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[Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] – Vintage Photo Print

[Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1870 and 1900] — antique lithograph
[Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left], [between 1870 and 1900]. Antique lithograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(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 [Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left] in remarkable detail. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Frederick Douglass, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]

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Frederick Douglass appears here in a color lithograph, turned to his left in a head-and-shoulders view that frames him as a dignified public figure. Douglass (1818-1895) escaped slavery in Maryland as a young man and became one of the most prominent abolitionists, writers and orators of the nineteenth century, so a portrait like this would have circulated widely among readers who admired his work. Lithographic portraits of this kind were a popular way to spread the images of public men in the decades after the Civil War, when Douglass was active as a newspaper editor and as an advocate for civil rights and voting rights. The record gives only a general date range, so the exact occasion for the print is not known.

Created / published[between 1870 and 1900]
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenrePortrait prints 1870.Lithographs Color 1870.
SubjectsDouglass, Frederick,--1818-1895.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,073 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-165554

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