Title | Heroes of the colored race.
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Published | Cleveland, Ohio : Geo. M. Rewell & Co., c1881.
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Description | 1 print (poster) : chromolithograph 57 x 76 cm.
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General Note | Title from item. "Copyrighted by J. Hoover, Phila., 1881."
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Summary Note | Subject: Head-and-shoulders portraits of Blanche Kelso Bruce, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram Rhoades Revels surrounded by four scenes of African American life: picking cotton in a field (top left), Civil War battle scene (top right), "Receiving the News of the Emancipation" (bottom left), and "Studying the Lesson" (bottom right). Also includes portraits of Jno. R. Lynch, Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield, Ulysses S. Grant, Joseph H. Rainey, Charles E. Nash, John Brown, and Robert Smalls.
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Subjects | African Americans -- Pictorial works. Bruce, Blanche Kelso, 1841-1898. Chromolithographs -- Color -- 1880-1890. Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895. Posters -- Color -- 1880-1890. Revels, Hiram Rhoades, 1827?-1901.
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| WRHS Research Library: Posters Vault CA-1300109 c.1: Rare book room, local class, restricted access [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
[Record 147750] |
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