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An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca. 1:200,000]--The bar and ha... More

Rakugan Matsubaya Somenosuke, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Somenosuke, a courtesan, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, with two attendants/trainees. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in... More

Hako chotin o motsu nidaime ichikawa monnosuke, Shunsh Katsukawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one of a set of Hosoban Nishikie. Forms part of: Japanese prints and drawings (Library of Congress).

Ichimuraza no mae no iroko - Public domain drawing

Print shows two young men dreaming about acting at the theater. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. Forms p... More

Shinpan ukie shiba shinmeigū no zu

Print shows people entering the Shiba Shinmei Shrine and on the streets and in shops around the shrine.

A Map of forty miles north, thirty miles west, and twentyfive miles so...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

In Congress, May 17, 1775. Resolved that all exportations to Quebec, N...

Photographic copy.; Not in Ford or Evans.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Prin... More

The plot discovered, communicated by letter from a worthy American pat...

Evans 14408. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 107, Folder 26.

Yotsumeya Nishikigi, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

A woman, seated, holding a pipe, and another woman, standing on the left, holding a kimono. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Ha... More

The council of the rulers, & the elders against the tribe of ye Americ...

Print shows a group of men in the Hall of Commons, several seated around a table, on the wall is a map labeled "North America" which has burst into flames, in the foreground stands Lord North passing banknotes ... More

William Penn's treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province o...

Illustration shows William Penn standing with a group of settlers and Native Americans.

[Liberty triumphs over Tyranny] / Isaac Taylor del et sculp.

Print shows a female figure holding staff topped with liberty cap, representing Liberty, standing over Tyranny in a pastoral setting.

Ukie wakoku no keiseki shin-yoshiwara nakanochō no zu

Print shows many people on the Nakanocho Boulevard at night near the gate to the Shin-Yoshiwara pleasure district of Tokyo, possibly during the lantern festival, with teahouses and shops lining the street.

On Saturday next will be perform’d by a society of ladies and gentleme...

Positive Photostat.; Stamped on verso: 504. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collectio... More

[A Native American presents map to Europe?] / R.R. inv & fect.

Print shows the interior of a temple, a Native bowing on one knee and presenting a map to a female figure (Liberty?) sitting on a throne on a pedestal and holding a long staff topped with a liberty cap; a cheru... More

An old fox tarr'd and feather'd

Print shows title page illustration of caricature of John Wesley as a fox in clerical robes. Illus. in: An old fox tarr'd and feather'd / Augustus Montague Toplady. London : Printed for M. Lewis [etc.], 1775, ... More

A plan of the town and harbour of Boston and the country adjacent with...

Public domain image of a vintage map, geography atlas, maritime navigation, age of discovery, 16th-17th century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

A plan of the city of New-York & its environs to Greenwich, on the Nor...

Scale ca. 1:6,300. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. Dedicated to Major Gen. Thos. Gage. Includes descriptive note, "References," and inset "A chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Ho... More

Fresh news. Just arrived an express from the Provincial camp near Bost...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 15.

The political cartoon for the year 1775, British Cartoon Print

Cartoon shows George III and Lord Mansfield, seated on an open chaise drawn by two horses labeled "Obstinacy" and "Pride," about to lead Britain into an abyss represented by the war with the American colonies. ... More

The political cartoon for the year 1775, British Cartoon Print

Benjamin Franklin, May-July 1775, Thomas Jefferson's Copy of "Articles...

Thomas Jefferson's Copy of "Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union"; Draft and Incomplete Printed Copy

The Scotch Butchery, Boston, 1775, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment ... More

The congress / P.E.D. inv. & delin. ; R. Aitkin sculp.

Print shows title page illustration of a female figure, representing America, sitting amidst implements of war. Illus. in: The Pennsylvania magazine: or, American monthly museum. Philadelphia : Printed and sol... More

A correct view of the late battle at Charlestown : June 17th, 1775 /

Shows troops in action, British ships, and the village of Charleston. Bird's-eye-view. Exhibited in G&M exhibit, May 1975. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

A view of Boston from Dorchester Neck / Wm. Pierre delin.

Print shows view across harbor of Boston from Dorchester, Massachusetts. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777... More

At a council, held at the Palace, May 2, 1775. Present his Excellency ...

Not in Evans. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 178, Folder 13c.

Ōkanaya uchi suminoto, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Suminoto of the Okana-ya, a courtesan, full-length, seated, facing left, with two apprentices combing her hair. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print sp... More

A new plan of Boston Harbour from an actual survey.

Scale ca. 1:110,000. "N.B. Charlestown burnt June 17th, 1775 by the regulars." Index for points of interest. Cited in David McNeely Stauffer's American engravers upon copper and steel as appearing in the Pennsy... More

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The council of the rulers, & the elders against the tribe of ye Americ...

By his Excellency the Right Honourable John Earl of Dunmore, his Majes...

For assignment of place of printing see American notes and Queries. Feb. 1974 p. 163-4.; Evans No. 14592 was printed at Norfolk and is a larger page.; Negative Photostat.; Not in Evans.; On verso, copy 1: Nov ... More

Sukeroku shirozak euri, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Seiro niwaka kyogen : Comedy bursting from the green houses. Format: vertical Chuban ... More

In Provincial congress, Concord, April 15, 1775 … Resolved that it be ...

Imprint 3.; Thanksgiving proclamation. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 38, Folder 7.

Characteristick [sic] Chactan Busts

Choctaw Indians. Illus. in: Bernard Romans, A Concise Natural History of East and West Florida (1775), opposite page 82. Ref. copy may be in LOT 4391 H. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

[Harmony weeps for the present situation of American affairs] / J.C. i...

Print shows Harmony leaning against an urn weeping in a pastoral setting. Illus. in: A sermon on the present situation of American affairs / William Smith. London : Edward and Charles Dilly, 1775, title page. ... More

An accurate map of North America. Describing and distinguishing the Br...

Scale ca. 1:550,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longit. w. from London." From Thomas Jefferys' American atlas. 1775. no. 5, 6. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 23 Includes historical notes, ex... More

Benjamin Franklin, et al, 1775-76, Continental Congress Committee of S...

A declaration by the representatives of the United Colonies of North-A...

To the public. As the claim of Cornelius C. Bogardus and others to lan...

The political cartoon for the year 1775, British Cartoon Print

The patriotick barber of New York, or the Captain in the suds, British...

Cartoon shows a New York barber refusing to finish shaving a customer after learning of his British identity. Plate III. Attributed to Philip Dawe, per BMC no. 5284. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the Bri... More

Archibald Cary to Thomas Jefferson, October 31, 1775, Military Affairs...

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Philadelphia, January 2, 1775. Proposals for printing by subscription,...

[Title page, with no illus., for Abraham Swan's, The British architect...

Illus. in: Abraham Swan, The British architect: or, The builder's treasury of staircases. Philadelphia, Printed for R. Bell by J. Norman, 1775, title page. No file print. This record contains unverified, old da... More

Carte réduite des îles Antilles : au nord du 13me. degré de latitude ;...

Scale ca. 1:1,250,000 and ca. 1:1,300,000. Hand colored. Prime meridian: Paris. "Longitude occidentale du méridien de Paris pris à la Observatoire." Relief shown pictorially. Depths shown by soundings. "Dressé... More

[Battle of Bunker Hill. - Public domain vintage map

Scale ca. 1:3,900. Title from manuscript catalog of Peter Force map collection. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and pencil. Relief shown by hachures. Includes "References" to points of military interest in different ha... More

A commission By His Excellency the Honorable Thomas Gage, Captain gene...

Positive Photostat.; Not in Ford.; Stamped on verso: 452. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephe... More

The Head of--an alderman finished by cupid, British Cartoon Print

Political cartoon showing man being amorous to woman stopped while making painting of another man which is being finished by cupid hovering above the painting. Forms part of British Cartoon Prints Collection ... More

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. LC copy sectioned and mounted on cloth backing. LC copy imperfect: Deteriorated along folds. "Longitude west from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings.... More

A map of the British colonies in North America, with the roads, distan...

Scale ca. 1:2,000,000. Hand colored. Fourth ed. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 43 Includes text and inset "A new map of Hudson's Bay and Labrador from the late surveys of those c... More

An elegy, occasion’d by the death of Major-General Joseph Warren, who ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 38, Folder 18b.

Cambridge 21st August 1775. Wanted for the Continental Army ...

Public requisition of supplies, including bricks, firewood, lumber, charcoal, hay, straw, corn, oats, shovels, spades, pickaxes, handsaws, and lime. Reference copy may be in LOT 4412A. This record contains unve... More

[View from Beacon Hill] - Public domain scan / drawing

Drawing shows view from a British redoubt, with cannon and soldier in the foreground, on Beacon Hill. Includes legend which identifies prominent features, such as the (1) Mystic River, (8) North Boston, and (11... More

Instructions for the inlisting of men .... In provincial Congress at N...

Evans 14305. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 27a.

The patriotick barber of New York, or the Captain in the suds, British...

A society of patriotic ladies, at Edenton in North Carolina, British C...

Print shows satire of American women from Edenton, North Carolina, pledging to boycott English tea in response to Continental Congress resolution in 1774 to boycott English goods. Plate V. Attributed to P(hilip... More

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Nakamura tomijūrō no ōiso no tora

Print shows the actor Nakamura Tomijūrō, full-length portrait, holding a bonsai on a tray, in the female role of Ōiso no Tora.

A Plan oe [i.e. of] the British lines on Boston Neck in August 1775.

Scale ca. 1:3,300. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Has watermark. Oriented with north to the bottom. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 915 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a... More

To the Hone. Jno. Hancock, Esqre. president of ye Continental Congress...

Scale ca. 1:320,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Indexed for points of interest. Insets with indexes: Plan of Boston and its environs, 1775.--A view of the lines thrown up on Boston Neck; by the min... More

Kudanme, Shunsh Katsukawa, Forty Seven Rōnin

Print shows Tonase holding a sword, standing behind her step-daughter Konami on a veranda as Honzō walks by, disguised as a traveling monk, wearing a beehive-shaped basket over his head and playing a recorder. ... More

The thistle reel. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British ...

Print shows Lords Bute, North, and Mansfield dancing around a large thistle entwined with a garter ribbon bearing the motto "Honi soit qui mal y pense"; Mansfield is holding the "Quebec Bill" in his left hand. ... More

New York, May 2, 1775. To the friends of freedom in the City of New Yo...

Evans 14068. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 28, Folder 6a.

William Penn's treaty with the Indians, when he founded the province o...

Illustration shows William Penn standing with a group of settlers and Native Americans.

A sketch of the action between the British forces and the American pro...

Scale ca. 1:13,800. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Indexed for points of military interest. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC Maps of North America, 1750-178... More

In Provincial congress, Concord, April 12, 1775. Whereas the preservat...

Photographic copy.; Stamped on verso: Mss Division.; On verso: Ac. 373. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copie... More

Letter from William Thompson to Evan Shelby

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The West-India atlas, or, A compendious description of the West-Indies...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The West-India atlas, or, A compendious description of the West-Indies...

Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The alternative of Williams-burg, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a "Virginian loyalist" being forced to sign a document, possibly issued by the Williamsburg Convention, by a club-wielding mob of "liberty men". On the left, a man is being led towards a gallows sta... More

Yūjo zu, Shunsh Katsukawa - Public domain portrait print

Print shows a courtesan, full-length, standing, facing right. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Hashirae-ban Nishikie. Forms par... More

A machine for delivering persons from burning houses / R. Aitken sculp...

Print shows two men manipulating a large wooden device with pulleys and a large basket attached for the rescue of persons from burning buildings. Title from related article in The Pennsylvania Magazine. For the... More

A view of the country towards Dorchester, taken from the advanced work...

Print shows open countryside looking toward Dorchester, Massachusetts, with soldiers in redoubt on the left. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph... More

Miss V-gh-n [and] the American hero

Print shows cameo portraits of an American woman, Miss Vaughan and William Howe. Illus. in: The town and country magazine, or, Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and entertainment. London : Printe... More

Onoe tamizō, Shunk Katsukawa - Public domain portrait engraving

Print shows the actor Onoe Tamizō, full-length portrait, standing, facing right in an onnagata role. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006.... More

Matsubaya uchi somenosuke, Isoda Koryūsai - Ukiyo e print

Print shows Somenosuke of Matsuba-ya, a courtesan, full-length, seated, facing right, with an apprentice helping her put on a kimono. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Ed... More

Boston from Willis Creek / William Pierre delin.

Print shows distant view of Boston from across river. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, .... London : 1777-1781. This record ... More

Mappa totius mundi : adornata juxta observationes dnn. academiae regal...

Relief shown pictorially. Appears in Tobias Conrad Lotter's Atlas géographique de cent et huit cartes générales et spéciales. Augsburg, 1778. Includes note, ill., and ancillary maps of the northern hemisphere a... More

Boston Gazette and Country Journal (newspaper), November 13, 1775, Kin...

King George's "Proclamation for Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition"; Thanksgiving Day

The honble. John Hancock of Boston in New-England, president of the Am...

Print shows John Hancock, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval frame. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / ... More

The honble. John Hancock of Boston in New-England, president of the Am...

Yodaime iwai hanshirō, Shunk Katsukawa - Ukiyo e print

Print shows the actor Iwai Hanshirō, full-length portrait, standing at the edge of a pond, facing left, portraying a female role. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo pr... More

Nidaime bandō mitsugorō no asahina, Shunk Katsukawa

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: one panel of a set of Hosoban Nishikie. Set includes 2234. Forms part of: Japanese prints and ... More

New York, 1775. Sir, The independent company of free citizens, of whic...

Not in Evans.; On verso: ap 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 107, Folder 14b.

To all true whigs, and particularly to such as are independent elector...

Imprint 2.; On verso: S; Sept 28, 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 36.

A petition to the Honourable the Committee of safety for the Colony of...

Evans 14384.; On verso: S; 1775. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 108, Folder 45.

[Adam with birds, beasts & fish], engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. of Genesis on page one of 1775 German Bible publ. in Philadelphia. Reference copy may be in LOT 4444 A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Bible O.T. Gene... More

St. Christophers or St. Kitts, - Public domain old map

Scale ca. 1:53,000. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown in fathoms. Cadastral map. Shows administrative boundaries. Prime meridian: London and Ferro. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1989 A... More

A new map of Ayr Shire comprehending Kyle, Cunningham & Carrick : the ...

Relief shown pictorially. Facsimile. Original version: [Norfolk, England? : s.n], 1775. Pyle sculp., Angel Court, Snow Hill, London. "Publish'd according to Act of Parliament, January 10th 1775." Available also... More