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(ART.) CALVERT LITHO. COMPANY—DETROIT FREE PRESS. The Lime Kiln Club. Large chromolithographic print, 22-7/8 x 29-1/2 inches, linen-backed; a couple of small, faint scratches. Detroit, circa 1900
The Lime-Kiln Club was a fictitious fraternal organization of African-Americans created by writer and journalist Charles Bertrand Lewis for the Detroit Free Press in the late 19th century. It gave birth to a popular caricatured series as well as a book titled Brother Gardiner's Lime Kiln Club.
