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Declaration of Independence
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Trumbull’s Declaration of Independence Year: 1817
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Surrender of Lord Cornwallis
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1817
The Bloody Massacre Perpetrated in Kings Street Boston On March 5Th 1770 By a Party of the 29Th Regiment
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZC4-4600 Annotation: This engraving by Paul Revere depicts the Boston Massacre of 1770. British soldiers under Captain Thomas Preston fired on a Boston crowd, killing five and wounding six. In a subsequent trial, in which…
Portrait of Christopher Columbus
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: Annotation: Black and white portrait of Christopher Columbus.
Jeffreys Atlas
Media type: illustration Annotation: This volume was the first comprehensive British atlas of Florida and the Caribbean. It includes the first large, detailed printed maps of a number of Caribbean islands, such as Antigua, St. Christopher, and Barbados. On many of these…
George Washington’s Diary
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: diary-image Museum Number: Annotation: Both a manuscript and a printed book, George Washington’s 1762 almanac records activities at his Mount Vernon plantation. He describes mainly planting tobacco and raising cattle and sheep, although finance and slaves are…
The Catechism in Timucuan
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: book-image Museum Number: Annotation: This rare and important text is one of the earliest known artifacts in any Indian language from what is now the United States. Francisco Pareja came to Florida in 1595 and worked among…
Pirates in America
Media type: book illustration Annotation: This is an image from the first edition, in Dutch, of one of the most important books about pirates ever written. Alexandre Exquemelin, a native of Harfleur, went to the Caribbean in 1666 with the French West…
The Meeting of Cortés and Montezuma
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Painted in the latter half of the seventeenth century in Mexico by unknown artists, the eight paintings in the Conquest of Mexico series depict the encounter of Spanish and Aztec cultures and the…
Francis Drake’s Voyage in an Early Map
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: map Museum Number: Annotation: Italian artist Baptista Boazio created these handsome hand-colored engravings to accompany A summarie and true discourse of Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage, published in London by Biggs and Croftes in 1588-1589. The…
Dowry for Montezuma’s Daughter (Hernando Cortés)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: letter-image Museum Number: Annotation: In this document, Hernando Cortés justifies a large dowry to Doña Isabel, the late Emperor Montezuma’s (1480?-1520) eldest daughter, when she married a nobleman of considerable standing in New Spain. Cortés recounts the…
Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474-1566) to Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: letter-image Museum Number: Annotation: Manuscript letter, ca. 1528 Dominican Priest Bartolomé de Las Casas was a passionate champion of the rights of the indigenous people of the Americas. Las Casas sailed from Spain to Santo Domingo in…