Radical members of the first legislature after the war, South Carolina – Historic 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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Step back in time with Radical members of the first legislature after the war, South Carolina, a historic photograph rich in period detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Radical members of the first legislature after the war, South Carolina
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Few pictures of Reconstruction-era lawmakers bring so many faces into one frame. This albumen print is a photomontage, a composite built by assembling separate portraits of members of South Carolina's first legislature after the Civil War, the body that met in 1868 under the state's new constitution and included a substantial number of Black legislators. The image was made around 1876, close to the end of Reconstruction, when white Democrats were regaining control of the state and the political gains of these officeholders were under sustained attack. Looking at it now, the montage technique is worth noticing: it presents a legislature as a unified assembly even though its members were photographed separately.
| Created / published | c1876. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Portrait photographs 1870-1880.Group portraits 1870-1880.Photomontages 1870-1880.Albumen prints 1870-1880. |
| Subjects | Legislators--South Carolina--1870-1880. African Americans--Political activity--South Carolina--1870-1880. Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--South Carolina. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,189 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116307 |
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