[Headquarters Lafayette - Headquarters Gen'l Porter. Farinholt's house and York River in the distance.]
Title
[Headquarters Lafayette - Headquarters Gen'l Porter. Farinholt's house and York River in the distance.]
Description
View from the Civil War showing the headquarters of General Lafayette and General Porter near Yorktown, Virginia during General McClellan's Campaign on the Peninsula. Depicts white Union soldiers, and African American men and a boy, probably freedom seekers, posed before Farinholt's dilapidated house supported by a large log. Several camp tents and the York River are seen in the background., Title from cdv photograph, Brady's Album Gallery, no. 370., Photographer given in Gardner catalogue (see LCP research file)., Date from copyright statement: Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1862, by Gardner & Gibson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the District of Columbia., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as "contraband of war.", Alexander Gardner was a respected photographer, businessman, and former manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. Gallery who produced the acclaimed "Photographic sketchbook of the Civil War.", Originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War views. McAllister Collection, gift, 1886., Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014., James F. Gibson was a prominent Civil War photographer and one-time manager of Mathew Brady's Washington, D.C. gallery who also provided images for photographer Alexander Gardner's "Catalogue of photographic incidences of the war..." and "Photographic sketchbook of the Civil War."
Creator
Gibson, James F., 1828-, photographer
Date
1862
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Small Civil War Photograph Collection - stereos - identified photo. [5779.F.6h]
The (Fort) Monroe doctrine. [graphic]
Title
The ( Fort) Monroe doctrine
Description
Abolitionist cartoon depicting enslaved African Americans fleeing to Fort Monroe, which was occupied by Union General Benjamin F. Butler who had declared freedom seekers to be "contraband" of war. In the right, a white man Virginia enslaver brandishes a whip and says, "come back you black rascal." A bare-chested, barefooted, African American man attired in white shorts, responds in the vernacular, "can't come back nohow massa Dis chile's contraban." To the right of the enslaver, a barefooted African American man, attired in a brimmed hat, a white collared shirt, and striped pants with the cuffs rolled up, watches as he leans on a hoe. A number of other African American freedom seekers run toward the Fort, including a woman with a child., Title from item., Date of publication supplied by Weitenkampf., During the Civil War, the U.S. government declared African American freedom seekers as “contraband of war.”, Purchase 1986., RVCDC, Description revised 2021., Access points revised 2021., Digitized by Alexander Street Press for Images of the American Civil War., Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.
Date
[1861]
Location
Library Company of Philadelphia | Print Department Political Cartoons - 1861-3W [P.9127]