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Battle of Spottsylvania by Bror Thure de Thulstrup 1887 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | The Battle of Spotsylvania Court House, sometimes simply referred to as the Battle of Spotsylvania (or the 19th century spelling Spottsylvania), was the second major battle in Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant's 1864 Overland Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the bloody but inconclusive Battle of the Wilderness, Grant's army disengaged from... | |
Building pontoons by Bror Thure de Thulstrup c. 1887 May 16 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | The Battle of Fredericksburg was fought December 11–15, 1862, in and around Fredericksburg, Virginia, between General Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose E. Burnside. The Union army's futile frontal assaults on December 13 against entrenched Confederate defenders on... | |
Carrying off the ivory by Bror Thure de Thulstrup 1888 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | The fictional adventurer Allan Quatermain (center) follows his men carrying a large quantity of ivory, in the H. Rider Haggard novel Maiwa's Revenge: or, The War of the Little Hand (1888). | |
Congress Voting The Declaration Of Independence by Robert Edge Pine engraving Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Pine, Robert Edge | Print shows men gathered in the Assembly Room in the Pennsylvania State House (now called Independence Hall), Philadelphia. Completed figures include John Adams, Roger Sherman, James Wilson and Thomas Jefferson, handing a document to John Hancock, president of the Congress. Seated in the front from left to right are Samuel Adams, Robert Morris,... | |
Corrupt Legislation by Elihu Vedder 1895-1896 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Vedder, Elihu | Description: A central female figure is seated in a throne on a path overgrown with weeds. With her right hand she waves away a poorly dressed girl who is in search of work. In her left hand she holds a sliding scale. A man sits beside her with a bag of gold and an overturned voting urn with ballots. In the background are the man's factories--some... | |
Government by Elihu Vedder 1895-1896 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Vedder, Elihu | Description: This central panel in the series of Government represents the abstract conception of a republic as the ideal state. A central female figure sits on a marble throne and is crowned with a wreath. She holds a golden scepter and supports a tablet inscribed "A government of the people, by the people, for the people." The winged youths stand... | |
Grand National Whig Banner: Press Onward by Nathaniel Currier c. 1848 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Currier, Nathaniel | Print shows a campaign banner for Whig Party candidates in the national election of 1848. The banner, promoting Zachary Taylor and his vice presidential running mate Millard Fillmore, is almost identical to Currier's "Grand, National, Democratic Banner" (no. 1848-6) differing only in the candidate portraits, campaign mottos, the lettering on the... | |
Grant from West Point to Appomattox by Bror Thure de Thulstrup 1885 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Thulstrup, Bror Thure de | Ulysses Grant, half-length portrait, facing left; surrounded by nine scenes of his career from West Point graduation in 1843 to Lee's surrender in 1865, including artillery crew in the Tower of Chapultepec, Mexico, 1847; drilling Volunteers, 1861; Fort Donelson, 1862; Shiloh, 1862; Siege of Vicksburg, 1863; Chattanooga, 1863; appointment by Lincoln... | |
His view by Charles Jay Taylor 1896 Sept. 2 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Taylor, Charles Jay | Two African American men converse. One stands, leaning against a barrel and holding a slice of watermelon. The other sits on a doorstep with a pail between his legs. | |
I Should Like To Make My Own Living by William Thomas Smedley 1906 Library of Congress Washington, D.C. | Smedley, William Thomas |
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