Genre: photographic postcards / Subject - Topics: Slaves. and Waxwork. - Emory Digital Collections Search Results

Start Over Genre photographic postcards ✖ Subject - Topics Slaves. ✖ Subject - Topics Waxwork. ✖

1 - 4 of 4

1.
The deep south : this scene typifies pre-war plantation life, in a non-mechanized age, slaves were vital to an economy based on cotton production, the plantation owners were the country's aristocrats

Creator:: Gettysburg Souvenir Center, Inc. (Gettysburg, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Log In Required

2.
The deep south : this scene typifies pre-war plantation life, in a non-mechanized age, slaves were vital to an economy based on cotton production, the plantation owners were the country's aristocrats

Creator:: Gettysburg Souvenir Center, Inc. (Gettysburg, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Log In Required

3.
Emancipation proclamation : this proclamation, issued Jan. 1, 1863, declared that the slaves in the secessionist states should be free because those states had not returned to the Union by that date, here a Union officer is telling slaves in a rebel state that they are now free

Creator:: Civil War Souvenir Center (Gettysburg, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Log In Required

4.
Muse?e Conti - Wax Museum - New Orleans, The Haunted House of Madame Lalaurie, 1834 : Madame Lalaurie is seen in her infamous attic, accompanied by Bastian who is in the act of driving the slave child to the roof, and her subsequent violent death in the courtyard below

Creator:: Express Publishing Co., Inc. (Metairie, La.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public