The Emancipation of the Negroes, January, 1863 - The Past and the Future

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The Emancipation of the Negroes, January, 1863 - The Past and the Future

Thomas Nast
(Landau, Germany, 1840 - 1902, Guayaquil, Ecuador)
artist

Harper's Weekly
(1857 – 1916)
publisher

Object Type

Print

Medium

Wood engraving on paper

Date

1863

Dimensions

418 x 578 mm (sheet)

Credit

Pickard-Studley Endowment Fund purchase, 2019

Accession Number

2019.1.5

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