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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…