The Persuit
J.H. Bufford
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: advertisement
Year: 1860
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Carter's Little Liver Pills
Unknown
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: advertisement
Year: 1860
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$200 Reward for an Escaped Prisoner
U.S. Penitentiary
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: advertisement
Year: 1860
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Frontispiece To Easy Lessons For The Little One
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: book illustration
Year: 1855
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Watchful Care
John S.C. Abbott
Credit: The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, The University of Virginia Library
Media type: book illustration
Year: 1833
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Outrage
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: broadside
Year: 1837
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Ye May Session of Ye Woman's Right Convention. Ye Orator of Ye Day Denouncing Ye Lords of Creation
Harper's Weekly
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: cartoon
Year: 1859
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The First Step from Godey's Lady's Book
Anonymous
Credit: Hope Greenberg, University of Vermont
Media type: engraving
Year: 1858
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Gallant Charge of the Kentuckians at the Battle of Buena Vista, Feby. 23rd 1847, and Complete Defeat of the Mexicans
Sarony & Major
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1847
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Gold Mining in California
Currier and Ives
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1871
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Frontispiece Image from The Death of Clotel
Anonymous
Credit: Clotel: The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States. by William Wells Brown
Media type: engraving
Year: 1853
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Battle of Palo Alto- May 8Th, 1846, Between 2900 Americans, Under Genl. Taylor, and 6000 Mexicans, Commanded By Genl. Arista.
E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1846
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Daniel Boone
Alonzo Chappel
Credit: University of Chicago Library, Special Collections Research Center
Media type: engraving
Year: 1861
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Three Days of May 1844, Columbia Mourns Her Citizens Slain
Washington Peale
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1844
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The Underground Railroad. Photoreproduction of Charles T. Weber Painting
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1893
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View of San Francisco, Taken From the Western Hill at the Foot of Telegraph Hill, Looking Toward Ringon Point and Mission Valley
Sarony and Major
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1851
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Group (Fugitive Slaves?) in Lean-To On River Bank, Illuminated By Firelight; From Harper's Weekly
W.L. Sheppard
Credit: Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division
Media type: engraving
Year: 1860
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Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way
Fanny F. Palmer
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1868
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Home Sweet Home
G.F. Gilman
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1877
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Anti-Slavery Meeting On the Boston Common From Gleason's Pictorial
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1851
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Attack On Chapultepec, Sept. 13th 1847 - Mexicans Routed With Great Loss
E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1847
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Illustration from Godey's Lady's Book Captioned 'Alas, They Had Been Friends in Youth, But Whispering Tongues Will Poison the Truth'
W.E. Tucker
Credit: The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, The University of Virginia Library
Media type: engraving
Year: 1850
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Attack on the Insurgents at the Bridge by the Railroad Men
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1859
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Massacre of the Whites By the Indians and Blacks in Florida
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1836
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Portrait of Red Jacket
Charles Bird King
Charles Bird King
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1835
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Battle of Mill El Rey- Near the City of Mexico- Sept. 8th 1847
E.B. & E.C. Kellogg
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1848
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Illustrations of Miller's Views of the End of the World
William Miller
Credit: The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, The University of Virginia Library
Media type: engraving
Year: 1843
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The First Tribute
W.E. Tucker
Credit: The Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library, The University of Virginia Library
Media type: engraving
Year: 1852
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View of Main Street, Louisville, in 1846
Richard H. Collins
Credit:
Media type: engraving
Year: 1846
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The Drunkard's Progress, Or the Direct Road to Poverty, Wretchedness & Ruin
J.W. Barber
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1826
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Sutter's Fort--New Helvetia
W.E. Endicott
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1849
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East View of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and Part of Camden, New Jersey
A. Koliner
Credit:
Media type: engraving
Year: 1836
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The Battle of Sacramento
N. Currier
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1847
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Montgomery Street, San Francisco, 1852
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1852
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Battle of Buena Vista. Fought Feby. 23Rd, 1847. in Which the American Army Under Gel. Taylor Were Completely Victorious
Currier & Ives
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1847
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Jim Crow Jubilee
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1847
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The Harper's Ferry Insurrection--the U.S. Marines Storming the Engine House--Insurgents Firing Through Holes in the Doors
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: engraving
Year: 1859
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Fort Pierre (South Dakota) and the Adjacent Prairie
Carl Bodmer
Credit:
Media type: engraving
Year: 1832
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Joaquin, the Mountain Robber
Anonymous
Credit: California History Room, California State Library, Sacramento, California
Media type: engraving
Year: 1848
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Sacramento - A City in California
Charles A. Dana
Credit:
Media type: engraving
Year: 1855
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American Army Entering the City of Mexico in Frieze of American History
Constantino Brumidi
Credit: Architect of the Capitol
Media type: fresco
Year: 1889
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Dr. Wieland's Celebrated Sugar Worm Lozenges
C.F. Wieland
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: miscellaneous-image
Year: 1856
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Dr. Spurzheim--Divisions of the Organs of Phrenology Marked Externally
Pendelton's Lithography
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: lithograph
Year: 1834
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John Brown Lithograph
T.C. Noble
Credit: US National Park Service
Media type: lithograph
Year: 1867
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The Liberator
William Lloyd Garrison
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: miscellaneous-image
Year: 1831
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North Star, June 2, 1848. Edited by Frederick Douglass and Martin Delany
Douglass and Delaney
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: miscellaneous-image
Year: 1848
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Runaway Notice for Harriet Jacobs; Copy from the American Beacon July 4th, 1835
Anonymous
Credit: North Carolina Division of Archives and History.
Media type: advertisement
Year: 1835
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The Trapper's Last Shot
William Tylee Ranney
Credit: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Media type: painting
Year: 1850
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Recreation
Jerome Thompson
Credit: Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
Media type: painting
Year: 1857
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View, Dismal Swamp, North Carolina
Francois Regis Gignoux
Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Media type: painting
Year: 1850
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Progress (the Advance of Civilization)
Asher B. Durand
Credit: The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Media type: painting
Year: 1853
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Joseph Cinque
Anonymous
Credit: US National Park Service
Media type: painting
Year:
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The Trapper's Bride
Alfred Jacob Miller
Credit: Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Media type: painting
Year: 1850
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In the Catskills
Thomas Doughty
Credit: Reynolda House, Museum of American Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Media type: painting
Year: 1835
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The Winter of 1849
Francis Samuel Marryat
Credit: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley
Media type: painting
Year: 1855
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Home in the Woods
Thomas Cole
Credit: Reynolda House, Museum of American Art.
Media type: painting
Year: 1847
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View of the Iron Works, Canton, Massachusetts
Anonymous
Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Media type: painting
Year: 1850
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Georgianna Buckham and Her Mother
Henry Inman
Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Media type: painting
Year: 1839
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Thunderstorm in the Rocky Mountains
Albert Bierstadt
Credit: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Media type: painting
Year: 1859
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Mill On the Brandywine, Delaware
John Rubens Smith
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: painting
Year: 1828
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New York from The Steeple of Saint Paul's Church
Harry A. Papprill
Credit: The New York Public Library
Media type: painting
Year: 1848
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Peaceable Kingdom
Edward Hicks
Credit: National Gallery of Art
Media type: painting
Year: 1834
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Farmers Nooning
William Sidney Mount
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: painting
Year: 1843
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Camp Meeting of the Methodists in North America
M. Dubourg
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: painting
Year: 1819
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Allegorical Representation of the Dying Christian
N.E. Talcott
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: painting
Year: 1847
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The Mother's Grave
James S. Baille
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: painting
Year: 1848
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Se-Quo-Yah [Sequoiah]
F.W. Greenough
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: painting
Year: 1836
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A View of the Mountain Pass, Called the Notch of the White Mountains (Crawford Notch)
Thomas Cole
Credit: National Gallery of Art
Media type: painting
Year: 1839
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Dancing For Eels
James Brown
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: painting
Year: 1848
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Captured By Indians
George Caleb Bingham
Credit: The Saint Louis Art Museum. Bequest of Arthur C. Hoskins
Media type: painting
Year: 1848
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River View With Factory
James Fuller Queen
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: painting
Year: 1857
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Kindred Spirits
Asher B. Durand
Credit: The New York Public Library
Media type: painting
Year: 1849
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The Lackawanna Valley
George Innes
Credit: National Gallery of Art
Media type: painting
Year: 1855
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The Falls Of The Kaaterskill
Thomas Cole
Credit: The Warner Collection of Gulf States Paper Corporation, Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Media type: painting
Year: 1826
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John Brown
James Wallace Black
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: photograph
Year: 1859
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Harpers Ferry Armory, Main Entrance
Anonymous
Credit: US National Park Service
Media type: photograph
Year: 1862
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Amelia Bloomer
Anonymous
Credit: US National Park Service
Media type: photograph
Year: 1860
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Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law
E.C. Del
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: political cartoon
Year: 1851
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Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law
Theodore Kaufmann
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: political cartoon
Year: 1850
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The Secretary of War Presenting a Stand of Colours
Bow Wow-Wow (pseud.) (Napoleon Sarony?)
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: political cartoon
Year: 1840
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The Symbolical Head, Illustrating All the Phrenology
Anonymous
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: print
Year: 1842
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Kansas-Nebraska Act
Media type: treaty-image
Year: 1854
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Long-billed Curlew, Numenius longirostris.
Credit: Amon Cater Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Media type: engraving
Year: 1834
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Mac-Cut-I-Mish-E-Ca-Cu-Cac or Black Hawk, a Celebrated Sac Chief
Credit: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Media type: lithograph
Year: 1836
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Roll of Honor - Woman's Rights Convention at Seneca Falls
Media type: miscellaneous-image
Year: 1848
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Cyrus McCormick's Reaper
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: illustration
Year: 1831
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Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey
Credit: Library of Congress
Media type: photograph
Year: 1898
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