The Fifteenth amendment - Print, Library of Congress collection
Summary
Print shows a parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment.
A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19th 1870" (no. 1870-4), with a key to the picture added in the lower margin.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1870 by Th. Kelly, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington D.C.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1870-5.
Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2013.
Tags
Date
01/01/1870
Contributors
Kelly, Thomas, active 1871-1874.
Location
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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