"The Fifteenth Amendment", an 1870 print celebrating the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution in February 1870, and the advancements that African-Americans had made as a result of the Civil War.
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC4-2399 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZ62-36272 (b&w film copy neg.)
SUMMARY: Parade surrounded by portraits and vignettes of Black life, illustrating rights granted by the 15th amendment.
NOTES: A reduced version of Kelly's large print "The Fifteenth Amendment, Celebrated May 19th 1870" (no. 1870-4), with a key to the picture added in the lower margin. Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1870-5.
DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g02399http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g02399(b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a36683http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a36683
Edited from image http://memory.loc.gov/master/pnp/cph/3g00000/3g02000/3g02300/3g02399u.tif on the Library of Congress website.
