A scarce and vivid chromolithograph depicting the Fort Pillow Massacre, and a highly unusual memorialization of Civil War racial violence. This lithograph dramatizes the Fort Pillow Massacre in Tennessee on April 12th, 1864, showing Union soldiers—all but two of them African American—being murdered in hand to hand combat or falling.....
One of the earliest representations of the first seven African Americans to gain seats in Congress. On the far left is Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827–1901), the first African American to serve as a U.S. Senator. He was born a Freeman in North Carolina and went on to study theology at.....
Two Civil War lithographs from this rare series of six, these examples hand-colored and enhanced by Winslow Homer himself in the very year that he created his first painting (The Sharpshooter) and well before he turned to the regular use of watercolor. One of these two lithographs—The Baggage Train—was loaned.....
A scarce presidential campaign cartoon by David Claypoole Johnston, using the cauldron scene in Macbeth to condemn the seemingly unstoppable march of pro-slavery forces in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the presidential election of 1856. This print depicts Democratic politicians and cronies gathered, like the witches of Macbeth.....
![Item #8691 Remington in Cuba for Collier’s Weekly [One of Gomez’ Men]. Frederic Remington, after](https://jamesarsenault.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/8691_1.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1706565800)
A rare and dramatic poster depicting an Afro-Cuban revolutionary, based on a painting by Frederic Remington made for Collier’s Weekly during his coverage of the Spanish-American War. Standing proudly with his gun, ammunition belt, bugle, and straw hat, the Afro-Cuban soldier shown on this poster was—as Remington’s original painting is.....
An apparently otherwise unknown edition of this celebratory print, originally published in England and America to mark the abolition of slavery in the British colonies, and re-published here some twenty-five years later for an American audience during the Civil War by an important member of the American and Foreign Anti-Slavery.....
A scarce and vivid poster announcing marches on Washington D.C. and San Francisco, produced by the Student Mobilization Committee To End The War In Vietnam. The rousing phrase “the fight for freedom…is at home!” accompanies a photo-illustration showing a large group of African American men and women participating in a......