Details
Creator Currier & Ives.
Title The first colored senator and representatives, [graphic] : In the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States.
Publisher New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 125 Nassau Street
Publisher N.Y. New York. 1872
Date 1872
Physical Description 1 print : lithograph ; sheet 30 x 42 cm (11.75 x 16 in.)
Description Full-length, group portrait depicting African American legislators: Senator Hiram R. Revels of Mississippi, Congressmen Robert C. De Large of South Carolina, Jefferson H. Long of Georgia, Benjamin S. Turner of Alabama, Josiah T. Walls of Florida, Joseph H. Rainy [sic] of South Carolina, and R. Brown Elliot of South Carolina. All of the legislators, attired in suits, are seated, except DeLarge and Long who stand.
Notes Title from item.
Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1872 by Currier & Ives in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Purchase 1968.
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.
Sitters' portraits possibly after photographs by Mathew Brady. See Library of Congress Brady-Handy Collection.
Subject De Large, Robert Carlos, 1842-1874 -- Portraits.
Elliott, Robert Brown, 1842-1884 -- Portraits.
Long, Jefferson Franklin, 1836-1900 -- Portraits.
Rainey, Joseph H. (Joseph Hayne), 1832-1887 -- Portraits.
Revels, Hiram Rhoades, 1827?-1901 -- Portraits.
Turner, Benjamin S., 1825-1894 -- Portraits.
Walls, Josiah T., 1842-1905 -- Portraits.
African American men.
African American legislators -- United States.
Genre Group portraits -- 1870-1880.
Lithographs -- 1870-1880.
Location Library Company of Philadelphia| Print Department| *Group Portrait Prints [12981.Q]
Accession number 12981.Q