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This cartoon is mocking the Southerners’ character and questioning their battlefield prowess. In the forefront are two Confederate soldiers, one pointing with a knife and another holding a musket in the back. Both appear less than gentlemanly as…

The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was oil on the fires of the anti-slavery movement. On June 5, 1851, the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared in the Washington anti-slavery paper, The National Era. At first there appeared to be little…

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…

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.

Picture of Clara Barton from 1865

Photograph of Washington, 1862-1865, view of the defenses of Washington. Shows 27 African Americans in two lines with rifles resting on the ground.

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…

Photograph shows Pvt. William M. Smith, Co. D, 8th Kentucky Vols. at U.S. General Hospital, Div. No. 1, Annapolis, Maryland, June 1, 1864. Source: U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center, 2013.

"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…

Unidentified soldier in Confederate uniform with shotgun sitting next to dog

This image depicts John and Marget Bakken, their two children, and their sod home in Milton ND. The photograph was taken in 1898.

Women delegates to the 1886 convention of the Knights of Labor

This image depicts an immigrant neighborhood on Mulberry Street in New York City around the year 1900.

Andrew Carnegie and his philanthropic work. Giving to Scotland yet he is wearing an American flag kilt, signifying where his wealth was earned.

Representing the two sides of Andrew Carnegie. His side during his rise in business and his philanthropic work.

This cartoon shows a Chinese man sitting at a table, smoking opium while being scolded by his wife. There is also a young child is hanging onto the skirt of her kimono. The sign on the wall says "There's No Place Like Home." This cartoon shows how…

Sioux boys at work in a field

This image shows the common tools used by opium users. While seen as detrimental, this image allows individuals to see just how much went into the opium smoking process.

This image shows the combined efforts of Caucasian and Chinese workers. The sifting operation that they are performing in this picture is called a sluicing operation. This picture is noted to be one of the earliest photos of Chinese mine workers. By…

Print showing "The new year - how they began" and "The old year - how they came out" a series of vignettes depicting a man and a woman, each taking their first drink, until they succumb to alcoholism. The central panel details a young man taking…

Students at school

School youth learning ironing and drying

School youth and carpentry

Carpentery work by Chemawa students

Print shows an archway of the nine steps of a drunkard's progress, beginning with a man in fancy dress having "a glass with a friend" and then his gradual decline in society with poverty & disease, criminal activity, becoming a bum, and his eventual…