History 111

Fall 2019

Welcome to History 111: U.S. History I (to 1877)

Welcome to History 111: U.S. History I (to 1877)

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Mid-19th-century photo of Chief Crane, Potawatomi, holding tomahawk and unidentified Native American man in delegation to Washington
Chief Crane, Potawatomi, holding tomahawk and unidentified Native American man in delegation to Washington, D.C. Washington D.C, None. [Between 1855 and 1865, printed later] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007678836/.
Photograph depicts a line from the poem Plain Language from Truthful James by Francis Bret Harte, 1870, showing Truthful James, Bill Nye, and Ah Sin sitting on boxes and barrels, cheating in a game of Euchre.
Harte, Bret, Weller, F. G, photographer. “Till at last he put down a right bower, which the same Nye had dealt unto me.” United States, ca. 1871. Littleton, N.H.: F.G. Weller, Jun. 12. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2006676729/.
Stereograph showing a group of slaves including men, women and children gathered outside a building at the Foller Plantation in Cumberland Landing, Pamunkey Run, Virginia.
Gibson, James F, photographer. A Group of “contrabands”
. United States Virginia, 1862. [Hartford, Conn.: The War Photograph & Exhibition Co., No. 21 Linden Place] Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011660086/.