Content: Printed on border: "A verbal difference merely." "(Committee of one from the Bosom Friends takes counsel upon some complication in the brotherhood, the conduct of one of the officers being in question.)" "You mean that he had no right - in short, usurped the office?" "Yes, jedge, he used up de office ; but de trouble ar' mo' dat he done use up de fun's."
Source Note: Harper's weekly : a journal of civilization. (New York : Harper' s Weekly Co., 1857-1916).

Physical Description

Line photoengravings
Extent: 1 print : b ; 13 x 12 cm. (5 x 4 3/4 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17625804
Barcode: 33333159328794
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): a052dab0-c52e-012f-6249-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1885-11-24

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "African American man and a judge in office" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1885. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a052dab0-c52e-012f-6249-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1885). African American man and a judge in office Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a052dab0-c52e-012f-6249-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "African American man and a judge in office" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 13, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/a052dab0-c52e-012f-6249-58d385a7bc34

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