<I>"Of Course He Wants To Vote The Democratic Ticket"</I>
date: label: Date
content: October 21, 1876
name: label: Illustrated by
content: Arthur Burdett Frost, American, 1851 - 1929
label: Published by
content: Harper's Weekly, American, 1857 - 1916
label: Subject of
content: Harvey Magee Watterson, American, 1811 - 1891
notes: label: Description
content: A framed illustrated print of from Harper's Weekly.
label: Description
content: The primary depiction is of two men threatening an unarmed man with pistols. The overall scene shows several men crowded in a small room. On the left, a man wears dark jacket, bright shirt and trousers, bent hat, and rests his proper left hand on the shoulder of an unarmed man. In the middle, the unarmed man with curly hair wears a bright long sleeve shirt and patched trousers. With his right arm crossed over his chest, he holds a small paper in his hand that reads “DEMOCRATIC TICKET”. Pistols are pointed at both sides of his head. On the right, a man wears a long sleeve shirt, dark trousers, and large hat. He carries a pistol on each hip, and his proper left hand is in his pocket. Immediately below the three main characters’ feet is the title and caption in black ink: ["OF COURSE HE WANTS TO VOTE THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET!"/ DEMOCRATIC "REFORMER." "You're as free as air, ain't you! Say you are, or I'll blow yer black head off!"].
label: Description
content: To the left of the major scene, a crowd of men in the background smile and watch the interaction.
label: Description
content: On a table in front of the open door are two wooden ballot boxes, a liquor bottle, glass, and pistol. A man in a small hat stands outside the door, looking to his proper right, into the room with the tense scene. Beyond him, in the daylit road, two armed men on horseback pull another man between them, in the direction of the primary scene.
label: Description
content: In the bottom left quadrant of the illustration, bordered by a thin black line on three sides is: [“The negroes of the South are free-- / free as air,” says the parliamentary Wat- / terson. This is what the State, a well- / known Democratic organ of Tennessee, / says, in huge capitals, on the subject: “Let it be known before the election that / the farmers have agreed to spot / every leading Radical negro in the county, / and treat him as any enemy for all time to come. / The rotten ring must and shall be broken / at any and all costs. The Democrats have / determined to withdraw all employment / from their enemies. Let this fact be known.”
label: Description
content: In the upper right quadrant of the newsprint in black ink is “848”; in the middle right side of the newsprint is “HARPER’S WEEKLY”, and in the bottom right quadrant of the newsprint is “[October 21, 1876.”. The illustration is signed, “A. B. FROST” by the right-most male character’s boot.
label: Description
content: The newsprint is bordered by custom black backing and a decorative, silver and oiled-bronze-like metal frame. The frame, on verso, features a grey wire for hanging; a dark green circle sticker (bottom right) with “10” handwritten inside, and a bright yellow square provenance label.
place: label: Place depicted
content: Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
label: Place printed
content: United States, North and Central America
title: label: Title
content: Illlustrated page from Harper's Weekly
topic: label: Topic
content: African American
label: Topic
content: American South
label: Topic
content: Men
label: Topic
content: Politics
label: Topic
content: Race discrimination
label: Topic
content: Reconstruction, U.S. History, 1865-1877
label: Topic
content: Suffrage
label: Topic
content: Violence
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content: National Museum of African American History and Culture Collection
label: Classification
content: Slavery and Freedom Objects
label: Classification
content: Books and Published Materials
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Stanley Turkel's Collection of Reconstruction Era Materials
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of African American History and Culture
identifier: label: Object number
content: 2012.160.64
objectType: label: Type
content: illustrations
label: Type
content: newspapers
objectRights: label: Restrictions & Rights
content: No Known Copyright Restrictions
label: Restrictions & Rights
content: Proper usage is the responsibility of the user.
physicalDescription: label: Medium
content: ink on wove paper
label: Dimensions
content: H x W x D (framed): 16 1/4 × 20 3/16 × 11/16 in. (41.3 × 51.2 × 1.7 cm)