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Sargeant Major Meekins

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Description: Full-length portrait of Sargeant Major Meekins. Co. "K" 36th U.S. Colored Troops.
Book or Pamphlet

Beverly Jefferson

Date: 1900
Description: Portrait of Beverly Jefferson, 1/16th African American, published in Madison Past and Present, 1852-1902, a 1902 book published by the Wisconsin State Jour...
Photograph

Edmonia Lewis, Sculptor

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Description: Carte-de-visite portrait of Edmonia Lewis (1845-1890), African American Sculptor. Lewis, the first famous American sculptor of African descent, had a Chipp...
Photograph

Nathaniel Marsh Edwards

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Description: Waist-up carte-de-visite portrait of Captain Nathaniel Marsh Edwards. Born in Haverhill, Massachusetts on July 5, 1837. 1st New York Volunteer Engineers on...
Photograph

Frederick Douglass

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Description: Quarter-length carte-de-visite portrait of Frederick Douglass, an abolitionist and publisher of the newspaper The North Star.
Photograph

Woman in Striped Shirtwaist

Date: 1865
Description: Tintype/ferrotype oval waist-up portrait of an African American woman in a striped shirtwaist with white collar and waistband, wearing earrings and a cameo...
Photograph

Child Sitting on Bench

Date: 1875
Description: Tintype/ferrotype of a child sitting on a bench wearing a white dress and shoes.
Photograph

Man in Three-Piece Suit

Date: 1865
Description: Tintype/ferrotype waist-up oval portrait of an African American man wearing a suit jacket, shirt, and partially buttoned vest.

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