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The Drunkard’s Progress, Or the Direct Road to Poverty, Wretchedness & Ruin
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-3263 Year: 1826
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View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846
Credit: Media type: engraving Museum Number: Year: 1846
The First Tribute
Credit: The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, The University of Virginia Library Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: Toddler’s first church offering Year: 1852
Illustrations of Miller’s Views of the End of the World
Credit: The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, The University of Virginia Library Media type: engraving Museum Number: Year: 1843
Battle of Mill El Rey- Near the City of Mexico- Sept. 8th 1847
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-6206 Year: 1848
Portrait of Red Jacket
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-05086 Year: 1835
Massacre of the Whites By the Indians and Blacks in Florida
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-366 Year: 1836
Attack on the Insurgents at the Bridge by the Railroad Men
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-90728 Annotation: John Brown’s Raid on the bridge that links Harpers Ferry with Maryland. Year: 1859
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…
Attack On Chapultepec, Sept. 13th 1847 – Mexicans Routed With Great Loss
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-6207 Annotation: In September of 1847, US military forces led 13,000 soldiers in an attack against 4,000 Mexican Army regulars and some 400 Mexican Army cadets at Chapultepec Castle, just south of Mexico City. The…
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 an April 11,1851 meeting to protest the case of Thomas Sims, a fugitive slave being tried in Boston.…
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