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Afro-American Monument – Historic Print

Afro-American Monument, Chicago : Goes Litho., Co., c1897. — antique lithograph
Afro-American Monument, Chicago : Goes Litho., Co., c1897.. Antique lithograph from the African American History 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 antique lithograph of Afro-American Monument 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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Few pictures pair Frederick Douglass and Booker T. Washington as directly as this color lithograph, titled *Afro-American Monument*, which the Library of Congress dates to about 1897 and credits to Chicago's Goes Lithographing Company, with copyright held by B.F. Hammond. Douglass had died in 1895, and Washington, by then the head of Tuskegee Institute, had just become a national figure after his Atlanta Exposition address that year. The record also lists slavery in the United States and African American commemoration among its subjects, so the print reflects how Black Americans in the 1890s were looking back on emancipation and forward to what they had built since.

Created / publishedChicago : Goes Litho., Co., c1897.
Medium1 print : lithograph, color.
GenreLithographs Color 1890-1900.
NotesCopyright by B.F. Hammond.
SubjectsDouglass, Frederick,--1818-1895. Washington, Booker T.,--1856-1915. African Americans--Commemoration--1890-1900. Slavery--United States--1610-1870.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,156 × 1,467 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-216448

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