Enslavement & Abolition
[STEVENS, Thaddeus (1792-1868)]. Ivorytype of abolitionist and congressman Thaddeus Stevens. Ca 1867.

Approx. 12 x 10 in. octagonal ivorytype unattached but with a similarly sized cardstock mount. Signed in ink "Kate Hayes" and "Hayes" to lower left and right.

We were only able to locate one other example of this hand-colored ivorytype, which is part of the National Portrait Gallery Collection at the Smithsonian.

Pennsylvania Congressman Thaddeus Stevens (1792-1868) was a leader of the Radical Republicans before, during and after the American Civil War. Stevens was a firebrand abolitionist who was an active member of the Underground Railroad and devoted most of his energies in opposing the expansion and even the continuation of slavery in America.

This lot is located in Cincinnati.