Days Gone By

Charlie Siringo of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, circa 1890.

New York City Police Department (NYPD) rogues gallery, July 1909.

Source: Library of Congress

Allan Pinkerton on horseback on the Antietam Battlefield, Sharpsburg, Maryland, 1862.

Alexander Gardner, Abraham Lincoln and George B. McClellan in the general’s tent at Antietam, Maryland, 3 October 1862.

Source: Library of Congress

Black refugees evicted from sharecropping, now on the roadside. Parkin, Arkansas, 1936

Pedro Karp Vasquez, Senhora Escravos being carried in a litter by her slaves, São Paulo, Brazil, ca.1860.

“Uncle Marian, a slave of great notoriety, of North Carolina,” ambrotype daguerreotype, by unknown photographer, ca. 1850.

Source: Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

Mathew Brady, Contrabands (escaped slaves) at Headquarters of General Lafayette, ca. 1862.

Source: Contrabands at Headquarters of General Lafayette,

Edward S. Curtis, Self-portrait, 1899.

John Erickson, A “son of the regiment” wearing the Red Star for bravery, surrounded by his admirers, Ukraine, 1944.