Collection: Osher Collection

Name: Onward

Barcode: 53875

Image Number: 53875.0001

Brief Description: Photo-lithographed poster featuring famous African-Americans and Abraham Lincoln. Includes center portrait of Sissieretta Jones ("Black Patti"), an American soprano compared to Italian opera singer Adelina Patti; portrait of Paul Laurence Dunbar, American poet, novelist and playwright, internationally acclaimed for his poetry; H.T. Kealing, writer, educator and prominent member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church; Wilford H. Smith, American lawyer specializing in constitutional law and first African-American lawyer to win a case before the Supreme Court of the United States; Booker T. Washington, American educator and first president and principal developer of what became Tuskegee University; Frederick Douglass, American social reformer, abolitionist, statesman and early champion of women's rights; W.E. Berghardt Du Bois, American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist; Abraham Lincoln, president during the American Civil War.

Creator: Haskell, W. L.

Date/Date Range: 1903

Language: English

Type: Posters

Dimensions: 47 x 35 cm on sheet 50 x 41 cm

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/53875.0001