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Emancipation Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Votes for women, 1911-1913. Artist: Boye, Bertha Margaret (1883-1930)

Votes for women, 1911-1913. Artist: Boye, Bertha Margaret (1883-1930)
Votes for women, 1911-1913. From a private collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Waiting for the Hour, 1863. Creators: Unknown, William Tolman Carlton

Waiting for the Hour, 1863. Creators: Unknown, William Tolman Carlton
Carte-de-visite of a group of African Americans gathered around a man with a pocket watch, leaning on a pulpit made out of U.S. Sanitation Commission crates

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Reading the Scriptures, 1874. Creator: Thomas Waterman Wood

Reading the Scriptures, 1874. Creator: Thomas Waterman Wood
Reading the Scriptures, 1874

Background imageEmancipation Collection: The Pseudonym and Antonym Libraries, 1895. Artist: Beardsley, Aubrey (1872?1898)

The Pseudonym and Antonym Libraries, 1895. Artist: Beardsley, Aubrey (1872?1898)
The Pseudonym and Antonym Libraries, 1895. From a private collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: The new woman, 1895. Creator: Morrow, Albert (1863-1927)

The new woman, 1895. Creator: Morrow, Albert (1863-1927)
The new woman, 1895. Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Creator: Unknown photographer

Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Creator: Unknown photographer
Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Creator: Unknown photographer

Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Creator: Unknown photographer
Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Creator: Unknown photographer

Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Creator: Unknown photographer
Portrait of Huda Sharawi (1879-1947). Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: International Women's Week, 1926. Creator: Anonymous

International Women's Week, 1926. Creator: Anonymous
International Women's Week, 1926. Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Ligue des femmes contre la guerre, 1922. Creator: Larivière, Pierre (1883-1932)

Ligue des femmes contre la guerre, 1922. Creator: Larivière, Pierre (1883-1932)
Ligue des femmes contre la guerre, 1922. Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Congrès international pour le suffrage des femmes, Budapest (Hongrie), 1913

Congrès international pour le suffrage des femmes, Budapest (Hongrie), 1913. Creator: Soos Koranyi, Anna (1870-1947)
Congres international pour le suffrage des femmes, Budapest (Hongrie), 1913. Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: La Femme doit voter: à temps nouveaux, suffrage nouveau , ca 1925-1928

La Femme doit voter: à temps nouveaux, suffrage nouveau , ca 1925-1928. Creator: Barbey, Maurice (ca 1880-after 1939)
La Femme doit voter: a temps nouveaux, suffrage nouveau , ca 1925-1928. Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Ceux qui votent! Celles qui ne votent pas?! , 1928. Creator: Roger, Théo (active 1920s)

Ceux qui votent! Celles qui ne votent pas?! , 1928. Creator: Roger, Théo (active 1920s)
Ceux qui votent! Celles qui ne votent pas?! , 1928. Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Movie Poster 'When women work'. The Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1921

Movie Poster "When women work". The Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1921. Creator: Anonymous
Movie Poster "When women work". The Women's Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor, 1921. Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Une femme comme moi...remettre un bouton?... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier

Une femme comme moi...remettre un bouton?... 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Une femme comme moi...remettre un bouton?... 1844. Une femme comme moi...remettre un bouton?...vous etes fou!... - Allons bon

Background imageEmancipation Collection: View on a Cocoa Plantation in the Island of Granada, 1857. Creator: Unknown

View on a Cocoa Plantation in the Island of Granada, 1857. Creator: Unknown
View on a Cocoa Plantation in the Island of Granada, 1857....a very flourishing estate in the Island of Granada...situated on the side of a lofty mountain, in the parish of St, John

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Foster, Ardene, International Commissioner of British Federal Emancipation...Victims, London, 1913

Foster, Ardene, International Commissioner of British Federal Emancipation...Victims, London, 1913
Foster, Ardene, International Commissioner of British Federal Emancipation of Sweated Women, Girls, And White Slave Victims, London, 1913

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Oh, How I Love The Old Flag. Rebecca, A Slave Girl from New Orleans, 1864. Creator: Charles Paxson

Oh, How I Love The Old Flag. Rebecca, A Slave Girl from New Orleans, 1864. Creator: Charles Paxson
Oh, How I Love The Old Flag. Rebecca, A Slave Girl from New Orleans, 1864. Additional title: Propaganda portrait of Rebecca, A Slave Girl from New Orleans, seated, and gazing at the United States flag

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans, 1863. Creator: Myron H. Kimball

Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans, 1863. Creator: Myron H. Kimball
Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans, 1863. Additional title: Propaganda portrait of Rebecca, An Emancipated Slave from New Orleans, kneeling in prayer

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Emancipation, 1863. Creators: George G Fish, John P. Soule

Emancipation, 1863. Creators: George G Fish, John P. Soule
Emancipation, 1863. Additional title: Emancipation, a propaganda drawing depicting a female figure holding a scroll, surrounded by a male and a female slave, wrapped in the United States flag

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Mrs. Mary B. Talbert [recto], 1902. Creator: Unknown

Mrs. Mary B. Talbert [recto], 1902. Creator: Unknown
Mrs. Mary B. Talbert [recto], 1902. African-American orator, activist, suffragist and reformer. From "Twentieth century Negro literature, or

Background imageEmancipation Collection: The Fifteenth Amendment, 1870. Creator: James Carter Beard

The Fifteenth Amendment, 1870. Creator: James Carter Beard
The Fifteenth Amendment, 1870

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Creator: Unknown

Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867. Creator: Unknown
Freedmen voting in New Orleans, 1867

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Nikola'i Alekseevich Miliutin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly...between 1880

Nikola'i Alekseevich Miliutin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly...between 1880 and 86 Creator: Unknown
Nikola'i Alekseevich Miliutin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, in uniform, between 1880 and 1886

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Yuri Fedorovich Samarin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, between 1880 and 1886

Yuri Fedorovich Samarin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, between 1880 and 1886. Creator: Unknown
Yuri Fedorovich Samarin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, between 1880 and 1886

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Queen Mary at Bedford College, London, 1913, (1935). Creator: Unknown

Queen Mary at Bedford College, London, 1913, (1935). Creator: Unknown
Queen Mary at Bedford College, London, 1913, (1935). Staff and students curtseying to Queen Mary of Teck (1867-1953). Another aspect of the great movement for the emancipation of women was the steady

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier

Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame.. 1844. Creator: Honore Daumier
Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame.. 1844. Dis donc...mon mari...j'ai bien envie d'appeler mon drame Arthur et d'intituler mon enfant Oscar

Background imageEmancipation Collection: The Freedman, 1862-63. Creator: John Quincy Adams Ward

The Freedman, 1862-63. Creator: John Quincy Adams Ward
The Freedman, 1862-63. A freed slave with shackles broken, modelled from life, considered to be one of the first naturalistic sculptural representations of an African American

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Old Virginia Home, 1864. Creator: David Gilmour Blythe

Old Virginia Home, 1864. Creator: David Gilmour Blythe
Old Virginia Home, 1864. An African American man walks a way from a burning plantation, the ball and chain round his ankle have been broken

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Down with the Abortion Paragraphs!, 1923. Creator: Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945)

Down with the Abortion Paragraphs!, 1923. Creator: Kollwitz, Kathe (1867-1945)
Down with the Abortion Paragraphs!, 1923. Private Collection

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Don t get the clothes too blue!, 1897. Creator: BW Kilburn

Don t get the clothes too blue!, 1897. Creator: BW Kilburn
Don t get the clothes too blue!, 1897. [Woman in bloomers-style bicycling outfit instructing her husband how to do the laundry

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral, 1773. Creator: Unknown

Poems on Various Subjects Religious and Moral, 1773. Creator: Unknown
A first edition of the book " Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral", by Phillis Wheatley, while she was enslaved to Mr. John Wheatley of Boston

Background imageEmancipation Collection: John Minor III, 1808. Creator: Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin

John Minor III, 1808. Creator: Charles Balthazar Julien Fevret de Saint-Memin
John Minor III, 1808

Background imageEmancipation Collection: MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Creole, ca. 1920. Creator: Louis Bauer

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Creole, ca. 1920. Creator: Louis Bauer
The title of this French colonial postcard " MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Creole" exemplifies the standard naming structure that categorized " exotic" native subjects in the form

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress, 1860-1880

Photograph of unidentified woman wearing French Antillean dress, 1860-1880
The colonial postcard, popular in the first two decades of the 20th century, came to represent both the technological triumphs of western photography - in printing and mass production

Background imageEmancipation Collection: GUADELOUPE. - Type n°7, 1900-1920. Creator: Edgar Littee

GUADELOUPE. - Type n°7, 1900-1920. Creator: Edgar Littee
The title of this French colonial postcard (GUADELOUPE. - Type n 7) exemplifies the standard naming structure that categorized " exotic" native subjects in the form of ethnic

Background imageEmancipation Collection: I. - Marchande de bananes aux Antilles, ca. 1910. Creator: Unknown

I. - Marchande de bananes aux Antilles, ca. 1910. Creator: Unknown
Banana-seller in the Antilles. The colonial postcard, popular in the first two decades of the 20th century, came to represent both the technological triumphs of western photography - in printing

Background imageEmancipation Collection: MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Creole, ca. 1910. Creator: Cochet

MARTINIQUE - Type et Costume Creole, ca. 1910. Creator: Cochet
The title of this French colonial postcard (GUADELOUPE. - Type n 7) exemplifies the standard naming structure that categorized " exotic" native subjects in the form of ethnic

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Patience on a Monument, October 8, 1868. Creator: Thomas Nast

Patience on a Monument, October 8, 1868. Creator: Thomas Nast
A rare broadside supplement to the Cincinnati Gazette, " Patience on a Monument, " shows a freed slave sitting atop a monument that lists evils perpetrated against blacks

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Page 53 from Harpers Weekly with an article about John W. Menard, January 23, 1869

Page 53 from Harpers Weekly with an article about John W. Menard, January 23, 1869
Page 53 from the January 23, 1869 edition of Harpers Weekly. The page contains 1/4 page illustration of the honorable John W. Menard in the upper let corner

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Membership certificate to the American Colonization Society, February 22, 1832

Membership certificate to the American Colonization Society, February 22, 1832
A membership certificate to the American Colonization Society for Sarah Emlen Cresson signed by James Madison as the president of the society on February 22, 1832

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Print of Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879. Creator: Unknown

Print of Frederick Douglass, ca. 1879. Creator: Unknown
A lithographic print of African-American diplomat, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) who escaped from slavery in Maryland aged 21

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Frederick Douglass, ca. 1875. Creator: Alexander Hay Ritchie

Frederick Douglass, ca. 1875. Creator: Alexander Hay Ritchie
A lithograph portrait of African-American diplomat, abolitionist and writer Frederick Douglass (1817-1895) who escaped from slavery in Maryland aged 21

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Tubman, 1868-1869. Creator: Benjamin F. Powelson

Carte-de-visite portrait of Harriet Tubman, 1868-1869. Creator: Benjamin F. Powelson
African-American anti-slavery activist Harriet Tubman (c1820-1913) was born into slavery in Maryland. She escaped in 1849

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Carte-de-visite portrait of Sally Cadwallader Ely, 1862-1869. Creator: Henry C. Phillips

Carte-de-visite portrait of Sally Cadwallader Ely, 1862-1869. Creator: Henry C. Phillips
Carte-de-visite of Sarah " Sally" Cadwallader Ely shown in three-quarter length portrait. [Ely taught at Camp Todd and Camp Rucker, freedmens villages in Virginia, outside the Washington

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Allegory of Freedom, 1863 or after. Creator: Unknown

Allegory of Freedom, 1863 or after. Creator: Unknown
Allegory of Freedom, 1863 or after

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Emancipated Slaves, from 'Le Journal Illustre', July 23-30, 1865

Emancipated Slaves, from "Le Journal Illustre", July 23-30, 1865
Emancipated Slaves, from " Le Journal Illustre", July 23-30, 1865

Background imageEmancipation Collection: Emancipation of the Negroes - The Past and the Future (from Harpers Weekly), January 24

Emancipation of the Negroes - The Past and the Future (from Harpers Weekly), January 24, 1863



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