Collection Items
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Photo, Print, DrawingEmancipation 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: 1863-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingEmancipation 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: 1863-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe 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: 1865-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingWatch meeting, Dec. 31, 1862--Waiting for the hour 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.- Contributor: Heard & Moseley
- Date: 1863-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingSecession 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: 1861-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingI'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: 1861-01-01
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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: 1861-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing[Return envelope of the Bureau of the American Freedmen's Aid Union, No. 130 Nassau-Street, New York] 1 item : envelope with letterpress text ; text and border 2.5 x 4.5 cm, on envelope 8 x 14 cm.- Date: 1865-01-01
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Photo, Print, Drawing"Jewels" found at Alexandria, by the Federal Army; consisting of chains, bracelets, and anklets. Supposed to have belonged to the "First Families" of Virginia 1 print : wood engraving on envelope, blue ink ; image and text 6 x 5.5 cm, on envelope 8 x 14 cm. | Picture shows shackles, leg irons and handcuffs.- Contributor: Upham, Samuel C. (Samuel Curtis)
- Date: 1861-01-01