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Date

1886

Publisher

Wellstood and Co., NY

Artist

William Wellstood

Dimensions

9 3/8 x 6 1/8 in. (23.8 x 15.6 cm)

Accession Number

2008.059.000

Credit Line

Collection of the U.S. House of Representatives

Object Details

Portraits of five African Americans serving in Congress during Reconstruction - Joseph Rainey, John Lynch, James Rapier, Hiram Revels, and Blanche K. Bruce - were included in this engraved illustration from Speaker James Blaine’s two-volume publication Twenty Years of Congress from Lincoln to Garfield. The book covered, in detail, the events leading up to the Civil War through the Garfield administration. New York engraver William Wellstood engraved the prints included in both volumes, which provide likenesses of Speakers, Presidents, Vice Presidents, and other individuals of note discussed in the history.

Rights and Reproduction Information

Objects

Joseph Hayne Rainey
Joseph Hayne Rainey
Colored Men Who Have Served in the Congress of The United States
Colored Men Who Have Served in the Congress of The United States

Exhibitions & Publications

Black Americans in Congress: The Fifteenth Amendment in Flesh and Blood
Black Americans in Congress: The Fifteenth Amendment in Flesh and Blood

Related Content

House Records: Primary Sources about African American History
House Records: Primary Sources about African American History
Office of the Historian: history@mail.house.gov
Office of Art & Archives, Office of the Clerk: art@mail.house.gov, archives@mail.house.gov