(RECONSTRUCTION) J Hoover lithographer Heroes of the Colored

Sale 2663 - Lot 374

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(RECONSTRUCTION.) J. Hoover, lithographer. Heroes of the Colored Race. Chromolithograph, 22 x 29½ inches to sight; toning, 3 closed tears with staining from early tape repairs, moderate dampstaining. Not examined out of period frame. Cleveland, OH: George M. Rewell, 1881

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One of the most elaborate of the so-called "uplift" posters that were published in the period following the Civil War, this one has a center occupied by busts of ex-Senator Blanche K. Bruce, Frederick Douglass, and ex-Senator Hiram Revels. In the four corners are four Black United States representatives from the Reconstruction era: Chase Nash, Joseph Rainey, John Lynch and Robert Smalls. Small portraits of presidents Lincoln, Garfield and Grant decorate the patriotic emblem at top center. Surrounding the three central figures are 4 vignettes of African Americans: in the cotton field, "receiving the news of Emancipation," on the battlefield, and in a classroom. A portrait of John Brown appears just below Douglass at bottom center.