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TITLE:  [Black man reading newspaper by candlelight]

CALL NUMBER:  CAI - Stephens (H.L.), no. 1 (A size) [P&P]

Restricted access: Materials in this collection are often extremely fragile; most originals cannot be served.

REPRODUCTION NUMBER:  LC-USZC4-2442 (color film copy transparency)
LC-USZCN4-285 (color film copy neg.)
LC-USZCN4-311 (color film copy neg.)

RIGHTS INFORMATION:  Publication may be restricted. For information see "Cabinet of American Illustration," (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/111_cai.html)

SUMMARY:  Man reading a newspaper with headline, "Presidential Proclamation, Slavery," which refers to the Jan. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

MEDIUM:  1 drawing : watercolor.

CREATED/PUBLISHED:  [ca. 1863]

CREATOR:

Stephens, H. L. (Henry Louis), 1824-1882, artist.

NOTES:

Title devised by cataloger.

Accession no. DLC/PP-1985:0490.

Exhibit loan 4108-L.

BAR updated record 1989-1994.

SUBJECTS:

African Americans--Domestic life--1860-1870.
Reading--1860-1870.
Interiors--1860-1870.

FORMAT:

Illustrations 1860-1870.
Watercolors Color 1860-1870.

PART OF:  Cabinet of American Illustration (Library of Congress)

REPOSITORY:  Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

DIGITAL ID:  (digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g02442 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g02442
(digital file from color film copy neg.) cph 3j00285 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3j00285
(digital file from color film copy neg.) cph 3j00311 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3j00311

CONTROL #:  cai1996003570/PP


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