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...
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...
Issue of the National Anti-Slavery Standard newspaper from March 1, 1856. There are a total of 4 pages. Includes story of Dred Scott titled “Important Suit Before the Supreme Court: Dred Scot vs. John F. A. Sanford” The article begins...
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...
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...
The Journal of Anthropology Vol. 1, No. 3 (Jan., 1871), pp. 245-258 (14 pages) Published by: Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland Anthropological analysis discussing the body of a “Negro male” who was enslaved since childhood at Constantinople’s...
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...
Article on front page reprinted from Douglass’ Monthly “What Shall be done with the Slave if Emancipated?” Worcester Palladium Newspaper began production in 1834.
The front of this 1860’s CDV Political Cartoon depicts John Brown Exhibiting His Hangman” Jefferson Davis who is dressed as a woman and in a bird cage. Here are a few descriptions of the card from dealers: “Northern rejoicing at...
This issue is filled with information about the imprisonment of Huey P. Newton; the creation of a free breakfast program for children; the persecution of Nevada Indians; Slavery in South America, among other issues.
A photograph of a White girl and boy standing by a sign. The words that are visible advertise “Terry’s Big Uncle Tom’s Cabin” Back: the black backing where the card was ripped out of an album adheres to the back...
The Examiner, Louisville KY, Saturday January 27 1849 Negro Improvability. Article discusses that “negro” people become physically more altered–whiter– simply by proximity with whites “without any actual intermixture of races”
“His last words.- “I die for the inalienable right of mankind to freedom, whatever hue the skin may be.”” These are printed at the top of this civil war period envelope. On the right it says “John Brown” and beneath...
Harper’s Weekly, July 4, 1863, p. 429 Page with a description of “A Typical Negro,” shows three woodcults of an escaped enslaved person named Gordon: one in rags “Gordon as he Entered our Lines;” one showing his scarified back “Gordon...
The Columbian Centinel, Boston, Massachusetts, Saturday, March 31, 1792, contains an article on p. 2 — an “Extract from the North-Carolina act respecting slaves” It speaks about a change in the punishment for killing a slave. The change is that...
The Liberator, September 3, 1858 Articles about the Dominican Republic and “Negro Mechanics,” and “Negroes to be Educated” in Kansas, and much more. according to Wikipedia: “The Liberator was a weekly abolitionist newspaper, printed and published in Boston by William...
New York Daily Tribune, August 10, 1860 Article titled “Mr. Douglas, The Republicans, and the Dred Scott Decision.” Contains the report on the Dred Scott Decision, and ways to eventually overturn it. “The People of the United States, acting through...
The stereoview shows a Black woman seated in a child’s bedroom and holding a young white girl in her lap. The child is in her nightgown. The caption in the bottom right of the photo says: “607 Tell Mammy about...
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