Charles Perkins Gilman column in the Atlanta Constitution, December 10, 1916
historical images
Frederick Douglass, 1879
Collection box for the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, around 1850
Better Baby Contest, Indiana State Fair, 1930 For a touch of context, this was about promoting eugenics and these were tremendously popular through the nation from the 1910s through the 30s.
Cockfight in eastern North Carolina, ca. 1857
Publicity photo for the 2001 "film" Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Jonathan Alder's cabin, London, Ohio, ca. 1935. Alder was the first white settler of Madison County. He constructed the cabin in 1806.
Aimee Semple McPherson's Angelus Temple, completed in 1923
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards, 1741
The Dutch Boy's lead party : a paint book for girls and boys, 1923
The Freedmen's Bureau / Drawn by A.R. Waud. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1868 July 25, p. 473. Hard to find something more self-serving than this given the Freedmen's Bureau massive.
Lewis Hine, "Little Lottie, a Regular Oyster Shucker in Alabama Canning Co., Bayou La Batre, Alabama, 1911