Notes from Library of Congress:
- Caption from negative sleeve: Picket station of Colored troops near Dutch Gap Canal, Nov. 1864.
- Two plates form left (LC-B811-2553B) and right (LC-B811-2553A) halves of a stereograph pair.
- Corresponding…
Black and white quarter-plate ambrotype photograph showing an African American Union soldier in uniform, wife in dress and hat, and two daughters wearing matching coats and hats. The soldier was originally unidentified but may be Sergeant Samuel…
Map of the routes taken to relocate Native Americans from the Southeastern United States between 1836 and 1839, including the Cherokee Trail of Tears from 1838-1839.
Woodcut showing large group of armed men attacking a two-and-a-half story stone building (Alton Observer building). Weapons shown are rifles, pistols, sledge-hammers, and a pike. Most men are in group approaching building, but three men to the far…