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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
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
A Noblewoman of Pomeiock
Credit: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Media type: engraving Description: English: Native woman of Pomeiock carrying a clay vessel, and her daughter holding a doll and a rattle. Museum Number: LC-USZ62-76084 Year: 1590
Nuestra Senora De Guadalupe: Our Lady of Guadalupe
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC2-2890 Year: 1848
Landing of Columbus
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus Year: 1847
A narrative of the uncommon sufferings, and surprising deliverance of Briton Hammon, a Negro man
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: book cover Museum Number: Annotation: This is the cover of a book published in Boston, Printed and Sold by Green & Russell, in Queen-Street, 1760. The Story of Britton Hammon’s captivity and subsequent return to his master in Boston is often considered the first published work written in the prose of African…
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
The Burning of Master John Rogers (From the Third Volume of the Ecclesiastical History Containing the Acts and Monuments of Martyrs, By John Fox)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: John Rogers (1500-1555)was a Catholic priest who converted to Protestantism in the 1530s under the influence of William Tyndale and assisted in the publication of Tyndale’s English translations of the Bible. John was burned alive at Smithfield on February 4, 1555, and he became the “first Protestant martyr”…
Mr. John Rogers (Woodblock Print) From The New-England Primer Improved
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: Year: 1773
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,…
Lutheran Religious Refugees, Fleeing Salzburg, Austria
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-119892 Year: 1732
George Washington Rising To the Heavens
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865
The Old Plantation
Credit: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1790
Captain Lewis & Clark Holding a Council With the Indians
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-17372 Year: 1810
Woman Mourning By Tomb
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC4-1840 Year: 1842
American Methodists Proceeding To their Camp Meeting
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC2-52 Year: 1819
The Providential Detection
Credit: Library Company of Philadelphia Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: Year: 1800
The Eliakim Hayden Stone
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Eliakam Hayden grave in Essex, CT, 1797 Year: 1797
Detail of the Daniel Weaver Stone
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Daniel Weaver Year: 1801
Dr. Spurzheim–Divisions of the Organs of Phrenology Marked Externally
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: lithograph Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4556 Annotation: Phrenology Year: 1834
Illustration from Godey’s Lady’s Book Captioned ‘Alas, They Had Been Friends in Youth, But Whispering Tongues Will Poison the Truth’
Credit: The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, The University of Virginia Library Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Godey’s Lady’s Book was a monthly periodical particularly popular amongst women in the 19th century. Initially published by Philadelphia’s Louis Godey, the magazine offered original artwork and arcticles by American contributors, many of whom were women. Godey’s Lady’s…
Mill On the Brandywine, Delaware
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC4-3670 Year: 1828
John Brown Lithograph
Credit: US National Park Service Media type: lithograph Museum Number: Annotation: John Brown Year: 1867
Outrage
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Annotation: This handbill urging opponents of abolitionists to obstruct an anti-slavery meeting demonstrates the depth of pro-slavery feeling. Although the handbill advocates peaceful means, violence sometimes erupted between the two factions. An emotion-laden handbill was a factor in the well-known Boston riot of October 21, 1835. In that incident,…
John Brown
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZ62-2472 Year: 1859
Carter’s Little Liver Pills
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: advertisement Museum Number: LC-USZ62-75898 Annotation: Trade card advertisement for Carter’s Little Liver Pills showing man dressing and woman with headache. Though available as a patent medicine into the mid 20th century, no evidence was ever brought forward to substantiate the claims that Carter’s Little Liver Pills had any effect for better or worse…
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. ,…
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 Africans of the Slave Bark
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-41678 Annotation: African slaves on the deck of the slave ship Wildfire Year: 1860
Former Slaves Standing in Front of their Cabin
Credit: Charlotte-Mecklenburg Historic Landmarks Commission Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1899
(Untitled)
Credit: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1862
$150 Reward For Runaway
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: advertisement Museum Number: Portfolio 22, Folder 12b Annotation: Advertisement run in Kentucky newspaper ofering up to a $150 reward for the return of a runaway slave named Henry May. Even with the passage of fugitive slave legislature in the mid 19th century and the persistant use of “slave catchers”, advertisements offering rewards for…
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….
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…
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
Jeff’s Last Shift. Capture of Jeff. Davis. May 10th 1865, at Irwinsville, Georgia
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: political cartoon Museum Number: LC-USZ62-89743 Year: 1865
The End of the Rebellion in the United States
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-12764 Annotation: End of the Civil War Year: 1866
War
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865
We Will Prove Ourselves To Be Men- – 127th Regiment US Colored Troops
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: decorative arts Museum Number: LC-USZ62-23097 Annotation: This is a regimental flag depicting an African American soldier standing next to Columbia holding a flag. Painted flags were an important form of popular art in the 19th century, and were used both for ceremonial and decorative purposes. David Bustill Bowser (1820-1900), a poor African-American from…
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