New York Police charge Draft Rioters in front of the Tribune newspaper's offices, July 1863, artist's impression, detai

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Scanned by: 

Joseph Williams, Archives and Special Collections, Dickinson College

Scan date: 

06/03/2013

Notes: 

Cropped, sized, and prepared for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 20, 2013

Depicted content: 

• In New York City, violent protests against the Draft Lottery develop swiftly into four days of deadly rioting
• Washington D.C. suspends the draft in the riot-stricken city of New York

Image type: 

engraving

Original caption: 

Charge of the Police on the Rioters at the "Tribune" office

Source citation: 

Harper's Weekly Magazine, August 1, 1863, p. 484.

Source note: 

Cropped from the larger image, also available at  http://hd.housedivided.dickinson.edu/node/40638