Map of Brooklyn in 1700

Document 1

1700

Old Fulton Ferry

Document 2

1838

Slave prices

Document 3

1847

Interior of slave kitchen

Document 4

ca. 1850s

"Brooklyn City Hall"

Document 5

ca. 1850s

"The Original East River Bridge. Crossing On The Ice In 1852."

Document 6

Winter 1852

"Mr. Beecher selling a beautiful slave girl in his pulpit."

Document 7

ca. 1856

One of the Edmondson sisters

Document 8

ca. 1856

"Fulton Street, from the ferry, Brooklyn, N.Y."

Document 9

ca. 1857

Fireworks at Brooklyn City Hall

Document 10

April 28, 1859

"$100 Reward! Ranaway"

Document 11

1860

Plymouth Church, Brooklyn

Document 12

ca. 1860

"Pinky" looking at her Freedom Ring

Document 13

February 5, 1860

"Purchase of a Slave in Plymouth Church"

Document 14

February 6, 1860

"Bill of sale" for Sally Maria Diggs, aka "Pink"

Document 15

February 8, 1860

Harriet Tubman

Document 16

between 1860-1875

Frederick Douglass' Paper

Document 17

May 4, 1860

The Liberator

Document 18

January 18, 1861

"Barnum's American Museum"

Document 19

March 25, 1861

To-Let: Apartments and Houses to rent

Document 20

April 15, 1861

"Civil War and its Consequences."

Document 21

April 15, 1861

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, May 1, 1861

Document 22

May 1, 1861

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, May 10, 1861

Document 23

May 10, 1861

"The Bugle Call"

Document 24

ca. 1861

The lure of base ball

Document 25

July 11, 1861

Clarence D. McKenzie, drummer boy

Document 26

July 1861

Clarence D. McKenzie Monument

Document 27

July 14, 1861

Clarence D. McKenzie Monument (inscription)

Document 28

July 14, 1861

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, July 21, 1861

Document 29

July 21, 1861

"Our Union Forever"

Document 30

1861

"L.I. Railroad Tunnel, under Atlantic Avenue"

Document 31

Fall 1861

The War at Sea

Document 32

ca. 1861

"Skirts!"

Document 33

December 13, 1861

Construction of the Monitor

Document 34

December 21, 1861

Battle between the Ironclads

Document 35

March 9, 1862

"The Monitor's Great Victory"

Document 36

March 9, 1862

Sailors on deck of U.S.S. Monitor

Document 37

ca. 1862

Camp Dodge

Document 38

1862

Envelope of James W. Vanderhoef letter

Document 39

October 1, 1862

President Abraham Lincoln at a Union camp

Document 40

October 3, 1862

Ten Cent Promissary Note, Brooklyn 1862

Document 41

1862

Company "G." Brooklyn Fourteenth Regiment

Document 42

December 1862

"Fight in the woods before Fredericksburg"

Document 43

December 1862

Private Charles Mitchell (Mathew Brady photograph)

Document 44

ca. 1862

Slaves in the South

Document 45

1862

Emancipation Proclamation

Document 46

January 2, 1863

Co. E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry

Document 47

ca. 1863

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, January 31, 1863

Document 48

January 31, 1863

Walt Whitman, nurse: "Life Among Fifty Thousand Sick Soldiers"

Document 49

March 19, 1863

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, May 17, 1863

Document 50

May 17, 1863

Map of the Consolidated City of Brooklyn, 1863

Document 51

1863

Strolling on the beach at Coney Island

Document 52

Summer 1863

Play ball!

Document 53

Summer 1863

The Battle of Gettysburg

Document 54

July 3, 1863

Brooklyn 14th Regiment Kepi

Document 55

ca. 1863

"The Draft Ordered"

Document 56

July 10, 1863

"Our Prisoners in Rebel Hands"

Document 57

November 6, 1863

"The National Cemetery at Gettysburg" (Gettysburg Address)

Document 58

November 20, 1863

General Grant on Lookout Mountain

Document 59

November 25, 1863

Unknown Drummer Boy

Document 60

ca. 1864

Winter quarters at Brandy Station

Document 61

February 1864

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, February 14, 1864

Document 62

February 14, 1864

Libby Prison

Document 63

ca. 1864-65

"The Sanitary Fair in 1864"

Document 64

February 22, 1864

"Brooklyn Sanitary Fair, 1864"

Document 65

February 22, 1864

New England Kitchen at the Brooklyn Sanitary Fair

Document 66

February 22, 1864

Universal Clothes Wringer

Document 67

February 22, 1864

"A Hint for the Sanitary Fair"

Document 68

March 19, 1864

"Recruiting for the War"

Document 69

March 19, 1864

Miss Pauline Cushman

Document 70

ca. 1860s

Major Pauline Cushman

Document 71

ca. 1860s

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, March 27, 1864

Document 72

March 27, 1864

"Colored People in Railroad Cars."

Document 73

June 30, 1864

Andersonville Prison

Document 74

August 1, 1864

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, October 13, 1864

Document 75

October 13, 1864

Vanderhoef's Military Records

Document 76

December 1864

Vanderhoef's Prisoner of War notice

Document 77

January 23, 1865

Vanderhoef's Memorandum from Prisoner of War Records

Document 78

March 1865

Grand parade and review of the Union armies

Document 79

April 1865

President Lincoln's entry into Richmond

Document 80

April 4, 1865

The Assassination of President Lincoln

Document 81

1865

"The President's Death"

Document 82

April 20, 1865

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, June 27, 1865

Document 83

June 27, 1865

"The Irrepressible Conflict Renewed."

Document 84

September 25, 1865

Harriet Tubman at AME Church

Document 85

October 23, 1865

Brooklyn Atlantics baseball match

Document 86

October 30, 1865

"Universal Suffrage"

Document 87

December 26, 1865

"The Dress Question"

Document 88

June 14, 1866

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, December 2, 1866

Document 89

December 2, 1866

Letter by James W. Vanderhoef, December 28, 1866

Document 90

December 28, 1866

Coney Island Beach and Bathers

Document 91

ca. 1869

The Revolution

Document 92

July 8, 1869

The Old Ferry House

Document 93

ca. 1870

Williamsburgh Savings Bank

Document 94

ca. 1870

Susan B. Anthony at a Woman's Suffrage Convention

Document 95

ca. 1874

Portrait of Susan B. Anthony

Document 96

ca. 1874

Portrait of Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Document 97

ca. 1874

Portrait of Frederick Douglass

Document 98

1879

Portrait of Harriet Beecher Stowe

Document 99

1880

"Slavery Here. Right in Brooklyn and Out on Long Island."

Document 100

December 29, 1891

Soldiers' and Sailors' Memorial Arch

Document 101

1901

MacMonnies's Union Navy Sculpture

Document 102

1901

Flags of the Brooklyn 14th Regiment

Document 103

May 23, 1911

"Stephen B. Bartow"

Document 104

October 11, 1911

Henry Ward Beecher Statue at Plymouth Church

Document 105

1927

Harriet Tubman dress

Document 106

1997

Runaway Slave

Document 107

1997

Brooklyn 14th Regiment Reenactors

Document 108

Early September, 1997

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