Rare Frederick Douglass Poster & Portrait of Black American Statesman and Orator

Description

[Associated Publishers]
[Large Portrait Print of Frederick Douglass issued by the Associated Publishers].
[Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, Inc. c.1950s–1960s]. Halftone print from a photograph. 24 x 19 inches overall; image 20½ x 16 inches. Medium-stock paper. Fine condition.
Large, almost life-size portrait of Frederick Douglass (1818–1895), abolitionist, reformer, orator, and author, taken from a photograph showing Douglass as an elder statesman.
Associated Publishers, Inc. of Washington, D.C. were established in 1921 by Carter G. Woodson to publish books on African-American history, including his own. Known as the “Father of Black History,” Woodson began the annual celebration of what is now Black History Month in February 1926.
Jarvis R. Given’s 2021 book
Fugitive Pedagogy: Carter G. Woodson and the Art of Black Teaching
describes the firm’s long history of publishing portraits of important African-Americans, “lithographs with suitable margins for framing.” These portraits were issued from the 1930s to possibly the 1960s.
Not in OCLC or in the collections of Howard University, including their digital “Associated Publishers Photograph Morgue.”
ID: 3730470
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