- Date:
- April 21, 1866
- Original Format:
- Fine Print Illustration
- Item#:
- 1860.0422
The "Abraham Lincoln School" for Freedmen
This wood engraving from the April 21,1866 issue of Harper's Weekly depicts the Abraham Lincoln School in New Orleans, one of the largest of the 4,000 schools established in the South by the Freedman's Bureau after the Civil War.