Image of a parade celebration in Baltimore, Maryland, for the passing of the Fifteenth Amendment of the United States Constitution (allowing African American men the right to vote) on May 19, 1870, surrounded by vignettes and portraits with captions; African American men, women, and children are portrayed in various daily activities as equals to others, including as workers, soldiers, religious figures, politicians, married couples, educators, and voters; portraits of President Ulysses S. Grant, Martin Delany, Frederick Douglass, Hiram Rhodes Revels, Vice President Schuyler Colfax, John Brown, and Abraham Lincoln surround center image along with quotes from the Declaration of Independence and the U.S. Constitution. "Pub. by Thomas Kelly, New York. Entered according to Act of Congress in the Year 1870 by Thomas Kelly in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C. From an original Design by James C. Beard."--text, bottom margin. "Celebrated May 19th. 1870."--text, bottom center margin.
Type
image
Extent
1 lithograph : hand colored ; overall 52.07 x 65.72 cm (20 1/2 x 25 7/8 in.)
African Americans--Pictorial works Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885--Pictorial works Constitutional amendments Delany, Martin Robison, 1812-1885--Pictorial works Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895--Pictorial works Grant, Ulysses S. (Ulysses Simpson), 1822-1885--Pictorial works Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Pictorial works Parades--Pictorial works Politicians--Pictorial works Presidents--United States--Pictorial works Soldiers--Pictorial works Lithographs--Color--1850-1875. (gmgpc)
Place
Baltimore (Md.)
Source
Jay T. Last Collection Politics & Social Issues Large Size The Jay T. Last Collection of Graphic Arts and Social History, Huntington Digital Library
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