Set Reminder2024-04-18 12:00:002024-04-18 12:00:00America/New_YorkBidsquareBidsquare : How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX https://www.bidsquare.com/auctions/potter-potter/how-history-unfolds-on-paper-choice-selections-from-the-eric-c-caren-collection-part-ix-21908 This ninth sale from Eric Caren's archives offers a bird's eye view of history from a printed, manuscript, and photographic perspective.
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[DOUGLASS, Frederick (1818-1895) and Booker T. WASHINGTON (1856-1915)]. ?Onward?. N.p., 1903. A ?racial uplift? lithographic poster (483 x 381 mm), few small creases, some spotting in margins, small dampstain at lower edge. The central image is a 1903 montage by W.L. Haskell featuring portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington and smaller vignettes from each of their lives, along with Lady Liberty waving a scroll: ?Truth and justice shall not fail, Work and wisdom shall prevail.? THIS IS THE EARLIER VARIANT, containing text at both the top and bottom with a paragraph on the Tuskegee Institute, followed by short biographies of each of the three men.