![Trial of Ossawattamie [sic] Brown View of the court-room during the trial, with accurate portraits of the presiding judge, the twelve ... men, the counsel for the prisoner and prosecution, and Brown, as he reclined on his couch / / from a drawing taken by our special artist.](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NTkvMDEvMDEvdHJpYWwtb2Ytb3NzYXdhdHRhbWllLXNpYy1icm93bi12aWV3LW9mLXRoZS1jb3VydC1yb29tLWR1cmluZy10aGUtdHJpYWwtd2l0aC0xMDI0LmpwZw%3D%3D/40/32/webp "Trial of Ossawattamie [sic] Brown View of the court-room during the trial, with accurate portraits of the presiding judge, the twelve ... men, the counsel for the prisoner and prosecution, and Brown, as he reclined on his couch / / from a drawing taken by our special artist.")
Trial of Ossawattamie [sic] Brown View of the court-room during the tr...
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Sifting the dirt / L.M. Glackens., Political Cartoon
Illustration shows a hand labeled "The Courts" with a shovel labeled "Criminal Proceedings" scooping from a pile labeled "Big & Little Crooks" and tossing against a mesh labeled "The Law"; the fat capitalists, ... More
The judgement of Solomon Taft / L.M. Glackens.
Illustration shows President Taft as Solomon holding a baby elephant labeled "G.O.P." aloft in one hand and a large sword labeled "Party Cleaver" in the other; one man labeled "Stand-Patter" pleads for Solomon ... More
Housing court, 2nd floor, 141 Livingston St., Brooklyn Papin
Drawing shows an interior view of a courtroom of the Kings County Housing Court with a civil trial in process showing a man and possibly an attorney standing before a judge with the "Clerk" standing next to the... More
Madison County Courthouse, Wallace Street, Virginia City, Madison Coun...
Significance: This is a rather large and stately courthouse built in a gold mining town that by then has lost the seat of the Territorial Government and many of its inhabitants to the richer claims of Helena. S... More
Madison County Courthouse, Wallace Street, Virginia City, Madison Coun...
Significance: This is a rather large and stately courthouse built in a gold mining town that by then has lost the seat of the Territorial Government and many of its inhabitants to the richer claims of Helena. S... More
Madison County Courthouse, Wallace Street, Virginia City, Madison Coun...
Significance: This is a rather large and stately courthouse built in a gold mining town that by then has lost the seat of the Territorial Government and many of its inhabitants to the richer claims of Helena. S... More
Madison County Courthouse, Wallace Street, Virginia City, Madison Coun...
Significance: This is a rather large and stately courthouse built in a gold mining town that by then has lost the seat of the Territorial Government and many of its inhabitants to the richer claims of Helena. S... More
Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...
See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More
Courthouse & Post Office, Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, VT
Significance: This cast-iron frame building was designed by Ammi B. Young, Supervising Architect, Office of Construction, Treasury Department, 1852-1862, and built 1856-1859. The building is maintained in exce... More
Courthouse & Post Office, Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, VT
Significance: This cast-iron frame building was designed by Ammi B. Young, Supervising Architect, Office of Construction, Treasury Department, 1852-1862, and built 1856-1859. The building is maintained in exce... More
Confederate State Capitol, Old Military Road (State Highway), Washing...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS AR-32-3 Building/structure dates: 1828- 1832 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1930 Subsequent Work
Pueblo Federal Building & Post Office, 421 North Main Street, Pueblo, ...
Survey number: HABS CO-186 Building/structure dates: 1896-1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935-1936 Subsequent Work
Pueblo Federal Building & Post Office, 421 North Main Street, Pueblo, ...
Survey number: HABS CO-186 Building/structure dates: 1896-1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935-1936 Subsequent Work
Pueblo Federal Building & Post Office, 421 North Main Street, Pueblo, ...
Survey number: HABS CO-186 Building/structure dates: 1896-1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935-1936 Subsequent Work
Courthouse, 600 Second Street, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Survey number: HABS LA-1310 Building/structure dates: 1896 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1961 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1976 S... More
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
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U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
Survey number: HABS SD-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
Survey number: HABS SD-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
Survey number: HABS SD-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Constitution Hall, 315 Elmore Street, Lecompton, Douglas County, KS
1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Constitution Hall was built in 1856, probably by Samuel Jones, sheriff of Douglas County and a notorious proslavery champion. It was a commercial ventur... More
Sud kaziia. Prigotovlenie k sudebnomu razbiratel'stvu
Illus. in: Turkestanskii al'bom, chast' ėtnograficheskaia, 1871-1872, part 2, vol. 1, p. 66.
The one man power in our jury system / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows an old hag labeled "Tradition" sitting in a chair labeled "Justice" and holding a large balance scale labeled "LAW" with ten men on the right and one smug man labeled "Stubbornness, Ignorance... More
Puck magazine cover - "Due process of law" / Ehrhart.
Illustration shows Justice, wearing a crown labeled "Law" and carrying a sword and scales, riding on the back of a snail, climbing a steep hill strewn with bolders labeled "Certificate of reasonable doubt, Appe... More
Judge Ames & Judge Payne - Public domain portrait photograph
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![[Defendants Scott Kern, Jon Lester, Jason Ladone, and Michael Pirone face African American man, possibly lawyer C. Vernon Mason or Alton Maddox, as Judge Thomas A. Demakos and medical examiner Dr. Gwen Harleman observe at Howard Beach manslaughter and assault trial]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE5ODcvMDEvMDEvZGVmZW5kYW50cy1zY290dC1rZXJuLWpvbi1sZXN0ZXItamFzb24tbGFkb25lLWFuZC1taWNoYWVsLXBpcm9uZS1mYWNlLWFmcmljYW4tMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/30/webp "[Defendants Scott Kern, Jon Lester, Jason Ladone, and Michael Pirone face African American man, possibly lawyer C. Vernon Mason or Alton Maddox, as Judge Thomas A. Demakos and medical examiner Dr. Gwen Harleman observe at Howard Beach manslaughter and assault trial]")
[Defendants Scott Kern, Jon Lester, Jason Ladone, and Michael Pirone f...
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Madison County Courthouse, Wallace Street, Virginia City, Madison Coun...
Significance: This is a rather large and stately courthouse built in a gold mining town that by then has lost the seat of the Territorial Government and many of its inhabitants to the richer claims of Helena. S... More
Madison County Courthouse, Wallace Street, Virginia City, Madison Coun...
Significance: This is a rather large and stately courthouse built in a gold mining town that by then has lost the seat of the Territorial Government and many of its inhabitants to the richer claims of Helena. S... More
Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...
See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More
Courthouse & Post Office, Main Street, Windsor, Windsor County, VT
Significance: This cast-iron frame building was designed by Ammi B. Young, Supervising Architect, Office of Construction, Treasury Department, 1852-1862, and built 1856-1859. The building is maintained in exce... More
Our overworked Supreme Court / J. Keppler.
Illustration shows Supreme Court justices "Woods, Blatchford, Harlan, Gray, Miller, Field, Waite, Bradley [and] Matthews" around a table, struggling to keep up with an overload of cases piling up on the floor, ... More
Trial of George Jacobs of Salem for witchcraft
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U. S. Post Office & Courthouse, 25 South Third Street, Yakima, Yakima ...
Significance: Historically the monumental Beaux Arts Structure has always served as Yakima Main Post Office and Federal Courthouse. The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Immigration and Naturalizati... More
Pueblo Federal Building & Post Office, 421 North Main Street, Pueblo, ...
Survey number: HABS CO-186 Building/structure dates: 1896-1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935-1936 Subsequent Work
Pueblo Federal Building & Post Office, 421 North Main Street, Pueblo, ...
Survey number: HABS CO-186 Building/structure dates: 1896-1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935-1936 Subsequent Work
Town Hall & Jail, 21900 Main Street, Saint Elmo (historical), Chaffee ...
Significance: Both the Town Hall and Jail are well preserved examples of governmental buildings erected in Colorado mountain mining camps during the 1880's. The buildings and their furnishings vividly recall t... More
Courthouse, 600 Second Street, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Survey number: HABS LA-1310 Building/structure dates: 1896 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1961 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1976 S... More
Lincoln City Hall, 916 "O" Street, Lincoln, Lancaster County, NE
Significance: Lincoln's Old City Hall is architecturally significant as a notable product of the "Grant era" and as an unusual fusion of Victorian Gothic and Second Empire elements, typifying in an important me... More
Federal Court Building, South Third Street & Rogers Avenue, Fort Smith...
Survey number: HABS AR-40 Public domain photograph - historical image of Arkansas, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a damaged, burned, or destroyed building, natural disaster, war destruction, ruins, 19th-century architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
Survey number: HABS SD-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
Survey number: HABS SD-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
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Intérieur d'un comité révolutionnaire sous le régime de la terreur / F...
Print shows the interior of a room used by the Revolutionary committee during the Reign of Terror; citizens enter on the left and submit their appeals, then procede along the table where judgment is pronounced ... More
Caricature, A new crime / Dalrymple., public domain cartoon image
Print shows New York City Mayor Robert Anderson Van Wyck as a judge and Richard Croker(?) as a policeman, holding a club labeled "Tammany", bringing a man labeled "Reform" before the judge in a courtroom. Capt... More
"Cheer up, old top; you've got nothing to worry about!"
Four-frame comic strip. A lawyer tells his client to buck up, that he will receive justice in the court. He urges the man to look at the upright judge sitting on the bench above them. The client replies that... More
Trial of George Jacobs of Salem for witchcraft
Public domain reproduction of artwork, 18th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.
The traitor, the thief, the liar, the murderess, the criminal sits the...
No publication information. (DLC/PP-1933:0205). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Juvenile Court. Small boy who is habitual truant. A street boy. Thursd...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Missouri, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The flareback - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows a large cannon labeled "Violence" exploding out the back end, catching J.J. McNamara, J.B. McNamara, Samuel Gompers, and possibly Clarence Darrow in the blast. Two large cannon shells labeled... More
The story of the wise judge - Public domain dedication image
Gift; Mrs. Peter Grant; 1940; (DLC/PP-1940:008). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "Pen and Inklings" by Oliver Herford, Everybody's 38:32 (March 1918).
"I am an international hydrographer"
Drawing shows a sequence of semaphore flag communications sent by the USS Pueblo to a North Korean ship prior to capture; used during the Pueblo Incident hearings in Coronado, California. Inscribed in pencil o... More
Camerman & umbrella in the rain Mesches '69
Drawing shows a television news camerman, three-quarter length, standing, with umbrella over the camera during the Pueblo hearings in Coronado, California. Signed and dated on lower left. Inscribed in pencil o... More
Madison County Courthouse, Wallace Street, Virginia City, Madison Coun...
Significance: This is a rather large and stately courthouse built in a gold mining town that by then has lost the seat of the Territorial Government and many of its inhabitants to the richer claims of Helena. S... More
City-County Building, 414 Grant Street, Pittsburgh, Allegheny County, ...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-187 Survey number: HABS PA-5193 Building/structure dates: 1915- 1917 Initial Construction
Peter Schoenhofen Brewery, West Eighteenth Street & Canalport Avenue, ...
See Written Historical & Desriptive Data pages for reduced copies of drawings. Significance: The Schoenhofen Brewery has historic significance as the only major pre-Prohibition brewery in Chicago to have its st... More
Knox County Courthouse, Southwest corner of Fourth Avenue & Elm Street...
Significance: The Knox County Courthouse, housed in the first floor, is significant for its association with the politics and government of Knox County from 1886 to 1906. After 1906, the first floor served var... More
Knox County Courthouse, Southwest corner of Fourth Avenue & Elm Street...
Significance: The Knox County Courthouse, housed in the first floor, is significant for its association with the politics and government of Knox County from 1886 to 1906. After 1906, the first floor served var... More
Studies in expression. When women are jurors
Drawing show a variety of expressions on the faces of an all woman jury. (DLC/PP-1935:0140). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: American women : a Library of C... More
Confederate State Capitol, Old Military Road (State Highway), Washing...
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-1 Survey number: HABS AR-32-3 Building/structure dates: 1828- 1832 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1930 Subsequent Work
Bolossy Kiralfy's grand Parisian production, Dolores by Victorien Sard...
Includes portraits of Sardou and B. Kiralfy. "Art Goodman Lith." "Copyrighted by Bolossy Kiralfy, 1887, New York." "From sketch by Matt Morgan." Caption: Who is the man that makes the charge. Created by "A.S. S... More
Pueblo Federal Building & Post Office, 421 North Main Street, Pueblo, ...
Survey number: HABS CO-186 Building/structure dates: 1896-1898 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1935-1936 Subsequent Work
The honeymoon is over : he gave me a black eye at Carnegie Hall
German military officer with sword, "Frightfulness," and woman with purse, "Pacifist Party," standing before judge (Uncle Sam) in "Domestic Relations Court." In reference to German funding of Pacifist Party dur... More
Waiting for the verdict / A. Solomon 1857 ; painted by A. Solomon ; en...
Print shows the anguish and fear of the unknown, of the parents, wife, and sister of a young man who has been accused of a crime, as they await the verdict. A young boy is asleep on his mother's lap and the you... More
Courthouse, 600 Second Street, Natchitoches, Natchitoches Parish, LA
Survey number: HABS LA-1310 Building/structure dates: 1896 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1933 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1961 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1976 S... More
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a bridge, water, historic structure, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial equipment, workshop, assembly line, factory, power engine, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...
Picryl description: Public domain image of a hydroelectric dam, industrial facility, power generation, water cascade, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
U. S. Courthouse, 1010 Fifth Avenue, Seattle, King County, WA
Significance: At the time of its completion in August 1940, the United States Courthouse in Seattle was the first building in the West to be designated solely as a Federal courthouse. It was the second Federal... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Allegheny County Courthouse & Jail, 436 Grant Street (Courthouse), 420...
Significance: A prime example of noted architect Richardson's work in what would come to be known as the "Richardsonian Romanesque Style." The jail is particularly notable as an example of functionalism. Surv... More
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
Survey number: HABS SD-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
Survey number: HABS SD-17 Public domain photograph of decorated panel, decor, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Union County Courthouse, Courthouse Square, Elk Point, Union County, S...
Survey number: HABS SD-17 Public domain photograph - historical image of South Dakota, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Constitution Hall, 315 Elmore Street, Lecompton, Douglas County, KS
1993 Charles E. Peterson Prize, First Place Significance: Constitution Hall was built in 1856, probably by Samuel Jones, sheriff of Douglas County and a notorious proslavery champion. It was a commercial ventur... More