The underground railroad / Chas. T. Webber. – Antique Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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The underground railroad / Chas. T. Webber. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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The underground railroad / Chas. T. Webber.
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Cincinnati sat on the Ohio River across from slaveholding Kentucky, which made it one of the best-known crossing points for people escaping bondage in the 1850s and 1860s. Charles T. Webber, a Cincinnati painter, took up that setting in the original canvas now held by the Cincinnati Art Museum. This albumen print reproduces the painting in the early 1890s, when such reproductions helped spread popular images of the Underground Railroad. Its subject is the flight itself: fugitives, and the people who helped them, moving through a landscape where every step carried risk.
| Created / published | c1893. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : albumen. |
| Genre | Paintings Reproductions 1890-1900.Photographic prints 1890-1900. |
| Notes | 52844(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of a painting by Charles T. Webber in the Cincinnati Art Museum. |
| Subjects | Underground railroad system--1850-1870. Fugitive slaves--1850-1870. Slavery--1850-1870. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,280 × 1,028 px · prints to 4 × 3 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-116474 |
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