The image names each of the enslaved people depicted. The caption states: “Emancipated slaves, white and colored— the children are from the schools established in New Orleans, by Order of Major-General Banks.” An article follows on p. 71 The images...
Harper’s Weekly article and illustration, Harper’s Weekly Journal of Civilization, August 28, 1869, Vol. XIII, no. 661, p.548 The caption reads “Steamboat Riot on the “Dubuque, Above Davenport, Iowa, July 29, 1863 — sketched by H.H. Henderson.” The article in full:...
Harper’s Weekly A Journal of Civilization, June 9, 1866, vol. X, no. 493 This issue of Harper’s Weekly has a full-page spread on images of “Freedmen” in North Carolina after the Civil War. The images include “Trent River Settlement, opposite...
the images shows Black Union soldiers liberating Black enslaved people of all ages who greet them joyously. The text accompanying the image, found in the third column on a subsequent page says: “An expedition under Colonel M’Chesney, of the First...
The front cover has a full page illustration of President Lincoln with the caption “President Lincoln Taking the Oath At His Second Inauguration, March 4, 1865–Photographed by Gardner, Washington” with an article on page 164. Pages 168-169 is a double...
An image printed on the envelope shows a hand reaching for a man with fly wings carrying a skull and crossbones banner. The hand is labeled “W.S.” and the man/fly J.D. This identifies the fly as Jefferson Davis and the...
A tradecard-sized announcement die-cut shaped like a fan, announcing the “Grammar school exhibiition, Allegory of the Great REbellion. Normal Hall. November Nineteenth, 1879.” The reverse side says: “Part First “Before the War–Concord–Dissension–Seccession. Part Second “The Story of the War.” It...
A yellow cardboard stereoview of a swampy setting in Florida shows two men, one Black and one white, rowing a boat filled with product while two men rowing empty boats look on. The caption read: “4180 Jacksonville butcher rowing to...
A Discourse on the Character and Death of John Brown, Delivered in Martinsburgh, NY, December 12, 1859 by S. H. Taft, Paster of the Church of Martinsburgh. This is the Second edition — published by request, with an introduction by...
1870’s Stereoview Lincoln Monument, Philadelphia, by Robert Newell. Image shows Lincoln Monument, with a seated Abraham Lincoln. This is an early photo of the Lincoln Monument at Fairmont Park, Philadelphia shown at its first location of Lemon Hill Drive and...
This postal cover, printed in red ink on plain paper, shows a caricature of a jaunty, dancing Black boy, holding a cigar with the caption, “Old John Brown’s dead, but I still live.” Back: blank
This stereoview, mounted on yellow board, shows the Refugee Camp for freed African American Slaves at Harper’s Ferry by John P. Soule: a view with the Harper’s Ferry arsenal in the background and tents and tee-pee- like structures in the...
Boston Daily Advertiser Newspaper, June 21, 1864 with article on “Military Affairs,” which describes the advance of General Hunter’s column up the valley of the Shenandoah. This lengthy article ends by describing the “Efficiency of negro troops.” “Their losses were...
Outdoor view of the Quaker Meeting House in Oskaloosa, Iowa. The thin cdv paper implies a date in the 1860s. The card is backed on cardboard and inserted into a cardboard frame with an oval window cut in the cardboard,...
two page spread, seems to be taken from pamphlet and seamed together. One side is a two-page map of Iowa and Missouri. Above map text: Group II.- Iowa and Missouri. The map locates cities of both states and at bottom,...
This print is from Harper’s Pictorial History of the Great Rebellion – Part Second – 1868 Confederate Prisoners Being Conducted from Jonesborough to Atlanta. The line of prisoners extends into the far distance. A family looks on as they pass...
CDV photograph of enslaved children in New Orleans with Caucasian phenotype, by Charles Paxson, New York. These cdvs were sold to raise money for abolitionist causes and create awareness and empathy for enslaved people. 1864. From the website: “Photograph shows...
From the ca 1890 Taylor and Huntington reissue from the Anthony negatives. A large group of Black cavalrymen sit on the ground and on horseback at the left of the image. Among them are several White military as well. The...
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