Photographs of the American Civil War
A new exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art features more than 200 photographs and photographic artifacts from the American Civil War. Thousands of images were created during the four violent years of the conflict. The Met's exhibit features battlefield landscapes, as well as intimate portraits of soldiers and prominent figures of the time.
Photographing and the American Civil War, is on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York from April 2-May 2 and will later travel to museums in South Carolina and New Orleans. For more information, visit the Museum's website.
An Abolitionist, human rights activist and former slave, Truth sold pictures of herself to fund raise for the education of emancipated slaves and to aid widows, orphans and the wounded.
This double-sided circular medal depicts Abraham Lincoln on one side and Hannibal Hamlin on the other and is encased in a stamped brass medallion.
This necklace features a string of photographic prints set in disks of carved tagua nut or "vegetable ivory."
