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Tennessee Men at the Meeting of the Colored Nation

Credit: The New York Public Library Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Colored National Convention. Their purpose was “to inquire into the actual condition” of…

New York City – the Recent

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-75193 Annotation: Heat wave in New York Year: 1882

Home of the Poor

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-75197 Annotation: This engraving shows the crowded conditions the poor endured living in a tenement in New…

Whipping Of Huck Finn

Credit: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, published by Webster & Company. Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Artist Edward W Kemble illustrated the original edition of…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4590 Annotation: The drudgery of using a tub and washboard to wash clothes…

Get thee Behind Me, (Mrs.) Satan!

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-74994 Annotation: This engraving by Thomas Nast was published in Harper’s Weekly. It cautions against the Free…