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Secty. Baker decorating graves of French Soldiers Bastille Day, 7/12/20

Secty. Baker decorating graves of French Soldiers Bastille Day, 7/12/2...

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Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur ...

Print shows a large bonfire of items related to the nobility as part of the celebration commemorating the fall of the Bastille. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution ... More

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man with a lion on a leash

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man with a lion on a leash

Print shows a member of the Third Estate playing a bagpipe, standing next to a tame lion, representing the monarchy, and manipulating marionettes, representing the clergy and the nobility, on a string tied to h... More

Reveil du tiers etat - A drawing of a man being taken to the ground

Reveil du tiers etat - A drawing of a man being taken to the ground

Print shows a nobleman and a clergyman reacting with horror as a member of the Third Estate awakens, throws off the chains of bondage, and reaches for a rifle. The destruction of the Bastille is taking place in... More

French Fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

French Fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Bastille Day (July 14) celebrations, probably in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

La Bastille - Print, Library of Congress collection

La Bastille - Print, Library of Congress collection

This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Morin.

L'aristocratic écrasée. Book illustration from Library of Congress

L'aristocratic écrasée. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Français et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque... More

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly, British Cartoon Print

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

Paris gardé par le peuple la nuit du 12 au 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

Paris gardé par le peuple la nuit du 12 au 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur in...

Print shows a citizens patrol in Paris, trying to restore order in the nights prior to the storming of the Bastille. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. ... More

C'est ainsi qu'on se venge des traitres

C'est ainsi qu'on se venge des traitres

French soldiers or militia carrying the heads of the Marquis de Launay and Jacques de Flesselles on pikes, who were killed on July 14, 1789, following the taking of the Bastille.

[Place de la Bastille, Paris, France]

[Place de la Bastille, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1154". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of their task-masters the excise officers, British Cartoon Print

Excise inquisition erecting by English slaves under the scourge of the...

A British satire on an attempt by William Pitt and George Rose to transfer to excise law certain import duties; standing in opposition is Edward Thurlow. The central image shows Britannia, wrapped in a blanket ... More

[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]

[Aristocrats digging the Champ-de-Mars]

Print shows well-dressed aristocratic women, children, some men, and members of the clergy digging and hauling soil in wheelbarrows in a effort to transform the Champ-de-Mars into a suitable place for the festi... More

Victory Day celebration, July 14, 1919, Arch of Triumph, Paris

Victory Day celebration, July 14, 1919, Arch of Triumph, Paris

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18775. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

L'homme au masque de fer - Political cartoon, public domain image

L'homme au masque de fer - Political cartoon, public domain image

Print shows a prisoner in chains and wearing an iron mask sitting on a bench in a prison cell, and another man with a lantern and a tray of food entering the cell in the Bastille. Possibly purchased by George ... More

Place de la Bastille, Paris, France

Place de la Bastille, Paris, France

Photograph shows bird's-eye view of plaza, streets and monument at the Place de la Bastille, Paris, France. H6738 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 1920.

French Fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

French Fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Bastille Day (July 14) celebrations, probably in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

L'aristocratic écrasée - Public domain scan / engraving

L'aristocratic écrasée - Public domain scan / engraving

Print shows a bust portrait of Louis XVI atop a pedestal with engraved text "A Louis XVI Pere des Français et Roi d'un peuple libre." A reclining female figure, aided by Father Time, is engraving text on plaque... More

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly, British Cartoon Print

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

Nouvelle place de la Bastille - A drawing of a man holding a baby in front of a group of people

Nouvelle place de la Bastille - A drawing of a man holding a baby in f...

Cartoon shows Louis XVI standing on a pedestal with one foot on the hydra of despotism(?) from which five of seven heads have been severed; on the left, a clergyman offers him a gold coin, and on the right, a S... More

[Place de la Bastille, Paris, France]

[Place de la Bastille, Paris, France]

Title from the Detroit Publishing Co., Catalogue J foreign section, Detroit, Mich. : Detroit Publishing Company, 1905. Print no. "1154". Forms part of: Views of architecture, monuments, and other sites in Franc... More

Salute to the Marseillaise & Star Spangled Banner, Bastille Day, Camp Devens

Salute to the Marseillaise & Star Spangled Banner, Bastille Day, Camp ...

J230675 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. H. Russell; July 19, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45879. Exhibit loan 4105-L #168.3.

Jean Bastille. Address: Sainte-Hermina. (Vendee) protege of: Battery A. 43rd Artillery (CAC), American Expeditionary Forces

Jean Bastille. Address: Sainte-Hermina. (Vendee) protege of: Battery A...

Caption from negative sleeve: Jean Bastille. Title and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Date (year) based ... More

Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

Commemoration de la prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1792 / Prieur ...

Print shows a large bonfire of items related to the nobility as part of the celebration commemorating the fall of the Bastille. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution ... More

Reveil du Tiers Etat, ma feinte, il doit tems que je me revillise, car l'opression de mes fers me donnions le cochemar un peu trop fort

Reveil du Tiers Etat, ma feinte, il doit tems que je me revillise, car...

Clergyman and aristocrat recoiling from figure representing Third Estate, who is picking up chains and guns; storming of the Bastille in background.

Prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1789 Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp

Prise de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1789 Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthaul...

Print shows a mob of revolutionaries storming the Bastille at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Au... More

Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas at right waiting for mobs to attack pickets so she can order out new banners.

Bastille Day. Julia Hurlbut of N.J. leading. Iris Calderhead of Kansas...

Title transcribed from item. Summary: Photograph of Julia Hurlbut leading procession of (two) suffragists down city sidewalk, both suffragists wear suffrage sashes and hold aloft suffrage banners, Hurlbut holds... More

Secty. Baker decorating graves of French Soldiers Bastille Day, 71220

Secty. Baker decorating graves of French Soldiers Bastille Day, 71220

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is availabl... More

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly, British Cartoon Print

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

Vue de la salle de Walse construite au carré de la laiterie (soixante pieds de diametre) ; Vue du temple de la paix dans le grand carré des Champs Elisées

Vue de la salle de Walse construite au carré de la laiterie (soixante ...

Print shows celebrations for the anniversary of the founding of the French Republic, July 14, 1801 in two images, including a tent for dancing and a balloon ascension from which André Jacques Garnerin descends ... More

Fédération générale faite à Paris, le 14 Juillet 1790 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

Fédération générale faite à Paris, le 14 Juillet 1790 / Prieur inv. & ...

Print shows the first festival of federation, a celebration organized to commemorate the fall of the Bastille and to express French unity under the revolution; shows a large triumphal arch at left center, a cer... More

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man in a red coat and a lion

Adieu Bastille - A drawing of a man in a red coat and a lion

Print shows a man playing a bagpipe, behind him lies a lion on a chain which is draped over his right arm, his left foot rests on a gameboard, at the far end of which is a peg with string attached, the string r... More

Chasse à la grosse bête - A drawing of an elephant attacking a man on a horse

Chasse à la grosse bête - A drawing of an elephant attacking a man on ...

Print shows members of a citizen's militia attacking and severing heads of a great beast, the many-headed Hydra of despotism. The Bastille appears under siege in the background. Includes a long caption, "Couple... More

Portrait d'aprés nature du Sr. Humbert, Compagnon Horloger, natif de Langres, qui a monté le deuxieme à l'assaut à la prise de la Bastille, le mardi 14 Juillet 1789

Portrait d'aprés nature du Sr. Humbert, Compagnon Horloger, natif de L...

Print shows Sr. Humbert and Sr. Harné, a grenadier in the French Guards, leaders, respectively, of the second and first assaults on the Bastille, 14 July 1789, half-length portrait, facing each other, each in o... More

Arrestation de Mr. de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet 1789 Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp

Arrestation de Mr. de Launay, gouverneur de la Bastille, le 14 Juillet...

Print shows a mob of revolutionaries after the storming the Bastille, when late in the afternoon, Governor De Launay, of the Bastille, is arrested and taken away, on the lower left, at the beginning of the Revo... More

French Fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

French Fete - Glass negative photogrpah. Public domain.

Photo shows Bastille Day (July 14) celebrations, probably in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009)

Prise de la Bastille par les Citoyens de Paris...; C'est ainsi que l'on punit les traitres

Prise de la Bastille par les Citoyens de Paris...; C'est ainsi que l'o...

Citizens with guns and pikes outside of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, and heads of "traitors" being carried on pikes. Translated titles: The taking of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris...; The traitors are ... More

Sans vous je périssoit - Public domain book illustration, Library of Congress

Sans vous je périssoit - Public domain book illustration, Library of C...

Allegory showing three soldiers saving "France" who is falling from a cliff and a monument to the taking of the Bastille in the background. Possibly purchased by George IV from William Holland in 1790. Source:... More

Vue brillante de l'aniversaire du 14 juillet 1801

Vue brillante de l'aniversaire du 14 juillet 1801

Print shows a crowd viewing fireworks at a Bastille Day celebration in Paris, France. A balloon appears in the upper right corner. "du 25 Messidor de l'Ang. Feu d'arlifice tiré á l'etoile des Champs Elyseés, ... More

Paris. Place de la Bastille Charles Rivière del. et lith

Paris. Place de la Bastille Charles Rivière del. et lith

Print shows a street level view of Colonne de Juillet at the Place de la Bastille, with carts, wagons, and coaches and pedestrians in the square. Printed on lower right corner: 47. Stamped on verso: LC Divisio... More

July 14 Fete, George Grantham Bain Collection

July 14 Fete, George Grantham Bain Collection

Blindfolded children playing game in front of musicians on bandstand, N.Y.C., probably for Bastille Day celebrations. Photo by Bain News Service, N.Y.C. Title and other information transcribed from unverified, ... More

French Fete, George Grantham Bain Collection

French Fete, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Bastille Day (July 14) celebrations, probably in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geor... More

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National Assembly, British Cartoon Print

The knight of the woeful countenance going to extirpate the National A...

Print shows Edmund Burke as Don Quixote, wearing armor, carrying lance and shield labeled "Shield of Aristocracy and Despotism," riding a donkey, emerging from the doorway to the "Dodsley Bookseller" the publis... More

Paris. Great was the joy of the "doughboy" when he ran into one of his old friends, a sailor boy, down near the Place de le Bastille

Paris. Great was the joy of the "doughboy" when he ran into one of his...

Caption from negative sleeve: Doughboy receives permission to go to Paris. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. ... More

Salute to the Marseillaise & Star Spangled Banner, Bastille Day, Camp Devens

Salute to the Marseillaise & Star Spangled Banner, Bastille Day, Camp ...

J230675 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; Geo. H. Russell; July 19, 1918; DLC/PP-1918:45879. Exhibit loan 4105-L #168.3.

Paris. The "doughboy" found himself in the Place de la Bastille gazing at the great Colonne de Juillet, which is in bronze over 150 feet high and built from 1831 to 1840 by Alavoine and Duc. The pedestal bears the dates 27, 28 and 29th of July. On the column is inscribed the names of 615 persons who took part in the street fighting on those days and whose remains lie in the vaults underground. The statue the "Genius of Liberty," in guilt bronze, crowns the summit

Paris. The "doughboy" found himself in the Place de la Bastille gazing...

Caption from negative sleeve: Place de la Bastille, Doughboy set. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Hine. Gift; Ame... More

Secty. Baker & Genrl. March decorating grave of French soldier Bastille Day, 71220

Secty. Baker & Genrl. March decorating grave of French soldier Bastill...

Title from unverified data provided by the National Photo Company on the negatives or negative sleeves. Gift; Herbert A. French; 1947. General information about the National Photo Company collection is availabl... More

[Open air dances on the 14th of July, Paris, France]

[Open air dances on the 14th of July, Paris, France]

(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Parisian Pastimes" by Richard Whiteing, Century, 60:95 (May 1900). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Prise de la Bastille par les Citoyens de Paris...; C'est ainsi que l'on punit les traitres

Prise de la Bastille par les Citoyens de Paris...; C'est ainsi que l'o...

Citizens with guns and pikes outside of the Bastille, July 14, 1789, and heads of "traitors" being carried on pikes. Translated titles: The taking of the Bastille by the citizens of Paris...; The traitors are ... More

Travaux du Champ de Mars pour la federation du 14 Juillet 1790 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

Travaux du Champ de Mars pour la federation du 14 Juillet 1790 / Prieu...

Print shows many people working to transform the Champ de Mars into a place suitable for the fête de la fédération, on the anniversary of the fall of the Bastille, commemorating the establishment of the constit... More

Fête du 14 juillet an IX vue du temple eleve dans le grand carré des Champs Elyseés dans lequel le concert fut exécuté.

Fête du 14 juillet an IX vue du temple eleve dans le grand carré des C...

Print shows a celebration on the Champs Elyseés in Paris, France, on Bastille Day, July 14, 1801. Includes spectators watching a balloon ascension. (Source: A.G. Renstrom, LC staff, 1981-82.)

French Fete, George Grantham Bain Collection

French Fete, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photo shows Bastille Day (July 14) celebrations, probably in New York City. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2009) Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative. Forms part of: Geor... More

Cuvenot, Andre. Address: La Bastille, Pont-l'Abbe-Picauville (Nanche) protege of: Lt. Alan F. Williams, co Army General Staff College

Cuvenot, Andre. Address: La Bastille, Pont-l'Abbe-Picauville (Nanche) ...

Caption from negative sleeve: AndrÚ Guivenot, adopte. Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Coles. [Henri A. Coles] Rep... More

Le mea culpa du Prince Lambesc -- sans restitution point de salut

Le mea culpa du Prince Lambesc -- sans restitution point de salut

Print shows three men representing the nobility, the clergy, and the third estate meeting beneath a tree against which is sitting Prince de Lambesc, while workmen demolish the Bastille in the background. May sy... More

Paris gardé par le peuple la nuit du 12 au 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

Paris gardé par le peuple la nuit du 12 au 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur in...

Print shows a citizens patrol in Paris, trying to restore order in the nights prior to the storming of the Bastille. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. ... More

Fete nationale de la France. 1789 - 14 Juillet - 1881 Grande fete Champetre! au "Sharpshooters' park." Anniversaire de la prise de la bastille, le 14 Juillet 1789, et de la fete de la federation, le 14 Juillet 1790 ... Le Comité Chicago, le 1er

Fete nationale de la France. 1789 - 14 Juillet - 1881 Grande fete Cham...

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 18, Folder 26.

[Open air dances on the 14th of July, Paris, France]

[Open air dances on the 14th of July, Paris, France]

(DLC/PP-1935:0022). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Parisian Pastimes" by Richard Whiteing, Century, 60:95 (May 1900). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

C'est ainsi qu'on se venge des traitres

C'est ainsi qu'on se venge des traitres

French soldiers or militia carrying the heads of the Marquis de Launay and Jacques de Flesselles on pikes, who were killed on July 14, 1789, following the taking of the Bastille.

Portrait d'apres nature du Sr. Harné natif de Dôle en Franche Comté Grenadier aux Gardes Francaises qui àmonté le premier à l'assaut et à arreté le gouverneur de la Bastille le mardi 14 Juillet 1789

Portrait d'apres nature du Sr. Harné natif de Dôle en Franche Comté Gr...

Print shows Sr. Harné, a grenadier in the French Guards, and Sr. Humbert, leaders, respectively, of the first and second assaults on the Bastille, 14 July 1789, full-length portrait, standing, facing each other... More

Don Dismallo running the literary gantlet, British Cartoon Print

Don Dismallo running the literary gantlet, British Cartoon Print

Print shows Edmund Burke in fools dress receiving lashes on his bare back as he runs a gauntlet of his peers which also includes Justice holding a sword, and Liberty, with staff topped with a liberty cap, who h... More

Secty. Baker & Genrl. March decorating grave of French soldier Bastille Day, 7/12/20

Secty. Baker & Genrl. March decorating grave of French soldier Bastill...

A group of men standing on top of a lush green field. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Victory Day celebration, July 14, 1919, Arch of Triumph, Paris

Victory Day celebration, July 14, 1919, Arch of Triumph, Paris

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18775. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More