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Celebrating the 15th Amendment

LOC Title
The Fifteenth amendment
LOC Summary
Print shows a parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment.
LOC Contributor Names
Kelly, Thomas, active 1871-1874.,
LOC Created/Published
N.Y. : Published & printed by Thomas Kelly, 17 Barclay St., c1870.
LOC Standardized Date
1870
LOC Subject Headings

Lincoln, Abraham,--1809-1865.
Grant, Ulysses S.--(Ulysses Simpson),--1822-1885.
Colfax, Schuyler,--1823-1885.
Brown, John,--1800-1859.
African Americans--Civil rights--1870.
Liberty--1870.
African Americans (portrayed), in the U.S. military.
Baltimore, Md.
Brown, John.
Colfax, Schuyler.
Constitutional amendments, fifteenth.
Delany, Martin Robinson.
Douglass, Frederick.
Emancipation Proclamation.
Grant, Ulysses S., presidency.
House of Representatives.
Masons.
Revels, Hiram.
Schools, for African Americans.
Voters and voting.
LOC Notes

A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19th 1870" (no. 1870-4), with a key to the picture added in the lower margin.
Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1870 by Th. Kelly, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington D.C.
Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1870-5.
Exhibited: "Capitol Visitor Center" at the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., 2013.
EEC Creators
EEC Source Year
1870
EEC Format
EEC Type of Source
EEC Index Number
37
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