(EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.) The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishments, and Celebration on May 19th, A.D. 1870. Hand-colored lithographed print. Central oval image

(EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.) The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment and the Rise and Progress of the African Race in America and its Final Accomplishments, and Celebration on May 19th, A.D. 1870. Hand-colored lithographed print. Central oval image shows Black zouaves on parade, buildings and trees in background, surrounded by border of vignettes; portraits of Lincoln, U. S. Grant, Frederick Douglass, Martin Delaney, Hiram Revels et al.; schoolroom with black children; church scene with black parishioners; planta-tion scene; Civil War scene; etc. At top, 2 American flags with their stripes draped around center oval. Baltimore: Metcalf and Clark, 1870 E1,000/2,000 This print was simultaneously issued by New York and Baltimore publishers. Baltimore scene is less common of the two. American Political Prints 1776-1886, #1870-4; LCP, Negro History 1553-1903, No. 225. [SEE ILLUSTRATION]