Sujet

General Grant and a colored guard, 1902. Creator: Unknown.

Légende

'General Grant and a colored guard', 1902. 'The guard, being under instructions, would not permit even General Grant to pass before he had thrown away his cigar'. Ulysses S. Grant, future president of the United States, was a frequent cigar smoker. Here, an African-American soldier, putting safety first, refuses to let the general pass while smoking.

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Crédit

Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art

Notre référence

HRM26A22_097

Model release

NA

Property release

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Licence

Droits gérés

Format disponible

21.5Mo (1.2Mo) / 26.7cm x 20.2cm / 3149 x 2387 (300dpi)

Mots clés

Caucasian people black library politics country security white weapon weapons gun guns smoking political military war location Armed Forces century cigar cigars general soldiers soldier president conscientious rifle concept barrel barrels inflammable flammable African American African-American B&W afro-american public library Army African-Americans politician warfare United States of America sentry United States Army civil war black & white black and white B W weaponry armed services politicians 1900s 20th century American Civil War New York Public Library NYPL statesman US Army American America USA Ulysses Simpson Grant lithograph photograph sentry duty united states Unknown Grant Ulysses Simpson Ulysses S Grant US Grant General Grant Ulises Grant Ulyses Grant U.S. Army Hiram Ulysses Grant Heritage Art African Americans Ulysses S. Grant Ulysses S. Schomburg Center for Research Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture Hiram Ulysses