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David Gilmour Blythe, "Old Virginia Home," 1864, oil on canvas, 52.7 x 73 cm (20 3/4 x 28 3/4 in.)

Copyright holder and location unknown. Karen Halttunen photo. The Art Institute of Chicago, 111 South Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60603-6404. Ada Turnbull Hertle Fund. 1979.55

Loom house at the Ridley house, TN; 1940 photo, 5 x 7 in.

Lester Jones photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey, Washington, DC 20540. HABS TENN,19-DONEL.V,2-4

Smokehouse, a typical square with pyramidal roof, Wheatland plantation, Jefferson County, WV; 1937 photo, 5 x 7 in.

Ian MacLaughlin photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey, Washington, DC 20540. HABS WVA,19-WHEAT,2-4

Stylish chicken house with pyramidal roof, Blakely plantation, Warren County, MS, 1940 photo, 5 x 7 in.

Lester Jones photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Historic American Buildings Survey, Washington, DC 20540. HABS MISS,75-BLAK,1-9

Atlanta factory blown up by retreating Confederate troops. "Ruins of Hood's 28-car ammunition train and the Schofield Rolling Mill," near Atlanta, Ga., September 1864.

US National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408. George N. Barnard photo. ARC Identifier: 111-B-4786.

"Ruins Seen from the Capitol, Columbia, SC, 1865," after burning by a fire probably set among cotton bales by retreating rebels

U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, DC 20408. George Barnard photo. ARC Identifier: 165-SC-53.

Love Tobacco, Detroit, MI, 1873, ad poster; Confederate offers to Union scout; post-Civil War reconciliation between whites. No former slaves in sight.

Location unknown. Gene Borio, History Net, 2004. The Tobacco BBS, (212) 982-4645. http://www.tobacco.org

African-American woman working in Louisiana (?) field

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540

Charles T. Webber, Ohio artist, "Underground Railroad," 1893.

Copyright The Cincinnati Art Museum, 953 Eden Park Dr, Cincinnati, OH 45202. All rights reserved. In American Heritage, April 1967, p. 22. 8.11.3

Negro workers in the cotton fields.

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. Also, New York Public Library. In Charles H. Wesley, International Library of Negro Life, 1967, p. 204.

Sharecroppers working in a corn field after the Civil War.

Corbis Corp., 710 Second Ave., Ste. 200, Seattle, WA 98104. 8.11.2

Southerners sought to re-establish their power over the Negro after the Civil War. The freedmen, all too aware of the white threat, resisted. The result was conflict. This drawing shows the police beating down a Negro group in New Orleans in 1874.

Chicago Public Library, 400 South State St., Chicago, IL 60605. In Leslie H. Fishel, Jr., and Benjamin Quarles, eds., The Negro American: A Documentary History, Scott, Foresman and Co., 1967, p. 283. 8.11.2

African Americans at the Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, 1876, admiring "The Freed Slave," a statue celebrating the progress of the Black people since emancipation. The document that the statue holds is Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation. Drawing.

Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper, Aug. 5, 1876, cover. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-38373.

Postcard, "Criss-crossing Trains. Three great trunk lines crossing at Richmond, Va.," undated.

Copyright holder unknown. In Sander Davidson, "Wish You Were Here," American Heritage, Oct. 1962, p. 104. 8.11.2

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