Photo, Print, Drawing The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870 / from an original design by James C. Beard. digital file from original item

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About this Item

Title

  • The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th, 1870 / from an original design by James C. Beard.

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 Abraham 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).

Names

  • Kelly, Thomas, active 1871-1874, publisher
  • Beard, James Carter, 1837-1913, artist

Created / Published

  • New York : Pub. by Thomas Kelly, New York, [1870 or 1871], c1871.

Headings

  • -  Brown, John,--1800-1859
  • -  Colfax, Schuyler,--1823-1885
  • -  Delany, Martin Robison,--1812-1885
  • -  Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895
  • -  Grant, Ulysses S.--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885
  • -  Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865
  • -  Revels, Hiram Rhoades,--1827?-1901
  • -  African Americans--Civil rights--1870
  • -  African Americans--Education--1870
  • -  African Americans--Military service--1870
  • -  Parades & processions--1870
  • -  Suffrage--1870
  • -  Constitutional amendments--1870

Headings

  • Lithographs--Hand-colored--1870.

Genre

  • Lithographs--Hand-colored--1870

Notes

  • -  B3159 U.S. Copyright Office.
  • -  Title from item.
  • -  Entered accord. to Act of Congress in the year 1871 by Thomas Kelly in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
  • -  Copyright number inscribed in pencil on lower right corner.
  • -  Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1870-4.
  • -  Exhibited: "The Civil Rights Act of 1964 : A Long Struggle for Freedom" at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., March 2015 - January 2016.

Medium

  • 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; 50.7 x 65 cm (image), 60.4 x 75.6 cm (sheet)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • PGA - Kelly--Fifteenth Amendment ... (D size) [P&P]

Repository

Digital Id

  • pga 01767 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.01767
  • cph 3b52478 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b52478
  • cph 3a23478 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a23478
  • cph 3d02190 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3d02190

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2003690776

Reproduction Number

  • LC-DIG-pga-01767 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-973 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-22395 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ6-2190 (b&w film copy neg.)

Rights Advisory

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  • Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-pga-01767 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-973 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-22395 (b&w film copy neg.) LC-USZ6-2190 (b&w film copy neg.)
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Kelly, Thomas, Active , Publisher, and James Carter Beard. The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th,/ from an original design by James C. Beard. , ca. 1871. [New York: Pub. by Thomas Kelly, New York, 1870 or 1871] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2003690776/.

APA citation style:

Kelly, T. & Beard, J. C. (ca. 1871) The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th,/ from an original design by James C. Beard. , ca. 1871. [New York: Pub. by Thomas Kelly, New York, 1870 or 1871] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003690776/.

MLA citation style:

Kelly, Thomas, Active , Publisher, and James Carter Beard. The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th,/ from an original design by James C. Beard. [New York: Pub. by Thomas Kelly, New York, 1870 or 1871] Photograph. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2003690776/>.