Distinguished colored men – Vintage Print
(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: Distinguished colored men, preserved in this antique lithograph. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Distinguished colored men
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Ten portraits of Black men share one sheet, which sets this chromolithograph apart from the single-subject portraits of its era. The group includes Frederick Douglass, Richard Allen, and Henry Highland Garnet alongside men who had recently held federal office, among them Blanche K. Bruce, Joseph H. Rainey, and P. B. S. Pinchback. Published in New York around 1883, the sheet presents them as a roster of achievement at a time when Reconstruction-era gains were being rolled back. Its title, "Distinguished Colored Men," reflects the period's language for the subjects and the audience it was meant to reach.
| Created / published | New York : Published by A. Muller & Co., c1883 (Chicago, Ills. : Geo. F. Cram) |
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| Medium | 1 print : chromolithograph. |
| Genre | Portrait prints 1880-1890.Chromolithographs Color 1880-1890. |
| Notes | Exhibited: The African American odyssey: A quest for full citizenship. |
| Subjects | Douglass, Frederick,--1818-1895. Bruce, Blanche Kelso,--1841-1898. Brown, William Wells,--1814?-1884. Greener, Richard Theodore,--1844-1922. Allen, Richard,--1760-1831. Rainey, Joseph H.,--1832-1887. Bassett, Ebenezer D.,--1833-1908. Langston, John Mercer,--1829-1897. Pinchback, Pinckney Benton Stewart,--1837-1921. Garnet, Henry Highland,--1815-1882. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,077 × 1,443 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-176850 |
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