Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865

Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-12764 Annotation: End of the Civil War Year: 1866

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-28044 Annotation: An African American Majority in the South Carolina Legislature. Because blacks in South Carolina vastly outnumbered whites, the newly-enfranchised voters were able to send so many African American representatives to the state assembly…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-23098 Annotation: The 3rd United States Colored Infantry Regiment was the first regiment to be formed in 1863 in compliance with Abraham Lincoln’s executive order known as the Emancipation Proclamation which allowed African-Americans, including freed…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: decorative arts Museum Number: LC-USZ62-23097 Annotation: This is a regimental flag depicting an African American soldier standing next to Columbia holding a flag. Painted flags were an important form of popular art in the 19th century, and were…

Credit: Media type: miscellaneous-image Museum Number: NWCTB-11-PRDOCPI159E23-PROC95 Annotation: This is an image of the first page of the Emancipation Proclamation, the executive order issued by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863, declaring the freedom of all slaves held in areas of the United States…

Media type: book cover Annotation: A literary phenomenon of the late 19th century, dime novels offered thousands of Americans an inexpensive and regular escape from the boredom of everyday life. Often featuring intensely nationalistic and patriotic stories of frontiersman battling American Natives,…

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: advertisement Museum Number: LC-USZC2-36 Annotation: Suffering man beset by demons; banishes them with Wolcott’s formula. Originating in 15th century Britain, patent medicines rose to American popularity in the 19th century often using colorful names and advertising extraordinary claims.…