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The Dances at their Great Feasts
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-37992 Annotation: This engraving shows native youths shooting arrows, throwing balls at target placed atop tall pole, and running races. Year: 1591
Pocahontas (Reproduction of 1616 Original)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-D416-18753 Annotation: This image is taken from a painting made of the Native American woman popularly known as Pocahontas, from a painting by William Sheppard. The portrait is dated 1616, coinciding with her only voyage to England in June of that year. The image is one of two strikingly similar…
Exercises of the Youths
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-37992 Annotation: This engraving shows native youths shooting arrows, throwing balls at target placed atop tall pole, and running races. Year: 1591
A Noblewoman of Pomeiock
Credit: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Media type: engraving Description: English: Native woman of Pomeiock carrying a clay vessel, and her daughter holding a doll and a rattle. Museum Number: LC-USZ62-76084 Year: 1590
Massacre Fait A Sens En Bourgogne Par La Populace
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: Annotation: The slaughter of Huguenots (French Protestants) by Catholics at Sens, Burgundy in 1562 occurred at the beginning of more than thirty years of religious strife between French Protestants and Catholics. These wars produced numerous atrocities. The worst was the notorious St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre in Paris, August 24,…
Baptism of Pocahontas
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1840
Details of the Lieutenant John hescy Stone, Wakefield, Massachusetts. Slate
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Lt. John Hescy gravestone Year: 1689
Details of the Norder Panels of the Elijah Sadd Stone, South Windsor, Connecticut. Red sandstone
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Elijah Sadd gravestone Year: 1756
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 ultimate victory of the Spanish over the native peoples. All eight paintings will be on…
Frontispiece, Saducismus Triumphatus: Or Full and Plain Evidence Concerning Witches and Apparitions
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: 11015941 Annotation: Fearing that a decline in the belief of malevolent spirits and witches which were believed to plague humanity would lead to the ultimate demise of Christianity, English clergyman and philosopher Joseph Glanville wrote the Saducismus Triumphatus as an attempt to prove the existence of the supernatural by scientific…
Landing of Columbus
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Vanderlyn, Landing of Columbus Year: 1847
Departure of Columbus From Palos, 1492
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: doors Museum Number: Annotation: The Columbus Doors that stand at the east entrance of the U.S. Capitol Rotunda are an imposing sight. They stand nearly 17 feet tall, and weigh 20,000 pounds. The artist was Randolph Roger, and his alto-relief bronze doors make a powerful statement about not only their subject,…
The Old State House (Boston)
Image from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society. Credit: Massachusetts Historical Society Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Boston, 1801 Year: 1801
Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers Through the Cumberland Gap
Credit: Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO. Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1851
The Eliakim Hayden Stone
Credit: Wesleyan University Press Media type: gravestone Museum Number: Annotation: Eliakam Hayden grave in Essex, CT, 1797 Year: 1797
The Old Plantation
Credit: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1790
Abduction of Daniel Boone’s Daughter By the Indian
Credit: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1853
Captain Lewis & Clark Holding a Council With the Indians
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-17372 Year: 1810
Woman Mourning By Tomb
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC4-1840 Year: 1842
The Car of History
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: statue Museum Number: Annotation: House of Representatives statue; Clio, the Muse of History, stands in a winged chariot representing the passage of time and records events as they occur. The car rests on a marble globe on which signs of the Zodiac are carved in relief. The chariot wheel is the…
The Lackawanna Valley
Credit: National Gallery of Art Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Innes, Lackawanna Valley Year: 1855
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 to encourage the annexation of Texas and the Oregon country to the United States, “that claim is by the right of our manifest destiny to overspread and to possess the whole of the…
$200 Reward for an Escaped Prisoner
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: advertisement Museum Number: Portfolio 204, Folder 6 Year: 1860
Dr. Wieland’s Celebrated Sugar Worm Lozenges
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: miscellaneous-image Museum Number: LC-USZ62-102488 Annotation: Patent medicine Year: 1856
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
Allegorical Representation of the Dying Christian
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC4-3150 Year: 1847
The Harper’s Ferry Insurrection–the U.S. Marines Storming the Engine House–Insurgents Firing Through Holes in the Doors
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-126970 Annotation: John Brown’s Raid Year: 1859
9 Facts About Slavery You Won’t Learn In School
Human slavery is as old as time. It is still practiced today in many variant forms in countries all across the globe, including the United States. In this age of political correctness, some of these facts reveal inconvenient truths. I’ve listed a few sources I used for this article, and invite anyone who has an…
Large Group of Slaves Standing in Front of Buildings On Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-USZ62-67819 Year: 1862
Stowage of the British Slave Ship Brookes Under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-44000 Annotation: Note: The “Brookes” after the Regulation Act of 1788, was allowed to carry 454 Slaves, She could stow this number by following the rule adopted in this plate. Namely of allowing a space of 6 ft. by 1 ft. 4 in. to each man; 5 ft. 10 in….
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Credit: The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles Media type: photograph Museum Number: Year: 1862
Declaration of the Anti-Slavery Convention
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: broadside Museum Number: Portfolio 153, Folder 26 Annotation: Sixty abolitionist leaders from ten states met in Philadelphia in 1833 to create a national organization to bring about the immediate emancipation of all slaves. This organization was named the American Anti-slavery Society, and the participants elected officers and adopted a constitution and declaration. ,…
$150 Reward For Runaway
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: advertisement Museum Number: Portfolio 22, Folder 12b Annotation: Advertisement run in Kentucky newspaper ofering up to a $150 reward for the return of a runaway slave named Henry May. Even with the passage of fugitive slave legislature in the mid 19th century and the persistant use of “slave catchers”, advertisements offering rewards for…
Five Generations On Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-152-A Year: 1862
The Africans of the Slave Bark
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-41678 Annotation: African slaves on the deck of the slave ship Wildfire Year: 1860
In the Swamp
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: painting Museum Number: LC-USZC4-2522 Year: 1863
Group of Contrabands
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: photograph Museum Number: LC-B8171-0383 Year: 1862
Agriculture
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1865
Tad Lincoln, son of President Abraham Lincoln, in a Union uniform
Media type: photograph Annotation: Unidentified photographer Year: 1860
The Emancipation Group (Sculpture of Abraham Lincoln)
Credit: Library of Congress Media type: statue Museum Number: LC-USZ62-117489 Year: 1875
America and History in Frieze of American History
Credit: Architect of the Capitol Media type: fresco Museum Number: Annotation: Capitol fresco Year: 1889
Valley of the Yosemite
Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1864
Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way (Mural Study, U.S. Capitol)
Credit: Smithsonian Institution, National Museum of American History Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1861