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No Passage for a Democratic Negro

Permanent ID:
12376
Call number:
NB1 75-394
Language:
English
Date:
January 12 1887
Image Description:
In the image, James Campbell Matthews holds a bag labeled "J.C. Matthews Recorder of Deeds."  Grover Cleveland and Matthews try to a pass, but a group of US Senators block their path to the Senate chambers.  The Senators hold a banner that reads "no salvation for the negro outside of the G.O.P."  Fredric Douglass stands behind Cleveland and Matthews and appears to be laughing.
Format:
Political cartoons; Chromolithographs; Clippings
Publisher:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Collection:
Balch Institute Broadsides
Related People or Organizations:
Joseph Ferdinand Keppler, 1838-1894 (artist)
Biunno, Diane (Transcribed by)
Biunno, Diane (Encoded by)
Historical Society of Pennsylvania (repository)
Cleveland, Grover, 1837-1908 (depicted)
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895 (depicted)
Matthews, James Campbell (depicted)
Jewell, Marshall, 1825-1883 (depicted)
John Sherman, 1823-1900 (depicted)
J. D. Cameron, 1833-1918 (depicted)
Keppler & Schwarzmann (publisher)