Make way for liberty! – Vintage 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 antique lithograph of Make way for liberty! brings a moment of history to your wall. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Make way for liberty!" is a color lithograph issued as card No. 66 in a series titled "The slave in 1863," published in Philadelphia that year under the copyright of William A. Stephens. The series appeared the same year the Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, and as the Union began enlisting Black men into its armies, a shift the card's subject headings reflect in their focus on African American military service. Cards like this one, meant to be kept in albums, carried Civil War politics into middle-class homes and show how quickly emancipation and enlistment became subjects of popular print.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Collecting cards 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 10, no. 66. Copyright by William A. Stephens. From: Album varieties no. 3; The slave in 1863. Philadelphia, 1863. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Military service--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 944 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-129615 |
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