Preserving Revolutionary & Civil War History
Preserving Revolutionary & Civil War History
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Portfolio 153, Folder 26 Annotation: Sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia in 1833 to create a national organization to bring about the immediate emancipation of all slaves. This organization was named the…
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Portfolio 65, Folder 8 Annotation: Antislavery broadside created and published in London, 1850. With the increasing size of the abolotionist movement came the use of handbills and broadsides appealing directly to women of all races.…
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: advertisement Museum Number: Portfolio 22, Folder 12b Annotation: Advertisement run in Kentucky newspaper ofering up to a $150 reward for the return of a runaway slave named Henry May. Even with the passage of fugitive slave legislature in…
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZC4-6134 Annotation: This is a picture of workers in a cotton gin. A cotton gin is a machine that separates the cotton from the seeds. The cotton gin was invented by Eli Whitney in 1793.…
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: illustration Museum Number: LC-USZ62-44940 Annotation: McCormick who was from Virginia was one of two people to create a reaping machine. The invention of the reaper allowed for farmers to do less back breaking work. Although McCormick was not…
Media type: miscellaneous-image Annotation: A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition of woman, was called by the Women of Seneca County, N.Y. and held at the village of Seneca Falls, in the Wesleyan Chapel, on the 19th and 20th…
Credit: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Media type: lithograph Museum Number: 1965.10.56 Annotation: Lewis painted a portrait of Black Hawk in 1833 after the chief was released from Fort Monroe in Virginia. Black Hawk had led an uprising by the Sac people who…
Credit: Amon Cater Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Media type: engraving Museum Number: 1982.51 Year: 1834
Media type: treaty-image Annotation: In 1854, a piece of legislation was introduced in Congress that shattered all illusions of sectional peace. The Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed the Whig Party, divided the Democratic Party, and created the Republican Party. Ironically, the author of this…
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: print Museum Number: LC-USZ62-100747 Year: 1842
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZ62-91404 Year: 1840
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4550 Year: 1850