Collection 'A Tempest in a Teapot'
First Lady Lou Hoover's invitation to Jessie L. DePriest to a White House tea party in 1929 created a storm of...
An 1859 painting by Eastman Johnson depicting urban slavery.
- Artist
- Eastman Johnson
- Date of Work
- 1859
- Medium
- Painting
- Credit
- Collection of the New-York Historical Society
An 1859 painting by Eastman Johnson depicting urban slavery.
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