Topic 2.23
Photographs of Civil War “Contrabands” (1861–1865)
[Ascribed to McPherson & Oliver,] “Contraband Yard,” early 1860s (Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
[Front (next image shows the back of this photograph)] Barnard and Gibson, “CONTRABANDS At Headquarters of General Lafayette,” [Yorktown, VA,] 1862, Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 372 (Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
[Back (previous image shows the front of the photograph)] Barnard and Gibson, “CONTRABANDS At Headquarters of General Lafayette,” [Yorktown, VA,] 1862, Brady’s Album Gallery, No. 372 (Randolph Linsly Simpson African-American Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library)