Item #19-5452 The Lime Kiln Club Lithograph Poster. Calvert Lithograph Co, Detroit.

The Lime Kiln Club Lithograph Poster.

Detroit, MI: Calvert Lith Co., 1882. Original color lithograph poster. Expertly repaired. 24 x 30 inches with margins. The Lime-Kiln Club was a fictitious fraternal organization of African-Americans created by writer and journalist Charles Bertrand Lewis for the Detroit Free Press in the late 19th century.

The poster shows a color caricature drawing of a group of African American men who are seated in a large meeting room which has the name, "Paradise Hall," shown on a sign over the door. Two men are standing in front of the group near the left side of the drawing and appear to be speaking. Another man is seated near the lower left corner and appears to be the recording secretary. A copy of "The Weekly Detroit Free Press" newspaper is resting on the floor in the foreground. Printed text beneath the title along the lower left edge shows "Copyrighted by Calvert Lith. Co., Detroit, 1882." Item #19-5452

Price: $1,500.00

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