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Family record. Before the war and since the war / Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati. – Antique Wall Art

Family record. Before the war and since the war / Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati., c1880. — antique lithograph
Family record. Before the war and since the war / Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati., c1880.. Antique lithograph from the Cincinnati 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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A window into the past: Family record. Before the war and since the war / Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati., preserved in this antique lithograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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Family record. Before the war and since the war / Krebs Lithographing Company, Cincinnati.

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Its title, "Family record. Before the war and since the war," sets a before-and-after contrast around emancipation. The Krebs Lithographing Company of Cincinnati printed this chromolithograph around 1880, and W. H. Cowell designed it for Black families. Like other printed family registers of the period, it left space to record births, marriages and deaths by hand. For many formerly enslaved people, such a record was a way to reclaim names and kinship that slavery had made hard to document. The subject headings, which cite slavery in the United States from 1800 to 1860, place it within that effort.

Created / publishedc1880.
Medium1 print : chromolithograph.
GenreTennessee." Copyright no. 9131L."
NotesDesigned for the colored people of America by W. H. Cowell
SubjectsAfrican Americans--History. Slaves--United States--1800-1860.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,131 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-117203

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