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Radical members of the So. Ca. Legislature.
1868
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Omega Project
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
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Metadata
- Call Number
- D North 55/GC131/Box 09/Small/Unidentified Artists/Portraits and Genre GA 2009.01024
- Publisher
- n.d. [ca. 1868?].
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- Portraits, Group—United States—19th century
- South Carolina—History—19th century—In art
- Legislators—South Carolina—19th century—Portraits
- Black people—United States—19th century—Portraits
- Portraits, American—19th century
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)—South Carolina—In art
- African Americans—South Carolina—19th century—Portraits
- Portraits
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Radical members of the So. Ca. Legislature.
- Call Number
- D North 55/GC131/Box 09/Small/Unidentified Artists/Portraits and Genre GA 2009.01024
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dcsj139f399
- Publisher
- n.d. [ca. 1868?].
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1868
- Extent
- 1 item ; print 7.5 x 5.5 cm. sheet 10.3 x 6.2 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Unidentified Artist [photographer]
- Medium: Albumen prints
- Depiction: Collage of half-length male portraits; many of the subjects are African Americans.
- Inscribed in plate, on mount, below: 'These are the photographs of 63 members of the reconstructed South Carolina Legislature, 50 of whom are negroes or mulattoes and 13 white. 22 read and write (8 grammatically), the remainder (41) make ther mark with the aid of an amanuensis. Nineteen (19) are tax-payers to an aggregate amount of $146.10, the rest (44) pay no taxes, and the body levies on the white people of the State for $4,000.00.'
- Inscribed in plate, verso: Names of sitters by row.
- Unsigned.
Discovery Information
- Subject
- Portraits, Group—United States—19th century
- South Carolina—History—19th century—In art
- Legislators—South Carolina—19th century—Portraits
- Black people—United States—19th century—Portraits
- Portraits, American—19th century
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)—South Carolina—In art
- African Americans—South Carolina—19th century—Portraits
- Portraits
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 4
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
-
https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/ea0f702d-511b-4b04-a454-882865d28a8b/manifest