Click to visit the main New York Public Library Homepage
The New York Public Library
Digital Collections
About Digital Collections
Browse
Search only public domain materials
Items
Collections
Divisions
Home
Search
Browse
About
Search only public domain materials
Items
Collections
Divisions
Digital Collections
Using Images
Using Data
Search
Filtered search
Show filters
Hide filters
Show Only Public Domain
topic
x
Fugitive slaves
Slavery
63
Underground Railroad
52
History
45
Antislavery movements
40
More
Less
name
Still, William, 1821-1902
25
Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
5
Tubman, Harriet, 1822-1913
5
Brown, Henry Box, 1815 or 1816-
4
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
4
More
Less
collection
Wallach Division Picture Collection
33
The Underground Rail Road
25
The underground railroad from slavery to freedom
18
Slavery
14
Narrative of the life and adventures of Henry Bibb, an American slave, written by himself
6
More
Less
place
United States
112
Maryland
7
Ohio
7
Virginia
7
Southern States
4
More
Less
genre
Illustrations
66
Prints
40
Books
27
Photographs
15
Portraits
11
More
Less
publisher
Porter & Coates, 822, Chestnut Street
25
Macmillan
18
Bibb, Henry
6
W. & F. Cash
4
A.G. Brown & Co
3
More
Less
division
Schomburg Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division
61
Wallach Division: Picture Collection
34
Schomburg Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
32
Schomburg Photographs and Prints Division
24
General Research Division
3
More
Less
type
still image
139
text
26
cartographic
2
Date Range
to
155 results found
Filtering on:
x
Date
: 1847 - 1933
x
Topic
: Fugitive slaves
Sort by:
Title
Date created
Date digitized
Sequence
Desperate conflict in a barn
Maria Weems escaping in male …
Dry - goods merchant searchin…
William and Ellen Craft.
Living in a cave.
Escaping from Alabama on top …
Edward Lewis; Arrival from No…
Sixty passengers came in one …
Arrival from Maryland, 1859; …
Charity Still - twice escaped…
Resurrection of Henry Box Bro…
Rescue of Jane Johnson and he…
Jane Johnson.
Escaping from Portsmouth, VA.…
Crossing the river on horseba…
A bold stroke for freedom - c…
The mayor and police of Norfo…
John Henry Hill.
Escape with a lady, as her co…
Six on two horses.
Up a tree.
Samuel Green sentenced to the…
Lear Green escaping in a ches…
Living in a hollow tree.
A woman with iron horns and b…
Josiah Henson speaking engage…
Runaway poster for Bill in ja…
The escaped slave
Osman the maroon in the swamp
Osborn Perry Anderson, who es…
The road to liberty; a statio…
Harbor, Ashtabula County, Ohi…
The Detroit River, at Detroit…
Runaways
Male adult slave escaping by …
m
Running a thousand miles for …
Speech, "Address of the conve…
Rescue of a fugitive slave
Scenes in the life of Harriet…
Scenes in the life of Harriet…
Henry Box Brown
Negroes Escaping out of slave…
Vi talade foga, utan skredo a…
Jag Kastade mig ned pa jorden…
Arrest warrant for Robert McA…
Prayer meeting in a contraban…
Emily runs away
Poster warning Blacks in Bost…
Flight of fugitives to Canada…
Marshal's posse with Burns mo…