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Image Title: The Result Of The Fifteenth Amendment, And The Rise And Progress Of The African Race In America And Its Final Accomplishment, And Celebration On May 19th, A.D., 1870

Creator: Metcalf & Clark,

Date: 1870.

Summary: A slightly altered version of another print by the same title also issued by Metcalf and Clark (no. 1870-2), commemorating the enactment of the Fifteenth Amendment and its celebration in Baltimore. In the center is a redrawn view of the parade on Monument Street. The vignettes surrounding the central scene are also redrawn and placed in a different arrangement, with the plantation and battle scenes appearing in the lower corners. Around the central group of busts (poorly drawn) of Bond, Brown, and Colfax, above, are various tools and implements, and two urns.

Subjects: African Americans (portrayed), in the U.S. military
Baltimore, Md
Bond, Hugh Lenox
Brown, John
Colfax, Schuyler
Constitutional amendments, fifteenth
Davis, Henry Winter
Delany, Martin Robinson
Douglass, Frederick
Grant, Ulysses S., presidency
Masons
Plantations and planters
Revels, Hiram
Slaves and slavery
Stevens, Thaddeus
Sumner, Charles, as champion of equal rights
Voters and voting

Original Media: Lithograph

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