The first colored senator and representatives - in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States – Antique 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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A window into the past: The first colored senator and representatives - in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The first colored senator and representatives - in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States
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Published in New York by Currier & Ives in 1872, this color lithograph groups the first Black men to serve in the United States Senate and House during the 41st and 42nd Congresses. Hiram Revels of Mississippi took his Senate seat in 1870, and a small number of Black representatives from Southern states joined the House in the same years. Currier & Ives sold its prints widely to a general public, so the sheet shows how quickly these political firsts reached ordinary households. It remains a useful record of a brief period of Black officeholding during Reconstruction.
| Created / published | New York : Published by Currier & Ives, 1872. |
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| Medium | 1 print : lithograph ; 28.6 x 37.7 cm (sheet) |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1860-1880.Group portraits 1860-1880.Lithographs Color 1860-1880. |
| Notes | Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2132 |
| Subjects | Legislators--United States--1860-1880. African Americans--Political activity--1860-1880 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,137 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109924 |
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