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Kindred [graphic]
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Kindred : a graphic novel adaptation
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A free man [graphic], 1868
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A watercolor and graphite drawing depicting a formerly enslaved Black family with their animals outside their home. Illustration is centered by a Black man in the foreground chopping a log of wood to add to a pile of logs and kerosene. To his right is a small dog, and presumably his two children, a young Black girl dressed in red, and a Black boy in yellow holding a red bucket. The left side of the illustration is partially torn but depicts a horse in a fenced enclosure looking towards the family. The background includes a cabin with a smoking chimney in front of a hilly enclosure. The drawing's paper is fragile and deteriorating on all edges; a signature and date by the artist is partially visible on the lower right corner, reading, "Caleb Brown, 1868." Titled, "A Free MAN" towards the lower center of the drawing. Verso of drawing includes a partial portrait of a woman titled "Eliza," lithographed by James Baillie.
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Portrait of a woman
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Item is a framed side view portrait of a woman standing. Portrait is a collage of various fabrics for the woman's dress, paper cutouts for accessories, with hand colored details. Signed "A" in pencil on the lower right.
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"Come, fellow Americans, let us worship!" [graphic] / Interlandi
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An ink drawing by Frank Interlandi for the Los Angeles Times. The drawing is a paste-up which included a glued clipping of a revolver (now loose), originally placed on top of a drawn column labeled "God." Additional loose clippings include a typed paper slip of the title, and another typed slip reading, "Below Olympus... By Interlandi." The cartoon is signed and dated by Interlandi on the left corner of the image. Signed text towards the lower right of the image also reads, "With best wishes, from Frank Interlandi." The title, "Come, fellow Americans, let us worship!" is written in blue pencil below the image. Verso of drawing includes a blue note from the Los Angeles Times with information regarding the original order request.
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The celebrated cosmopolitan shirts
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Image of two vignettes advertising Cosmopolitan shirts; top vignette features three men in formal evening attire (tail coats, trousers, collared shirts, waist coats, white ties, and gloves) in a lavish home with large staircase, folded white shirt in circular frame to the left; lower vignette shows several men and a woman at leisure or on vacation near a large body of water, collared patterned shirts worn with caps, breeches and hose worn by the men, racquet, bicycle, ladies fan, parasol, and travel bag visible; two ships in the distance, folded patterned collared shirt in circular frame to the right.
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Colored man is no slacker [graphic]
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A color offset lithograph poster depicting an African American man and woman in embrace. The male partner is dressed in infantry uniform, while the female partner is dressed in a blue-and-white dress and spatterdashes. They are illustrated as holding hands and parting with one another, assumably the man enlisted to join the group of African American infantrymen marching with a 42-star U.S. flag behind them. The couple is centered below a doorstep on a walkway surrounded by columns, red and yellow roses, and white and blue flowers. The background includes blue skies with green foliage and trees. The title, "Colored Man is No Slacker" is printed in blue below the couple. Signed and copyrighted on lower left corner by artist, "1918. E.G. Renesch, Chicago."
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