When this photo is viewed in comparison with the Hillsborough Woolen Mill daguerreotype, we see how much industrialization has changed the landscape in the intervening 70 years.
On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
Colonists landed on a continent that was populated by millions of indigenous people living in hundreds of communities and nations. While the 1839 map confines a few of those communities within the boundaries of the United States, the overlay imagines what those original communities might have looked like and challenges our perspective of boundaries, ownership, and the value of land.
An image of Black children picking cotton, meant for entertainment viewing using a stereoscope, undercuts the reality of life in the Jim Crow South, in which many Blacks were sharecroppers and circumstances had not changed much since emancipation. On loan from the Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation & Archives
