Celebrating Rights and Responsibilities: 
Baltimore & the Fifteenth Amendment, May 19, 1870

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Guide to Documents

1) The Reconstruction (13th, 14th, 15th) Amendments to the U.S. Constitution. MSA SC 2221-18-11

2) SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Maryland State Archives Map Collection) Details from Gray's New Map of Baltimore, 1876. MSA SC 1427-28. MSA SC 2221-18-1

3)  GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Joint Resolutions). 1870. Joint Resolution rejecting the 15th Amendment to the U. S. Constitution. MSA S 967-1870-8 MdHR 50,029. MSA SC 2221-18-2

4)  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Sun Collection) Baltimore Sun, Friday, May 20, 1870. MSA SC 2852. MSA SC 2221-18-3

5)  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Baltimore American and Commerical Advertiser Collection) Baltimore American and Commercial Advertiser, Friday, May 20, 1870. MSA SC 4109. MSA SC 2221-18-4

6)  "The Fifteenth Amendment." Lithograph by James C. Beard. New York: Thomas Kelly Publishers, 1870. With permission from Golden Owl Publishing Company, Inc., P. O. Box AO3, Amawalk, N.Y. 10501. Black Voting Rights, Portfolio #P21. MSA SC 2221-18-5

7)  SPECIAL COLLECTIONS (Constance B. Schultz Slide Collection). "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment..." Lithograph by Metcalf &  Clark, Baltimore, 1870. Original in the Enoch Pratt Free Library. MSA SC 1260-104. MSA SC 2221-18-6

8)  "The Fifteenth Amendment and Its Results." Lithograph by E. Sachse & Co., Baltimore, 1870. Courtesy of Venable, Baetjer & Howard. MSA SC 2221-18-7

9)  "The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment..." Lithograph by Metcalf & Clark, Baltimore, 1870. Courtesy of The Peale Museum, T. Edward Humbleton Print Collection, Baltimore City Life Museums. MSA SC 2221-18-8

10)  GENERAL ASSEMBLY (Laws, Original) 1973. Joint Resolution 17 ratifying the 15th Amendment. MSA S 966-1074 MdHR 19,904-5. MSA SC 2221-18-9

11)  Fifteenth Amendment toy. American Heritage 32:1 (December 1980):25. MSA SC 2221-18-10.

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