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Down the steep hills every day come the country wagons

Down the steep hills every day come the country wagons

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The polite, but consequential Negro policeman

The polite, but consequential Negro policeman

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Southern types - a little unpleasantness

Southern types - a little unpleasantness

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Shooting at alligators - A drawing of a group of people on a boat

Shooting at alligators - A drawing of a group of people on a boat

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Southern types - catching his breakfast

Southern types - catching his breakfast

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The mule-carts, unloading schooners anchored lightly in the shallow waves

The mule-carts, unloading schooners anchored lightly in the shallow wa...

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Southern types- a likely girl with her baby

Southern types- a likely girl with her baby

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Scene in Lynchburg Tobacco factory

Scene in Lynchburg Tobacco factory

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Stout Colored women, with cackling hens dangling from their brawny hands

Stout Colored women, with cackling hens dangling from their brawny han...

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Southern types- a Negro constable

Southern types- a Negro constable

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One sees delicious types in these markets

One sees delicious types in these markets

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The Battery- Charleston - Drawing. Public domain image.

The Battery- Charleston - Drawing. Public domain image.

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Scene on a cotton plantation - Drawing. Public domain image.

Scene on a cotton plantation - Drawing. Public domain image.

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A street scene in Augusta, Georgia

A street scene in Augusta, Georgia

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The carpenter- a study from Waynesville Life

The carpenter- a study from Waynesville Life

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Southern types-Negro boys shelling peas

Southern types-Negro boys shelling peas

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Bienville, the founder of New Orleans

Bienville, the founder of New Orleans

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Sometimes the boat stops at a coaling station

Sometimes the boat stops at a coaling station

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The auctioneer's young man

The auctioneer's young man

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A side street in Lynchburg, Virginia

A side street in Lynchburg, Virginia

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The Negro nurses stroll on the sidewalks, chattering in quaint French to the little children

The Negro nurses stroll on the sidewalks, chattering in quaint French ...

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When Rex and his train enter the queer old streets, the balconies are crowded with spectators

When Rex and his train enter the queer old streets, the balconies are ...

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Sugar-cane plantation-- "The cane is cut down at its perfection"

Sugar-cane plantation-- "The cane is cut down at its perfection"

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Southern types - going to church

Southern types - going to church

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Watch the Negro fisherman as he throws his line horizonward

Watch the Negro fisherman as he throws his line horizonward

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A cotton-steamer - Public domain image of steamship

A cotton-steamer - Public domain image of steamship

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A future politician - Egypt African-American experience

A future politician - Egypt African-American experience

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Scene on a tobacco plantation- finding tobacco-worms

Scene on a tobacco plantation- finding tobacco-worms

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The railroad depots are everywhere crowded with negroes, immigrants, tourists and speculators

The railroad depots are everywhere crowded with negroes, immigrants, t...

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The public square in Sherman, Texas

The public square in Sherman, Texas

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Wayside types- A sketch from the artist's Virginia sketch-book

Wayside types- A sketch from the artist's Virginia sketch-book

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The hackmen who shriek in your car as you arrive at the depot

The hackmen who shriek in your car as you arrive at the depot

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On the Oclawaha Florida - Public domain image of a steam boat

On the Oclawaha Florida - Public domain image of a steam boat

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A Black girl looks wonderingly into the holy-water fountain

A Black girl looks wonderingly into the holy-water fountain

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The cheery minstrel

The cheery minstrel

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"A Trunk-Minder."

"A Trunk-Minder."

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Let us address de Almighty wid pra'r

Let us address de Almighty wid pra'r

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Galveston has many huge cotton presses

Galveston has many huge cotton presses

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A cotton wagon-train - A drawing of a horse drawn wagon and a man with a dog

A cotton wagon-train - A drawing of a horse drawn wagon and a man with...

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Southern types- Negro Shoeblacks

Southern types- Negro Shoeblacks

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Appendix. Statistics of the manufactures of cotton in the United States. New England States

Appendix. Statistics of the manufactures of cotton in the United State...

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As the train passes, the Negroes gather in groups to gaze at it until it disappears in the distance

As the train passes, the Negroes gather in groups to gaze at it until ...

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The elder women wash clothes by the brookside

The elder women wash clothes by the brookside

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The women were dressed in gay colors. ; With forty or fifty pounds of rice stalks on their heads

The women were dressed in gay colors. ; With forty or fifty pounds of ...

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Unloading the rice-barges

Unloading the rice-barges

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Aunt Bransom. - A venerable ex-slave on a South Carolina rice plantation

Aunt Bransom. - A venerable ex-slave on a South Carolina rice plantati...

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A Negro cabin on the bank of the Tennessee

A Negro cabin on the bank of the Tennessee

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Gordonsville, Virginia - A group of people standing in front of a train

Gordonsville, Virginia - A group of people standing in front of a trai...

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A waiter at the Galt House, Louisville, Kentucky

A waiter at the Galt House, Louisville, Kentucky

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These boats, closely ranged in long rows by the levée

These boats, closely ranged in long rows by the levée

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The cotton thieves. ; There is the old apple and cake woman

The cotton thieves. ; There is the old apple and cake woman

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In the City Park, Mobile- "Ebony nurse-maids flirt with their lovers"

In the City Park, Mobile- "Ebony nurse-maids flirt with their lovers"

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Negro cabins on a rice plantation

Negro cabins on a rice plantation

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A water-melon wagon - A drawing of a man pulling a wagon with a cow

A water-melon wagon - A drawing of a man pulling a wagon with a cow

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Descending the New River Rapids

Descending the New River Rapids

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A familiar scene in a Louisville Street

A familiar scene in a Louisville Street

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Map showing the distribution of the Colored population of the United States

Map showing the distribution of the Colored population of the United S...

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Negro soldiers of the San Antonio Garrison

Negro soldiers of the San Antonio Garrison

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The levee at Cairo, Illinois

The levee at Cairo, Illinois

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Happiness

Happiness

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The French market at sunrise on Sunday morning

The French market at sunrise on Sunday morning

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A Negro boy at the ferry African-American experience

A Negro boy at the ferry African-American experience

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Looking down from the bluff - Savannah

Looking down from the bluff - Savannah

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Sketches of South Carolina State Officers and Legislators, under the Moses Administration

Sketches of South Carolina State Officers and Legislators, under the M...

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In the Gap of the Peaks of Otter, Virginia

In the Gap of the Peaks of Otter, Virginia

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Getting a tobacco hogshead ready for market

Getting a tobacco hogshead ready for market

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A country Blacksmith shop.

A country Blacksmith shop.

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Southern types - the wolf and the lamb in politics

Southern types - the wolf and the lamb in politics

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The Market-place at Montgomery, Alabama

The Market-place at Montgomery, Alabama

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A queer cavalier - A black and white drawing of a man on a cow

A queer cavalier - A black and white drawing of a man on a cow

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Tobacco culture- stringing the primings. ; A tobacco barn in Virginia

Tobacco culture- stringing the primings. ; A tobacco barn in Virginia

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The Negro on his dray, racing good-humoredly with his fellows

The Negro on his dray, racing good-humoredly with his fellows

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Summoning buyers to a tobacco sale

Summoning buyers to a tobacco sale

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Making salt, at Slatville, Virginia

Making salt, at Slatville, Virginia

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Appendix. Cotton trade of the United States for forty-eight years

Appendix. Cotton trade of the United States for forty-eight years

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Whenever there is a lull in the work they sink down on the cotton bales. ; Not far from the levée, there is a police court, where they especially delight to lounge

Whenever there is a lull in the work they sink down on the cotton bale...

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Down the steep banks would come kaleidoscopic processions of Negroes and flour barrels

Down the steep banks would come kaleidoscopic processions of Negroes a...

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The Negroes migrate to Louisiana and Texas in search of paying labor

The Negroes migrate to Louisiana and Texas in search of paying labor

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In the City Park, Mobile- "Squirrels frolic with the children"

In the City Park, Mobile- "Squirrels frolic with the children"

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Peeping through

Peeping through

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Appendix. Facts and figures concerning the ex-slave states, and Delaware and the District of Columbia.

Appendix. Facts and figures concerning the ex-slave states, and Delawa...

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Appendix. Manufactures of cotton in the United States. New England States

Appendix. Manufactures of cotton in the United States. New England Sta...

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