(EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION) The Fifteenth Amendment Celebrat

Sale 1926 - Lot 69

Price Realized: $ 4,830

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Estimate: $ 1,500 - $ 2,500

(EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.) The Fifteenth Amendment. Celebrated May 19th 1870. Hand-colored lithographed print, with a central oval image showing black zouaves on parade, surrounded by a border of vignettes, including portraits of Grant, Colfax, Douglass, and others, plus views of a schoolroom with black children, a church scene with black parisioners, a plantation scene, a Civil War scene, etc., 21x25 3/4 inches; expertly repaired along the top margin, appears to have been washed; paper-backed. New York: Thomas Kelly, 1870

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There are two versions of this print, the other printed in Baltimore. They were issued simultaneously. Library of Congress, American Political Prints 1870-74; LCP, Negro History, #225.<