Trade card advertising cigars. Image shows a newspaper man traveling on a donkey. He holds a broken umbrella, a piece of plumbing, and wears a bib that save “liver pad.” His mule’s saddlebags have three stereotyped figures: a Black man,...
This b/w stereoview has been handcolored with yellow on some of the hats and trousers. The photo shows a group of Black soldiers seated on a grassy knoll. All wear hats. The caption below the image on the right says...
The curved stereoview photo shows a row of Black Cavalrymen grooming horses. The caption reads: “Black Cavalrymen grooming horses, Camp Tampa, Fla. Copyright 1898 by R. Y” and then an illegible word. The left margin says “American Stereoscopic Company Manufacturers...
Photo shows a large group of White students and faculty posing for a photograph on the steps of a University of Iowa building with enormous white pillars. One of those present might be Black, standing on the second from right...
photo showing John Brown’s Fort, Harper Ferry, W. Va. and captioned the same. In small print under photo on left side “M.S. Burdette, No. 24″ each of three arched doorways have a word curving around them” John” “Brown’s” “Fort.” A...
photo shows a group of Black people in elegant clothing seated and standing, posing outside the “Negro Building” at the Atlanta Exposition. The caption says “10798, Group at the Negro Building, Atlanta Exposition.” On the right of the photo: “Copyright...
photo shows a train with troops leaning out the window and a crowd of people watching them. One young Black boy watches the scene. The caption of the stereoview reads: “Volunteer Soldiers leaving Washington For Tampa and Cuba.” On left...
Studio and place name in gold on lower front cardboard frame. Embossed in cursive, the location given is “Pardoe. Half Block Northwest of Square in Newton, Iowa” Handwritten In cursive on the back in ink: “Property of Kathleen Webb”
Photo shows an image in sepia tones of a Black couple, the man holding a shawl around the shoulders of a woman. Both wear dapper hats. The front lower right corner has a small stamp of the name of the...
front: “Compliments of the Western Wheel Scraper company. Manufacturers, Mt. Pleasant, Iowa.” in between the sentences is a large photo of two young Black children, a boy and a girl, in the snow. houses are in the background. The boy...
The image shows a Black American soldier in uniform with his Kepi Hat on a bench. The kepi cap has an affixed 10th Calvary emblem. I believe the size of photo mount and the soldier’s uniform uniform dates this from...
School class photograph in Burlington, Iowa, one female Black student. Students pose on school steps outside with sign saying “Saunderson R No. 5, Oct 3 ’99” Back: someone wrote in pencil “1899, Burlington, Iowa”
amputation, civil war Double page spread: scene of Union army entering Richmond, people on rooftops, people in streets, all rejoicing, explosion in background. Caption reads: “The Union Army Entering Richmond, April 3, 1865” Political Cartoon on back page depicts a...
front: cdv portrait of a young, dark-skinned girl. She is dressed elegantly with earrings and a lace collar. Back: black cardboard with gold decoration and writing: “James, Photographer, Iowa City, Iowa. Negatives retained for future orders”
Stereoview published by Underwood & Underwood Photograph by Strohmeyer & Wyman This stereoview depicts a group of women, children and a man sitting and standing by a doorway to a clapboard building. All the adults hold children on their laps...
Circassion women were part of the P.T. Barnum circus. Of course, they were not really from Circassia in the North Caucasus. Barnum hyped them as such because of the renown of the beauty of women from that region and the...
Stereoview shows workers, race undetermined, working outside the penitentiary. Someone has written In pen on the back: “South Wing Bell” and the last word is hard to decipher. Below this is a stamped drawing of a large man riding in...
This studio photo shows four solemn young White boys in a prop of a row boat, with an strange elaborate back drop of a river scene. The right edge has the studio name “E.J. Ford, Opposite Post Office, Grundy Center,...
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