| Contributor |
Watson, Gaylord, copyright holder. |
|
E.E. Murray & Company, publisher. |
| Title |
From the plantation to the Senate. [graphic]. |
| Publisher |
New York and Chicago : Published by E.E. Murray & Co., 214 East Broadway, N.Y. and No. 1532 State Street, Chicago, Ill |
| Publisher |
ILL. Chicago. 1883 |
| Publisher |
N.Y. New York. 1883 |
| Date |
1883 |
| Physical Description |
1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 89 x 69 cm (35.5 x 27.25 in.) |
| Description |
Commemorative print containing portraits of eminent 19th-century African American men above a central cotton plantation scene.
In front of the plantation residence by a river, enslaved African American men and women pick and transport baskets of cotton
as a well-dressed African American foreman on horseback confers with a man on the dirt road. Flanking the central portrait
of "Hon. Frederick Douglass, Champion of Freedom" on a background of tropical flowers, vines, and fruits are: "Hon. Benj.
S. Turner of Alabama"; "Rt. Rev. Richard Allen" of Philadelphia, "1st Bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal Church"; "Hon.
H.R. Revels of Mississippi"; "Hon. Joseph H. Rainy [sic] of South Carolina"; "Hon. Josiah T. Walls of Florida"; and "Wm. Wells
Brown, M.D., Author of the Rising Sun [sic]". Also contains vignettes of romanticized images of African American home life
by a river showing African Americans playing instruments and dancing, transporting watermelon by barge, and relaxing outside
their home.
|
| Notes |
Title from item. |
|
Date from copyright statement: Copyrighted 1883 by Gaylord Watson. |
|
Watson was a New York lithographer who specialized in maps. |
|
Lib. Company. Annual report, 1974, p. 61. |
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Purchase 1974. |
|
RVCDC |
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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.
|
| Subject |
Allen, Richard, 1760-1831 -- Portraits. |
|
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884 -- Portraits. |
|
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 -- Portraits. |
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Rainey, Joseph H. (Joseph Hayne), 1832-1887 -- Portraits. |
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Revels, Hiram Rhoades, 1827?-1901 -- Portraits. |
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Turner, Benjamin S., 1825-1894 -- Portraits. |
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Walls, Josiah T., 1842-1905 -- Portraits. |
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Abolitionists -- United States. |
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African American authors -- United States. |
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African American clergy -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia. |
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African American legislators -- United States. |
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African Americans -- Social conditions. |
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Cotton pickers -- United States. |
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Cotton plantations -- United States. |
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Freedmen -- United States. |
|
Plantation life. |
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Enslaved children -- United States. |
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Enslaved labor -- United States. |
|
Enslaved men -- United States. |
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Enslaved women -- United States. |
|
Enslavement -- United States. |
|
Free men -- United States. |
| Genre |
Commemorative prints -- 1880-1890. |
|
Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1880-1890. |
|
Portrait prints -- 1880-1890. |
| Printer |
E.E. Murray & Company, publisher. |
| Location |
Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| **GC - African American Heroes [8091.F.275] |
| Accession number |
8091.F.275 |
