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Description: | Studio portrait of Louis Hughes, seated and holding a book. |
Date: | 1835 |
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Description: | Map reads: "Map of the United States of America with its Territories and Districts - Including also a part of Upper and Lower Canada and Mexico". The map i... |
Date: | 1849 |
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Description: | Drawing of two slave catchers pointing guns at two runaway slaves. |
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Description: | Quarter-length portrait of Caroline Quarlls Watkins, taken when she lived in Sandwich, Ontario. |
Date: | 1929 |
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Description: | Scene from the film "Romance of the Reaper" showing the building of the first practical reaper on the McCormick farm in Virginia. Actors playing the parts ... |
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Description: | A cartoon depicting an African American family hovering beneath a Ku Klux Klansman (KKK) and a white supremacist in the Reconstruction South. There is a sk... |
Date: | 1877 |
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Description: | Monument to John Brown and the men killed during the Battle of Osawatomie. Those slain in the battle are buried underneath the monument. Chain link fence s... |
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Description: | A facsimile of the handwritten document by Abraham Lincoln, with additional decorations, published for the benefit of the United States Sanitary Commission... |
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Description: | Two illustrations depicting the capture by Europeans of Africans who were taken away on ships to be slaves. The caption is in French. |
Date: | 09 1863 |
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Description: | Proclamation made by the Episcopal Clergy of Philadelphia protesting the statement made by John Henry Hopkins, Bishop of the Diocese of Vermont, supporting... |
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Description: | Stereograph of Union infantry standing in front of a slave dealer's shop. |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | African American man, left, map depicting Maryland, Virginia, Delaware and the border of Pennsylvania, right. Key of "DIRECTIONS" in upper right corner. At... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Scene of 16 figures. A slave owner is raising his whip as black families are racing towards Fort Monroe, with some remaining behind picking cotton. The sla... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | A snake with 15 segments, SC, Ca, Mi, Ala, N.C, Tex, De, Md, Va, Fla, Ark, Ten, Ke and Mo. A snake has the Confederate flag and a palm tree behind it. Bold... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Freed male slave in a straw hat. He is superimposed on a black star with the abbreviations of the states of the Confederacy. Behind the black star is an up... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Dressed in uniform with a Confederate hat, eyeglasses, and a belt with pistols and a sword, a gorilla stands with a rifle in his right hand and a knife is ... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "1ST ROU... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "2ND ROU... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis in a boxing ring. Text at top reads, "CHAMPION PRIZE ENVELOPE - LINCOLN & DAVIS IN 5 ROUNDS," underneath reads "3RD ROU... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Two images of the "family" of Virginia. Above depicts a happy, prosperous "family" at the Declaration of Independence in 1776. A banner with the stars and ... |
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