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"The Real Criminals Are Those... "

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Description: Advertisement picturing a white woman and an African American man with the title "The Real Criminals Are Those Who Preach Racial Integration."
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A Fur Trader in the Council Tepee

Date: 02 1892
Description: Engraving of a fur trader standing in the middle of a circle of seated Indians in their council tepee.
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What The United States Has Fought For

Date: 1914
Description: A cartoon depicting the rescue of oppressed people by the United States, entitled: "What The United States Has Fought For".
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The Right To Vote Rally

Date: 10 29 1959
Description: Flyer for a rally "The Right To Vote" "The Fight To Vote" sponsored by the Federation of Negro Civil Service Organizations, Inc. Speakers include Jackie Ro...
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Joshua Glover

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Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Joshua Glover.
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Chief Wi-Jun-Jon

Date: 1844
Description: A portrayal of the effects of contact with whites on the Assiniboine chief, Wi-Jun-Jon.

(Plate 25). "In offering this illustration to the reader, I am re...

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Ke-wa-din

Date: 1835
Description: Ke-wa-din, or the North Wind, a Chippeway (Ojibwa) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Fond du Lac (1826...
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Wa-em-boesh-kaa, a Chippeway (Ojibwa) Chief

Date: 1835
Description: Wa-em-boesh-kaa, a Chippeway (Ojibwa) Chief. Hand-colored lithograph from the Aboriginal Portfolio, painted at the Treaty of Fond du Lac (1826). He is smok...
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McCormick Harvesting Machinery Catalog Cover

Date: 1904
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for McCormick harvesting machines. The cover features an illustration of an old man wearing a hat, smoking a pipe and readi...
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Death Whoop

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Description: "Death Whoop" an engraving after a drawing by Seth Eastman from the American Aboriginal Portfolio.
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Madison Turners

Date: 1863
Description: Black & white lithograph by Milwaukee lithographer Louis Kurz depicting the Madison Turners or Turnverein at a shooting party on the Madison lakefront. Th...
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Little Rock Hate Literature

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Description: Page 2 of a leaflet entitled "The Little Rock Story", apparently intended by its publisher, American Nationalist, to persuade NAACP sympathizers in Little ...
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Hitching The Tractor To The Implement, Tractor Safety Cartoon

Date: 1958
Description: Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon is underneath the heading: "Hitching the Tractor to the Implement". The cartoon depi...
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Storage, Safety Cartoon

Date: 1964
Description: Cartoon from an International Harvester operator's manual. The cartoon appears under the heading: "storage". The cartoon depicts a man wearing overalls, a ...
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Schlitz Beer Advertisement

Date: 04 1932
Description: "Here's to Health!", an advertisement for the alcohol-free beer brewed by Schlitz during Prohibition. The advertising touts the product's healthful qualiti...
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Jim Crow in Germany

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Description: Cartoon of Jim Crow in the U.S. zone of postwar Germany, with a soldier goose stepping in the foreground, and Hitler and Stalin in the background.
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Contemplated Murder of John Campbell Cartoon

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Description: A cartoon depicting a kneeling man with a rope around his neck, held by one of a group of demonic-looking Ku Klux Klansmen (KKK), entitled "Plan of the Con...
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O-Jib-Be-Ways

Date: 1844
Description: Group portrait of North American Indians. Portraits of the O-Jib-Be-Ways, and individual portraits, one smoking a pipe. Symbols corresponding to individual...
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John Brown

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Description: Engraved vignetted carte-de-visite of John Brown, who led a raid on the U.S. Arsenal on October 16, 1859, at Harper's Ferry in the hopes of capturing weapo...
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Map of the Seat of War

Date: 1860
Description: African American man, left, map depicting Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, right. Key of "DIRECTIONS" in upper right corner. At...

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