Margaret Stewart - Queen of Natchez Mardi Gras.
Collection: Stewart Photograph Collection.Call number: PI/1992.0006.System ID: 102148..Link to the catalog ( http://zed.mdah.state.ms.us:81/ ) ..Margaret Stewart - Queen of Natchez Mardi Gras...Please see our p... More
Inner City, August 1973
Original Caption: Inner City, August 1973..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 412-DA-7488..Photographer: Swanson, Dick...Subjects:.Environmental protection.Natural resources.Philadelphia (Philadelphia ... More
Untitled (Native American in buffalo headdress)
Artist: Richard Throssel.Artist Bio: American, 1882 - 1933.Creation Date: c. 1910.Process: gelatin silver print.Credit Line: Gift of Graham and Susan Nash.Accession Number: 2003.003.053
Head of a negro boy
Accession Number: 89.2.2065
Glass cup in the shape of a negro head
Glass objects, Roman Empire.
Aerial View of Virginia Union University, 1500 North
Description: These buildings of Virginia granite form part of a fifty-five acre campus. The Institution was chartered in 1896. It offers Liberal Arts and Theological courses to 500 negro college students each... More
All-American news. 1945-09
All-American news were the first newsreels produced for a black audience. Made in the 1940s and 1950s, they were originally intended to encourage black Americans to participate in, and support the war effort, a... More
Virginia Union University, 1500 North Lombardy St., Richmond, Va.
Description: These buildings of Virginia granite form part of a fifty-five acre campus. The Institution was chartered in 1896. It offers Liberal Arts and Theological courses to 500 negro college students each... More
[Black slaves working in sugar mill. Hispaniola. Part 5, plate 2]
Illus. in: De Bay, Americae...1590. Reference copy may be in E141.B88. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Plantation crops Sugar, LOT 4410A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Joannes van Doetechum I - Portugees in een draagstoel
Een rijke Portugees laat zich door twee dienaren in een draagstoel verplaatsen. Een andere dienaar draagt een zonnescherm. Een deel van de groep dienaren is inheems, zie links de belettering "Negros". Achter he... More
Plattegrond van de begane grond van het Palazzo Ambrogio Di Negro te G...
Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Nicolaes Ryckmans - Palazzo Di Negro
Voorgevel van Palazzo Di Negro, gelegen aan de via San Luca te Genua. Het palazzo werd gebouwd tussen 1585 en 1587 voor Ambrogio Di Negro, doge van Genua.
Plattegrond van de eerste verdieping van het Palazzo Ambrogio Di Negro...
Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Opstand van de façade van het Palazzo Ambrogio Di Negro te Genua
Deze prent maakt deel uit van een album.
Portret van Jakob Johann Wenceslaus Dobrzensky de Negro Ponte
Jakob Johann Wenceslaus Dobrzensky de Negro Ponte, professor natuurkunde aan de universiteit van Praag, op 38-jarige leeftijd. De prent heeft een Latijns onderschrift.
Thomas Hees with his Nephews Jan and Andries Hees and a Servant
Thomas Hees served as a diplomat in Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli. Among other duties, he negotiated the purchase of the freedom of Dutch slaves and protested against the privateering of Dutch ships. Hees had hims... More
W'rede straffe van een Planter aan zyn knegt
Planter whipping slave tied to tree. Illus. in: Exquemelin, Histoire der Boecaniers...(1700), facing p. 29. Reference copy may be in SSF (Gr) - Slavery 1700. This record contains unverified, old data from capti... More
[Title page of Anthony Benezet, Observations on the Inslaving, importi...
Illus. in: Anthony Benezet, Observations on the Inslaving, importing and purchasing of Negroes; ... extracted from ... the Yearly-meeting of ... Quakers. Germantown, 1760, title page. Reference copy may be in L... More
The election, a medley, humbly inscribed to Squire Lilliput, professor...
Cartoon shows the old courthouse in Philadelphia during the October 1, 1764 election where a line of men wait at the steps on the right to enter the courthouse and cast their votes; in the foreground, many men,... More
The life and dying speech of Arthur, a negro man who was executed at W...
Positive Photostat.; Title. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 36, Folder 26.
[Hibernia in distress], British Cartoon Print
Print shows Hibernia, a woman representing Ireland, lying on the floor holding a broken harp, Lord Townshend is holding her down with his left foot; on the left, Lord North reaches into a money bag labeled with... More
Phillis Wheatley, Negro Servant to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston
Anonymous, 18th century
An address to the public, from the Pennsylvania Society for promoting ...
Title.; Imprint 2.; Franklin, B.; Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 14... More
Letter, Thomas Jefferson to Benjamin Banneker expressing his belief th...
Reproduction number: A54 (color slide); LC-MSS-27748-21 (B&W negative) While serving as secretary of state, Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), one of Virginia's largest planters and slaveholders, wrote this 30 Augus... More
The gradual abolition off the slave trade or leaving of sugar by degre...
Print shows George III sitting at a table with the Queen and two of his daughters, and the Queen's Keeper of the Robes, Juliana Elizabeth Schwellenbergen holding a bottle of "Brandy", discussing the use of suga... More
The abolition of the slave trade Or the inhumanity of dealers in human...
Print shows sailor on a slave ship suspending an African girl by her ankle from a rope over a pulley. Captain John Kimber stands on the left with a whip in his hand. Title from item. Attributed to I. Cruikshank... More
Philanthropic Consolations, after the loss of the Slave-Bill
William Wilberforce and Samuel Horsley, Bishop of Rochester, cavort with two black women in a well-furnished room. Wilberforce and a woman, wearing a print dress with her breasts exposed, sit on a couch smoking... More
Box Containing Forty-Four Samples of Wood from Surinam
Rechthoekige doos met vier en veertig houtmonsters: 1. groenhart (Nectandra rodiaei) 2. bijlhout (walaba, Eperua spec.) 3. purperhart (Peltogyne spec.) 4. bolletrie (Manilkara surinamensis) 5. peto (mora, Dimor... More
The progress of freedom. On the 6th of April St. Louis elected a mayor...
Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 71, Folder 23.
Henry Clay's bulbous panteloons sic or where the coffee went to
Drawing shows an Anglo-African (or African American) cabin boy named "Henry Clay" on board a ship; he has been caught by another sailor with a stash of stolen coffee that he has hidden in pantaloons. Title from... More
Albinos, or white negroes
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Chapman.
Home incidents, accidents, &c. The colored voter ; Pursuit of a breakf...
Illustrations that accompany twelve stories of mishaps and curiosities including an African American Union soldier wrongly denied the right to vote, a Romani woman earning money telling fortunes, an explosion a... More
[Gentleman with two Negro workers bowing over grave]
This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Branstard, J.
Wealth and respectability. Book illustration from Library of Congress,...
Negro servant with gun and dogs accosting old woman for poaching a small bundle of twigs. Hand-colored etching by Vain Right after drawing by Ambery. Published by S.W. Fores. Forms part of : British Cartoon Pr... More
Head of Negro man wearing cap, front and back view
Title transcribed from finding aid. Verso: Unidentified objects.
William Berryman - Maroon. Buckra reading their pass
Drawing shows a white man (Buckra) reading the pass of Maroons (runaway slaves) on a road. Title from item. Unpublished finding aid, Drawings of Jamaica by William Berryman, available in LC Prints & Photographs... More
Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, Mass., to Richard Davis Webb, Jan. ...
May praises the support of the abolition cause in its early days by its English friends and discusses the controversies between the English and American abolitionists during the war. He speaks of the attitude o... More
A Lady going to visit
Illustration showing slaves carrying woman in sedan chair across street. Illus. in: Travels in Brazil / Henry Koster. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, 1816, pl. opposite p. 188.
A Planter and his wife on a journey
Illustration showing two slaves carrying woman in sedan chair, slave woman with baggage on head, and planter riding horse on country road..
The New Union Club, British Cartoon Print
A design based on Gillray's The Union Club, No. 9699 (1801), the roistering fraternizers being English and Negroes, in place of English and Irish. Color engraving by G. Cruikshank. See: British Museum Departmen... More
Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson, says he looked for a dictionary as requested, but found only one with some missing pages. He gives some encouraging words related to the commencement ... More
Grand bobalition, or "Great anniversary fussible"
Another in the "bobalition" series of broadsides parodying the manners, illiteracy, and dialect of Boston blacks. (See no. 1819-2.) The illustration shows a black militia troop marching from left to right. The ... More
[Town plan for Mesurado, Liberia]
American Colonization Society Papers. Published in: The African-American mosaic, a Library of Congress resource guide for the study of black history and culture / Debra Newman Ham, ed. Washington, D.C. : Librar... More
Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson talks about his college life and different student societies in college. He also discusses the prospect of a religious revival. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson talks about their friendship, his college life, his decision to be a minister, and the state of religion. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
The sailor's description of a chase & capture / J Sherm, invt. [Lieut....
"A burly sailor (right) sits with five other sailors, one a negro, and two perhaps being petty officers, drinking grog at a plank-table slung from the roof ..." (Source: George) This record contains unverified ... More
Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson reflects upon their friendship and talks about his college life, which continues to be pleasant. He also discusses the state of religion in New Haven. ... More
Letter from George Jeffrey Tillotson, [New Haven], to Amos Augustus Ph...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, George Jeffrey Tillotson talks about his college life and religious prospects of Yale College. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Gate & slave market at Pernambuco / drawn by Augs. Earle ; engraved by...
Includes view of Count Maurice's gate near slave market. Illus. in: Journal of a voyage to Brazil, and residence there, during part of the years 1821, 1822, 1823 / Maria Graham. London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, O... More
Letter from Maria Weston Chapman to Anne Warren Weston and Deborah Wes...
M[aria] Weston Chapman writes to Deborah Weston and Anne Warren Weston in regards to her children and in regards to her absence. She writes, "Do not forget me in my absence but speak often of me..when I return ... More
Title page of a pamphlet: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery ...
Illus. in: A Plan for the Gradual Abolition of Slavery in the United States, without Danger or Loss to the Citizens of the South (Baltimore: Benj. Lundy, 1825), title page. Reference copy may be in LCQJ, Spring... More
Letter from Harriet Beecher Stowe, [Andover, Massachusetts], to Willia...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, William Twining discusses the change in the price of musical instruments in Boston and asks for payment for the instruments Phelps purchased from him. In addition, Twining writ... More
Letter from William Twining, Andover, [Massachusetts], to Amos Augustu...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, William Twining discusses Phelps' music and returning Phelps' music books to him the following week. He also adds his request to "alter the title of the Society." Courtesy of B... More
Letter from William Smith Porter, Coosada Autauga co., to Amos Augustu...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, William Smith Porter informs Phelps about the school teachers’ salaries in the area (presumably Alabama), and says he will try to find a position for him if he is still interes... More
Letter from Israel Warburton Putnam, Portsmouth, to Amos Augustus Phel...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Israel W. Putnam says he has heard Phelps’s plan to go to teach in Berwick. Putnam asks Phelps to “make all convenient d[i]spatch in going to Berwick.” Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Letter from Isaac Gleason Porter, New London, to Amos Augustus Phelps,...
In this letter to Amos A. Phelps, Isaac Gleason Porter talks about his visit to New Haven and his experience teaching in school. He also relays some news about friends. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Letter from Tobias Ostrander, Lyons, to Amos Augustus Phelps, Decr 6th...
In compliance to Amos A. Phelps’s request, Tobias Ostrander supplies information on Joseph Ennis. He says Ennis is not married, but has a group of illegitimate children. His social standing used to be good enou... More
Letter from Parentha Bodwell, Simsbury, to Amos Augustus Phelps, March...
Amos A. Phelps’s cousin, Parentha Bodwell, writes to Phelps about their friend, Mary, who is involved with a man named Ennis, whom Bodwell considers to be of dubious character. In a segment added later, Bodwell... More
Letter from Amos Augustus Phelps, Bradford [Mass.], to Sarah Ann Haggi...
Amos Augustus Phelps describes his journey from Andover to Bradford, and discusses personal matters. Courtesy of Boston Public Library
Letters from Charles Briggs, Lexington, [Massachusetts], 1828 Oct[ober...
Will P. Huntington writes to unknown on Oct[ober] 26, 1827 certifying Theodore Parker's qualifications for teaching in the public schools. Charles Briggs writes to unknown on Oct[ober] 27th 1828 to certify Theo... More
Letters from Charles Briggs, Lexington, [Massachusetts], 1828 Oct[ober...
Will P. Huntington writes to unknown on Oct[ober] 26, 1827 certifying Theodore Parker's qualifications for teaching in the public schools. Charles Briggs writes to unknown on Oct[ober] 27th 1828 to certify Theo... More
Letter from Parentha Bodwell, Simsbury, to Amos Augustus Phelps, March...
Amos A. Phelps’s cousin, Parentha Bodwell, writes to Phelps about their friend, Mary, who is involved with a man named Ennis, whom Bodwell considers to be of dubious character. In a segment added later, Bodwell... More
Letter from William P. Weeks, South Berswick, [Maine], to Amos Augustu...
William P. Weeks writes a letter to Amos A. Phelps regarding town news and religious matters within South Berswick. Courtesy of Boston Public Library