Authors
Advisor: Shannon Egan, Gettysburg College
Consultant: Lauren H. Roedner, Gettysburg College
Curators:
Dianne Brennan, Gettysburg College
Maura B. Conley '16, Gettysburg College
Abigail B. Conner '15, Gettysburg College
Nicole A. Conte '15, Gettysburg College
Victoria Perez-Zetune '16, Gettysburg College
Savannah Rose '17, Gettysburg College
Kaylyn L. Sawyer '17, Gettysburg College
Caroline M. Wood '15, Gettysburg College
Zoe Yeoh '18, Gettysburg College
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Document Type
Art Catalog
Description
Angelo Scarlato’s extraordinary and vast collection of art and artifacts related to the Civil War, and specifically to the Battle of Gettysburg, the United States Colored Troops, slavery and the African American struggle for emancipation, citizenship and freedom has proved to be an extraordinary resource for Gettysburg College students. The 2012-14 exhibition in Musselman Library’s Special Collections, curated by Lauren Roedner ’13, entitled Slaves, Soldiers, Citizens: African American Artifacts of the Civil War Era and its corresponding catalogue provided a powerful and comprehensive historical narrative of the period.
This fall, students in my course at Gettysburg College “Art and Public Policy”—Diane Brennan, Maura Conley, Abigail Conner, Nicole Conte, Victoria Perez-Zetune, Savannah Rose, Kaylyn Sawyer, Caroline Wood and Zoe Yeoh—selected additional objects of material and print culture from Angelo’s private collection and drew from Lauren’s expertise for the exhibition Art, Artifact, Archive: African American Experiences in the Nineteenth Century to investigate public representations of a newly freed population as well as their more personal perspectives. [excerpt]
Publication Date
Winter 2015
Publisher
Schmucker Art Gallery, Gettysburg College
City
Gettysburg, PA
Keywords
Civil War, Battle of Gettysburg, United States Colored Troops, USCT, African American, black soldier, Gettysburg College, emancipation, freedom, citizenship, artifact, exhibit, Harper's Weekly, Frederick Douglass, slavery, daguerreotype
Department 1
Art
Recommended Citation
Egan, Shannon; Roedner, Lauren H.; Brennan, Diane; Conley, Maura B.; Conner, Abigail B.; Conte, Nicole A.; Perez-Zetune, Victoria; Rose, Savannah; Sawyer, Kaylyn L.; Wood, Caroline M.; and Yeoh, Zoe C., "Art, Artifact, Archive: African American Experiences in the Nineteenth Century" (2015). Schmucker Art Catalogs. 16.
https://cupola.gettysburg.edu/artcatalogs/16
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African American Studies Commons, American Art and Architecture Commons, Cultural History Commons, Photography Commons, Political History Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons
Comments
Art, Artifact, Archive: African American Experiences in the Nineteenth Century is on exhibition at the Schmucker Art Gallery at Gettysburg College, January 23 - March 7, 2015.