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Project Omega was conceived by the Library's Strategic Council - a scoped three year project aimed to facilitate the effective discovery and presentation of our collections, with a focus on the digitization of the Special Collections Graphic Arts backlog in Firestone library.
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Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
The Graphic Arts Collection holds prints, drawings, photographs, paintings, sculpture, and printed ephemera along with an international book collection specializing in fine press,
Metadata
- Publisher
- New York : [s.n.], 1836.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Subject
- African Americans—19th century—In art
- Black people—United States—19th century—In art
- Magazine illustration—United States—19th century—Specimens
- Prisons—United States—In art
- Slave trade—United States—History—19th century—In art
- Slavery—United States—History—19th century—In art
- Broadsides—United States—19th century—Specimens
- Broadsides—New York (State)—New York—1836
- United States—History—19th century—In art
- Printed ephemera—United States—19th century—Specimens
- Ephemera—19th century
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Item Summary
Descriptive Information
- Title
- Slave market of America.
- Call Number
- C South 08/Drawer 06/GC179/Full Folio GA 2007.00285
- Identifier
- ark:/88435/dc3t9465462
- Publisher
- New York : [s.n.], 1836.
- Language
- No linguistic content
- Date Created
- 1836
- Format
- Visual material
- Extent
- 1 item ; sheet 70.5 x 54.8 cm.
- Rights Statement
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Notes
- Unidentified Artist [printer]
- Medium: Wood engravings, Letterpress printing
- Item description: [vendor's description] Large broadside "extra" for the American Anti-Slavery Society's official newspaper, Emancipator; with 9 fine wood-engraved vignettes and corresponding text. Rare broadside protesting the House vote against passage of any bills to cease slavery in general and the District of Columbia in particular. The vignettes portray various Washington scenes: slaves being marched before the Capitol building; jailers selling escaped and free blacks through slave agents in the city (notably J. W. Neal and Co., whose premises are depicted), etc.
- Signed in plate, lower left: "Published by the American Anti-Slavery Society, 144 Nassau-street, New-York, 1836.".
Discovery Information
- Subject
- African Americans—19th century—In art
- Black people—United States—19th century—In art
- Magazine illustration—United States—19th century—Specimens
- Prisons—United States—In art
- Slave trade—United States—History—19th century—In art
- Slavery—United States—History—19th century—In art
- Broadsides—United States—19th century—Specimens
- Broadsides—New York (State)—New York—1836
- United States—History—19th century—In art
- Printed ephemera—United States—19th century—Specimens
- Ephemera—19th century
Physical Characteristics
- File Count
- 1
Institutional Information
- Collection
- Omega Project
- Selections from the Graphic Arts Collection
- IIIF Manifest URL
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https://figgy.princeton.edu/concern/scanned_resources/bbb9cc97-0ad3-45be-bc41-39d47de4c497/manifest