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Sic semper tyrannis - 22th Regt. U.S. Colored Troops – Historic Print

Sic semper tyrannis - 22th Regt. U.S. Colored Troops, [between 1860 and 1870] — historic photograph
Sic semper tyrannis - 22th Regt. U.S. Colored Troops, [between 1860 and 1870]. Historic photograph 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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Few images show a Civil War regimental standard as directly as this one, which reproduces a painting of the banner of the 22nd Regiment, U.S. Colored Troops. The painter, David Bustill Bowser, was a Black artist from Philadelphia who made many of the flags carried by Union regiments raised from African American men. The Latin motto "Sic semper tyrannis," long associated with Virginia, gives the banner a pointed political message in a war fought over slavery and the Union. Because the image is a carte de visite, a small, inexpensive card photograph, it shows how a regiment's identity could circulate widely among soldiers, families and supporters.

Created / published[between 1860 and 1870]
Medium1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen.
GenrePaintings Reproductions 1860-1870.Cartes de visite 1860-1870.Albumen prints 1860-1870.
NotesPhotograph of painting by Bowser. In album: [U.S. army officers and other persons of the Civil War period / John White Geary, comp. 1861-1865], no. 132, surrogate p. 33 (lower right - missing). Surrogate available as color laser copy in P&P Reading Room.
SubjectsAfrican Americans--Military service--1860-1870. Military standards--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,326 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-114733

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