Beginning of a List of Graphics Possibilities for Freedmen Exhibit

Salmon P. Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln

Edward L. Pierce, author of report that led to call to benevolent organizations to aid the "contrabands"

General Benjamin F. Butler, who declared liberated slaves who sought refuge in his camp "contrabands"

Oliver Edward Howard, the first head of the Freedmen's Bureau

Anything related to the Boston Educational Commision, the New England Freedmen's Aid Society, or the Freedmen's Bureau

Maps or images connected to the following places in the Civil War: Sea Islands, Craney Island, Norfolk, Charleston

Images related to the Chase Family: portraits, home, belongings, etc.

An image of the dress of the period (1863 ish) that shows hoops--or an illustration of hoops.

Images related to recently freed slaves, freedmen, their living conditions after departure of plantation owners, freedmen's schools,. Specifically, it would also be useful to find images of free Blacks reading, working, serving in military ((Mass 3rd and 4th colored regiments?), together in marital or family groupings, engaging in cleaning or washing or related actrivities, depicted in or near banks, engaged in temperance activities, etc.

This is just a starting point--I'll continue the list as we go on