Celebrating the 15th Amendment

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LOC URL

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/93510386/

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

Thomas Kelly

EEC Source Year

1870

EEC Format

Image

EEC Type of Source

Illustration

EEC Theme Topic

Citizenship - Civic Participation

Civil Rights - Voting

Constitution - 15th Amendment