Category: Women’s History

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Anything to Get the Shot: Photos by “Flash-Light”

December 2, 2015

Imagine needing all of the equipment shown below to simply take a photograph within a dark place. Take note of the camera on the tripod – a stereoscopic camera, which has two lenses. See the chalky residue of hundreds of magnesium tapers burned within the metal reflector at left. This intrepid crew and all their …

Posted in: Photographs, Series: Anything to Get the Shot, Women's History

Photograph shows three women and a man holding croquet mallets in front of a nearby structure. An African American boy sits on the steps. The location, on Port Royal Island in Beaufort County South Carolina, later came to be known as Smith's plantation.

Entering the World of a Civil War Missionary: Laura M. Towne

November 20, 2015

Posted by: Jeff Bridgers

The following is a guest post by Gay Colyer, Digital Library Specialist in the Prints and Photographs Division. Not every Northerner who traveled to the Confederacy during the Civil War went to fight. Some journeyed South on a variety of educational and humanitarian missions. After Federal forces seized Beaufort, South Carolina, and the sea islands …

Posted in: Photographs, Prints, Women's History

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