Details
Contributor Magee, John L., publisher.
Title Emancipation. [graphic] : Freedom for all, both black and white!
Publisher Philadelphia : J.L. Magee, Publisher, 305 Walnut St
Publisher PA. Philadelphia. 1865
Date 1865
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 35 x 23 cm (13.5 x 9 in.)
Description Print depicting the Emancipation Proclamation for both African Americans and whites including equal opportunity to education. Depicts Lincoln raising his right hand and holding the "Emancipation Proclamation" in his left hand in the center between a poor white family and an enslaved African American family. Both families, attired in torn and worn clothing, stand and kneel as they hold their clasped hands up toward Lincoln, who treads upon broke shackles and a serpent. A "Spelling Book" lies on the ground near them. In the background, Union soldiers stop a white man enslaver from whipping a shackled and enslaved African American woman and children enter "Public School, No. 1." From the roof of the school waves a flag inscribed "Education to all Classes." Contains text from the Proclamation above the image, "and by virtue of the power and for the purpose of the aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves, within designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be free!"
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to the act of Congress A.D. 1865 by J.L. Magee in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
Magee, a lithographer, painter, and cartoonist, established his own firm in Philadelphia in 1850.
LCP exhibition catalogue: Negro History, p. 77.
Accessioned 1999.
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 the Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Subject Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 -- Portraits.
United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation.
African American children.
African American families.
African American men.
African American women.
African Americans -- Education.
Freedmen -- United States.
Poor -- Education -- United States.
Public schools -- United States.
Enslaved persons -- United States.
Whipping -- United States.
Enslaved people -- United States.
Enslavers -- United States.
Free persons -- United States -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Kneeling male slave.
Kneeling female slave.
Geographic subject United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.
Genre Lithographs -- 1860-1870.
Printer Magee, John L., publisher.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| GC - Emancipation [P.9702]
Accession number P.9702