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"The fourteenth amendment to the Constitution considered : the right to pursue any lawful trade or avocation, without other restraint than such as equally affects all persons, is one of the privileges of citizens of the United States which can-not be abridged by state legislation : dissenting opinions of Mr. Justice Field, Mr. Justice Bradley, and Mr. Justice Swayne, of U.S. Supreme Court, in the New Orleans slaughter-house cases."

A PDF on the Library of Congress

Red Cross Nurse Elizabeth Ashe

New York (City) Police Dept., 1909: "Drunken woman" in new Tenderloin station cell, showing cot, toilet bowl, and sink with running water

"Drunken woman" in new Tenderloin station cell, showing cot, toilet bowl, and sink with running water

Charles J. Guiteau

Photograph shows portrait of Guiteau, assassin of President Garfield, taken in jail in Washington, D.C.

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Address, delivered before the Georgia State Industrial College for Colored Youth, at College, Georgia, (near Savannah), June 7, 1899

A graduation address in which Arnett, A.M.E. bishop of South Carolina and Georgia, speaks about the social and educational achievements of African Americans and about prospects for future achievements and equality with whites. He calls for a union…