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Provides a snapshot of the Tenth Street Historic Freedmen's Town District and The Bottom in Dallas, Texas, as they appeared in August 2023. Through photos, this documentation captures the remaining structures, streetscapes, and landmarks, showcasing the resilience of these historic neighborhoods amid challenges like development pressures, city-led demolitions under the 3000-square-foot rule, disin

1 drawing : marker on corrugated plastic board ; sheet 31 x 36 cm (poster format)

1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, b&w. | Photograph shows a crowd gathered at the Emancipation Proclamation Statue.

1 photograph : inkjet print and letterpress ; sheet 33 x 48 cm.

1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. | Photograph shows people passing by a display of pictures of lynchings.

1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color. | Photograph shows a woman looking at a display of pictures of lynchings.

1 print : aquatint ; plate mark 275 x 345 mm, sheet 375 x 490 mm. | Print shows three African American men walking under a hot sun after escaping slavery with the help of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.

1 print : aquatint ; plate mark 350 x 275 mm, sheet 485 x 375 mm. | Print shows enslaved African American men in shackles.

1 print : four-color aquatint ; plate mark 300 x 230 mm, sheet 480 x 375 mm. | Print shows African American men in warm sunlight after escaping slavery with the help of Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows some participants in the civil rights march sitting on a wall resting, one holds a placard which reads, "We march together, Catholics, Jews, Protestant, for dignity and brotherhood of all men under God, Now!"

1 photomechanical print. | Angry mob, many carrying clubs, watches as the body of a lynched African American man burns.

1 drawing : India ink, wash, and opaque white ; sheet 21.7 x 29.6 cm. | Editorial cartoon shows two women sitting in overstuffed chairs at the "Downtown Men's Club", enjoying champagne poured by an African American waiter; one woman remarks "I'll bet civil rights demonstrators never dreamed the movement would come to this!" to which the waiter thinks to himself "I know I didn't."

1 drawing.

1 print ; (poster format) | Poster showing American Blacks (and one non-Black) with weapons and torches rioting towards a burning U.S. Capitol.

1 print : photomechanical ; sheet 92 x 122 cm. or less.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows a white man standing on the curb, holding a bundle of American flags, while civil rights demonstrators march in the street in Illinois.

1 drawing.

1 photographic print.

21 contact sheets : gelatin silver, b&w ; 35 x 28 cm. (11 x 14 in.) | 10 photographic prints : gelatin silver, b&w ; 35 x 28 cm. (11 x 14 in.) | Photographs document the experience of the marchers before and during the event. Images include marchers boarding buses and trains to Alabama; arriving in Montgomery and Selma; people talking, singing, and resting. Also views of onlookers and law enforcem

1 drawing : pencil ; 56.6 x 76 cm (sheet) | Drawing shows a massive crowd of African Americans and whites, some carrying signs "One man, one vote," "Freedom now," "I am the vine," "A job for every American," "American Jewish Congress" converging on the State Capitol; a helicopter hovers in the background near the Capitol; two news cameras film the march.

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1 photograph : film negative.

1 photograph : film negative.

1 photograph : film negative.

1 photograph : film negative.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

1 photographic print.

1 print : color ; (poster format)

1 drawing : crayon ; sheet 46 x 61 cm. | Sketch shows the a nun and an African American woman in the gallery of the U.S. Capitol during the filibuster of the Civil Rights Act.

1 drawing : lithographic crayon ; 35.7 x 42.8 cm (sheet) | Drawing shows six well-dressed African American men, seminary students, standing behind a bench on which is a sign that states "24 Hour Vigil Civil Rights", "We are all brothers before God", and "We are here to speak to the conscience of every man".

1 drawing : India ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 41 x 32.5 cm (sheet) | Editorial cartoon shows President Lyndon B. Johnson with his arm around the shoulders of Senator Richard B. Russell, both are bruised, their clothes torn and tattered, they are surrounded by reporters as they emerge from a meeting where they "did discuss civil rights."

1 photograph : safety negative ; film width 35mm (roll format)

Photograph shows an African American woman at a civil rights demonsration in San Francisco, CA, with an American flag reflected in her glasses.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; photo 24.1 x 35.3 cm.

Photograph shows woman holding a sign during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows participants in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom singing and waving their hands.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows young white couple with baby participating in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom at the Lincoln Monument.

1 negative : film. | Photograph shows a crowd of African Americans and whites surrounding the Reflecting Pool and continuing to the Washington Monument.

1 negative : film. | Photograph showing civil rights leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., surrounded by crowds carrying signs.

1 negative : film. | Photograph shows a military color guard on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, with audience, speakers, and photographres on all sides.

1 negative : film. | Photograph shows a crowd of African Americans and whites on the grounds of the Lincoln Memorial; two men in foreground read a newspaper with the headline: "They're Pouring In From All Over."

1 negative : film. | Photograph shows a crowd of African Americans behind a storm fence with police carrying a woman on the other side.

1 negative : film. | Photograph shows a crowd of African Americans behind a storm fence with police on the other side.

1 negative : film. | Photograph showing crowds of people on The Mall, starting at the Lincoln Memorial, going around the Reflecting Pool, and continuing to the Washington Monument.

1 negative : film. | Photograph shows a procession of African Americans carrying signs for equal rights, integrated schools, decent housing, and an end to bias. The two women pictured in the foreground are sisters Elsie Eatman (right) and Delores Coleman (left, holding sign).

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 3/16 x 9 1/8 in. | Leaders of the 1963 March on Washington (l to r) Bayard Rustin, Asa Philip Randolph, and Dr. John Morsell holding a press conference in the New York headquarters.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 x 9 in. | Photograph shows, (l to r), Charlton Heston, Judy Garland, Eartha Kitt, and Marlon Brando at a meeting "to discuss plans for joining the civil rights march to be staged in Washington" August 28th 1963.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 27.8 x 35.3 cm (sheet) | Photograph showing African Americans participating in the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, at Kelly Ingram Park in Birmingham, Alabama, as firemen attempt to force them to disperse by directing their fire hoses on them as they congregate in the park.

Photograph shows a woman wearing March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom buttons at the march.

1 negative : film ; 35mm.

Photograph shows Russell Jones, seated on a folding stool, with a bag, during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 34.5 x 27.3 cm (mat)

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 34.5 x 27.3 cm (mat)

1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 28.0 x 35.6 cm (mat) | Photograph shows Jackie Robinson and others leading a large civil rights march in San Francisco. The sign supporting William Scranton represents the marchers objection to Republican presidential candidate Barry Goldwater.

1 print : gelatin silver ; sheet 27.8 x 35.3 cm. | Photograph shows civil rights worker Fannie Lou Hamer, full-length portrait, seated, facing front, on a porch with several members of an African American family.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 34.5 x 27.3 cm (mat)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 21 x 26 cm (8 x 10 format)

13 photographic prints : gelatin silver, 1 color ; 28 x 36 cm. or smaller. | Includes Civil rights activities and personalities during the Kennedy administration, 1961-1963. Martin Luther King, Jr.; Robert F. Kennedy; segregation in Nashville and Brownsville, Miss., 1961; Black extremist book store in Harlem, 1962; demonstrations in Birmingham and Washington, D.C., 1963. Also desegregation in Arli

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1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

1 drawing on paper : crayon, ink, and pencil. | Cartoon shows Bootsie talking to two African American men on a sidewalk outside of a barber shop, while an elderly couple walks past, glaring angrily at Bootsie.

1 drawing on layered paper : ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing ; 57.5 x 36.6 cm (sheet) | Editorial cartoon showing a lynch mob dragging a victim off to his execution.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows a group of African-American students being escorted by soldiers into school.

5 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 23 x 33 cm. or smaller. | Includes illustrations for an article on civil rights in the Encyclopedia Britannica Yearbook (1958). One Washington photo, by Henri Cartier-Bresson, shows the "Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom" at the Lincoln Memorial, May 18, 1957.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Nora Holt, an African American, female singer, composer, and music critic, who was active in the Harlem Renaissance and who was the first African American to receive a master's degree in the United States, in front of patterned backdrop.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Nora Holt, an African American, female singer, composer, and music critic, who was active in the Harlem Renaissance and who was the first African American to receive a master's degree in the United States, in front of patterned backdrop.

Photograph shows Clayton Corbin, also known as Clayton Smeltz, an African American, male, Harlem Renaissance actor.

1 photographic print. | Twenty-four people meeting at tables under sign reading: "one world--or none".

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Beauford Delaney, an African American, male modernist painter and Harlem Renaissance figure.

1 photographic print. | Photograph showing Douglas, owner of the Renaissance Casino in Harlem and founder of the Renaissance Five basketball team, holding his cat.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Josephine Baker, an African American, female Harlem Renaissance actress, dancer, and civil rights activist in formal dress and one glove.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 48 x 73 cm. | Photograph shows soldiers leaning over edge of ship; some of the African American soldiers wear 1st Cavalry Division patches.

1 photographic print.

1 drawing on paper : crayon, ink, blue pencil, and pencil with scraping out ; sheet 43 x 34 cm. | Cartoon shows a mother pointing her finger at the larger of her two boys. The older boy

1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

1 print : offset lithograph ; sheet 35.5 x 22.8 cm. | Print shows a cotton plantation with an overseer about to use his whip on a fieldworker; in the background three workers continue to pick cotton.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Josephine Baker, an African American, female Harlem Renaissance actress, dancer, and civil rights activist in winter coat and hat. Photograph shows Josephine Baker, an African American, female Harlem Renaissance actress, dancer, and civil rights activist in winter coat and hat.

1 photographic print. | Senator J. Howard McGrath (seated), Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, meeting with governors (l-r) Ben T. Laney, of Arkansas, R. Gregg Cherry, of North Carolina, William P. Lane, Jr., of Maryland, J. Strom Thurmond, of South Carolina, and B.H. Jester, of Texas, to "air their grievances against President Truman's civil rights program."

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows William Stanley Braithwaite, a male, African American writer, poet, literary critic, and publisher who had a role in publishing Harlem Renaissance poets.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows Daniel Lomax signing affidavit as Beatrice M. Reed, N.A.A.C.P. administrative assistant, helps Polly Johnson sign; Austin L. Fickling, N.A.A.C.P. lawyer, looks on while smoking a cigar.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

1 drawing on illustration board : pen and ink ; 61.6 x 47.9 cm (board) | Drawing shows policeman, backed by a klansman holding a whip, pointing his gun at three African American soldiers returning home following World War II.

1 drawing : ink. | Cartoon shows man wearing Ku Klux Klan hood and soiled robe tossing "souvenir"

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows, first row: 1. Hugh J. White, St. Louis, MO, 44-F; 2. Col. Benjamin O. Davis, Commanding Officer, 332nd Fighter Group, Class 42-C; 2. Conrad A. Johnson, New York, NY, 44-G; 4. Thurston L. Gaines, Freeport, NY, 44-G; 5. Robert W. Williams, Ottumwa, IA, 44-E; 6. Lewis J. Lynch, Columbus, OH, 44-F; 7. William T. Matison, Conway, AR, 42-I. Second row: 1. Rual W

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175 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | Emphasis is on training in the U.S. and active duty with the Air Services Command in England and Italy. Activities depicted include: aviation and mechanical training, recreation, transportation of supplies. Many portraits of soldiers and officers enlisted in the 13th and 15th Air Force, the 92nd Field Artillery, the 99th Fighter S

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 25.4 x 20.7 cm.

12 photographic prints. | Photographs show Washington, D.C. Volunteer student nurse's aides at Freedmen's Hospital for Negroes. Feeding bed patients, changing beds, packing surgical kits, and assisting during emergency medical care.

1 print : lithograph ; 58.8 x 45.8 cm (sheet, unfolded)

1 print : lithograph ; 49.9 x 43.2 cm (sheet)

37 photographic prints. | Photographs show church services on the South Side of Chicago, a predominantly Negro section. St. Edmund's Episcopal, St. Elizabeth, and Corpus Christi Roman Catholic churches. Mass, congregations in their pews, choir loft, choir boys relaxing, altar boys, Father Smith, a Negro pastor. Church interiors.

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1 photographic print.

90 photographic prints. | Photographs show story of Ella Watson, black government charwoman for twenty-six years, and miscellaneous scenes in a black neighborhood. Going to work at 5:30 P.M. Cleaning offices, halls, toilets, and returning home at 2:30 A.M. At home with three grandchildren and adopted daughter she supports on salary of $1,080 per year (minus war bond and other deductions). Neighbor

92 photographic prints. | Photographs show religious activities among Negroes on the Southside. Episcopal, Baptist, Pentecostal. Store front, churches. Processionals, Easter services, adults and children's choirs. Members testifying, reading the Bible. Members of the Moors, a religious sect, on the street. Visiting after church.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows African Americans at a graveyard.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Countee Cullen, an African American, male Harlem Renaissance poet, playwright, and novelist.

1 photographic print.

1 negative : nitrate film ; 1.5 x 1.25 in.

1 negative : nitrate film ; 1.5 x 1.25 in.

1 negative : nitrate film ; 1.5 x 1.25 in.

1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Jimmie Daniels (1908-1984), an African American, male, LGBTQIA cabaret performer, actor, nightclub owner, and Harlem Renaissance figure in front of patterned backdrop.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Jimmie Daniels (1908-1984), an African American, male, LGBTQIA cabaret performer, actor, nightclub owner, and Harlem Renaissance figure in front of patterned backdrop.

1 photographic print.

1 slide : color.

1 slide : color.

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1 negative : safety ; 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches or smaller. | Photograph shows mule-drawn wagons loaded with cotton.

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1 slide : color.

1 slide : color.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Arna Bontemps, a male, African American poet, novelist, librarian, Harlem Renaissance member in front of patterned backdrop.

1 photographic print. | Four adults and 11 children standing in front of two crude houses.

289 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | Photos show soldiers stationed at bases and training camps in the U.S. and abroad. Subjects depicted include soldiers receiving military decorations, training exercises and work activities such as constructing an air field in England, transporting supplies with the Transportation Corps, Port Battalion at the New York Port of Embar

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Robert Earl Jones, an African American, male actor, boxer, and Harlem Renaissance figure.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Robert Earl Jones, an African American, male actor, boxer, and Harlem Renaissance figure.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Robert Earl Jones, an African American, male actor, boxer, and Harlem Renaissance figure.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Robert Earl Jones, an African American, male actor, boxer, and Harlem Renaissance figure.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Robert Earl Jones, an African American, male actor, boxer, and Harlem Renaissance figure.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Zora Neale Hurston (1891-1960), an African American, female author, anthropologist, playwright, and filmmaker, who was active in the Harlem Renaissance, in front of patterned backdrop.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 7 5/16 x 9 5/16 in. | Elderly African-American woman walking toward dilapidated house.

1 drawing. | Cartoon shows Uncle Sam holding papers labelled, "Anti-lynching bill encroachment on states' rights, etc." as he looks angrily out the window at a Mississippi lynching.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 5 x 3 1/4 in.

1 photomechanical print : halftone.

1 drawing. | Cartoon shows an "anti-lynching bill" hanging from a tree and scowling at man labelled

1 photograph mounted on heavy board : gelatin silver print ; sheet 34.2 x 28.5 cm. | Photograph shows a flag flown from an upper story window of the NAACP headquarters on 69 Fifth Avenue, New York City, announcing that "a man was lynched yesterday."

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; sheet 35.3 x 27.8 cm (13 7/8 x 10 15/16 in.) | Photograph shows Bessie Smith a female, African American blues singer holding feathers.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Langston Hughes, an African American, male poet, novelist, playwright, activist, and leader of the Harlem Renaissance in front of patterned backdrop.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows Langston Hughes, an African American, male poet, novelist, playwright, activist, and leader of the Harlem Renaissance in front of patterned backdrop.

1 print : linocut. | Print showing the body of a lynched African American man with rope around neck lying on steps to a church.

1 print : woodcut. | Print showing an African American man standing in the bed of a horse-drawn wagon with a noose around his neck. The wagon driver orders the horse to move forward to proceed with the lynching of the man as a group of people looks on.

1 photograph : gelatin silver ; sheet 40.2 x 49.4 cm. | Photo shows a man, possibly meant to be Jesus Christ, with his right hand covering his face, laboring uphill under the burden of a cross; also shows over his right shoulder, the upper torso of a lynched African American man with a rope extending from the left around his neck.

1 drawing on illustration board : crayon. | Cartoon shows two men with rifles, walking away from a lynching victim hanging from a

1 photographic print ; 3 5/8 x 7 5/8 in. (9 x 19.4 cm.)

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1 drawing : ink and watercolor over pencil ; sheet 30 x 29 cm. | Drawing shows Harriet Tubman, kneeling, looking up, with arms raised.

1 drawing : ink and watercolor ; sheet 29.4 x 29.4 cm. | Drawing shows Harriet Tubman dressed as a man walking with an African American man.

1 photographic print. | Photo shows students standing in a park wearing nooses around their necks in protest.

1 photographic print. | Family(?) portrait showing a woman holding a child and another child standing on the mother's left, in the background, a man is standing on steps to porch of dwelling.

1 print : lithograph ; 25.8 x 32.8 cm. (image), 29.4 x 40.3 cm. (sheet) | Illustration shows men, as part of a lynch mob, armed with shotguns, on foot and on horseback, with bloodhounds pursuing an African American man.

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1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 36 x 28 cm | Photograph shows J. Rosamond Johnson, an African American, male composer, singer, activist, and Harlem Renaissance figure, who composed the hymn "Lift Every Voice and Sing."

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows James Weldon Johnson, an African American, male writer, civil rights activist, NAACP leader, diplomat, Harlem Renaissance figure, and first African American professor at New York University.

1,310 photoprints : gelatin silver ; 28 x 35 cm. or smaller. | Primarily studio portraits of people involved in the arts, including musicians; dancers; artists; literati; theatrical, film, and television actors and actresses. Includes black entertainers, particularly those associated with the Harlem Renaissance. Also includes a few athletes, statesmen, and publishers, as well as portraits of Van V

25 photographs : gelatin silver prints ; 21 x 26 cm | 25 negatives : safety film ; 21 x 26 cm | Photographs show portraits of Rustin as a young man and in civil rights activities and meetings throughout his career including his work related to the Fellowship of Reconciliation and his work in Zimbabwe and South Africa. Other people depicted with Rustin include Arnold Aronson, Charles Bloomstein, To

1 drawing : ink ; 35.6 x 25.3 cm (sheet)

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows crowds of African American and white people separated by a long counter covered with slices of bread at a barbecue in Alabama.

1 photographic print.

32 photographs : gelatin silver prints ; 21 x 26 cm or smaller. | Photographs show portraits of Rustin as a young man and in civil rights activities and meetings throughout his career, including events in Israel, El Salvador, and India. Other people depicted with Rustin include Charles Bloomstein, Coretta Scott King, Henry Kissinger, Marian Bruce Logan, Jawaharlal Nehru, Kwame Nkrumah, Golda Meir,

1 drawing : crayon.

1 photographic print.

1 photographic print.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows a crowd of white men prior to lynching an African American man, J.P. Ivy.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. | Photograph shows African American people in front of a rustic structure built to house people displaced by the Tulsa Race Massacre, also called Tulsa Race Riot, when a white mob attacked the predominantly African American Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. | Photograph shows a rustic structure with wood sides and canvas roof built to house people displaced by the Tulsa Race Massacre, also called Tulsa Race Riot, when a white mob attacked the predominantly African American Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. | Photograph shows rustic houses among ruins built to house people displaced by the Tulsa Race Massacre, also called Tulsa Race Riot, when a white mob attacked the predominantly African American Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows African Americans and white soldiers and civilians on and next to a truck during the Tulsa Race Massacre, also called Tulsa Race Riot, when a white mob attacked the predominantly African American Greenwood neighborhood of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows elderly woman, an ex-slave, wearing heavy shawl and cap sitting outside in rocking chair holding small paper bag and candy in her hands.

1 drawing : ink ; 35.6 x 25.3 cm (sheet)

1 photographic print. | Three lynched African American men (two hanging from a post or tree, one laying on the ground) surrounded by a crowd of witnesses.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; sheet 26.2 x 31.5 cm.

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows elderly woman wearing heavy shawl and cap sitting outside in rocking chair with hands clasped in lap.

1 photographic print (postcard)

26 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | Includes portraits of NAACP beautiful baby contest prize winners, NAACP Ike Smalls Award recipients, a portrait of the North Carolina NAACP mother of the year for 1957. Presentation of awards by Gloster Current, Ruby Hurley, Roy Wilkins, and Herbert Wright. Group portrait of the NAACP Emancipation Proclamation Centennial essay cont

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows elderly woman wearing heavy shawl and cap sitting outside in rocking chair sewing.

1 photograph : photomechanical print ; sheet 21 x 30 cm. | Photograph shows the burned body of Willy Brown, an African American man who was lynched by white people after being accused of rape during the Omaha race riot of 1919. A crowd of white men and women is gathered around the body, posed for the camera portrait.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 19 x 24 cm.

1 photograph : print ; sheet 13 x 10 cm, on page 46 x 33 cm. | Photograph shows African American musicians in the 369th Infantry Regiment band led by James Reese Europe.

Title devised by Library staff. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (DLC/PP-2017:171-2, formerly deposit D074)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

98 photographic prints : gelatin silver, 4 photocopies ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller. | Primarily marches, demonstrations, and meetings on civil rights issues. Includes one image of the Silent Protest parade of 1917 (New York, N.Y.), the Prayer Pilgrimage of 1957 and the Civil Rights Assembly of 1956 at Washington, D.C.; color snapshot views of the Selma, Ala., march of 1965. Miscellaneous subjects incl

52 items : chiefly photographic prints ; mounts 24 x 19 or smaller. | Photographs show portraits of soldiers, many African American, and scenes on battlefields and at camps.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 5 x 4 cm. | Photograph shows identification portrait of unidentified African American man, probably a World War I soldier.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 9 x 14 cm. | Photograph shows group portrait of soldiers with their musical instruments.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 10 cm, mount 23 x 15 cm.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 13 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format) | Photograph shows soldier wearing leather jerkin.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format)

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (postcard format) | Photograph shows soldiers relaxing in camp, one plays guitar, another holds a trumpet.

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1 photographic print (postcard)

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1 photographic print (postcard)

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1 photographic print : gelatin silver.

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98 photographic prints : gelatin silver ; 26 x 32 cm. or smaller. | 3 photomechanical prints ; 21 x 30 cm. or smaller. | Students and branch members demonstrating against lynching; snapshots of William Hastie and Walter White with Congressmen Joseph Gavagan and Raymond McKeough lobbying for anti-lynching legislation in Washington, D.C.; a flag displayed from NAACP headquarters window with the word

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1 photographic print.

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1 photographic print (postcard) ; 14 x 9 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of an African American soldier in uniform.

1 photographic print on mount.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photograph shows a large family of African Americans posed outside former slave quarters at Hermitage Plantation.

1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 9 x 14 cm (postcard format)

Photograph shows an Emancipation Day parade on Main Street, Richmond, Virginia. The building in the back is 1000 Main Street. (Source: researcher, 2022)

1 drawing : ink and watercolor ; 710 x 560 mm (board) | Line graph shows percentage of African Americans in slavery between 1790 and 1870.

1 drawing : ink and watercolor ; 710 x 560 mm (board) | Bar graph shows number of African Americans practicing various Christian religions.

1 drawing : ink ; 710 x 560 mm (board) | Bar graph shows number of African American church organizations, churches, church members, and value of church property.

1 drawing : ink and watercolor ; 710 x 560 mm (board) | Bar graph shows percentage of African Americans in slavery in 1860 and percentage of African Americans who owned property in 1890.

72 items : pen, ink, wash and photographs ; on 56 poster boards 71 x 56 cm. | Material prepared by Du Bois for the Negro Exhibit of the American Section at the Paris Exposition Universelle in 1900 to show the economic and social progress of African Americans since emancipation.

1 drawing : pen and ink.

1 photographic print.

1 print : chromolithograph. | Illustration showing an African American family on a small farm, in the background, a group of men, carrying rifles and a length of rope, are heading into a wooded area.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)

1 photographic print. | Housing for enslaved people at the Hermitage Plantation outside of Savannah, Georgia.

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 351. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2005. Orig

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 338. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures at the Library of Congress, 2005. Orig

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 274. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 273. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 238. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

1 photographic print ; 25.5 x 30.5 cm.

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 275. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 277. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

ca. 650 items (chiefly photographic prints) | Photographs and other visual material documenting the history of African Americans in Georgia and other areas of the Southern United States. Subjects include portraits of unidentified men, women, and children; photographs of colleges, students, businesses, workers, and houses. Additional views of churches, clubs, unions, home interiors, and family grou

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 355. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, 2005. Orig

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 276. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 307. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 295. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 336. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 4, no. 361. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: American Treasures at the Library of Congress, 2005. Orig

1 photograph : print on cabinet card mount; mount 17 x 11 cm. | Photograph shows Lavinia Russell Baker (also spelled Levina and Levinah in historical records) and her five surviving children after the lynching of her husband, Lake City, South Carolina, Postmaster Frazer or Frazier Baker, and their daughter, Julia, on February 22, 1898. The Post Office and Baker family home was burned and family me

1 photograph : print on cabinet card mount; mount 11 x 17 cm. | Photograph shows Lavinia Russell Baker (also spelled Levina and Levinah in historical records) and her five surviving children after the lynching of her husband, Lake City, South Carolina, Postmaster Frazer or Frazier Baker, and their daughter, Julia, on February 22, 1898. The Post Office and Baker family home was burned and family me

1 photograph : print on cabinet card mount; mount 17 x 11 cm. | Photograph shows Lavinia Russell Baker (also spelled Levina and Levinah in historical records) and her five surviving children, after the lynching of her husband, Lake City, South Carolina, Postmaster Frazer or Frazier Baker, and their daughter, Julia, on February 22, 1898. The Post Office and Baker family home was burned and family m

1 photograph : print on cabinet card mount; mount 17 x 11 cm. | Photograph shows Lavinia Russell Baker (also spelled Levina and Levinah in historical records) and her five surviving children after the lynching of her husband, Lake City, South Carolina, Postmaster Frazer or Frazier Baker, and their daughter, Julia, on February 22, 1898. The Post Office and Baker family home was burned and family me

1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 30.3 x 25.7 cm (mount) | Photograph shows Lavinia Russell Baker (also spelled Levina and Levinah in historical records) and her five surviving children after the lynching of her husband, Lake City, South Carolina, Postmaster Frazer or Frazier Baker, and their daughter, Julia, on February 22, 1898. The Post Office and Baker family home was burned and family m

1 photograph : print on cabinet card mount; mount 17 x 11 cm. | Photograph shows Lavinia Russell Baker (also spelled Levina and Levinah in historical records) and her five surviving children after the lynching of her husband, Lake City, South Carolina, Postmaster Frazer or Frazier Baker, and their daughter, Julia, on February 22, 1898. The Post Office and Baker family home was burned and family me

1 photograph : mounted on gray layered paper ; sheet 16 x 15 cm, mount 23.5 x 28 cm | Photograph shows former building of 15th Street Presbyterian Church, Washington, D.C.

1 print : chromolithograph. | Print shows a southern vigilante holding a rope with a noose and a "Sheriff" holding a paper that states "2000 dollars must be paid by the county, for each lynching. Law of South Carolina". An African American man cowers behind the sheriff. A large building labeled "Courthouse" is in the background.

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 225. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 223. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

In album (disbound): Negro life in Georgia, U.S.A., compiled and prepared by W.E.B. Du Bois, v. 3, no. 224. B&w copy prints for LOT 11930 are provided as surrogates of original photographs for reference use in P&P Reading Room. A microfilm surrogate is also available. Forms part of: Daniel Murray Collection (Library of Congress). Original albums filed in PR 12 under LOT 11930

1 photograph : print ; mount 10 x 18 cm (stereograph format) | Stereograph shows an African American man, Robert Henson Hilliard, being burned by a mob in Tyler, Texas; he was accused of raping and murdering a white woman.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group of African Americans standing in front of wooden cabin on display at exposition.

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 92 x 122 cm. or less.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)

1 photographic print. | Photograph shows George Meadows, an African American man, with hands bound, hanging from a tree. He was lynched by a mob of white coal miners on January 15, 1889. The sheriff decided on January 16th that Meadows was not the perpetrator.

1 photographic print : gelatin silver. | Photo shows African American women and children doing laundry outdoors with a large wooden wash tub and in a cauldron over an open fire.

1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 16.5 x 11 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of an African American soldier in uniform, holding hat.

1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 16.5 x 10.5 cm. | Photograph shows three-quarter length portrait of a seated African American soldier in uniform, holding hat in hand.

1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 16.5 x 11 cm. | Photograph shows a half-length portrait of an African American soldier.

1 print : chromolithograph ; 34 x 50 cm. | Illustration shows John A. Logan standing at center, holding a paper that states "No Interference with Slave-Hunters!", and looking over his left shoulder at two slave catchers rounding up a family of fugitive slaves, a similar scene is repeated in the background. Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Charles Sumner are standing on the left, watching in

1 print : chromolithograph. | Illustration shows John A. Logan standing at center, holding a paper that states "No Interference with Slave-Hunters!", and looking over his left shoulder at two slave hunters rounding up a family of fugitive slaves, a similar scene is repeated in the background. Abraham Lincoln, William H. Seward, and Charles Sumner are standing on the left, watching in anger and wit

1 print : lithograph, color. | African Americans picking cotton, riverboats on river, plantation house in distance.

1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 17 x 11 cm.

1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 16.5 x 11 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of an African American soldier, standing next to chair, his hat is on the seat of the chair.

1 print : chromolithograph. | A chart exhibiting two farms, contrasting slavery with freedom in connection with a family record.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.

1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 16.5 x 10.5 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of an African American soldier in uniform, sitting next to a girl, who is standing to his right.

1 photograph : sixteenth-plate tintype, trimmed to circle ; 3.6 cm diameter (frame)

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 9 x 18 cm (stereograph format)

1 photographic print : albumen. | Photomontage of members of the first South Carolina legislature following the Civil War, mounted on card with each member identified.

1 print : color lithograph ; sheet 53 x 34 cm. (poster format)

1 print : lithograph, color. | Black man seated on stool playing banjo, with jug and broken glass behind him.

1 print : wood engraving. | Cartoon showing members of the South Carolina Legislature in argument in the House, with Columbia rebuking them, saying "You are aping the lowest whites. If you disgrace your race in this way you had better take back seats."

1 print : wood engraving. | Man "White League" shaking hands with Ku Klux Klan member over shield illustrated with African American couple with dead(?) baby. In background, man hanging from tree.

1 print : wood engraving. | Three African American men on ground after being shot; armed men on horseback in moonlight in background.

1 print : wood engraving ; page 40 x 27 cm. | Print shows African American men by a campfire under a lean-to.

2 prints : wood engravings. | Top illustration shows Negroes pulling a man on a luge(?), and two men lying in field. Bottom illustration shows jackal and eagle disputing the possession of a dead antelope.

1 print : wood engraving. | Woman lying on floor, surrounded by other people, in revival meeting, Virginia.

1 print : lithograph. | Anti-Greeley presidential campaign cartoon shows Greeley, behind whom Jefferson Davis with his cat-o-nine tails and chain, appeals to Negroes "Sam" and "Ceasar" for their vote. They will not vote for Greeley, for they "see Jeff Davis and behind him is the old lash and bondage." The print emphasizes Greeley's hypocrisy in seeking African American voters. Greeley opposed slav

1 print : wood engravings ; page 28 x 40 cm. | Print shows group of African Americans assembled in a forest for religious worship.

1 print : wood engraving.

1 print : wood engraving ; page 40 x 27 cm. | Print shows a scene during a riot between Irish American and African American railroad workers employed by the Easton and Amboy Railroad to build the Musconetcong Tunnel, in which Denis Powell, an African American man, is beaten to death by a mob of white men, during the Pattenburg Massacre, Pattenburg, New Jersey.

1 print : wood engraving. | Cartoon showing Jefferson Davis looking over his shoulder at Hiram Revels seated in the United States Senate.

1 print : lithograph ; sheet 26 x 37 cm. | Print shows a African American man anchored by the "tree of Liberty" extending his hand to help his former slave master drowning in a river. The man refuses the help. Ulysses Grant stands on the bank of the river a encouraging the man to accept help. The cartoon was published during Grant's presidential campaign of 1868, and may allude to the temporary po

1 print : wood engraving. | Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans.

1 print : wood engraving ; page 40 x 27 cm. | Cartoon showing man with belt buckle "CSA" holding a knife "the lost cause," a stereotyped Irishman holding club "a vote," and another man wearing a button "5 Avenue" and holding wallet "capital for votes," with their feet on an African American soldier sprawled on the ground. In the background, a "colored orphan asylum" and a "southern school" are in

1 print : engraving ; sheet 10 x 15 cm, mount 14 x 22 cm.

1 print (2 p.) : wood engraving. | Thirteen scenes depicting life on a cotton plantation.

1 print : wood engraving.

1 print : wood engraving ; page 40 x 27 cm. | Two illustrations showing: enslaved man being sold as punishment for crime, before Emancipation Proclamation; and an African-American man being whipped as punishment for crime in 1866.

11 prints (2 pages) : wood engraving. | Prints show a statue of a snake-haired man wearing a toga with a CSA belt holding a scale tipping in favor of the south; the unjust results of trials involving southerners and northerners; and depictions of atrocities committed against African Americans.

1 print : wood engraving ; 27.6 x 40.3

1 print (2 p.) : wood engraving. | Eight scenes: 1. Jury of Whites and Blacks. 2. Freedman discharged for voting the Radical ticket. 3. Scene in Registration office, Macon, Ga. 4. Potential arguments to the Freedman for his vote. 5. Freedmen ... New Orleans. 6. Reading the Government order of Rights and Privileges to the Freedmen. 7. Congratulating each other on the successful result of the electi

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 36.8 x 27.2 cm. (image) | A satire aimed at California Republican gubernatorial nominee George C. Gorham's espousal of voting rights for blacks and other minorities. Brother Jonathan (left) admonishes Gorham, "Young Man! read the history of your Country, and learn that this ballot box was dedicated to the white race alone. The load you are carrying will sink yo

1 drawing on green paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 24.5 x 36.0 cm. (sheet). | Soldiers return home, greeted by women and children.

1 print : wood engraving ; sheet 56.9 x 40.9 cm. | Cartoon showing Andrew Johnson as the deceitful Iago who betrayed Othello, portrayed here as an African American Civil War veteran. Includes scenes of slave auction, whites attacking African Americans in Memphis and New Orleans, and "Copperhead" and "C.S.A." snakes wrapped around African American man while Andrew Johnson and others watch.

1 photographic print on cabinet card ; 17 x 11 cm. | Photograph shows head and shoulder portrait of an African American young man in uniform and hat.

1 print : wood engraving. | Large crowd of African Americans celebrating the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C.

2 prints on 1 page : wood engraving ; page 41 x 28 cm. | Page includes two illustrations showing African Americans celebrating the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. and portrait of Henry A. Smythe, newly appointed Collector of Customs of New York; also includes articles about the celebration and Smythe's appointment.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm.

1 print : wood engraving. | Print shows African Americans gathered outside the Freedmen's Bureau in Richmond, Virginia. A woman is handing a slip of paper through a window to a man seated inside.

1 print : wood engraving. | Room of African American women sewing.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows a three-quarter-length portrait of an African-American man.

1 print : wood engraving. | Illustration showing an African American soldier at his wedding in Vicksburg, Mississippi.

1 print : wood engraving. | Illustration showing African Americans cheering during passage of the civil rights bill; outside another gallery many woman are gathered, some wave handkerchiefs. Also shows four women wearing the latest fashions from Paris for April.

1 print : wood engraving. | Print shows a freedman plowing with a primitive plow.

1 print : wood engravings ; print 19 x 24 cm, on page 40 x 28 cm. | Print shows school classroom interior with many African American students of all ages, seated on benches; with white teacher at front of class.

1 print : wood engraving. | Eight illustrations showing panorama of plantation with black man shooting at birds in foreground, blacks planting rice, hoeing, weeding, reaping, threshing, and trunk and flood gate.

2 prints : wood engraving.

1 print. | Illustration showing freedmen's school at St. Helena Island, South Carolina, with text below.

One in a series of racist posters attacking Radical Republicans on the issue of black suffrage, issued during the Pennsylvania gubernatorial election of 1866. (See also "The Constitutional Amendment!," no. 1866-5.) The series advocates the election of Hiester Clymer, who ran for governor on a white-supremacy platform, supporting President Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction policies. In this poster a

1 print : wood engraving. | Illustration showing a crowd of men in the lobby of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Capitol building.

1 print : wood engraving ; page 28 x 41 cm. | Illustration shows African Americans arriving with their belongs on a street in Baltimore.

1 negative : glass, wet collodion. | Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, Grant's Wilderness Campaign, May-June 1864.

1 print on wove paper : wood engraving printed in black and rose ; image 36 x 52.1 cm. | Thomas Nast's celebration of the emancipation of Southern slaves with the end of the Civil War. Nast envisions a somewhat optimistic picture of the future of free blacks in the United States. The central scene shows the interior of a freedman's home with the family gathered around a "Union" wood stove. The fat

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 6 x 10 cm. | Photograph shows African-American children, mainly girls, with adult women, possibly teachers.

1 photograph : tintype in paper frame ; plate 5 x 4 cm, frame 10 x 6 cm.

1 print. | In center panel, Afro-Americans kneeling and rejoicing, looking at Holy Bible being held above them; in left panel, Lincoln holds Emancipation Proclamation; in right panel, soldier on horseback hands paper down to Afro-American standing beside him.

1 item : envelope with letterpress text ; text and border 2.5 x 4.5 cm, on envelope 8 x 14 cm.

1 print : wood engraving.

1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion. | Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the Army of the James, June 1864-April 1865. Shows forty African American soldiers sitting and standing on a slight hill.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slave, Charles Taylor, sitting, facing front. The United States flag is draped on the floor next to him.

1 print : lithograph, color ; sheet 88.7 x 53.2 cm. | Print shows at center the text of the Emancipation Proclamation with vignettes surrounding it; on the left are scenes related to slavery and on the right are scenes showing the benefits attained through freedom; also shows Justice and Columbia at the top center beneath a bald eagle and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln at bottom center above a scen

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows Corporal Kager Mays of Kentucky, who enlisted in 1864 in the 108th United States Colored Infantry and died of fever in 1865. (Source: Tim Talbott, 2013)

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 35.8 x 51.6 cm. (image) | The second in a series of anti-Lincoln satires by Bromley & Co. This number was deposited for copyright on July 1, 1864. The artist conjures up a ludicrous vision of the supposed consequences of racial equality in America in this attack on the Republican espousal of equal rights. The scene takes place in a park-like setting with a foun

1 print : lithograph on cream wove paper ; 41.4 x 52.2 cm. (image) | Although slightly different in format, this appears to be the fourth in the Bromley series of anti-Republican satires. As in no. 2 of the series, "Miscegenation or the Millenium of Abolitionism" (no. 1864-39), the artist plays on Northern fears of racial intermingling. Here, white men are dancing and flirting with black women in

1 print : lithograph with tint stone ; 60.7 x 48.7 cm (sheet) | Eagle with banner "Proclamation of Emancipation" and U.S. flags over portrait of Abraham Lincoln above text framed along the sides with vignettes about slavery, escape, education of African Americans, and the American cotton industry. Below the text is an image of rebuilding southern agriculture in the ruins of the Civil War.

1 print : wood-engraving on wove paper ; 26.3 x 52.2 cm. (image) | An anti-McClellan broadside, contrasting Republican candidate Abraham Lincoln's advocacy of equality and free labor in the North to Democratic opponent McClellan's alleged support of the Southern slave system. The comparison is made in two scenes, "Union and Liberty" (left) and "Union and Slavery" (right). In the first, Lincoln sha

1 print (2 l.) : wood-engraving printed in four colors, with letterpress ; 36 x 22 cm. (image) | A representation of an enormous illuminated transparency displayed on thefacade of the federal recruiting office for Negro troops on Chestnut Street in Philadelphia on November 1, 1864. The display celebrated the emancipationof slaves in Maryland through the state's new constitution, adopted onOctober

4 prints and text on 1 page : wood engraving ; 395 x 276 mm. | Top illustration shows slaves escaping to a Union ship as buildings burn in the distance. Three bottom illustrations show an escaped slave in tattered clothing upon his crossing of Union lines, welts from being whipped upon his back, and in uniform after he had joined the Union Army. Text describes his escape as well as forms of brutal

Title devised by Library staff. Printed on lower right corner: 44. Container 1

1 drawing on brown paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 22.6 x 33.1 cm. (sheet).

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group of African Americans, most likely Freedmen by this time, on a dirt road on the plantation managed by David Franklin Thorpe.

1 drawing : watercolor. | Man reading a newspaper with headline, "Presidential Proclamation, Slavery," which refers to the Jan. 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

1 print : wood engraving. | Illustration shows former slaves sitting in and around a wagon drawn by a mule.

1 photograph : albumen print on yellow card mount ; mount 84 x 177 mm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows African American Union soldier pulling a rope as other white soldiers observe at the recently completed Dutch Gap Canal.

1 photograph : hand-colored albumen print on card mount ; mount 100 x 62 mm (carte de visite format) | Photograph of painting by George Gardner Fish shows female personification of Liberty holding the Emancipation Proclamation and standing between two kneeling slaves with an American flag.

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format) | Photograph of painting by George Gardner Fish shows female personification of Liberty holding the Emancipation Proclamation and standing between two kneeling slaves with an American flag.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Hand colored photograph of a woman (Columbia) holding a document (the Declaration of Emancipation?) and standing between two kneeling slaves. The slave to her left, a man, holds a U.S. flag; the slave to her right, a woman, is draped in the U.S. flag.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows a woman (Columbia) holding a document (the Declaration of Emancipation?) standing between two kneeling slaves. The slave to her left, a man, holds a U.S. flag; the slave to her right, a woman, is draped in the U.S. flag.

1 print : wood engraving ; page 40 x 27 cm. | Illustration shows the First South Carolina Volunteers' color guard addressing a joyful crowd of African Americans after the reading of the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of freed slave, Fannie Lawrence standing by a table holding a hat and a bouquet, facing front.

1 photographic print ; oval image 18.5 x 13.5, on oval mount 25.5 x 20.5 cm. | Photograph shows full-length portraits of Fannie Lawrence, two other children, and Catherine S. Lawrence.

1 photographic print on mount ; oval image 18.5 x 13.5, on mount 25 x 20 cm. | Photograph shows full-length portraits of Fannie Lawrence and an African American woman looking at Catherine Lawrence.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8.5 x 17.5 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a large group of African American women laborers and a male overseer processing cotton on an unidentified plantation.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group of Freedmen, including women and children, on the Marion Chaplin Plantation on St. Helena Island, South Carolina.

1 print : chromolithograph. | Uncut sheet of twelve illustrated cards presenting the journey of a slave from plantation life to the struggle for liberty, for which he gives his life, as a Union soldier during the Civil War.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group of African American freedmen, women and children in front of a two story house on Marion Chaplin's plantation in Beaufort County, South Carolina. In the left foreground is a single lens camera and photographic equipment.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group of African American freedmen, including a small child, gathered outside of their living quarters possibly on Thomas James Fripp plantation on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group of African American women holding babies outside of their living quarters, possibly on Thomas J. Fripp plantation on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Rebecca Huger, in a plaid dress, reclining on a fur blanket in front of a landscape backdrop.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows a portrait of Fannie Virginia Casseopia Lawrence sitting, facing front.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of Catharine Lawrence with Fannie Lawrence, a formerly enslaved child. They are sitting, holding hands, facing front.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17 x 8 cm (stereograph format). | Photograph shows a group portrait of African American women and children, former slaves, now considered Freedmen, on Smith Plantation, Port Royal Island, South Carolina.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17 x 8.5 cm (stereograph format). | Photograph shows a group of African American men, women, and a young child, former slaves, who were now considered Freedmen, on St. Helena Island.

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)

1 print : wood engraving. | Below rays of "Emancipation," a scene of African Americans enjoying a comfortable home life is flanked by scenes of the past, including the selling and abuse of slaves, and scenes of the future, including education and fair employment.

1 print : wood engraving. | Illustration showing a guard with a lantern checking the passes of African American men traveling on a levee road at night.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows half-length portraits of Charles Taylor, Rosina Downs, and Rebecca Huger.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows plantation superintendent David Franklin Thorpe with a group of African American Freedmen tending the field on Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. Two small children are seated in the foreground.

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)

1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.4 x 8.4 cm (case)

1 photograph : ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 7.5 x 6.4 cm (case)

1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 9.4 x 8.4 cm (case)

1 photograph : hand-colored tintype ; plate 82 x 69 mm (sixth plate format), case 93 x 80 mm.

1 photograph : hand-colored tintype ; plate 82 x 70 mm (sixth plate format), case 93 x 82 mm.

1 photograph : carte de visite size tintype, hand-colored ; 10.5 x 7.8 cm (case)

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 100 x 61 mm (carte de visite format)

1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.3 cm (case)

1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.5 x 8.2 cm (case)

1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.3 x 8.0 cm (case)

1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.4 x 8.2 cm (case) | Photograph shows single-stripe chevrons on sleeves.

1 photograph : quarter plate tintype, hand-colored ; 16.2 x 13.6 cm. (frame)

1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.5 x 11.2 cm (frame)

1 photograph : quarter-plate ambrotype ; 13.9 x 16.4 cm (frame) | Photograph showing soldier in uniform, wife in dress and hat, and two daughters wearing matching coats and hats. In May 1863, U.S. Secretary of War Edwin Stanton issued General Order No. 143 creating the Bureau of U. S. Colored Troops. This image was found in Cecil County, Maryland, making it likely that this soldier belonged to one

1 photograph : ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 7.5 x 6.5 cm (case)

1 photograph : hand-colored tintype ; plate 82 x 69 mm (sixth plate format), case 83 x 81 mm.

1 photograph : hand-colored tintype ; plate 81 x 69 mm (sixth plate format), frame 125 x 111 mm.

1 photograph : ninth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 8.0 x 6.7 cm (case)

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17 x 8 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows two men and a boy beneath the branches of a large live oak tree draped in spanish moss on Habersham Place plantation, Port Royal Island, South Carolina.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17 x 8 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a man and a woman, and four children standing under a live oak tree draped in spanish moss on the property of Rev. Edward T. Walker (1819-1896). The land was later part of the Retreat Plantation. (Source: HABS SC-860)

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen. | African American men, women, and children gathered around a man with a watch, waiting for the Emancipation Proclamation.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows three soldiers and two African American children, probably servants, posing in front of a tent.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6.5 cm. | Photograph shows two African American men, probably servants, standing in the foreground; six soldiers standing on the front porch of a building in the background.

1 drawing on light green paper : pencil and Chinese white ; 22.8 x 34.4 cm. (sheet). | Full-length profile of black soldier.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 6 x 10 cm. | Photograph shows African Americans standing next to the slave houses, Port Royal, South Carolina.

1 print : lithograph printed in colors, on calendered paper ; 34.2 x 26.5 cm. (sheet) | An advertising calendar for a lithographic printer, with various patriotic motifs and a subtle commentary on the Emancipation Proclamation. The calendar, for 1863, is set within an elaborate architectural framework. The whole is draped with an enormous flag which hangs down from an enthroned Columbia at top. Co

1 photographic print on card mount ; image 15.5 x 20.5 cm, on mount 27 x 34.5 cm. | Photograph shows two slaves working near a Century (Agave) plant near the waterfront, Seabrook's Plantation, with soldiers sitting on the dock in the background.

Photograph shows a portrait of a full-length portrait of an African American man facing front.

1 photographic print ; 20.5 x 15.5 cm on a 34 x 27 cm mount. | Photograph shows soldiers and enslaved people in front of the slave quarters on Drayton's plantation.

1 photograph : albumen silver print ; 8 x 17 cm. (stereograph format) | Stereoview showing a large group of African American children in front of the historic College of Beaufort building which served as a public library and high school. The Caucasian women in the background are their teachers who had come to the Port Royal area as missionaries.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 6 x 10 cm. | Photograph shows African American children and adults standing outside the facility.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group portrait of four African American children, the children of Freedmen, and one white child, possibly students at the Penn School in Beaufort, South Carolina.

1 photographic print on card mount ; image 15.5 x 20.5 cm, on mount 27 x 34.5 cm. | Photo shows a group of enslaved African Americans posed around a horse-drawn cart, with a building in the background, at the Cassina Point plantation of James Hopkinson on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph showing Jesse L. Berch, left, and Frank M. Rockwell, right, standing, with their guns drawn, and an African American woman sitting between them, full-length portrait, facing front. [Identification of the man on the woman's right is based on a bust portrait of Jesse L. Berch at the U.S. Army Military History Institute

1 photographic print on card mount ; image 15 x 20.5 cm, on mount 27 x 34.5 cm. | Photograph shows two trees and a few men near a cabin or slave quarters, Elliot Plantation.

1 photograph : albumen silver print ; 8 x 17 cm. (stereograph format) | Stereoview showing freedmen housing on Union occupied Port Royal Island, South Carolina. Three African American men in military uniforms stand to the right of the stairs.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17 x 8 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a house provided for Freedmen in Union occupied Port Royal Island, South Carolina.

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; photo 13.2 x 18.1 cm, on mount 14.2 x 21.3 cm. | Photo shows a group of enslaved African Americans posed around a horse-drawn cart, with a building in the background, at the Cassina Point plantation of James Hopkinson on Edisto Island, South Carolina.

1 photographic print on card mount ; image 15.5 x 20.5 cm, on mount 27 x 34.5 cm. | Photograph shows slaves sitting in from of a building described at the "nursery".

1 photographic print. | Plantation slave quarters, Port Royal Island, S.C.

1 negative (2 plates) : glass, stereograph, wet collodion. | Photograph of the Federal Navy, and seaborne expeditions against the Atlantic Coast of the Confederacy, specifically of Port Royal, S.C., 1861-1862. Shows seven African Americans sitting in a pile of cotton in front of gin house.

1 photographic print on card mount ; image 15.5 x 20.5 cm, on mount 27 x 34.5 cm. | Photograph shows an aerial view of the slave quarters at Seabrook's Plantation.

1 photographic print : albumen ; image 15 x 21 cm, mounted on board 27 x34 cm. | Photograph showing a group portrait of African American men and women on a plantation.

1 photographic print on card mount : albumen ; image 15.5 x 20.5 cm, on mount 27 x 34.5 cm. | Photograph shows slaves working in the sweet potato fields on the Hopkinson plantation.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 8 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group portrait of African American men, women and children, Freedmen at this time, gathered under a large tree in Beaufort, South Carolina.

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format)

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17 x 8 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group of men and women standing on the road in front of John Joyner Smith's cotton plantation in Port Royal, South Carolina. Four African American children stand in the field behind them. From November 1862 to January 1863, the house was used as Union Camp Saxton, and was the location of Emancipation Day

1 negative : glass, wet collodion. | Photograph shows African American man and children with mule and dog.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17.5 x 9 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows two African American men standing on a road in a grove of oak trees draped in spanish moss on Robert Barnwell Rhett's plantation, Port Royal Island, South Carolina.

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 10 x 6 cm (carte de visite format) | Photograph of painting by George Gardner Fish shows female personification of Liberty holding the Emancipation Proclamation and standing between two kneeling slaves with an American flag.

1 photograph : approx. quarter-plate tintype ; 9.8 x 8.1 cm. | Photograph shows a full-length portrait of African American soldier standing in front of a studio backdrop.

1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen, stereograph ; 8.3 x 17.1 cm.

1 photographic print on stereo card : albumen, stereograph ; 8.8 x 17.7 cm. | Photograph shows soldiers inside prison area where slaves were held. Address: 1315 Duke St., Alexandria, Virginia.

1 photographic print : albumen ; 9 x 7.5 cm.

1 print : wood engraving. | Print shows a frightened Southern plantation owner asking one of his slaves if he has seen any Yankee ships, the slave tells his master that he is too frightened to see anything since he was told the Yankees would sell him into slavery in Cuba. Another slave stands behind the door laughing.

1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 12.3 x 11.2 cm (frame)

1 photograph : chlorophyll print on leaf cast in resin ; irregular sheet 11 x 20 cm, frame 36 x 29 cm | Photograph shows portrait by Enoch Long of unidentified soldier, reproduced from tintype in the Liljenquist collection processed as AMB/TIN no. 5026, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2010647218/.

1 photograph : sixth-plate tintype, hand-colored ; 9.4 x 8.1 cm (case)

1 photograph : gem tintype, hand-colored ; 9.9 x 6.7 cm (case)

1 photograph : sixth-plate ambrotype ; frame 10 x 8 cm.

208 photographic prints on carte de visite mounts : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm and 6 x 10 cm. | Photographs show primarily civil war and reconstruction era portraits of African American men, women, and children. Includes images of former slave children, used to raise funds for their cause, and two portraits of Sojourner Truth. Other images show men and children with soldiers in military camps, laborers a

1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. | Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, working in a cotton field.

1 drawing on cream paper : pencil ; 10.3 x 16.4 cm. (sheet).

1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8.5 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows Old Bacchus fishing from a bridge near the planter's summer residence at Rockville Plantation. Two boys look down into the water from the bridge while two other children sit on the bridge. Based on the date and location, the children are most likely slaves.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8.5 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows several African American men, one with a child in front of a planter's house. Based on the date and location, the people are most likely slaves.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8.5 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows slaves, many seated, in front of cabins.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8.5 x 17 cm (stereograph format)

1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8.5 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows groups of African Americans gathered around small workshop buildings. Based on the date and location, the people are most likely slaves.

1 photograph : albumen print on card mount ; mount 11 x 6 cm (carte de visite format) | Photograph shows Rev. Grimes in church robes with his hand on a book, probably a Bible.

1 photograph : print on card mount ; sheet 8.5 x 17 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a congregation gathered in the interior of a church for African Americans enslaved at Rockville Plantation on Wadmalaw Island near Charleston, S.C. A minister in white robes points to a Bible and a print of the crucifixion on the altar. The congregation is gathered at the front of the church, many kneeli

1 photograph : tintype ; 12.5 x 8 cm (paper mat). | Photograph shows an African American soldier, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform and gloves, seated, facing slightly right.

1 photograph : ninth-plate ambrotype, hand-colored ; 7.4 x 6.2 cm (case) | Photograph shows an unidentified African American soldier, half-length portrait, seated with hands on lap, facing front.

1 photograph : quarter-plate tintype ; frame 12 x 10 cm. | Photograph shows an unidentified African American soldier, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, standing in front of studio backdrop.

1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph, albumen. | Stereograph shows African Americans, possibly slaves, standing alongside dirt road lined with wooden houses.

1 drawing on cream paper : pencil ; 8.7 x 12.4 cm. (sheet).

1 photograph : quarter-plate tintype ; frame 11 x 8.5 cm. | Photograph shows two African American union soldiers, full-length portrait, wearing uniforms, seated with arms around each other's shoulders, facing front. Sitters possibly Baldy Guy (left) and George Guy (source: researcher S. Gardner, 2019).

1 print : wood engraving ; page 41 x 28 cm. | Illustration shows Christmas festivities on a southern plantation where enslaved African Americans dance, feast, and play music as their white owners observe.

1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; sheet 32.6 x 44.2 cm. | Print shows Democratic presidential candidate James Buchanan lying on the backs of three men on their hands and knees, from left, Senator Thomas Hart Benton identified as "Old Bullion", President Franklin Pierce identified as "Franklin the last", and John Van Buren identified as "Prince John", who is speaking to his father, former presid

1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 27 x 42 cm, on mount 40.9 x 52 cm. | Again the 1856 Democrats are characterized as friendly to proslavery interests. Old guard Democrats Martin Van Buren and Thomas Hart Benton are also resurrected for abuse here. Van Buren appears as a fox, lurking in a cave at right. His son John is one of three men supporting a supine James Buchanan. The Democratic pre

1 print on wove paper : lithograph printed in black and buff ; image 49 x 67.3 cm. | An imaginative and biting satire on Harriet Beecher Stowe and her recently published antislavery novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin." Printed serially beginning in June 1851, the novel first appeared in book form in 1852. The artist has concocted a chaotic, nightmarish vision, where armies of demons and other monsters battl

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27 x 38 cm. (image) | Two scenes showing the differing perceptions of Franklin Pierce's stand on the issue of slavery, as viewed by the North and South. The cartoon is divided vertically by "Mason & Dixon's Line." An arrow identifies the left panel as the North and the right as the South. On the left, a group of men look skyward, holding tinted panels of glass

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28.8 x 40.3 cm. (image) | Whig presidential candidate Winfield Scott and his party pursue an abolitionist course leading toward Salt River and political doom. New York senator and antislavery advocate William Seward appears as a poodle which leads the blindfolded Scott and his entourage of three asses with the heads of prominent abolitionists David Wilmot, Josh

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28.9 x 44.2 cm. (image) | A diverse group of abolitionists try to drag an unwilling black man toward the left with a large gaff hook. Holding the hook are (left to right) an old hag, a Quaker man, and two other homely men. The hag declares, "How perverse our dear colored brother is, I shall break my wind if I pull much longer." The Quaker says, "Verily it is ha

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27.7 x 43.9 cm. (image) | The opposition of Northern abolitionists, churchmen, and political figures to enforcement of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 is criticized in this rare pro-Southern cartoon. In two panels artist Edward Williams Clay illustrates the abolitionist's invocation of a "higher law" against the claim of a slave owner, and the application of the

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 31.1. x 44.5 cm. (image) | In a race between the railroad and the telegraph the "telegraphic candidates," Lewis Cass and William O. Butler, are first to the White House. The artist ridicules Zachary Taylor for his hazy stance on major campaign issues and manages a jibe at the "dead letter" affair as well. (See "The Candidate of Many Parties," no. 1848-24.) Othe

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 27 x 40.3 cm. (image) | A pro-Democrat satire, pitting Democratic candidate Lewis Cass against Whig nominee Zachary Taylor in a bout for the presidency. Cass (center) is the obvious favorite. He wears the stovepipe hat, boots, bold plaid trousers, and soap-locks associated with New York street toughs (or "Bowery B'hoys"). On the front of Cass's shirt is an embl

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; sheet 35.6 x 23.8 cm. | A sheet music cover illustrated with a portrait of prominent black abolitionist Frederick Douglass as a runaway slave. Douglass flees barefoot from two mounted pursuers who appear across the river behind him with their pack of dogs. Ahead, to the right, a signpost points toward New England. The cover's text states that "The Fugitive's So

1 print : lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 27 x 37 cm. (image) | An imaginative but puzzling commentary on sectional tensions over slavery between New England abolitionists and southern agrarian slaveholders. In his sweeping satire the artist also portrays a considerable hostility toward blacks as existing among various ethnic groups, including the Germans, French, Irish, and Scots. The

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 26.1 x 37.8 cm. (image) | A satire on the competition between rival editors Horace Greeley and James Gordon Bennett for New York post office printing contracts. The artist also comments on the circulation wars between Bennett's "New York Herald" and Greeley's relatively new paper the "Tribune, "and on latter's editorial support of abolition. Clay shows Greeley

1 print : lithograph with watercolor on wove paper ; 24.8 x 38.1 cm. (image) | A satire on enforcement of the "gag-rule" in the House of Representatives, prohibiting discussion of the question of slavery. Growing antislavery sentiment in the North coincided with increased resentment by southern congressmen of such discussion as meddlesome and insulting to their constituencies. The print may relate

1 print : woodcut on wove paper ; 26.7 x 22.8 cm. | The large, bold woodcut image of a supplicant male slave in chains appears on the 1837 broadside publication of John Greenleaf Whittier's antislavery poem, "Our Countrymen in Chains." The design was originally adopted as the seal of the Society for the Abolition of Slavery in England in the 1780s, and appeared on several medallions for the societ

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 24 x 33.7 cm (image) | A racist attack on Democratic vice-presidential candidate Richard M. Johnson. The Kentucky Congressman's nomination, in May 1835, as Van Buren's running-mate for the 1836 election raised eyebrows even among party faithful, because of Johnson's common-law marriage to a mulatto woman, Julia Chinn, by whom he fathered two daughters. The arti

1 print : lithograph on wove paper ; 28.5 x 36.8 cm. (image) | A prediction of dire consequences to follow from Jackson's withdrawal of federal funds from the Bank of the United States, initiated late in 1833. The artist is harshly critical of Jackson's move to distribute federal treasury funds among several state or so-called "pet" banks. He also condemns the influence of both Jackson's informal

1 print : woodcut with letterpress on laid paper ; 12 x 17.5 cm. | Another in the series of "bobalition" broadsides, marking the July 14 celebration of the anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade. (See no. 1819-2). The text, facetiously dated "Uly 14teenth 18 hundred and 30 tu," consists of a letter to "Captain Ookpate" from "Pomp Peters" and "Cezar Garbo" regarding the celebratory process

1 print : hand-colored lithograph ; sheet 20 x 16.9 cm, mount 26.3 x 21.5 cm. | Print shows a garishly dressed African American man talking with a garishly dressed African American woman in a parlor.

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 53, Folder 28.

Imprint 2.; Spelling is correct. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 53, Folder 11.

1 print : woodcut with letterpress on laid paper ; 10.5 x 24 cm. | One of several racist parodies of black American illiteracy, dialect, and manners issued in Boston at various times between 1819 and 1832. Others in the series are "Grand Bobalition or Great Annibersary Fussible" (no. 1821-1), "Grand and Splendid Bobalition of Slavery" (1822, Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania),

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