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
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…
Frontispiece, Saducismus Triumphatus: Or Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: 11015941 Annotation: Fearing that a decline in the belief of malevolent spirits and witches which were believed to plague humanity would lead to the ultimate demise of Christianity, English clergyman and philosopher Joseph Glanville wrote the Saducismus Triumphatus as an attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural by scientific…
Old Ship Church, 88 Main Street Hingham, Plymouth County, Massachusetts
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: HABS, MASS,12-HING,5-16 Year: 1931
The Columbus Doors
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: doors Museum Number: Annotation: The Columbus Doors that stand at the east entrance of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda are an imposing sight. They stand nearly 17 feet tall and weigh 20,000 pounds. The artist was Randolph Roger, and his alto-relief bronze doors make a powerful statement about not only their subject,…
George Washington’s Diary
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: diary-image Museum Number: Annotation: Both a manuscript and a printed book, George Washington’s 1762 almanac records activities at his Mount Vernon plantation. He describes mainly planting tobacco and raising cattle and sheep, although finance and slaves are also mentioned. Washington kept a diary from 1747, when he was a teen aged surveyor,…
Discovery of the Mississippi
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: DeSoto’s discovery of the Mississippi Year: 1855
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…
Narratio Regionum Indicarum Per Hispanos
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Library Media type: engraving Museum Number: Year: 1598
Title Pg, 2nd Part Saducismus Triumphatus: Or Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: 11015941 Annotation: Fearing that a decline in the belief of malevolent spirits and witches which were believed to plague humanity would lead to the ultimate demise of Christianity, English clergyman and philosopher Joseph Glanville wrote the Saducismus Triumphatus as an attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural by scientific…
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…
Abduction of Daniel Boone’s Daughter By the Indian
Credit: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1853
Alna Meetinghouse, State Rt 218, Alna, Lincoln County, Maine
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: HABS, ME, 8-ALNA Year: 1936
The Eliakim Hayden Stone
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Eliakam Hayden grave in Essex, CT, 1797 Year: 1797
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 Old Plantation
Credit: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1790
The Providential Detection
Credit: Library Company of Philadelphia Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: Year: 1800
Woman Mourning By Tomb
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC4-1840 Year: 1842
Dr. Wieland’s Celebrated Sugar Worm Lozenges
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: miscellaneous-image Museum Number: LC-USZ62-102488 Annotation: Patent medicine Year: 1856
The Liberator
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: miscellaneous-image Museum Number: Annotation: The Liberator Year: 1831
Kansas-Nebraska Act
Media type: treaty-image Annotation: In 1854, a piece of legislation was introduced in Congress that shattered all illusions of sectional peace. The Kansas-Nebraska Act destroyed the Whig Party, divided the Democratic Party, and created the Republican Party. Ironically, the author of this legislation was Senator Stephen A. Douglas, who had pushed the Compromise of 1850 through Congress…
Group (Fugitive Slaves?) in Lean-To On River Bank, Illuminated By Firelight; From Harper’s Weekly
Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: With the rise in the number of runaway slaves and the growing size of the Underground Railroad, which offered aid and passage for enslaved Africans to escape the south, came institution of the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850. Designed to…
The Falls Of The Kaaterskill
Credit: The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1826
In the Catskills
Credit: Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1835
Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains
Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1859
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….
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
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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
Former Slaves Standing in Front of their Cabin
Credit: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1899
The Slave Sale
Credit: Cosmopolitan Magazine [number 38, December 1904] Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Though the Atlantic slave trade ceased legally importing slaves on 1 January 1808, the earliest date allowed by the US Constitution, the practice of slavery and the sale of slaves in the United States continued until President Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on the first…
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
Five Generations On Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-152-A Year: 1862
United States Slave Trade
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-89701 Year: 1830
Radical Members of the First Legislature After the War, South Carolina
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-28044 Annotation: An African American Majority in the South Carolina Legislature. Because blacks in South Carolina vastly outnumbered whites, the newly-enfranchised voters were able to send so many African American representatives to the state assembly that they outnumbered the whites. Many were able legislators who worked to rewrite the state…
Tad Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, in a Union uniform
Media type: photograph Annotation: Unidentified photographer Year: 1860
Gordon As He Entered Our Lines. Gordon Under Medical Inspection. Gordon in His Uniform as a U.S. Soldier
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZ62-98515 Year: 1863
Lieut. Washington, a Confederate Prisoner, and Capt. Custer, U.S.A.
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZ62-109737 Annotation: George Armstrong Custer 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
In the Swamp
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC4-2522 Year: 1863
Refugees Leaving the Old Homestead
Credit: Media type: photograph Museum Number: NWDNS-LC-CC-306 Year: 1863