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Scene of harness racing to advertise Afro-American Fair — “Come to the Big Afro-American Fair”

Armed guard over sees hanging corpse on a scaffold — Public Execution of a U.S. Colored Troops Soldier

Execution of Five deserters

Soldier Executed for Desertion in 1861

Sculptor Harriet Hosmer Surrounded by Her Assistants

Daguerreotype portrait of William Greenleaf Eliot in a gold oval frame — William Greenleaf Eliot

Eleven Germand boys play instruments on a street in St. Louis — “Little German Band”

Eliot portrait

Lynch’s Slave Market in St. Louis

Beaumont Place, Home of the Eliot Family

Gift From Archer Alexander

Archer Alexander

Exterior of McCormick's log blacksmith shop and grist mill in Rockbridge County — Walnut Grove

Painting of a bearded Cyrus Hall McCormick with rosy cheeks — Cyrus Hall McCormick

Telescope at Leander McCormick Observatory -modern photo

Worker uses garden tractor to remove debris after Hurricane Camille — Buena Vista Clean-Up After Hurricane Camille

Car hung up on embankment after floodwaters receded in Nelson County — Devastation Along Davis Creek in Nelson County

Inside a kitchen ruined by flood waters — Kitchen Destroyed by Hurricane Camille

People and horses wade through a flooded street after Hurrricane Camille — Flooded Streets in Nelson County After Hurricane Camille

Man pulling a small boat through a flooded street in Buena Vista — Flooding in Buena Vista From Hurricane Camille

Aerial photograph of confluence of Tye and James rivers — James River State Park

Utility worker being vaccinated for typoid after Hurricane Camille — Fear of Typhoid Epidemic After Hurricane Camille

Elderly woman on stretcher with eyes closed and distaught man behind her — Victim of Hurricane Camille

House torn asunder by the heavy deluge from remnants of Hurricane Camille — House Destroyed by Hurricane Camille

Kepone

Quarters for the Enslaved at James Monroe’s Highland

Casa Bianca Plantation House

Statue of James Monroe at the College of William and Mary

Boxwood hedges frame two story "Ash Lawn" — Front View of “Ash Lawn,” Home of James Monroe

Overhead shot of three people at work on an archaeological dig at James Monroe's Highland — Excavations at James Monroe’s Highland

“Land for Sale”

Handwritten page of the charter of the Piedmont Industrial and Land Improvement Company — Detail from the Charter of the Piedmont Industrial and Land Improvement Company

Sale of Property Owned by Black Landowners

1860 Census Listing Socrates Maupin’s Enslaved People

Handwritten letter concerning final payment for expenses in hiring out an enslaved family — Hiring Out a Mother and Her Children

Briery Church

Street scene showing exterior of Union Station in Charlottesville — Union Station in Charlottesville

home at Tuskegee

Booker T. Washington LOC

Black elderly enslaved nurse holding hand carders — Elderly Woman Enslaved by the Minor Family

Formal portrait of professor Socrates Maupin of the University of Virginia — Socrates Maupin

Gravestone in the Daughters of Zion Cemetery — Burkley Bullock’s Grave

Social Hall, a brick Federal-style residence in Charlottesville — Social Hall

Yearbook frontispiece illustrated with athletic gear and fraternity symbols, and a printed biographical sketch — Biographical Sketch of “Berkeley Bullocks” in Corks and Curls

Orange and gold cover of Corks and Curls with black and white photograph of Burkley Bullock — Burkley Bullock and University of Virginia Yearbook Cover

“Of Course He Wants to Vote the Democratic Ticket!”

First Municipal Election in Richmond Since the End of the War—Registration of Colored Voters.

Members of the U.S. Capitol Police

Boydton, Virginia

Labor Contract From the Freedmen’s Bureau Records in Petersburg

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