The Fifteenth amendment – Historic Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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This rare antique lithograph captures The Fifteenth amendment in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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The Fifteenth amendment
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This is a reduced version of Thomas Kelly's larger print of the same title, published from his shop at 17 Barclay Street in New York around 1870. A printed key in the lower margin explains the picture's figures and symbols, which was typical of the allegorical political prints of the period. The Fifteenth Amendment, ratified in February 1870, barred governments from denying the vote on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, and prints like this one presented the measure as a matter of national liberty. The hand-colored lithograph shows how commercial printmakers turned current events into images meant for a wide public.
| Created / published | N.Y. : Published & printed by Thomas Kelly, 17 Barclay St., c1870. |
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| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : lithograph with watercolor ; 25.2 x 31.4 cm. |
| Genre | with a key to the picture added in the lower margin. Published in: American political prints |
| Notes | A reduced version of Kelly's large print The Fifteenth Amendment |
| Subjects | African Americans--Civil rights--1870. Liberty--1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 5,124 × 4,154 px · prints to 17 × 14 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216513 |
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