Browse Items (3761 total)

Sort by:

"The first colored senator and representatives - in the 41st and 42nd Congress of the United States," New York, 1872, Currier & Ives, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

congress unit7.jpg

"Marching on!"--The Fifty-fifth Massachusetts Colored Regiment singing John Brown's March in the streets of Charleston, South Carolina, 1865, wood engraving, Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

55th mass charleston..jpg

"The Radical Convention in Philadelphia," woodcut with letterpress, September 3, 1866,courtesy of Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division. Engraving illustrates degrading stereoptyes of interracial political alliances.

radical convention philadelphia.jpg

“Franchise. And not this man?,” wood engraving by Thomas Nash,1865,Harper's Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

franchise and not this man, cropped.jpg

“The first vote,” 1867, wood engraving by Alfred R. Waud, Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

the first vote.jpg

“Colored rule in a reconstructed (?) state,” 1874, wood engraving by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

colored rule unit10.jpg

Freedman’s Bureau official standing between armed groups of white and African American men, 1868, wood engraving by Alfred R. Waud, Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

cropped, freedmens bureau.jpg

African American man kneeling by bodies of murdered African Americans, 1876, wood engraving by Thomas Nast, Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

cropped, african american kneeling.jpg

Matthew C. Butler, general in the Confederate Army, ca. 1865-1880, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

m. butler.jpg

"Secret meeting of Southern unionists," 1866, wood engraving by Alfred R. Waud, Harper’s Weekly, courtesy of Library of Congress Prints and Photograph Division.

cropped secret meeting.jpg

Output Formats

atom, dcmes-xml, json, omeka-xml, rss2

TEST