Photographic postcard of militiamen marching in Springfield, Illinois

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This description refers to material held by Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture. Visual details below describe the original material.

A black-and-white photographic postcard of armed militiamen marching through Springfield, Illinois. Dressed in uniforms and carrying rifles, a troop of state militiamen march in pairs, past a large residential space. They move forward facing the left side of the image, along a small sidewalk, below tall, bushy trees. Inscribed in black ink at the bottom center and bottom right of the image is “POST / PHOTO / SPRINGFIELD RACE WAR / AUG. ’08”. The postcard is unused and, on the reverse, has a divided back with respectively marked spaces, [CORRESPONDENCE HERE] and [NAME AND ADDRESS HERE], for inscriptions. The postcard is printed on AZO paper, with an AZO stamp space in the upper right corner. There is a handwritten inscription at the top right corner [6] above the AZO stamp space.

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