FIGURE 9 A

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Description: M. B. Brady’s New Photographic Gallery, Corner of Broadway and Tenth Street,...

TitleM. B. Brady’s New Photographic Gallery, Corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, New York, detail

Creator nameBerghaus, A.

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePrintmaker/Engraver/Lithographer

Creation datec. 1860

Object typePrint

Materialswood engraving

DimensionsUnknown

LocationLibrary of Congress, Washington, DC

http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/95508946/

Accession numberLC-USZ62-114481

SubjectsArt--Collectors and collectingPhotography--History--19th century

StatusFrom "Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper," Jan. 5, 1861

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3. The Civil War and Its Aftermath, 1850–1870

John Davis, Michael Leja

Art of the United States, 1750–2000: Primary Sources

The decade of the 1850s was, for many, a period of a satisfying coming of age. The Industrial Revolution, which had developed in the United States a bit later than in England, had matured, and the nation was on its way to being a global economic presence (despite a financial depression in 1857). The Gadsden Purchase in 1853 transferred Mexican land (this time without going to war) to the US...

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John Davis, Michael Leja

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.108-155

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00199.004

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Chapter subject tags:Artists' writingsUnited States--History--Civil War, 1861–1865Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865–1877)Slavery--United StatesGenre painting, American

Frederick Douglass Chooses His Moment

Colin L. Westerbeck

African Americans in Art: Selections from The Art Institute of Chicago

The centerpiece of the 1997 exhibition “In Their Own Right: Images of African Americans from The Art Institute of Chicago” was a pre-Civil War daguerreotype of the Abolitionist leader Frederick Douglass (fig. 1) that the museum had recently acquired. “In Their Own...

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Colin L. Westerbeck

PublisherArt Institute of Chicago

Related print edition pages: pp.145-161

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00008.002

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Chapter subject tags:Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895Antislavery movementsDaguerreotypePortrait photographyArt and photographyPortrait photography--Posing

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