A female rebel in Baltimore - an everyday scene – Vintage 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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A female rebel in Baltimore - an everyday scene comes to life in this antique engraving, 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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Few pictures from the first months of the Civil War capture the tensions inside a border city as directly as this wood engraving, which ran in Harper's Weekly on September 7, 1861, on page 561. Baltimore, a Union city with strong Southern sympathies, was under federal military occupation that year, and the title's reference to a "female rebel" points to the suspicion and public hostility that Confederate sympathizers, especially women, faced on its streets. Harper's Weekly relied on engravings like this one, drawn from sketches by artists working in the field and in cities, to bring such scenes to a national readership. The record notes that its details come from an unverified caption card, so the exact circumstances of the scene are best approached as a snapshot of wartime Baltimore rather than a documented event.
| Created / published | 1861 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print : wood engraving. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1861 Sept. 7), p. 561. This record contains unverified data from caption card. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,148 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-159352 |
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