Black History

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A Civil War Family Portrait (1864) post image
Snapshot 19th Century Portraits

A Civil War Family Portrait (1864)

Wet plate photography and the American Civil War

by Unseen Histories
A Photographic Portrait of Frederick Douglass (1879) post image
Snapshot 19th Century Portraits

A Photographic Portrait of Frederick Douglass (1879)

How the most photographed man in America harnessed the portrait as a political tool

by Unseen Histories