COLLECTION NAME:
Artists' Book Collection
Record
Title:
The Underground Railroad
Creator:
Riker, Maryann J.
Description:
Flag book made of binders board, paper, and acetate, with historical data tipped on pastedowns. Paper-covered boards. In paper sleeve. Title from cover. Author and publication information from back cover. Open edition work signed by author. Vendor's website: "The Underground Railroad was a network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th-century slaves of African descent in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists and allies who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists, both black and white, free and enslaved, who aided the fugitives. Using vintage photography, slave journals and abolitionist letters, this flag book highlights the secret routes and "conductors" of the underground railroad."
Subject:
African Americans in art
Subject:
Enslaved persons
Subject:
Slave narratives
Subject:
Underground Railroad
Subject:
Women artists
Publisher:
JUSTARIP Press
Date:
2014
Language:
English
Type:
Still Image
Extent:
1 volume : illustrations ; 16 cm
Format/Medium:
Artists' books
Format/Medium:
Flag books
Format/Medium:
Slipcases
Source:
The Underground Railroad, in Jen Library Archives and Special Collections, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Rights:
Copyright is retained by the authors or artists of items in this collection, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.
Identifier:
b18220691
Identifier:
i13800127
SCAD Location:
Jen Library (Savannah)
