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American Wax Museum, Fifth Street between Market and Chestnut,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : the slave market : human beings sold at auction, at left, Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" stirred great anti-slavery feeling, at right, Harriet Tubman, Negro abolitionist, a leader in the underground R.R.

Creator:: WYCO Colour Productions (Ambler, Pa.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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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
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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
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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
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George Washington Carver - 1864-1943 : his research in agricultural chemistry promoted the lowly peanut from obscurity to a crop of great industrial value

Creator:: Washington Novelty Inc. (Washington, D.C.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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Hall of Presidents Wax Museum, Colorado Springs, Colorado, scene 9, the tragic years, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee and Black family

Creator:: Sanborn Souvenir Company.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public

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In the "Spartacus" set at Stars Hall of Fame, Kirk Douglas as the title character, prepares to fight his fellow gladiator (portrayed by actor-athlete Woody Strode) to the death if the Emperor (Sir Laurence Olivier) gives the "Thumbs Down," Jean Simmons witnesses the tragedy

Creator:: Roberts, Mike.
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
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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

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Simon of Cyrene steps forth to bear the cross of Christ, the surly Roman soldiers, the curious mob and the narrow crowded streets of this scene make it one to be long remembered, one of a series of realistic hand-carved scenes from The Prince of Peace Memorial, Silver Springs, Florida

Creator:: Koppel Color Cards (Hawthorne, N.J.)
Date:: unknown
Format:: Still image
Access:: Public