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Champlain Exploring the Canadian Wilderness
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-3019 Annotation: This print shows Samuel de Champlain and two companions looking at a river as Indians carry the canoes to the shore. Born in the small Atlantic port of Brouage around 1580 to a Protestant family (although he became a Catholic), Samuel de Champlain fought in Henri IV’s army…
Exercises of the Youths
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-37992 Annotation: This engraving shows native youths shooting arrows, throwing balls at target placed atop tall pole, and running races. Year: 1591
Pocahontas (Reproduction of 1616 Original)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-D416-18753 Annotation: This image is taken from a painting made of the Native American woman popularly known as Pocahontas, from a painting by William Sheppard. The portrait is dated 1616, coinciding with her only voyage to England in June of that year. The image is one of two strikingly similar…
The Dances at their Great Feasts
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-37992 Annotation: This engraving shows native youths shooting arrows, throwing balls at target placed atop tall pole, and running races. Year: 1591
The Death of Columbus
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: lithograph Museum Number: 91721148 Year: 1893
Lutheran Religious Refugees, Fleeing Salzburg, Austria
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-119892 Year: 1732
Fold-Out Illustration From The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles…
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: rc 01002800 Annotation: This illustrated image, taken from Captain John Smith’s “The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles” (published in England in 1624), depicts a American native ritual as described by Smith, imagined through the eyes of a European artist. Smith, whose voyages to the New…
Details of the Lieutenant John hescy Stone, Wakefield, Massachusetts. Slate
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Lt. John Hescy gravestone Year: 1689
Murder of David Van Der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-119890 Annotation: This engraving depicts the execution of David van der Leyen and Levina Ghyselins, described variously as Dutch Anabaptists or Mennonites, by Catholic authorities in Ghent in 1554. Strangled and burned, van der Leyen was finally dispatched with an iron fork. Bracht’s Martyr’s Mirror is considered by modern Mennonites…
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474-1566) to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: letter-image Museum Number: Annotation: Manuscript letter, ca. 1528 Dominican Priest Bartolomé de Las Casas was a passionate champion of the rights of the indigenous people of the Americas. Las Casas sailed from Spain to Santo Domingo in 1502. There, he was given a royal land grant including labor of the Indian inhabitants…
The Meeting of Cortés and Montezuma
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Painted in the latter half of the seventeenth century in Mexico by unknown artists, the eight paintings in the Conquest of Mexico series depict the encounter of Spanish and Aztec cultures and the ultimate victory of the Spanish over the native peoples. All eight paintings will be on…
Landscape Scene From the Last of the Mohicans; The Death of Cora
Credit: New York State Historical Association Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Cole, Last of the Mohicans Year: 1827
Liberty (in the Form of the Goddess of Youth; Giving Support To the Bald Eagle)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-15369 Annotation: This image depicts an allegory of American liberty. Liberty is represented by a young woman in a windblown diaphanous dress and garlanded with flowers in the form of the goddess Hebe, who is offering a cup to a swooping eagle, symbol of the proud new nation, descending from…
George Washington Rising To the Heavens
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap
Credit: Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO. Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1851
The Eliakim Hayden Stone
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Eliakam Hayden grave in Essex, CT, 1797 Year: 1797
U.S. Constitution
Media type: miscellaneous-image Annotation: The United States Constitution ratified September 17, 1787. Year: 1787
Captain Lewis & Clark Holding a Council With the Indians
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-17372 Year: 1810
Detail of the Daniel Weaver Stone
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Daniel Weaver Year: 1801
The Car of History
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: statue Museum Number: Annotation: House of Representatives statue; Clio, the Muse of History, stands in a winged chariot representing the passage of time and records events as they occur. The car rests on a marble globe on which signs of the Zodiac are carved in relief. The chariot wheel is the…
Battle of Palo Alto- May 8Th, 1846, Between 2900 Americans, Under Genl. Taylor, and 6000 Mexicans, Commanded By Genl. Arista.
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-6126 Annotation: The battle of Palo Alto, the first major engagement of the Mexican War, was fought north of Brownsville on May 8, 1846, between American forces under Gen. Zachary Taylor and Mexican troops commanded by Gen. Mariano Arista. Earlier, on April 23, Mexico had proclaimed a “defensive war” against…
The Battle of Sacramento
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC2-1966 Year: 1847
Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZ62-28755 Year: 1851
The First Step from Godey’s Lady’s Book
Credit: Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: An engraving showing a child taking his/her first steps. Godey’s Lady’s Book enjoyed tremendous popularity in the 19th century as a monthly periodical intended primarily for women. Each issue featured articles on ladies fashion, images of engraved artwork, and poetry by prominent artists of the period….
Recreation
Credit: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Thompson, Recreation Year: 1857
The Lackawanna Valley
Credit: National Gallery of Art Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Innes, Lackawanna Valley Year: 1855
The Mother’s Grave
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC4-1842 Year: 1848
United States Slave Trade
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-89701 Year: 1830
Former Slaves Standing in Front of their Cabin
Credit: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1899
The Negro Woman’s Appeal to Her White Sisters
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Portfolio 65, Folder 8 Annotation: Antislavery broadside created and published in London, 1850. With the increasing size of the abolotionist movement came the use of handbills and broadsides appealing directly to women of all races. Invoking powerful imagery, such as the supplicating figure shown in this broadside, were intended to…
Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Portfolio 153, Folder 26 Annotation: Sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia in 1833 to create a national organization to bring about the immediate emancipation of all slaves. This organization was named the American Anti-slavery Society, and the participants elected officers and adopted a constitution and declaration. ,…
Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-44000 Annotation: Note: The “Brookes” after the Regulation Act of 1788, was allowed to carry 454 Slaves, She could stow this number by following the rule adopted in this plate. Namely of allowing a space of 6 ft. by 1 ft. 4 in. to each man; 5 ft. 10 in….
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Slave Auction at RICHMOND VIRGINIA [Illustrated London News, Sept 27 1865]
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-15398 Year: 1865
Plantation Economy in the Old South
Credit: The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Plantation Life Year: 1876
Large Group of Slaves Standing in Front of Buildings On Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZ62-67819 Year: 1862
The Storming of Ft. Wagner
Credit: US National Park Service Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Storming of Fort Wagner Year: 1890
Marine
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865
Julia Ward Howe
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZ62-53518 DLC Annotation: Julia Ward Howe is the author of “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” She was also a well-known abolitionist and social activist. Year: 1908
Antietam, Confederate Dead By a Fence On the Hagerstown Road
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-0560 Year: 1862
Group of Contrabands
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-0383 Year: 1862
America and History in Frieze of American History
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1889
Bermuda Hundred, Virginia African-American Teamsters Near the Signal Tower
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-2594 DLC Year: 1864
Valley of the Yosemite
Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1864