1780

[Maps of the expedition from Canada of General Burgoyne]

Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Maps no. 4 and 5 have hinged overlays showing different positions. From John Burgoyne's A state of the expedition from Canada. 1780. Includes indexed "Refere... More

Charles aux Thuillieries [i.e., Tuileries] le 1r decembre MDCCLXXXIII ...

Head-and-shoulders profile portrait of French balloonist J.A.C. Charles, who made the first flight in a hydrogen balloon, Dec. 1, 1783. Includes balloon in background and large bird in foreground. Tissandier c... More

New universal and complete confectioner.

Picryl description: Public domain confectionary cookbook, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Music of Francis Hopkinson - Public domain American sheet music

Title from slipcase spine. In ink, in the hand of Francis Hopkinson. Songs, vocal duets, harpsichord music, and one violin duet. Composed by Hopkinson and various other composers, chiefly James Bremner. The voc... More

Hagi no tamagawa, Shunman Kubo - Public domain drawing

Print shows three women, one holding a lantern, looking at bushclover on the banks of the Tama River. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. ... More

A map of South Carolina and a part of Georgia. Containing the whole se...

Scale ca. 1:322,000. Hand colored. "West longitude from London." Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1518 Available also through the Library of Congress Web... More

The bull roasted: or the political cooks serving their customers, Brit...

Print shows George III, the Earl of Bute, Lord North, and the Earl of Sandwich roasting a bull which Lord North is serving to a Frenchman, a Native (representing America), and a Spaniard who are seated at a lon... More

Conclusion de la campagne de 1781 en Virginie. To his excellency Gener...

Print shows Marquis de Lafayette, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing uniform and holding two swords in left hand while directing American troops during the battle at Yorktown; a black soldier... More

The allies - par nobile fratrum! / Indignatio fecit., British Cartoon ...

Print shows George III sharing a bone with a Native, he is using the top of a skull as a bowl, two Natives on the left drain blood into a skull from the torso of a white infant; on the right are a corpulent bis... More

Acts passed at a General Assembly : begun and held in the town of Rich...

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Sandaime segawa kikunojō - Public domain portrait print

Print shows actor Segawa Kikunojō III, full-length portrait, standing, body turned to the left, facing right.

Letter by John Bowman - Public domain document scan

Horatio Gates to Edward Stevens, August 2, 1780

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

Mimasu tokujirō no san - Public domain drawing

Ukiyo-e actor print, full-length portrait showing the actor Mimasu Tokujirō in an onnagata role as San fixing her hair and holding large wooden container in left hand. Title and other descriptive information co... More

Thomas Jefferson, October 1780, Proposal on Prisoners of War; Conventi...

Proposal on Prisoners of War; Convention Troops

Letter from John Williams Jr. to Isaac Hite

D. Benjamin Franklin, et vita inter Americanos acta, et magnis electri...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing fur cap and spectacles, medallion on pedestal. After portrait by Cochin. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and p... More

General Putnam. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows Israel Putnam, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly right and gesturing to the left with both arms, wearing military uniform and feathered cap with skull and crossbones over the words "or... More

[Views from offshore of islands in the Bay of Fundy and the entrance t...

Prints show distant views of The Wolves, a cluster of islands off New Brunswick in the Bay of Fundy, Grand Manan Island, and the entrance to the Saint John River, with ships passing in the foreground. Illus. i... More

Mr. Blanchard, citoyen de Calais, pensionaire de S.M.T.C. et correspon...

Head-and-shoulders portrait of French balloonist, Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Tissandier collection.

A vieu of Plymouth, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Lord Amherst, Lieutenant General of the Ordnance, wearing military uniform, looking into a peepshow for a view of the progress of the war in America. As Jeffery looks, the showman says, "There you s... More

Westminster election 1780 / E--g inv., British Cartoon Print

Print shows Lord Lincoln standing on the right of St. Paul's portico, Charles James Fox standing in the center with Britannia and the British lion, and on the left, James Young, acting as proxy for Admiral Rodn... More

Chidori no tamagawa, Shunman Kubo - Ukiyo e print

Print shows three women(?) watching plovers dive over the Tama River. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. From the series: Mu tamagawa : S... More

[Italian composer in England], Thomas Rowlandson

Drawing showing a caricature of a man playing piano and singing loudly as a bird, possibly a parrot, sings on a windowsill. Title from acquisition records; also referred to as "Italian composer in London" in ac... More

Guillaume Thomas Reynal / JS [encircled monogram].

Print shows Guillaume-Thomas-François Reynal, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right; in oval with lyre, map of Virginia, and a cherub in the foreground. Engraving attributed to Dupin. Published in: The Ame... More

James Madison to James Madison, Sr., March 20, 1780.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

Conclusion de la campagne de 1781 en Virginie. To his excellency Gener...

Print shows Marquis de Lafayette, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing uniform and holding two swords in left hand while directing American troops during the battle at Yorktown; a black soldier... More

On l'a vu désarmer les Tirans et les Dieux - A.P.D.R. / L.C. de Carmon...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, full-length portrait, left profile, seated at table, hat, book, and papers on table, in the background, through open doors, is view of ships at dock.

John Page to Thomas Jefferson, September 22, 1780

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Architecture vivante - La Cuisiniere / chez Martinet.

Illustration shows a woman fashioned out of and/or wearing and carrying cooking implements, such as pans and utensils, a fireplace, a broom, and a table or chopping block from which a rabbit hangs. No. 1.

James Madison to Edmund Pendleton, October 10, 1780.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

Three thousand-acre land grant to the heirs of Hugh Mercer, Kentucky C...

Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The state tinkers. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British...

Three men breaking a large bowl which is cracked and patched. Lord North is shown chiselling inside the bowl, behind the bowl is Lord Sandwich, next to Lord Sandwich is a man identified as Lord George Germain. ... More

Horatio Gates to James Hunter, October 18, 1780

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

To the commissioners of forfeitures of the Western district of the sta...

Blank form filled in in mss. by Abraham Bloodgood and dated Aug. 3, 1782.; 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. ... More

Thomas Jefferson, May 28, 1780, Military Situation at Charleston, Sout...

Military Situation at Charleston, South Carolina; Articles of Surrender

Town and country cook. - Public domain book scan / engraving

Date of printing suggested by Maclean, Pennell suggests between 1760 and 1770. An anonymous or pirated ed. of The new and complete universal cook, by Ann Partridge, with the same text and engraved frontispiece,... More

Music of Francis Hopkinson - Public domain American sheet music

Title from slipcase spine. In ink, in the hand of Francis Hopkinson. Songs, vocal duets, harpsichord music, and one violin duet. Composed by Hopkinson and various other composers, chiefly James Bremner. The voc... More

Benjamin Franklin - né à Boston dans la Nouvelle Angleterre, le 17 Jan...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing fur hat, without spectacles, facing left, in oval tied with a ribbon at top, on base in frame with title plate. No. 1515. Reference copy in B... More

The f--x and H--d or rival candidates - humbly address'd to the worthy...

Print shows Charles James Fox standing on the left and Lord Lincoln on the right, facing each other as candidates in the Westminster elections. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division ... More

A view of the entrance of Petit Passage

Print shows ships passing cliffs at the entrance to the Petit Passage near Digby Neck, Nova Scotia. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des... More

Azumabashi shita no suzumibune - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows two women on a boat enjoying the cool of the evening beneath the Azuma Bridge. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: lef... More

François Blanchard / Bollinger, sc., engraving, Library of Congress

Half-length profile portrait of French balloonist Jean-Pierre Blanchard. Tissandier collection.

John Paul Jones, commodore au service des Etats-Unis de l'Amérique / d...

Print shows John Paul Jones, half-length portrait, facing slightly right, standing on board ship during battle, reaching with left hand for one of several pistols at his waist, right hand holds sword. Includes... More

Le mole St. Nicolas dans l'isle de St. Domingue, vu du mouillage / N. ...

Print shows view from ship of a long mole on the island of Dominica in the West Indies, with ships, and in the foreground, a boat hauling a large anchor. Caption continues: Tiré d'un recueil de differens ports... More

Prerogatives defeat or liberties triumph, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Charles James Fox helping John Dunning walk on the prostrate bodies of the Earl of Bute and Lord North; a Scotsman attacks Dunning from behind, and in the background on the left, an Irishman and Ame... More

November 8, 1780, Charlotte, Baptist Association, for religious equali...

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Onnna yu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Print shows a scene in a public bathhouse where several women are bathing. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Diptych matted in 2 section... More

Prospetto degli Orti Farnesiani sul Monte Palatino / Carlo Antonini, i...

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December 7, 1780, Buckingham, To silence non-juring preachers.

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The state tinkers, British Cartoon Print - James Gillray, British

Three men breaking a large bowl which is cracked and patched. Lord North is shown chiselling inside the bowl, behind the bowl is Lord Sandwich, next to Lord Sandwich is a man identified as Lord George Germain. ... More

Horatio Gates to W. H. Harrington, August 7, 1780

Public domain scan of Andrew Jackson's correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Maps of the expedition from Canada of Gen. Burgoyne]

Scales vary. Hand colored. Relief shown by hachures. Maps no. 4 and 5 have hinged overlays showing different positions. From John Burgoyne's A state of the expedition from Canada. 1780. Includes indexed "Refere... More

New universal and complete confectioner.

Picryl description: Public domain confectionary cookbook, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Music of Francis Hopkinson - Public domain American sheet music

Title from slipcase spine. In ink, in the hand of Francis Hopkinson. Songs, vocal duets, harpsichord music, and one violin duet. Composed by Hopkinson and various other composers, chiefly James Bremner. The voc... More

Carte particulière du havre de Boston avec les sondes les bancs de Sab...

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

Samuel Adams, esqr. One of the delegates from the province of Massachu...

Samuel Adams, full-length portrait, seated by window, facing slightly left.

Major General Arnold Wounded Dec. 31-1775 at the attack of Quebec.

Benedict Arnold, full-length portrait, wearing uniform, standing, facing slightly right, gesturing with right hand. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America, between Great Britain and her colonies,... More

John Bull triumphant. Book illustration from Library of Congress, Brit...

Print shows a bull tossing a Spaniard into the air, the Earl of Bute, Lord North, and the Earl of Mansfield are attempting to hold it back by pulling on its tail; a Frenchman and America (represented by a Nativ... More

James Lovell and William C. Houston to Benjamin Franklin, July 11, 178...

Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

General Washington, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing uniform and hat; in oval. Engraved for Murrays History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the pres... More

Lafayette, portrait - Public domain portrait engraving

Bust and shoulders silhouette portrait shows French military officer Lafayette facing right. Purchase; 1915; (DLC/PP-1915:44874).

Benjamin Franklin L.L.D. - envoy from the American Congress to the Fre...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, three-quarter length portrait, seated at desk, facing right with left arm resting on arm of chair. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America, between Great Britain an... More

Kaze ni nayamu tōka no onna - Torii Kiyonaga

Print shows a woman huddled against the wind beneath wisteria blossoms. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Adachi modern reprint (Showa).... More

A new and accurate map of the colony of Massachusets [i.e. Massachuset...

Covers eastern Massachusetts, Rhode Island, eastern Connecticut, and small portions of New Hampshire and Vermont. Relief shown pictorially. From Universal magazine of knowledge and pleasure, vol. 66, Dec. 1780,... More

Joseph Jones to James Madison, November 18, 1780.

Transcripts, guides, and tools to help you use this collection may be found at loc.gov James Madison Papers.

The allies - par nobile fratrum! / Indignatio fecit., British Cartoon ...

Print shows George III sharing a bone with a Native, he is using the top of a skull as a bowl, two Natives on the left drain blood into a skull from the torso of a white infant; on the right are a corpulent bis... More

Architecture vivante - La Cuisiniere / chez Martinet.

Illustration shows a woman fashioned out of and/or wearing and carrying cooking implements, such as pans and utensils, a fireplace, a broom, and a table or chopping block from which a rabbit hangs. No. 1.

Onna yu, print by Kiyonaga Torii

Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-2006. Tanrokudo modern reprint (Showa) probably Takamizawa product. Printed on a single sheet. Purchase; H... More

Sawamura sōjūrō no honda - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows the actor Sawamura Sōjūrō, full-length portrait, standing, front view with head turned to the right, holding sword, in the role of Honda. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibun... More

Sawamura sōjūrō no honda - Public domain drawing

Print shows the actor Sawamura Sōjūrō, full-length portrait, standing, front view with head turned to the right, holding sword, in the role of Honda. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibun... More

December 7, 1780, Buckingham, To silence non-juring preachers.

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

D. Benjamin Franklin, et vita inter Americanos acta, et magnis electri...

Print shows Benjamin Franklin, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing fur cap and spectacles, medallion on pedestal. After portrait by Cochin. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and p... More

New universal and complete confectioner.

Picryl description: Public domain confectionary cookbook, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

New universal and complete confectioner.

Picryl description: Public domain confectionary cookbook, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

forme of cury: a roll of ancient cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, b...

Dedication signed: S. Pegge. Signatures: a² b-e⁴ f² A-U⁴ Y² Z-2B⁴. The portrait of Samuel Pegge is dated 1785. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 361 ESTC T40042 Also available in digital form on the Library o... More

forme of cury: a roll of ancient cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, b...

Dedication signed: S. Pegge. Signatures: a² b-e⁴ f² A-U⁴ Y² Z-2B⁴. The portrait of Samuel Pegge is dated 1785. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 361 ESTC T40042 Also available in digital form on the Library o... More

forme of cury: a roll of ancient cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, b...

Dedication signed: S. Pegge. Signatures: a² b-e⁴ f² A-U⁴ Y² Z-2B⁴. The portrait of Samuel Pegge is dated 1785. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 361 ESTC T40042 Also available in digital form on the Library o... More

forme of cury: a roll of ancient cookery, compiled, about A.D. 1390, b...

Dedication signed: S. Pegge. Signatures: a² b-e⁴ f² A-U⁴ Y² Z-2B⁴. The portrait of Samuel Pegge is dated 1785. Bitting, K.G. Gastronomic bib., p. 361 ESTC T40042 Also available in digital form on the Library o... More

Music of Francis Hopkinson - Public domain American sheet music

Title from slipcase spine. In ink, in the hand of Francis Hopkinson. Songs, vocal duets, harpsichord music, and one violin duet. Composed by Hopkinson and various other composers, chiefly James Bremner. The voc... More

Music of Francis Hopkinson - Public domain American sheet music

Title from slipcase spine. In ink, in the hand of Francis Hopkinson. Songs, vocal duets, harpsichord music, and one violin duet. Composed by Hopkinson and various other composers, chiefly James Bremner. The voc... More

Music of Francis Hopkinson - Public domain American sheet music

Title from slipcase spine. In ink, in the hand of Francis Hopkinson. Songs, vocal duets, harpsichord music, and one violin duet. Composed by Hopkinson and various other composers, chiefly James Bremner. The voc... More

Miyamōde, Eishi Hosoda - Public domain portrait drawing

Print shows a woman walking with a young woman or maid, returning from a visit to a shrine. Title and other descriptive information compiled by Nichibunken-sponsored Edo print specialists in 2005-06. Format: Ha... More

The R. Hon'ble. Earl of Dartmouth

William Legge, 2nd Earl of Dartmouth, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right; in oval topped with ribbon and bow. Illus. in: The London magazine. London : Printed by C. Ackers for J. Wilford [etc.], 1780 Oct... More

Robert [i.e., Esek] Hopkins, Esqr., commodore of the American sea forc...

Print shows Esek Hopkins, full-length portrait, wearing military uniform, holding sword at left side, two pistols in his belt. He is standing on shore, pointing to his left, with ships in the background. Illus... More

Lord George Germaine, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Lord George Sackville-Germain, 1st viscount, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right, in oval medallion suspended by ribbon from pin, with draped ribbon forming border across top and sides. Illus... More

Plan of the battle fought near Camden, August 16th, 1780.

Public domain document scan of a map, military, war history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry...

Print shows, on the left, Lord North carrying a large sack labeled "Budget" over his shoulder, tethered to the sack by chain is a lion from which America (represented by a Native man wearing feathered headdress... More

Freedom, peace, plenty, all in vain advance ...

Print shows Britannia carrying a staff topped with a liberty cap and followed by attendants from a temple in the background on the right, advancing over weapons and a shield decorated with fleur-de-lis and a pa... More

Ezra Stiles S.T.D. L.L.D. - president of Yale College / R. Molthrop pi...

Print shows Ezra Stiles, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left; in oval. Stauffer, 516 Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congr... More

Le Général Washington ne quid detrimenti capiat res publica - gravé d'...

Print shows George Washington, full-length portrait, standing outside tent, wearing military uniform, holding the Declaration of Independence and the treaty of alliance with France in front of tent, at his feet... More

Washington - généralissime des Americains, libérateur des Etts-Unis / ...

Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing military uniform; in oval, with tree and landscape in background, above nameplate, within rectangle. Caption continues:... More

Ich sahe ein Lamm heben ober auf dem Berge Zion

Pennsylvania German fraktur labeled with verse from Revelations 14:1, I saw a lamb on Mount Zion, shows Jesus Christ bleeding from crucifixion wounds.

Acts passed at a General Assembly : begun and held in the town of Rich...

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December 7, 1780, Buckingham, To silence non-juring preachers.

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December 7, 1780, Buckingham, To silence non-juring preachers.

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Town and country cook. - Public domain book scan / engraving

Date of printing suggested by Maclean, Pennell suggests between 1760 and 1770. An anonymous or pirated ed. of The new and complete universal cook, by Ann Partridge, with the same text and engraved frontispiece,... More

New universal and complete confectioner.

Picryl description: Public domain confectionary cookbook, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Music of Francis Hopkinson - Public domain American sheet music

Title from slipcase spine. In ink, in the hand of Francis Hopkinson. Songs, vocal duets, harpsichord music, and one violin duet. Composed by Hopkinson and various other composers, chiefly James Bremner. The voc... More

General Grey / Pollard sc., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows General Sir Charles Grey, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform, in oval.