African American Resources at the CHS


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Prints

Bingham and Kelley
MAP OF AFRICA
Hartford, Connecticut, 1857
Paper and linen
Museum purchase, 1972-36-55-8


Richard Brunton (d. 1832)
A PROSPECTIVE VIEW OF OLD NEWGATE, CONNECTICUT'S STATE PRISON
Granby, Connecticut, circa 1800
Ink on paper with line engraving
Source unknown, 2331
There are two African-American prisoners depicted in this view of the state prison. They like their white counterparts are shackled.

Currier & Ives
THE COLORED BEAUTY
New York, 1878
Hand-colored lithograph
X1991-3-0
A standard "beauty" print showing a young African-American woman wearing a gold locket and garnet earrings.

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg
"UNCLE TOM, UNCLE TOM, HOW FUNNY YOU DO LOOK!"
Hartford, Connecticut, 1855
Hand-colored lithograph
Gift of Samuel St. John Morgan, 828
The scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin illustrated by this lithograph shows Eva placing a floral garland around the neck of Uncle Tom.

E. B. & E. C. Kellogg
UNCLE TOM AND LITTLE EVA
Hartford, Connecticut, 1852-54
Hand-colored lithograph
Museum purchase, 1989-34-3 and X1991-4-0
There are two of these prints in the collection. An illustration of a scene from Uncle Tom's Cabin: Tom, seated on an outcropping of land, listens while Eva, seated on a bale of hay, points heavenward.

W. Kellogg & Co.
AFRICA
Hartford, Connecticut, 1832-41
Hand-colored lithograph
X1991-5-0
This lithograph offers a romanticized view of the African landscape and native peoples.

Kellogg & Co. from a daugerrotype by Roberts
PROF. JIM
Hartford, Connecticut, 1848
Lithograph
X1991-6-0
James Williams was the head janitor at Trinity College in Hartford. He was known by students and faculty as the "Professor of Dust and Ashes."

John Sartain (1808-1897) after a painting by Nathaniel Jocelyn (1796-1881)
CINQUE
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, circa 1840
Engraving and mezzotint
X1968-46-0
This portrait of the chief of the Amistad captives was commissioned by Robert Purvis, a wealthy African-American from Philadelphia.