Details
Contributor Vickroy, James M., 1847-1913, copyright holder.
Historical Publishing Co.
Title Afro-American historical family record [graphic].
Publisher Augusta, Georgia : Published by the Historical Publishing Co
Publisher GA. Augusta. 1899
Date 1899
Physical Description 1 print : chromolithograph ; sheet 69 x 54 cm (27 x 21 in.)
Description Blank African American genealogical certificate containing a family tree surrounded by portraits of the first twenty-four U.S. presidents; portraits of prominent African American men and women religious, political, and educational leaders; and eleven vignettes contrasting life in the South of the enslaved versus the free. African American portraits include Frederick Douglass flanked by Washington and Lincoln; Judson W. Lyons, Register of the Treasury; Miss Lucy C. Laney, Founder of the Haines Institute; Booker T. Washington; H.M. Turner, Bishop of the A.M.E. Church; T. Thomas Fortune, editor New York Age; Hon. John M. Langston, diplomat; Madam Sissiretta Jones, performer and singer; Miss Hallie Q. Brown, educator and African American women's rights activist; Prof. Mary V. Cook, Principal of the State University, Louisville, KY; Miss Ida B. Wells, editor and author; Hon. John R. Lynch, U.S. Paymaster and ex-Congressman; Dr. Henry Fitzbutler, founder of the Louisville National Medical College; and L.H. Holsey, Bishop of the C.M.E. Church. Vignettes depicting slavery include the last auction of enslaved people in Savannah; enslaved cotton pickers working the field; enslaved people dancing and playing instruments "as children were taught in the dark days of slavery"; and an enslaved family in front of their “hut.” Contrasting post-emancipation scenes include a view of Tuskegee Institute; a view of "progressive farming as taught at Tuskegee Institute"; a group portrait in front of a "school house erected by a Tuskegee graduate"; the Victorian house of R.R. Church, a free man; and Spanish-American War battle scenes of African American regiments assisting the Rough Riders, including at San Juan Hill. Also contains the white eye of Providence below the title.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1899, by J.M. Vickroy, Terre Haute, Ind.
Printed on recto: Branch Office Terre Haute, Ind.
Purchase 2002.
Description revised 2022.
Access points revised 2022.
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.
Biographical / historical note Vickroy, a prominent Indiana fine arts publisher, specialized in genealogical and fraternal order certificates.
Subject Brown, Hallie Q. (Hallie Quinn), 1845-1949 -- Portraits.
Cook, Mary V. -- Portraits.
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Portraits.
Fitzbutler, Henry -- Portraits.
Fortune, Timothy Thomas, 1856-1928 -- Portraits.
Holsey, L. H. (Lucius Henry), 1842-1920 -- Portraits.
Jones, Sissiretta -- Portraits.
Langston, John Mercer, 1829-1897 -- Portraits.
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Portraits.
Lynch, John Roy, 1847-1939 -- Portraits.
Lyons, Judson Whitlocke, 1860-1924 -- Portraits.
Turner, Henry McNeal, 1834-1915 -- Portraits.
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915 -- Portraits.
Washington, George, 1732-1799 -- Portraits.
Wells-Barnett, Ida B., 1862-1931 -- Portraits.
Tuskegee Institute.
African American agricultural laborers.
African American authors.
African American children.
African American clergy.
African American educators.
African American families.
African American men.
African American politicians.
African American singers.
African American women.
African American women educators.
African Americans -- Education -- United States.
Cotton pickers -- Southern States.
Freedmen -- United States
Presidents -- United States.
Slave auctions -- Georgia -- Savannah.
Enslaved persons -- United States.
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Participation, African American.
African American editors.
Enslaved children -- Southern States.
Enslaved labor -- Southern States.
Enslaved men -- Southern States.
Enslaved people -- Structures -- Southern States.
Enslaved women -- Southern States.
Enslavers -- Southern States.
Free men -- United States.
Free women -- United States.
Genre Chromolithographs -- 1890-1900.
Family trees -- 1890-1900.
Portrait prints -- 1890-1900.
Printer Historical Publishing Co.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **GC - African American Heroes [P.2002.16]
Accession number P.2002.16