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Haskell, W.L., fl. 1903 Onward

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC09736.01 Author/Creator: Haskell, W.L., fl. 1903 Place Written: s.l. Type: Poster Date: 1903 Pagination: 1 poster Height: 48.9 cm, Width: 37.9 cm Order a Copy

One poster entitled "Onward" by W.L. Haskell dated 1903. Features portraits of Paul Laurence Dunbar, W.E.B. Du Bois, Matilda Sissieretta Joyner Jones, Hightower Theodore Kealing, and Wilford Horace Smith along the top. On the lower half of the poster there are larger portraits of Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Booker T. Washington. The poster also features images of the house where Lincoln was born, the Tuskegee Institute, Frederick Douglass learning to read, and the house where Booker T. Washington was born. There is also a woman waving a flag and holding a sign that reads, "Truth and Justice Shall Not Fail Work and Wisdom Shall Prevail."

Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt, 1868-1963
Dunbar, Paul Laurence, 1872-1906
Haskell, W. L., fl. 1903
Jones, Sissieretta, 1869-1933
Kealing, Hightower Theodore, 1859-1918
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
Smith, Wilford Horace, 1863-1926
Washington, Booker T., 1856-1915

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