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This Is The Woman And I Am The Man

This Is The Woman And I Am The Man

Credit: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library Media type: illustration Museum Number: Annotation: Published in 1899, Charles Waddell Chestnutt’s fictional short story about the…

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Musical Tableaux Vivants, Performed By the Moore & Burgess Minstrels

Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Musical Tableaux Vivants, Performed By the Moore & Burgess Minstrels

Credit: University of Virginia Media type: poster Museum Number: Year: 1875

Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction And How It Works

Andrew Johnson’s Reconstruction And How It Works

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4591 Year: 1866

This Is A White Man’s Government

This Is A White Man’s Government

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZ62-121735 Annotation: Rights of Freed men: “This is a white man”s government” “We regard the Reconstruction…

Joining the Tracks For the First Transcontinental Railroad, Promontory, Utah, Territory

Joining the Tracks For the First Transcontinental Railroad, Promontory, Utah, Territory

Credit: Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1869

Women Carrying Baskets of Cotton, While Others Pick, Small Children in Foreground

Women Carrying Baskets of Cotton, While Others Pick, Small Children in Foreground

Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1870