Victory! – Historic Reproduction
(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: Victory!, 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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Titled simply "Victory!", this small color lithograph is card no. 11 in a Philadelphia series published in 1863 under the heading "The Slave in 1863," and it is one of the few pictures in this group that shows Black soldiers in a military setting. The Emancipation Proclamation took effect on January 1, 1863, and that year the Union began enlisting Black men in large numbers, including regiments such as the 54th Massachusetts. Cards like this one were sold as collectibles, so their images mixed news of the war with the popular humor and sentiment of the period. The record credits William A. Stephens with the copyright.
| Created / published | c1863. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : lithograph, color. |
| Genre | Collecting cards 1860-1870.Lithographs Color 1860-1870. |
| Notes | No. 11, no. 67. 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 | 1,144 × 1,459 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-216619 |
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