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Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia By the Colored People in Washington, April 19, 1866
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-33937 Annotation: Three days after President Lincoln signed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia,…
Glimpses at the Freedmen’s Union Industrial School, Richmond, Virginia
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-33264 Annotation: This illustration of African American women sewing appeared in Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, v. 23, 1866…
The Age of Brass, Or the Triumphs of Women’s Right
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZC2-1921 Annotation: This lithograph is one of a pair by Currier and Ives that was issued as…
5000 Stitches a Minute! No Noise! No Missing Stitches
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: advertisement Museum Number: Portfolio 27, Folder 26b Annotation: Sewing machine advertisement After Elias Howe patented his lock stitch sewing machine…
Tad Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, in a Union uniform
Media type: photograph Annotation: Unidentified photographer Year: 1860
Portrait of a boy soldier, Nashville, Tennessee
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8184-10573 Year: 1860
Julia Ward Howe
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZ62-53518 DLC Annotation: Julia Ward Howe is the author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” She…
Morrill
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-MSS-44297-33-063 Year: 1861
The Emancipation Group (Sculpture of Abraham Lincoln)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: statue Museum Number: LC-USZ62-117489 Year: 1875
Jeff’s Last Shift. Capture of Jeff. Davis. May 10th 1865, at Irwinsville, Georgia
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZ62-89743 Year: 1865
James Hopkinson’s Plantation Planting Sweet Potato
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: PR-002-347.20 Year: 1862
Harper’s Ferry, West Virginia View of Town; Railroad Bridge in Ruins
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-7649 Year: 1862
Group of Contrabands
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-0383 Year: 1862
Antietam, Confederate Dead By a Fence On the Hagerstown Road
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-0560 Year: 1862
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia African-American Teamsters Near the Signal Tower
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-2594 DLC Year: 1864
Overseer Artayou Carrier Whipped Me. I was Two Months in Bed Sore from the Whipping. My Master Come After I Was Whipped; He Discharged the Overseer.
Credit: Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1863
District of Columbia, Co. E, 4Th U.S. Colored infantry, at Fort Lincoln
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B817-7890 Year: 1863
Ruins of Richmond, Virginia
Credit: Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1865
Refugees Leaving the Old Homestead
Credit: Media type: photograph Museum Number: NWDNS-LC-CC-306 Year: 1863
Ruins in Charleston, S.C.
Credit: Media type: photograph Museum Number: NWDNS-111-B-744 Year: 1865