This is a print from a wood engraving that was in the August 1st, 1863 edition of Harper's Weekly magazine. During the New York City draft riots, a group of rioters looted, vandalized and set the Colored Orphan's Asylum (an orphanage for black…
This black and white etching appeared in the New York newspapers to give readers a sense of what the draft riots were like. A crowd of several hundred rioters attempted to enter and vandalize the newspaper office of notorious Republican editor's New…