Description: Photograph of a drawing of the home where Lucius H. Bigelow kept fugitive slaves in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont. The image was collected by Ohio State University professor Wilbur H. Siebert (1866-1961). Siebert began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03233
Subjects: Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights; Underground Railroad--Vermont
Places: Burlington (Vermont); Chittenden County (Vermont)
 

Description: Photomechanical reproduction of a portrait depicting Rev. Joshua Young (1823-1904), who was an agent of the Underground Railroad in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont from 1852 to 1860. He also served as pastor of the local Unitarian Church. This photograph was sent to Wilbur H. Siebert by Theron S. Dean. Siebert (1866-1961) began researching the Underground Railroad in the 1890s as a way to interest his students in history. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL03234
Subjects: Underground Railroad--Vermont; Ohio History--Slavery, Anti-Slavery and Civil Rights
Places: Burlington (Vermont); Chittenden County (Vermont)
 

Description: This photograph shows a two-horse team hitched to a Conestoga wagon as it approaches a covered bridge at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. A layer of snow covers the ground. A man wearing a cap and a checkered jacket stands near the wagon with his back to the camera, looking ahead at the bridge entrance. A hanging sign posted to the left of the bridge reads: "Shelburne Museum." Above the bridge entrance a posted sign reads: "SPEED LIMIT. HORSES AT A WALK. MOTOR VEHICLES 10 MILES PER HOUR." A two-horse team hitched to a Conestoga wagon approaches a covered bridge at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. This photograph shows a two-horse team hitched to a Conestoga wagon as it approaches a covered bridge at the Shelburne Museum, Shelburne, Vermont. A layer of snow covers the ground. A man wearing a cap and a checkered jacket stands near the wagon with his back to the camera, looking ahead at the bridge entrance. A hanging sign posted to the left of the bridge reads: "Shelburne Museum." Above the bridge entrance a posted sign reads: "SPEED LIMIT. HORSES AT A WALK. MOTOR VEHICLES 10 MILES PER HOUR." Electra Havemeyer Webb (1888-1960) was a pioneering collector of American folk art who founded Shelburne Museum in 1947. In creating and housing the museum’s collections she incorporated 18th- and 19th-century buildings from New England and New York. She had 20 historic structures relocated to museum’s grounds, including this two-lane covered bridge, which was built in 1845 to cross the Lamoille River in Cambridge, Vermont. The 168-foot bridge has an arch truss (patented in 1804 by Theodore Burr), which allowed the bridge to have a longer span. The bridge has two vehicle lanes and a footpath. In 1949 the bridge was dismantled and moved to the Shelburne Museum. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL05824
Subjects: Shelburne Museum; Wagons--United States--History; Covered bridges--Vermont; Bridges--Vermont
Places: Shelburne (Vermont); Chittenden County (Vermont)