RIAMCO

Rhode Island Archival and Manuscript Collections Online

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Illustration from “Free military school for applicants for command of colored troops” (MSS-0156)

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Rhode Island College
600 Mount Pleasant Ave
Providence, RI, 02908
Tel: 401-456-8380
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Scope & content

The collection contains an illustration removed from “Free military school for applications for command of colored troops.” The illustration depicts a street scene with people on a sidewalk walking by buildings. Two signs on the building read “Free military school for applicants for command of colored troops.” There is a large flag for the United States hanging outside the building, with a sign on the flag that reads “Supervisory Committee for Recruiting Colored Troops and free military school for applicants for command of colored troops.”