Research Guides: HIST 241: Visual Histories of the Civil Rights Movement (HC): Special Collections Resources

Finding Quaker & Special Collections Materials

Much of the material in Quaker & Special Collections is accessible via Tripod, the Libraries' catalog. The Triarte database contains the fine art collection with digital images of artwork; most of these materials are also listed in Tripod. To search our manuscript collections, which contain numerous photos and snapshots, use our finding aid search.

Early Photography

Portrait of a Mulatto Woman
Daguerreotype, ca. 1850 by James P. Ball of Cincinnati.
Harrison Magoon's Bible Class Students
A photograph of the Bible class of a Quaker Sunday School for African Americans in Portland, ME.Taken by S.L. Carlton in 1856.
Tintypes
Photograph created with a direct positive on a thin sheet of metal.

Civil War

Dead Confederate Soldier in the Trenches
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A stereogram of a photograph originally taken in April, 1862 with information on a pictorial war history on the back.
What Do I Want, John Henry?
1862 albumen photograph by Alexander Gardner of an African-American servant in the Union army.
Incidents of the war/ slaughter pen, foot of round top, day after the battle of Gettysburg
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Albumen print by Alexander Gardner, 1863.
The Pulpit, Fort Fisher, N.C., January 1865
Albumen print, 1865, Timothy H. O'Sullivan and Alexander Gardner.
The Scourged Back
A widely-circulate 1863 carte-de-visite of an escaped slave.
Carte de Visites of Slave Children
Taken in the 1860s by Charles Paxson.

20th Century

Carl van Vechten
Van Vechten was a photographer and author who photographed many of the members of the Harlem Renaissance.
James Van Der Zee
Van Der Zee was a member of the Harlem Renaissance, best known for his photographs of the African-American community in New York City.
Arkansas
Walker Evans, 1935-1936.
Youngest Student and Oldest Employee at Tuskegee Institute
1924 press photo by C.M. Battey.
Chief Anderson and Eleanor Roosevelt
Prentice Hall Polk, 1941. Anderson was the first African-American to receive a pilot's license.
Booker T. Washington
C.M. Battey, ca. 1910.
Coretta Scott King, funeral of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Flip Schulke, 1968.
World War II African American victory nurse pin-up
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Unknown artist.