The slave cabin that inspired Harriet Beecher Stowe's 1852 novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" will be preserved thanks to Maryland officials who agreed on Thursday to buy it for $1 million. In the early 19th century, the gray log cabin was home to Josiah Henson, a slave Stowe used as a model for the Uncle Tom character in her novel, a global bestseller that ignited abolitionist fervor in the United States before the Civil War. (Offsite: Reuters News Service)
From the Charlotte Observer, posted January 3, 2005:
Battle of Gettysburg cyclorama was a wonder of the Victorian age
WINSTON-SALEM - An N.C. man is trying to find a permanent home for a cyclorama, a 6-ton painting that depicts the Battle of Gettysburg at its height on July 3, 1863.
Ken Wilson Jr. has never handled an art transaction before, but something about this painting, 376 feet long and about 22 feet high, compels him.
"It's become a part of me," he said. The painting was appraised for $2.5 million 10 years ago.
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