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• Collection: Cartoon Prints, American
• Collection: Popular Graphic Arts

• Title: The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870 / from an original design by James C. Beard.
• Creator(s): Kelly, Thomas.,
• Related Names:
     Beard, James Carter, 1837-1913 , artist
• Date Created/Published: [New York] : Pub. by Thomas Kelly, New York, c1870.
• Medium: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; image 50.7 x 65 cm.
• Summary: Another of several large commemorative prints marking the enactment, on March 30, 1870, of the Fifteenth Amendment and showing the grand May 19 celebratory parade in Baltimore. (See also nos. 1870-2 and 1870-3). Here the central image shows the parade crossing a green in sight of Baltimore's Washington Monument. A float carrying four young women wearing crowns and sheltered by a canopy, drawn by four white horses, leads the parade. The float is followed by a troop of Zouave drummers, two rows of men in top hats (some wearing sashes), as well as ranks of troops and other floats. The parade scene is surrounded by several vignettes. In the upper corners appear bust portraits of President Ulysses S. Grant (left corner) and Vice President Schuyler S. Colfax. In the top center are three black leaders: Martin Robinson Delany, author and the first black major in the U.S. Army; abolitionist and U.S. marshal for the District of Columbia Frederick Douglass; and Mississippi senator Hiram Rhoades Revels. At the sides are (left, top to bottom) a young black man reading the Emancipation Proclamation, three black men with Masonic sashes and banners ("We Unite in the Bonds of Fellowship with the Whole Human Race"), an open Bible ("Our Charter of Rights"), and a bust portrait of Lincoln. In the lower left corner is a classroom scene in a black school, labeled "Education Will Prove the Equality of the Races." In the lower right corner a black pastor preaches to his congregation, with the motto "The Holy Ordinances of Religion Are Free" below. To the right of the central scene are (top to bottom): two free blacks who "till our own fields;" a black officer commanding his troops ("We Will Protect Our Country as It Defends Our Rights"); a bust portrait of John Brown; and a black man reading to his family ("Freedom Unites the Family Circle"). The bottom row shows three more scenes (left to right): a black wedding ceremony ("Liberty Protects the Marriage Alter"); a black man voting ("The Ballot Box Is Open To Us"); and Senator Revels in the House of Representatives ("Our Representative Sits in the National Legislature"). Kelly, the publisher, also issued a much smaller version of the print (no. 1870-5).
• Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-973 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-22395 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ6-2190 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Call Number: PGA - Kelly--Fifteenth Amendment (D size) [P&P]
• Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
• Notes:
  • Title from item.
  • "Entered ... 1870 by Thomas Kelly ..."
  • Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1870-4.
  • NOS 2006
• Subjects:
  • African Americans (portrayed), in the U.S. military.
  • Baltimore, Md.
  • Brown, John.
  • Colfax, Schuyler.
  • Constitutional amendments, fifteenth.
  • Delany, Martin Robinson.
  • Douglass, Frederick.
  • Emancipation Proclamation.
  • Farmers and farming.
  • Grant, Ulysses S., presidency.
  • House of Representatives.
  • Masons.
  • Revels, Hiram.
  • Schools for African Americans.
  • Voters and voting.
• Format:
  • Lithographs--Hand-colored--1870.
• Collections:
  • Cartoon Prints, American
  • Popular Graphic Arts
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• Reproduction Number: LC-USZC4-973 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-22395 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ6-2190 (b&w film copy neg.)
• Call Number: PGA - Kelly--Fifteenth Amendment (D size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; image 50.7 x 65 cm.

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• Call Number: PGA - Kelly--Fifteenth Amendment (D size) [P&P]
• Medium: 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; image 50.7 x 65 cm.

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