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    New York City view from St Paul Steeple
    Image Credit: Library of Congress

    An artist’s rendition of New York City and Brooklyn in the 1850s from the steeple of St. Paul’s Chapel at Broadway and Vesey Street down to the Trinity spire.

  • 41 draftriot

    Image Credit: Library of Congress

    The draft riot.

  • 14 lincoln

    Abraham Lincoln

  • 9 whitman

    Walt Whitman

  • 25 bradyafterbullrunloc

    Image Credit: Library of Congress

    Matthew Brady

  • 6 fernandoloc

    Image Credit: Library of Congress

    Fernando Wood

  • 11 keene

    Image Credit: Library of Congress

    Laura Keene

  • JOHN STRAUSBAUGH

    John Strausbaugh
    Image Credit: George Chinsee

    John Strausbaugh

  • Strausbaugh_CityofSeditionHC

    “City of Sedition: The History of New York City During the Civil War”

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