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Banner image:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>“Twenty-eight fugitives Escaping from the Eastern Shore of Maryland,” (October 28, 1857), original illustration by Wilbur Osler for William Still, Underground Railroad <\/em>(1872), colorized and animated by Amanda Donoghue (House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/p>\n

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On this page, you will find downloadable versions of the images used in the print handbook and at the online companion site, organized by selected content categories.\u00a0 First, however, we offer a gallery of colorized illustrations created by students and staff at the House Divided Project for this handbook as well as for other partnership projects with the National Park Service.\u00a0 All images presented below should be in the public domain and free to use for educational and non-commercial purposes.\u00a0 Where relevant, however, we do provide credits to the original copyright holders.<\/p>\n

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Colorized Illustrations<\/h2>\n

The cover image for the new handbook on the Underground Railroad comes from an original illustration which appeared in William Still’s memoir,\u00a0The Underground Railroad\u00a0<\/em>(1872).\u00a0 John Osler was the engraver of the print, titled, “The Christiana Tragedy,” which appeared between pages 350 and 351 in the subscription edition.\u00a0 Osler and other notable artists such as Edmund B. Bensell, S. Foy, Wilbur F. Osler, C.H. Reed, and John Sartain engraved a total of about seventy intricate and quite beautiful illustrations for Still’s work, which created a narrative from records Still had kept as chief organizer of the Philadelphia Vigilance Committee’s activities on behalf of freedom seekers in the 1850s.\u00a0 For additional background on these illustrations, see an online exhibit from the National Portrait Gallery<\/a> available from Google Arts & Culture.<\/p>\n

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Original illustration of “The Christiana Tragedy” from John Osler’s engraving (1872) (House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

We colorized the illustration and used a detail from that new image for the cover of the handbook as a way to highlight how what has become a relatively obscure story concerning the Christiana resistance<\/em> in September 1851 now offers a gateway to help better understand the complex and often openly defiant operations of the Northern vigilance network and the Underground Railroad.\u00a0 Gabe Pinsker, a high school student in Pennsylvania, colorized Osler’s image during summer 2022 using the open-source editing platform, GIMP<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Christiana (1851), orig. by John Osler, colorized by Gabe Pinsker (House Divided Project<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n

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Frank Leslies, June 26, 1857<\/p><\/div>\n

Colorizing historic images can offer a powerful way to humanize and help bring to life various subjects from the past.\u00a0 Consider the following transformation of Dred and Harriet Scott and their daughters, Eliza and Lizzie, from a June 26, 1857 front page at Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper<\/em> to a photoshopped and colorized family portrait created by Dickinson student Cooper Wingert in fall 2020.\u00a0 The result depicts a family of freedom seekers, who had sought their liberation through the courts rather than by running away, and who ultimately (despite an adverse ruling from the US Supreme Court) achieved\u00a0 freedom by manumission in the summer of 1857.\u00a0 Read more about their story at our Civil War classroom site<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\t\t