Sunday, March 27, 2016

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Friday, March 11, 2016

View of African American Civilians in Line to Receive Rations in a Street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana (1865)


View of a street in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1865. The crowd of people down the street are said to be African Americans civilians in line to receive rations. By Andrew Lytle. From Miller's Photographic History of the Civil War.

Saturday, March 5, 2016

Portrait of Two Paiute Men of the Mo-a-pa-rit-ats Tribe Armed With Bows in the Moapa Valley of Southern Nevada (1870's)


Portrait of two Paiute men of the Mo-a-pa-rit-ats tribe armed with bows in the Moapa Valley of southern Nevada, c. 1870's. The original caption was "Mo-a-pa-rit-ats, a tribe of Indians inhabiting the valley of the Mo-a-pa River, a tributary of the Rio Virgen, a tributary in Southern Nevada - five and three are eight." By John K. Hillers. Animated stereoview.