Before photography was a commercially successful business, publishers would send out staff artists to cover major news events. These artists (like today's journalists) would go to the battlefields and make sketches and drawings to record the drama and action of the Civil War. These sketches and drawings were brought back to the publishers where, under the supervision of the artists, skilled craftsmen and engravers would carve wooden printing blocks from which engravings were printed.

Prints are printed on a high quality tan cover weight stock. Most measure 17 1/2 inches by 11 1/2 inches with an image area of 14 inches by 9 inches. These prints are one of the few visual records in existence that show African Americans in the many roles they played from slave to soldier during the Civil War.

	1.	NEGRO RECRUITS TAKING THE CARS FOR MURFREESBORO, TENN. TO JOIN THE FEDERAL ARMY
	2.	AGENTS OF NORTHERN MEN DRAFTED IN THE ARMY PROCURING NEGRO SUBSTITUTES AT NORFOLK, VA.
	3.	THE WAR IN THE SOUTHWEST - ADJUANT GENERAL THOMAS ADDRESSING THE NEGROES IN LOUISIANA ON THE DUTIES OF FREEDOM
	4.	THE GREAT LABOR QUESTION - FROM A SOUTHERN POINT OF VIEW (PRES. LINCOLN & SLAVE)
	5.	NEGROES BUILDING STOCKADES UNDER THE RECENT ACT OF CONGRESS
	6.	THE WAR IN VIRGINIA - CONTRABANDS COMING INTO THE FEDERAL CAMP
	7.	CONTRABANDS COMING INTO OUR LINES UNDER THE PROCLAMATION
	8.	NEGROES ESCAPING OUT OF SLAVERY
	9.	ARRIVAL AT CHICKASAW BAYOU OF THE SLAVES OF PRESIDENT DAVIS FROM HIS MISSISSIPPI PLANTATION
	10.	CONTRABANDS COMING INTO CAMP IN CONSEQUENCE OF THE PROCLAMATION
	11.	NEGRO DRIVERS OF THE BAGGAGE TRAIN ATTACHED TO GENERAL PLEASONTON'S CAVALRY BRIGADE WATER THEIR MULES IN THE RAPPAHANNOCK
	12.	THE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR - EMPLOYMENTS OF THE COLORED MEN IN THE FEDERAL ARMY #1
	13.	THE NEGRO IN THE CIVIL WAR - EMPLOYMENTS OF THE COLORED MEN IN THE FEDERAL ARMY #2
	14.	THE EFFECTS OF THE PROCLAMATION - FREED NEGROES COMING INTO OUR LINES AT NEWBERN, NORTH CAROLINA
	15.	STAMPEDE OF SLAVES TO FORTRESS MONROE
	16.	WORKS OVER - SCENES AMONG THE BEAUFORT CONTRABANDS
	18.	A NEW YEAR'S DAY CONTRABAND BALL AT VICKSBURG, MISS.
	19.	THE NEGRO GORDON IN VARIOUS SCENES
	20.	PRESENTATION OF COLORS TO THE TWENTIETH U. S. COLORED INFANTRY
	21.	PAYING OFF TEAMSTERS IN THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC
	22.	THE CONFEDERATE GENERALS EDWARD JOHNSON & G. H. STEWART TAKEN TO THE REAR BY NEGRO CAVALRY, MAY 12, 1864
	23.	MORNING MUSTERING OF THE CONTRABANDS AT FORTRESS MONROE, ON THEIR WAY TO THEIR DAY'S WORK
	24.	OUR COLORED TROOPS AT WORK - THE FIRST LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS AT FORT MACOMBE, LA.
	25.	THE CAPTORS OF THE STEAMER PLANTER
	27.	NEGROES LEAVING THEIR HOME
	28.	"PAY-DAY" AMOUNG THE NEGROE CONTRABANDS EMPLOYED IN GATHERING COTTON ON THE SEA ISLANDS, PORT ROYAL
	29.	REBEL NEGRO PICKETS AS SEEN THROUGH A FIELD GLASS
	30.	EMANCIPATED SLAVES, WHITE & COLORED
	31.	REV. H. M. TURNER, CHAPLAIN FIRST UNITED STATES COLORED REGIMENT
	32.	TEACHING THE NEGRO RECRUITS THE USE OF THE MINIE RIFLE
	33.	ESCAPED SLAVE - ESCAPED SLAVE IN THE UNION ARMY
	34.	OUR COLORED TROOPS - THE LINE OFFICERS OF THE FIRST LOUISIANA NATIVE GUARDS
	35.	LANDING OF THE CARGO OF SLAVES CAPTURED ON BOARD THE AMERICAN BARK WILLIAMS
	36.	EXTEMPORE MUSICAL AND TERPICHOREAN ENTERTAINMENT AT THE U. S ARSENAL BATON ROUGE UNDER THE PATRONAGE OF THE 41ST MASS. 131ST N. Y. & 35TH CONN. VOLUNTEERS
	37.	"PRINCE" THE NEGRO PILOT OF THE OTTAWA, UP THE ST. MARY'S RIVER
	38.	A PORTION OF THE FIRST SOUTH CAROLINA CONTRABAND BRIGADE LEAVING BEAUFORT FOR HILTON HEAD, ON BOARD THE STEAMER MATTANO
	39.	SECRETS OF THE PRISON HOUSE - A CELL IN THE FEMALE DEPARTMENT OF THE WASHINGTON JAIL
	40.	A SLAVE PEN AT NEW ORLEANS BEFORE THE AUCTIONS
	41.	THE MASSACRE AT FORT PILLOW