Immigrant women working in a steam laundry
In industrial cities like Philadelphia, New York, Boston, Chicago, and Minneapolis, women worked in similar occupations as they did in the countryside, such as laboring from home. They sewed hats, did textile piecework, and made shoes. As in the countryside, urban home laborers tended to be married women with children. In contrast to the countryside, however, home laborers in cities were often poor immigrants. Their extreme dependence on the income from home labor made them targets of exploitation. (13) Women also did work that would do at home in factories, such as working in laundries.
Wolverhampton City Council Archives & Local Studies
Covers area east of the Mississippi River. Omits most of Florida and northern Maine. Indicates "railroads in running order." [From published bibliography]
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 Slavery -- United States -- 19th century Slaves -- Emancipation -- United States United States. President (1861-1865 : Lincoln). Emancipation Proclamation
A depiction of Abraham Lincoln as a king holding a glass labeled "power". This cartoon is charging Lincoln for being complacent with the border slave states. The figure to left holds a slave in one hand and a pitcher labelled "tobacco" in the other. Her shirt says "cotton" and her dress "union with slavery" while her legs have "avarice" (greediness) and "prejudice. She is asking for the head of Liberty, who is locked in a cell pondering "Who'll protect me know?" Though Lincoln did announce the Emancipation Proclamation he still exhibited a hesitancy to free slaves in areas controlled by the Union. He had rebutted the emancipation proclamations of both John C. Fremont and David Hunter prior to his own proclamation. In the cartoon Lincoln is reaching for a jug labelled "expediency" inferring that he was willing to undertake the easiest course regardless of issues like slavery.
Digital images copyright Special Collections, Musselman Library, Gettysburg College.
Reconstruction, Impeachment, Andrew Johnson
This additional cartoon from Harper’s Weekly from 1868 slams Johnson by referring to him as a ‘paroquet’ stuck on repeating ‘Constitution’ over and over and over again. The reluctance to work with Reconstructionists by inciting the Constitution over and over again would lead to Johnson’s impeachment.
“This Little Boy Would Persist in Handling Books Above His Capacity. And This Was the Disastrous Result"
This cartoon from Harper’s Weekly from 1868 illustrates the Northern contempt for Johnson and his reluctance to embrace the Republican goals of Reconstruction after the bloodiest conflict in American history.
Adams Cottage Press No. 4, patented 1861
Propaganda tech:View of a Civil War encampment from Harper’s Weekly, November 2, 1861
Andersonville Prison as seen by John L. Ransom, author and publisher of "Andersonville diary, escape and list of the dead," Washington, D.C. / A. Sachse & Co. Lithographers & Printers, Baltimore.
Ransom, John L. Andersonville Prison--1860-1870. Prisons--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870. Prisoners--Union--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870. Hangings (Executions)--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870. Fences--Georgia--Andersonville--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Detention facilities--Confederate.
Print shows a bird's-eye view of the Andersonville Prison, with prisoner's tents, gallows for executions, and a stream for washing, surrounded by three rows of stockade fences and with artillery batteries of cannons at the corners; includes numbered key identifying prominent features.
digital file from original print http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pga.02585
This sketch is the assembled court for the impeachment trial of President Johnson, as seen in Harper’s Weekly.
Autopsy report describing evidence of brain injury that can be linked to PTSD symptoms.
Battle Cry of Freedom - by George F Root
Ironclads USS Monitor (foreground) and CSS Virginia (center) meet at the Battle of Hampton Roads. (Library of Congress)
How did the earliest wartime submarine operate?
Video Clip from "Secret Weapon of the Confederacy" special that National Geographic aired.
Clara Barton, three-quarter length portrait, seated, facing front
1944 March 31 [from a photograph taken 186-]
Digital Id ppmsca 37768 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.37768 cph 3a20565 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a20565
End of Radical Reconstruction and Troop removal
Illustration depicting the Compromise of 1877 giving the Republican Party the Presidency with the promise of Troop removal from the military occupied South.
Confederate camp outside Nashville, TN. Winter 1864.
“Winter Encampments: The Long and Frozen Road”. Civil War Trust. Accessed 2 December 2015.
"We bivouac on the cold and hard-frozen ground, and when we walk about, the echo of our footsteps sound like the echo of a tombstone. The earth is crusted with snow, and the wind from the northwest is piercing our bones. We can see our ragged soldiers, with the sunken cheeks and famine-glistened eyes." - Sam Watkins, Co. H., First Tennessee Regiment, December, 1864 The Battle of Nashville »
District of Columbia. Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military facilities. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--African Americans. Forts & fortifications. Infantry. United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Shows 27 African Americans in two lines with rifles resting on the ground.
Call Number: LC-B817- 7890 [P&P] LOT 4190-F (corresponding print)
This photograph depicts an early KKK of 1870, Division 289 from Watertown, New York.
This photograph depicts an early KKK of 1870, Division 289 from Watertown, New York. At this point of the KKK existence, members did not always hide their identity.
Permission granted through Library of Congress
After the war ended, the thousands of African American freedmen who fought for both the North or the South had trouble finding support for equal rights.
The first national flag used by the Confederate States of America from March 4th, 1861 to May 26th, 1863. Nicknamed "the Stars and Bars".
Farragut's fleet running by the Confederate batteries guarding the mouth of the Mississippi River. Painting by Thomas Sinclair. (Library of Congress)
: http://www.civilwar.org/books/interviews/james-mcpherson---war-on-the-waters/war-on-the-waters.html
Subject: Clalin, Francis Civil War, 1861-1865. Portraits. United States. Army. 44th Missouri Artillery.
Francis Clalin, disguised as a man, served in the 44th Regiment, Missouri Artillery, Company I for 3 months and in the 13th Missouri Cavalry, Company A, for 19 months.
Creator: Minnesota Historical Society, Photo Lab Photographer: Masury, S.
Creation: 06/2005 Content: Approximately 1862
Freedman's Bureau's difficulties during Reconstruction
Reconstruction. Harper's Weekly. Freedman's Bureau.
An 1868 illustration evoking the difficulties faced by the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency responsible for transforming Southern society, in the face of white opposition, to accommodate freed slaves.
General Butler holding the Mob in check at New Orleans
Union Major General Butler. Military Governor of New Orleans.
Illustration of General Butler subduing a mob in New Orleans 1862. Earning him a name by Southerners as "Beast Butler".
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs division
Gettysburg Reunion: G.A.R and U.C.V Veterans of the G.A.R and of the Confederacy, at the Encampment.
Reunion of members of both the Grand Army of the Republic and the United Confederate Veterans in Gettysburg, 1913.