Possible Images for the Freedmen Letters Exhibition
Broadsides related to:
Boston Educational Commission
New England Freedmen’s Aid Society
Freedmen’s Bureau
Books, Letters, etc.
Images of letters of Chase sisters, their students, and related correspondencc. One or two book covers or table of contents pages.
Portraits of any of the following:
Any member of the Chase Family
General Benjamin F. Butler, Union General during the Civil War and later a congressman
Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln
Oliver Otis Howard, first head of the Freedmen’s Bureau
Edward L. Pierce
Pictures/Maps of following locales:
Craney Island, VA.,
Norfolk, VA
Charleston, VA
Fortress Monroe, VA
Images related to Chase family:
Daguerreotype of Lucy
Chase “chest”
Any other available materials (pics of relatives, house, etc.?)
Images of Freedmen’s Bureau Activities
It would be useful to find any images of people engaged in activities related to the freedmen’s bureau: teachers and students, schools, relief and reform activities.
Images of Freedmen Life:
Perhaps most of all, it would be helpful to find depictions of African-Americans in the Civil War Period (and possibly in the years of Reconstruction) related to any of the following topics:
• Reading;
• Writing;
• Reading or sitting with the Bible;
• Engaging in religious activities (whether in a distinctively African-American mode or in a standard protestant service of some sort);
• Represented as couples, parents and children, or family groups in ways that suggest family connections and/or “domesticity”;
• Getting Married (is there any image anywhere of a group of freedmen getting married?)
• Washing or engaging in any matter of hygiene;
• Participating in reform activities (for ex., attending a temperance meeting),
• Participating in acts of “civilized” citizenship, i.e., attending a lecture or meeting, or engaging in banking, business, voting, etc.
Note: One possible source of images could be Freedmen publications--newspapers or periodicals. Check to see if available.
Boston Educational Commission
New England Freedmen’s Aid Society
Freedmen’s Bureau
Books, Letters, etc.
Images of letters of Chase sisters, their students, and related correspondencc. One or two book covers or table of contents pages.
Portraits of any of the following:
Any member of the Chase Family
General Benjamin F. Butler, Union General during the Civil War and later a congressman
Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury under Lincoln
Oliver Otis Howard, first head of the Freedmen’s Bureau
Edward L. Pierce
Pictures/Maps of following locales:
Craney Island, VA.,
Norfolk, VA
Charleston, VA
Fortress Monroe, VA
Images related to Chase family:
Daguerreotype of Lucy
Chase “chest”
Any other available materials (pics of relatives, house, etc.?)
Images of Freedmen’s Bureau Activities
It would be useful to find any images of people engaged in activities related to the freedmen’s bureau: teachers and students, schools, relief and reform activities.
Images of Freedmen Life:
Perhaps most of all, it would be helpful to find depictions of African-Americans in the Civil War Period (and possibly in the years of Reconstruction) related to any of the following topics:
• Reading;
• Writing;
• Reading or sitting with the Bible;
• Engaging in religious activities (whether in a distinctively African-American mode or in a standard protestant service of some sort);
• Represented as couples, parents and children, or family groups in ways that suggest family connections and/or “domesticity”;
• Getting Married (is there any image anywhere of a group of freedmen getting married?)
• Washing or engaging in any matter of hygiene;
• Participating in reform activities (for ex., attending a temperance meeting),
• Participating in acts of “civilized” citizenship, i.e., attending a lecture or meeting, or engaging in banking, business, voting, etc.
Note: One possible source of images could be Freedmen publications--newspapers or periodicals. Check to see if available.
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