African American
African Americans have been coming to the Tri-State area as slaves and as freedmen as long as Americans have been coming to the area. Their history is the Tri-States’ history.
Articles
Frederick Douglass – Orations in DubuqueFrederick Douglass – Orations in Dubuque
Photographs & Images
LJTP 100.027 – African-American male – c.1860-1870
LJTP 100.094 – Bilbrough Studio – African American – circa 1880
LJTP 100.190 – Galena Independents – Negro Mascot – 1890
LJTP 100.329 – Dubuque Climbers – c1922
LJTP 100.352.001 – African American CDV by LD Johnson – Vineland NJ – c1865
LJTP 100.369 – Tintype African American Woman – 1863
LJTP 100.429 – S. Root – cdv African American Woman – circa 1875
Letters & Documents
LJTP 200.045 – Cuban Slave Freedom Purchase – 1871
LJTP 200.048 – Cuban Slave Life Insurance Policy – 1856
LJTP 200.049 – Grinnell vs. Bogle Slave Sale Litigation- 1858
Newspapers & Periodicals
LJTP 300.012.003 – Punch’s Pocket-Book for 1857