Emancipation,Columbia holding document,kneeling slaves,John Soule,GG Fish,c1863

Title: Emancipation / G.G. Fish, Pinx. ; J.P. Soule, ph[..]
Creator(s): Soule, John P., photographer
Related Names:
Fish, G. G. , artist
Date Created/Published: Boston : [...] John Soule, 14 Summer St., c1863.
Summary: Hand colored photograph of a woman (Columbia) holding a document (the Declaration of Emancipation?) and standing between two kneeling slaves. The slave to her left, a man, holds a U.S. flag; the slave to her right, a woman, is draped in the U.S. flag.
Notes:
Title from item.
Reproduction of a painting, possibly by George Gardner Fish.
Card mount cropped through imprint statement.
Gladstone's inventory number and notes: CDV68; emancipation.
Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1863, by John Sowle [sic], in clerk's office of the District Court for the District of Massachusetts.
'WD585' written in pencil on back of the mount.
Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.59)
General information about the Gladstone collection is available at, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.gld
Subjects:
United States.--President (1861-1865 : Lincoln).--Emancipation Proclamation
African Americans--Civil rights--1860-1870.
Columbia (Symbolic character)--1860-1870.
Liberty--1860-1870.
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans.
Albumen prints--Hand-colored--1860-1870.
Paintings--Reproductions--1860-1870.
Bookmark /2010647791/
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