A breakdown in the wagoner's camp – Antique Wall Art
![A breakdown in the wagoner's camp, [18]63 May 6. — historic drawing](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/ef/efc3b083d7fa-L.webp)
(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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This historic drawing of A breakdown in the wagoner's camp brings a moment of history to your wall. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
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A breakdown in the wagoner's camp
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A breakdown in the wagoner's camp captures a fast, rowdy dance of the kind the term "breakdown" described in nineteenth-century America, usually played to fiddle or banjo. Dated May 6, 1863, in the middle of the Civil War, the pencil drawing shows the wagon drivers who hauled supplies for the armies, here passing the end of a day in camp. Its subject headings identify the dancers as African Americans, placing the scene within a wartime world in which Black workers and soldiers kept their music and dancing alive. The sheet belongs to a Civil War drawing collection given to the Library of Congress by J.P. Morgan in 1919.
| Created / published | [18]63 May 6. |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 drawing : pencil. |
| Genre | Drawings American 1860-1870. |
| Notes | Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.136) Forms part of: Civil War drawing collection. |
| Subjects | African Americans--Dance--1860-1870. Dance--1860-1870. United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military life.United States |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,461 × 1,170 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-218150 |
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