Itinerant chromoliths stir racial fears in Kansas
Washington correspondent reports on chromo lithographs depicting rural Kansas life and Black figures. Scenes include a freedman’s home, a piano recital with a Black lover, and laborers at work, signaling controversial racial imagery. Also related anecdotes on Zulu hell, colonial warfare, and river mishaps reflect press attitudes of the era.
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Washington
le New York Herald
Kansas
Paradige
Canaan
Florida
Fevedwan
Marvelous Kinset
Harysat
Solored Ian
Penitentes rites and eerie exhumation tales scare New Mexico region
A Boston era dispatch reports Penitentes in Trinidad performing brutal Good Friday rituals with bloodied backs and self-flagellation near the Puragatoro river, plus sensational notes on an exhumation at Triumph and a human milk transfusion case in New York. The piece weaves sensational local lore with distant medical oddities and oddities from other papers.
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Rio Grand
Arkansas
Purgatory
Orado
New Mexico
Atisona
Mexico
Trinidad
Lodgs
Themelves
Seon
Cadera
Penitentes
Onimiry Baroni
Colorado
Juma Maria Gracia
Demidad
New York World
Howe
Charity Hospital
Thet City
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People's Market
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Eureka Daily Sentinel
California
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Titusville
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Tidioute
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Salt Lake City
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Richard A. Riepe
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Richard August Birpr
Bristol
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