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Slave family in colonial New York

Slave family making music in their cellar room of the Knickerbocker mansion, New York, 1700s.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Union General Ulysses S. Grant on horseback with his officers on a Civil War battlefield.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustratioin

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Wisconsins Iron Brigade mascot, Civil War

"Old Abe," the bald eagle mascot of Wisconsin's Iron Brigade, US Civil War.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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