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William Cobbett emigrated to Philadelphia in 1792. He taught English to French refugees. He became very active in bookselling and publishing and eventually, as a pamphleteer, became a factor in American politics. In 1796, he began The Censor, a…

Racist trade card promoting wheelwrights the Goodwin Brothers and depicting caricatures of African Americans picking cotton on a plantation. In the left, an African American man, attired in a hat, a blue plaid shirt, blue and white striped pants, and…

Poster depicts a portrait of Buffalo Bill with an action scene below.

Racist trade card depicting a comic scene showing an African American barber shaving a pig in a barber shop. The barber, in the left,is depicted holding a razor in his right hand and the pig’s snout in his left. The man is attired in a white shirt…

Railroad map of the central and western U.S. showing rail lines, states, towns, forts, and mountains. Also shows part of Mexico and the Gulf of California. The Union Pacific Railway, later the Kansas Pacific Railway, was chartered in July 1863 as…