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Print shows two African American drovers, one with a pipe and the other with a whip, sitting on the back of a covered wagon, which is part of a baggage train for the Army of the Potomac. Purchase; William Rees More

One of three anti-Lincoln satires published by Nichols in Boston at around the same time. (It was deposited for copyright on June 30, 1863, along with "Oppression!! Suppressing the Press" and "The Great America More

Photograph shows Union soldiers, an African American civilian and white civilian, in front of shack with sign "Stacy's Photographic Ambrotype Rooms" likely located in the Southern United States. Coyright by "G More

An anti-Lincoln satire, showing the Republican incumbent and his supporters menaced by giant "Copperheads" (Peace Democrats). After a speech on May 1, 1863, asserting that the Civil War was being fought to fre More

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Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 16 or 17 (1863 Aug. 8), p. 320.

Satire on the degraded condition of free blacks in the northern United States. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 26.

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Photo shows African American soldiers from the 64th Colored Infantry Regiment standing in formation in camp with log cabins at Palmyra Bend, Warren County, Mississippi; stacked rifles in the foreground. Purcha More

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Two men performing dance. Copyright by Oliver Ditson & Co. Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An illustrated sheet music cover for an anti-Confederate comic song. Confederate president Jefferson Davis stands on a bale of cotton and asks John C. Breckinridge, former U.S. Vice President and fellow secess More

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The artist charges the Republicans with electoral corruption and extremism in their efforts to defeat Democratic presidential nominee George B. McClellan. Oblique reference is also made to Lincoln's supposed a More

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Photograph incorrectly captioned as being taken at Cold Harbor, Virginia, which is not located near a significant river (Source: Tim Ford, November 2018). If the rest of the caption is correct, the boy is seate More

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 t More

Photograph showing a group of military personnel seated in a circle watching two African American men each holding roosters in preparation for a cockfight. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the More

Stereograph showing soldiers lining up to fill their canteens at a well, which is protected by canvas, near Fredericksburg, Virginia. A group of African Americans seated on horses or on the ground, wait nearby.

The August 1864 Democratic national convention in Chicago is unfavorably compared to the Republican convention in Baltimore in June of the same year. The artist is especially critical of prominent New York Peac More

Four union officers in front of tent, with two Afro-American Servants(?) Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 144.

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Two African American soldiers seated in front of small building in bottom of cliff, near Dutch Gap Canal.

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. More

Photograph showing an African American man standing beside a chimney in the deserted quarters of General Sharp at Brandy Station, Virginia. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander More

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A vindictive Northern fantasy on the aftermath of the Civil War. Confederate president Jefferson Davis, dressed in a hoopskirt or crinoline, hangs from a "Sour Apple Tree" at left, a Bowie knife in one hand and More

Photograph shows African American NCO's in second row, on right. Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 689. Original neg. no.: LC-B817-7689.

Columbia speaking, with hand on shoulder of Civil War soldier, who lost a leg in the war. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Aug. 5, p. 489.

Print shows Robert E. Lee, Jefferson Davis, and Stonewall Jackson vacating premises in Richmond as African Americans and whites look on.

Civil War officers and others gathered on porch; African American sentry standing in yard. No. 684. Original neg. no.: LC-B817-7684. Civil War Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). Title taken from item.

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Illustrations show Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 504 (1866 August 25), p. 537.

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Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Sept. 30, p. 613. Public domain photograph of painting, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Public domain photograph of painting, 1 More

Northern rejoicing at the end of the Civil War often took the form of vengeful if imaginary portrayals of the execution of Confederate president Jefferson Davis. Here abolitionist martyr John Brown rises from t More

Man, seated on porch, with family, holding newspaper, and saying, "My boy - we've toiled and taken care of you long enough - now you've got to work!", to an African American man standing in front of the porch, More

Four illustrations: contrabands accompaning the line of Sherman's march through Georgia; dead girl(?) on bed and man standing alongside; John Garth and Olivia Ruthermayne seated; Ruthermayne escutcheon (barber supplies).

Photograph shows African Americans (freed slaves?) celebrating in a plantation house, includes couples dancing and children playing. The photograph reproduces a work by the artist Edward Bensell. Entered accor More

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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.

Men gathered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, for the laying of the cornerstone of the Soldier's National Monument on the anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg, men on left are preparing food.

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Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1865 Feb. 25, p. 124. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Illustration shows African Americans arriving with their belongs on a street in Baltimore.

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Illustration showing an African American soldier at his wedding in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 496 (1866 June 30), p. 412 (top).

Large crowd of African Americans celebrating the abolition of slavery in Washington, D.C. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 489 (1866 May 12), p. 300. Reference copy in LOT 4422-C. Exhibited: The African A More

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1866 Sept. 15, p. 581.

Two African-American men with bales of cotton on wagon drawn by three horses and an ox.

Teachers and students in classroom. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, 1866 Dec. 15, p. 797.

Print shows a freedman plowing with a primitive plow. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, v. 23, no. 577 (1866 October 20), p. 76.

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. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's More

2 illustrations in: Harper's weekly, 1866 May 26, p. 321. Public domain photograph of Tennessee, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A poster for campaign / A poster for the two platforms - public domain stock photo.

Purchase; William A. Gladstone; 1995; (DLC/PP-1995:113.332) Title from Gladstone collection checklist. Gladstone's inventory code and notes: T48.

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. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated news More

Illustration showing an African American man seated outside a log cabin, being taught to read by his racially mixed granddaughter. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 514 (1866 Nov. 3), cover (p. 689). Text More

Photograph shows portrait of conjoined twins and circus performers Millie and Christine McCoy. Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1866, by Mrs. Joseph P. Smith, in the Clerk's Office of the U.S. More

Illustration showing a crowd of men in the lobby of the House of Representatives in the U.S. Capitol building. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 10, no. 487 (1866 April 28), pp. 264-265.

Cartoon shows Columbia (symbolizing the United States) after her marriage to Brother Jonathan (symbolizing U.S. citizens). Columbia gestures sorrowfully towards African Americans (portrayed in ethnic stereotype More

Photo shows an African American man sitting on an ox cart, facing right, holding the reins in his left hand, posed on the edge of a commercial street in Savannah, Georgia. Stamped on verso: Launey & Goebel Pub More

Cartoon shows a Puritan rolling up his sleeves to fight a Cavalier (with features strongly resembling Senator Stephen Douglas), who is kicking African Americans in Kansas back across a fence into Missouri and s More

Two illustrations showing: Slave being sold as punishment for crime, before Emancipation Proclamation; and African-American being whipped as punishment for crime in 1866. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Jan. 12, p. 24.

A former slave owner, General Wade Hampton, wearing oversized spurs, a hat with a ragged peacock feather stuck in the band, and a cat-o'-nine-tails sticking out of a pocket, speaking to a former slave identifie More

Illustration shows a queue of African American men, the first, dressed as a laborer, casting his vote, the second is dressed as a businessman, the third is wearing a Union army uniform, and the fourth appears t More

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1867 Jan. 19, p. 273.

Photo shows a log cabin with two African American men seated outside and an African American woman standing in the doorway of a slave or sharecropper dwelling. Stamped on verso: Launey & Goebel Photographers. More

Photo shows a group of six African American men and women posed picking cotton in a field.

Composite of scenes of Afro-Americans working in rice fields, threshing mill, flood gates and men shooting over flooded rice field. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1867 Jan. 5, p. 8. Reference copy in LOT 4434-B.

An African American man, a former Union soldier, proudly displays a slip of paper labeled "A vote" while a disgruntled former Confederate soldier, with a frown on his face, his hands in his pockets, and a torn More

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 atr More

Black and white men observe while other blacks and whites prepare to place ballots into box.

Man representing the Freedman's Bureau stands between armed groups of Euro-Americans and Afro-Americans. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 July 25, p. 473.

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," wit More

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Illustrations show (top) women observing congressional proceedings with varying degrees of interest; (bottom) African American men drowsing as white men observe legislators with interest. Illus. in: Frank Lesli More

Afro-American man about to chop off head of turkey while three children watch. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 Dec. 26, p. 829.

Two illustrations: head-and-shoulders portrait of Gen. Frank P. Blair, facing right; and political meeting of African Americans outdoors. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 12, no. 604 (1868 July 25), p. 468.

The strongly racist character of the Democratic presidential campaign of 1868 is displayed full-blown in this elaborate attack on Reconstruction and Republican support of Negro rights. Horses with the heads of More

Photograph shows portrait of young, well dressed black woman holding an ornate handled plate with an incense burner shaped like a turkey. Photographs by Courret Hermanos Fotogs., Lima, Peru. In album: Recuerdo More

African American slaves using cotton gin. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1869 Dec. 18, p. 813.

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Three African American men discussing politics. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 13, no. 673 (1869 Nov. 20), p. 737.

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Three people, man giving flower to woman, woman behind tree, and mansion in background; surrounded by vignettes of flowers and cherub.

Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

No publication information. (DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forms part of the Anthony Barboza collection. Public domain photograph - 19th-century studio portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

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(DLC/PP-1934:0009). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Collier's weekly magazine.

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