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 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...
Jet Magazine September 15, 1966 featuring articles on “Is ‘Black Power’ killing CORE?’ and a new movie by Sammy Davis Jr, A small article on p. 6 “City’s Only Negro Barred From Iowa County Fair”: “Two concessionaires at the Sac...
“Modeling with Millie” vol.1, #48, August 1966. Published by MALE Publishing Corp, 625 Madison Avenue, New York, NY. Marvel Comics. 12 cents per copy. Edited by Stan Lee. Art by Stan G. Story by Denny-O. Art by Artie Simek. Cover...
“New Challenge, The Magazine for Young Americans,” feature article: “Behind the Murder of Emmett Till” New Challenge Publishers at 673 Broadway, New York, editor Aaron Weissman
Original August 7, 1958 issue of “Jet” magazine featuring featuring an article on a 13-year-old Detroit boy abused by Iowa cultists, saved by Waterloo Iowa NAACP president Anna Mae Weems. Anna Mae Weems is a leader in Iowa. She has...
Living Blues: The Magazine of the African-American Blues Tradition, #184, May-June 2006. Cover photo: Eddie C. Campbell. Articles on Eddie C. Campbell, John Lee Hooker Jr., Roosevelt Sykes, sacred steel master Calvin Cooke, Bentonia, Mississippi’s Jimmy ‘Duck’ Holmes, a fascinating...
The Crisis: A Record of the Darker Races. February 1920, vol. 19, n0. 4. Whole no. 112. Cover art by Frank Walts Conducted by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois, opinion written by W.E. Burghardt Du Bois Articles include “Lynching Map, 1919;”...
“Photographer re-creates the emotional crisis of a powerful new novel” the famous photographer Gordon Parks creates images corresponding to Ralph Ellison’s classic 1952 novel “The Invisible Man.” Photo essay by Gordon Parks, “Invisible Man” “Speaking of Pictures, A Man Becomes...
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...
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