Free! – Historic Reproduction
(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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Few images capture their era like this antique lithograph of Free!. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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The single word "Free!" serves as the title of this color lithograph, issued as one card in an album called "The Slave in 1863," published in Philadelphia that year. The date places it in the months after the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, when the question of what freedom would mean for enslaved people was being argued in newspapers and public meetings across the North. Collecting cards like these were sold and traded as small illustrated pieces of popular entertainment and opinion, so the card reflects how the war and emancipation reached ordinary households. Its copyright line names William A. Stephens, the publisher or artist credited on the set.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Collecting cards 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 8, no. 64. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863. |
| Subjects | Slavery--United States--1860-1870. Freedmen--United States--1860-1870. Liberty--1860-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,149 × 1,455 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216622 |
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