Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. – Antique Photo Print
![Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia., [Philadelphia] : Published by S. Bott, no. 43 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Penna., c1865. — antique engraving](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/b3/b361e3b3a57e-L.webp)
(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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Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia. comes to life in this antique engraving, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Emancipation / Th. Nast ; King & Baird, printers, 607 Sansom Street, Philadelphia.
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Thomas Nast's *Emancipation* stands out for its two-color printing: this wood engraving was produced in black and rose, where most prints of the period were in plain black. Nast, a German-born illustrator later famous for his political cartoons in *Harper's Weekly*, created the design during the closing years of the Civil War. Issued in Philadelphia around 1865, the year the Thirteenth Amendment was ratified, it reflects the national mood after the Emancipation Proclamation and the end of slavery.
| Created / published | [Philadelphia] : Published by S. Bott, no. 43 South Third Street, Philadelphia, Penna., c1865. |
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| Medium | 1 print on wove paper : wood engraving printed in black and rose ; image 36 x 52.1 cm. |
| Genre | 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall |
| Notes | Title from item. Entered ... 1865 |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,536 × 1,010 px · prints to 5 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-109885 |
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