Secession
1 print : wood engraving on envelope ; image and text 5 x 4.5 cm, on envelope 8 x 14 cm. | Picture shows an African American boy and mother with a bundle running.
Date:1861
Photo, Print, Drawing
The day of Jubelo
1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows African Americans (freed slaves?) celebrating in a plantation house, includes couples dancing and children playing.
Contributor:
Upham, Samuel C. - Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis)
Date:1861
Photo, Print, Drawing
I'se just "seceshed" from Ole Massa, Yah, Yah, Yah!
1 print : wood engraving on envelope ; image and text 7 x 3.5 cm, on envelope 8 x 14 cm. | Picture shows a caricature of an African American man dancing and holding a cigarette or cigar.
Date:1861
Photo, Print, Drawing
The day of Jubelo
1 photographic print on carte de visite mount : albumen ; 10 x 6 cm. | Photograph shows African Americans (freed slaves?) celebrating in a plantation house, includes couples dancing and children playing.
Contributor:
Bensell, Edmund Birckhead
Date:1865
Photo, Print, Drawing
Lincoln- "I'm sorry to have to drop you, Sambo, but this concern won't carry us both!"
1 print : wood engraving. | Print shows Abraham Lincoln, in a life preserver labeled "Union", on a storm tossed sea, pushing away an African American man who had been clinging to him; next to them floats a hat with papers labeled "Fremonts proclamation" and in the background is the mast of a ship flying a pennant "Proclamation."
Emancipation
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.
Contributor:
Fish, G. G. (George Gardner) - Soule, John P.
Date:1863
Photo, Print, Drawing
Emancipation
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.
Contributor:
Fish, G. G. (George Gardner) - Soule, John P.
Date:1863
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Contraband, Fortress Monroe]
1 print : wood engraving on envelope ; image and text 3.5 x 13 cm, on envelope 8 x 14 cm. | Print shows a slave at the Union fort taunting his plantation master. The planter (left) waves his whip and cries, "Come back you black rascal." The slave replies, "Can't come back nohow massa Dis chile's contraban." Other slaves are seen leaving the...
Date:1861
Photo, Print, Drawing
Pardon. Franchise Columbia. -- "Shall I trust these men, and not this man?" /
2 prints on 1 sheet : wood engraving ; sheet 42 x 58 cm. | Centerfold prints show Columbia considering why she should pardon Confederate troops who are begging for forgiveness when an African American Union soldier with an amputated leg does not have the right to vote.
Contributor:
Nast, Thomas
Date:1865-08-05
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Rights and Access
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Unknown Civil War group
1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17.5 x 8.5 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a group of men and women, including Union army officers, outside of a tent in an unknown location.
Date:1860
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Civil War militia]
1 photographic print : salted paper ; 22 x 33 cm. | Photograph showing soldiers, many on horseback, and a cannon with two attendants on each side.
Date:1861
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Civil War weapons]
1 photographic print : salted paper ; 18 x 11.5 cm. | Photograph of mechanical drawing showing field gun, howitzer, siege gun, and mortars.
Date:1861
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Civil war troops]
1 photographic print : salted paper ; 29 x 35 cm. | Photograph showing Union soldiers with rifles at attention in front of the Capitol.
Related Resources
In the Prints & Photographs Division Included below are groups of pictures (photographs, prints, and drawings) that include depictions of aspects of the U.S. Civil War. Items from these groups that have online descriptions are being added to this "Civil War" category so that they can be searched together. In some cases, the groups are entirely represented by online descriptions, but, in other cases,...
Photo, Print, Drawing
[Veteran's Square Civil War monument in Carlisle, Pennsylvania]
1 photograph : print on card mount ; mount 17.5 x 8.5 cm (stereograph format) | Photograph shows a view of the monument which was dedicated in 1871 in honor of those who died during the Civil War.
