Broadside for "Men of Color" Recruitment: Museum Object and Cultural History

The object in the museum catalogue

Large three-sheet broadside promoting "Men of Color" to enlist in the Army; text printed in relief with carved wood type and cast letterpress/metal type. Text reads "MEN OF COLOR To Arms! To Arms!"

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: 1863
• Written by: Frederick Douglass, American, 1818 - 1895
• Type: broadsides
• Medium: printing ink on rag paper
• Dimensions: H x W x D (framed): 95 × 48 5/8 × 2 5/16 in. (241.3 × 123.5 × 5.9 cm)
• Dimensions: H x W: 93 3/4 × 46 1/4 in. (238.1 × 117.5 cm)
• Place made: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: Military
• Topic: U.S. History, Civil War, 1861-1865
• Topic: United States Colored Troops
• Object number: 2012.133
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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