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Anti-Slavery Meeting On the Boston Common From Gleason’s Pictorial

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: The illustration is from a popular nineteenth-century publication. It shows reformer Wendell Phillips (1811-1884) addressing…

Home Sweet Home

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-1661 Annotation: Image of an American family relaxing on a porch, c.1877. Year: 1877

Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC2-3757 Annotation: In 1845 John O’Sullivan, the editor of the Democratic review, coined the term Manifest Destiny…

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…

View of San Francisco, Taken From the Western Hill at the Foot of Telegraph Hill, Looking Toward Ringon Point and Mission Valley

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC2-1716 Annotation: From the day the Bay of San Francisco was discovered by Don Gaspar de Portolá…

The Underground Railroad. Photoreproduction of Charles T. Weber Painting

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-28860 Annotation: This image depicts a number of escaped slaves being aided in their journey to freedom…