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Three Days of May 1844, Columbia Mourns Her Citizens Slain

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-46533 Annotation: On May 3, 1844, a collection of Nativist Party supporters set up a public speech…

Daniel Boone

Daniel Boone

Credit: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: This engraving shows an elder Boone hunting with his dog.…

Battle of Palo Alto- May 8Th, 1846, Between 2900 Americans, Under Genl. Taylor, and 6000 Mexicans, Commanded By Genl. Arista.

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…

Frontispiece Image from The Death of Clotel

Frontispiece Image from The Death of Clotel

Credit: Clotel: The President’s Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. by William Wells Brown Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: The novel…

Gold Mining in California

Gold Mining in California

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC2-1755 Annotation: This lithograph shows miners shoveling sand from stream into sluice while one miner pans for…

Gallant Charge of the Kentuckians at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feby. 23rd 1847, and Complete Defeat of the Mexicans

Gallant Charge of the Kentuckians at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feby. 23rd 1847, and Complete Defeat of the Mexicans

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-6228 Annotation: After losing Monterrey to American forces in September of 1846 Antonio Lopez De Santa, who…