Mar 21, 2024 - Sale 2663

Sale 2663 - Lot 247

Price Realized: $ 1,188
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
(HISTORY.) The classic uplift poster "Onward." Poster, 19¾ x 15¾ inches; small hole in image area, 1½-inch closed repaired tear, minor wear on right edge. No place: W.L. Haskell, 1903
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The central image is a 1903 montage by W.L. Haskell featuring portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington and smaller vignettes from each of their lives, along with Lady Liberty waving a scroll: "Truth and justice / Shall not fail / Work and wisdom / Shall prevail." 5 more portraits appear above the main image: Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, the opera singer Sissieretta Jones ("Black Patti"), and two figures who are little known today, author Hightower T. Kealing and Washington's personal lawyer, Wilford H. Smith.