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Lucy Higgs with her daughter Mona escaping slavery from Grays Creek, Tennessee to the Union lines, June 1862. In late June 1862, Lucy, her daughter Mona, and some other slaves escaped from Grays Creek, Tennessee, crossed the Hatchie River, and eventually arrived at the Union lines that were at the fairgrounds near Bolivar, Tennessee, almost thirty miles away.
Image credits: Electrical-Aspect-13 We were curious to know how photography has evolved throughout history. "The norms of photographic portraiture stem from Victorian times when photography began.
A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army and American Character (U of North Carolina Press, 1979) online; Selesky, Harold E. War and Society in Colonial Connecticut (Yale UP 1990) Shy, John W. A people numerous and armed: Reflections on the military struggle for American independence (U of Michigan Press, 1990) online. Skelton ...
Ilse Bing (1899–1998) creates monochrome images which are exhibited at the Louvre and New York's Museum of Modern Art. [ 49 ] Gerda Taro (1910–1937) is killed while covering the Spanish Civil War , becoming the first woman photojournalist to have died while working on the frontline.
Or what everyday life was like for people living 50, 100, or more years ago. There’s an online community dedicated to sharing photos, scanned documents, articles, and personal anecdotes from the ...
Her images of the Columbia River which she developed in a darkroom on a houseboat were exhibited in 2008 at the Portland Art Museum. [54] British-born Evelyn Cameron (1868–1928) took an extensive series of remarkably clear images of Montana and its people at the end of the 19th century.
Laura Keene (20 July 1826 – 4 November 1873) was a British stage actress and theatre manager.In her twenty-year career, she became known as the first powerful female manager in New York.
Tzena Scarborough, a U.S. Army veteran with the Women Veterans Advisory Committee, said part of the committee's mission is to change the perception of what a veteran looks like. She said people ...