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Commemorative print containing a montage of portraits of eminent African American men centered around a portrait of Frederick Douglass and bordered by vignettes. Portraiture depicts: "Robert Brown Elliott, Ex-member of Congress" from South Carolina; "Blanche K. Bruce, Ex-Senator, U.S." from Mississippi; "Prof. R.T. Greener, Dean, Howard University"; "Wm. Wells Brown, M.D., author of the Rising Son"; "Henry Highland Garnett [sic], Late Minister of Liberia"; "Rt. Rev. Richard Allen, 1st Bishop of the African M.E. Church" in Philadelphia; first African American governor, "P.B.S. Pinchback, Ex-Governor of Louisiana"; "J.H. Rainey, Ex-Member of Congress"; "E.D. Bassett, Ex-Minister to Hayti"; "John Mercer Langston, Minister to Hayti". Vignettes depict a cornstalk, a twig of cotton, and scenes of "quaint" African American home life by a waterway showing African Americans playing instruments, dancing, transporting watermelon by barge, and relaxing.; Inscribed lower right corner: Agents Wanted.; Lower left corner inexpertly hand painted.

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Keywords

  1. Abolitionists
  2. African American Authors
  3. African American Clergy
  4. African American Diplomats
  5. African American Educators
  6. African American Governors
  7. African American Legislators
  8. African Americans
  9. Allen, Richard, 1760 1831
  10. Bassett, Ebenezer D., 1833 1908
  11. Brown, William Wells, 1814? 1884
  12. Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841 1898
  13. Commemorative Prints
  14. Douglass, Frederick, 1818 1895
  15. Elliott, Robert Brown, 1842 1884
  16. Freedmen
  17. Garnet, Henry Highland, 1815 1882
  18. Greener, Richard Theodore, 1844 1922
  19. Hand Colored
  20. Langston, John Mercer, 1829 1897
  21. Lithographs
  22. Louisiana
  23. Pennsylvania
  24. Philadelphia
  25. Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart, 1837 1921
  26. Portrait Prints
  27. Rainey, Joseph H. (Joseph Hayne), 1832 1887
  28. Social Conditions
  29. United States

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