-
Portraits.
Cleveland, Charles Dexter,
1802-1869
Portraits.
M'Kim, J. Miller
(James Miller),
1810-1874
Portraits.
Still, William,
1821-1902
Portraits.
Thompson, Lewis
Portraits.
Pennsylvania Anti-Slavery Society.
26502
Abolitionists
United States
lctgm
84337
African American men
Caricatures and cartoons.
African Americans
Caricatures and cartoons.
Antislavery movements
United States.
84327
Crates.
lctgm
Fugitive slaves
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
lctgm
Shipping
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
lctgm
Slavery
United States.
lctgm
80162
Enslaved persons
United States.
lctgm
83770
Anti-slavery prints
United States.
1850-1860.
local
Lithographs
1850-1860.
gmgpc
Political cartoons
1850-1860.
gmgpc
Enslaved men
United States.
local
Freedom seekers
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia.
local
SP3
African American History
SP10
Philadelphia artists.
Printer
Rosenthal, L.N.
(Louis N.),
publisher.
Imprint
PA. Philadelphia.
1850-1851.
Library Company of Philadelphia
PRINT
PRINT
Political Cartoons - 1850-4R variant [8183.F]
8183.F
8183-f.jpg
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Political Cartoons - 1850-4R variant [8183.F]
Pr
8183.F
LCPD
Political Cartoons - 1850-4 variant [8183.F]
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PA. Philadelphia.
1850-1851.
Imprint
Rosenthal, L.N.
publisher.