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Clarina Irene Howard Nichols
Title
Clarina Irene Howard Nichols
Description
Engraving of Clarina I.H. Nichols, prominent activist and journalist, from an 1887 publication of the "History of Woman Suffrage".
Object Type
Image
Date
1887
Western University, Quindaro, Kansas
Title
Western University, Quindaro, Kansas
Description
A photograph of Ward Hall and Industrial Building, Western University, once located in the now abandoned town of Quindaro, Wyandotte County, Kansas. This image is included in the 1911 publication of "History of Wyandotte County, Kansas, and its people". Western University opened in 1865 as an exclusively African American college.
Object Type
Image
Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee
Title
Office of the Freedmen's Bureau, Memphis, Tennessee
Description
Harper's Weekly illustration of the Freedmen's Bureau Office in Memphis, Tennessee. The Freedmen's Bureau provided support for African Americans’ transition from slavery to freedom.
Object Type
Image
Date
June 2, 1866
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Title
A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand
Description
This is a copy of Abraham Lincoln's speech, "A House Divided Against Itself Cannot Stand", delivered on June 16, 1858 at the Republican State Convention in Springfield, Illinois. This speech is preserved here in its entirety with original italics as part of a 1936 publication that includes an introduction by Douglas C. McMurtrie.
Object Type
Speech
Date
June 16, 1858
New York Draft Riots
Title
New York Draft Riots
Description
Two engravings of the 1863 New York Draft Riots, which appeared in The Illustrated London News of August 15, 1863. The illustrations depicts the "Destruction of the Couloured Orphan Asylum" and the "Conflict between the Military and the Rioters in First-Avenue".
Object Type
Image
Date
August 15, 1863