revolution

Alexander Hamilton Papers: General Correspondence, 1734-1804; 1800, Ma...

Alexander Hamilton Papers: General Correspondence, 1734-1804; 1793, No...

U.S. Army-Artillery retreat from Long Island-1776

Copyright by the Werner Company. Public domain photograph - city, downtown, New York, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Give me liberty, or give me death!" Patrick Henry delivering his grea...

Public domain scan of American poster, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Narrative of events which occured in Baltimore town during the Revolut...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site.

The parricide A sketch of modern patriotism.

Print shows a woman wearing a feathered headdress, representing "America", stepping on Britannia's broken spear and shield, she lunges from the left, at the direction of John Wilkes, toward "Britannia" who is b... More

The parricide A sketch of modern patriotism.

Print shows a woman wearing a feathered headdress, representing "America", stepping on Britannia's broken spear and shield, she lunges from the left, at the direction of John Wilkes, toward "Britannia" who is b... More

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

Marinus Willett preventing removal of arms by the British, June 6th, 1...

Willett stepping in front of horse-drawn cart. J59368 U.S. Copyright Office.

Drilling new recruits / Arthurs.

American colonial officers standing before recruits at present arms; fort entrance in background; during Revolutionary war(?) K14692 U.S. Copyright Office. Reproduction of painting by Arthurs, 1905. Copyright b... More

Heroes of "76," marching to the fight

Print shows local militia, led by a dummer and a fifer, marching off to war. Reference print in LOT 4412 BC. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3030

Heroes of "76," marching to the fight

Print shows local militia, led by a dummer and a fifer, marching off to war. Reference print in LOT 4412 BC. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 3030

America in flames, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a woman representing "America" seated in flames fanned from above by two men in clouds wielding British measures, "Quebec Bill" and "Masachusets (sic) Bay", against the colonies; four British men, r... More

A privy council, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a meeting of the George III, portrayed as an ass wearing an ermnie robe, and his council of ministers, portrayed as various animals; whispering into the king's ear is Lord Bute represented by a bird... More

Washington's triumphal entry into New York, Nov. 25th, 1783 / C. Inger...

Print showing George Washington and other military officers riding on horseback along street (to the viewer's right), spectators line the street, and others observe from balconies and through windows. Entered ... More

[Panoramic view of West Point, New York showing American encampments o...

Pencilled on back: "Encampment of the Revolutionary Army on the Hudson River." Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compi... More

Letter from George Rogers Clark to George Mason

Charles Lee Esq'r. - major general of the Continental-Army in America ...

Print shows Charles Lee, full-length portrait, facing right, seated on horse, holding sword, with troops in the background. Includes verse in German and French. Published in: The American Revolution in drawing... More

Declaration of Independence: July 4th 1776

Print shows the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Reference copy in LOT 4412 LC. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 1664.

Washington receiving a salute on the field of Trenton / John Faed, R.S...

Print shows Washington, on horseback, holding hat in one hand and sword in the other. Engraving by Holl after a painting by John Faed.

Miss Carolina Sulivan - one of the obstinate daughters of America, 177...

Cartoon shows Sullivan's Island, portrayed as a head-and-shoulders portrait of a woman who looks like William Pitt, right profile, with large hairdo meant to conceal fortifications, cannons, and several battle ... More

General Washington (on the battle field at Trenton) / engraved by W. W...

Print showing General George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, wearing military uniform; he is holding a telescope in his right hand while an aide manages his horse behind him; shown in t... More

Home Insurance Company, cash assets $6,000,000, August / Kronheim & Co...

Print on recto shows calendar from the Home Insurance Company almanac, August 1876, with illustration of George Washington at the Battle of Monmouth; description of illustration on verso. Picture caption from ... More

The belligerent plenipo's / T. Colley, fect.

Cartoon shows America, on the right, represented by an Indian, celebrating her new acquisition, half of the English king's crown, while her allies, the King of France, a Dutchman, and a Spaniard complain at hav... More

Philadelphie - la ville capitale de Pensylvanie province Nord-Americai...

Print shows men in boats and ships along the waterfront in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Caption continues: entre deux fleuves navigables et l'apella Philadelphie, parceque les habitans y vivoient dans une harmo... More

Amérique campagne. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Most of the plans are oriented with north to the top. This is the first in a series of plans of the camps of Comte de Rochambeau's army during the march ... More

Amérique campagne. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Most of the plans are oriented with north to the top. This is the first in a series of plans of the camps of Comte de Rochambeau's army during the march ... More

Atlas of the battles of the American Revolution, together with maps sh...

LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 609, 910, 1003, 1013, 1183, 1184, 1185, 1186, 1200, 1291, 1321, 1327, 1337, 1342, 1346, 1356, 1375, 1465, 1474, 1476, 1516, 1543, 1561, 1564, 1566, 1576, 1630, 2075 Availabl... More

Elevation of a truck-carriage [and] plan of a truck carriage

Print shows two views of a "Truck carriage." Illus. in: A treatise on artillery ... / John Muller. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, for J. Norman, 1779, PL XXIV. Published in: The American Revolution... More

[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

[A Tory and a patriot wrestle for a pine tree banner while an Native w...

Print shows a cartouche on a map with Loyalist attempting to replace a banner displaying a pine tree and topped with a liberty cap signifying America with a banner bearing the British lion; the patriot raises a... More

Sketch of Brunswick. Sketch of the ground near Mr. Low's at Rariton La...

Scale ca. 1:12,000 and scale not given. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Watermark: J. Whatman. Relief shown by shading. No. 3 includes numbered location index to redoubts, troop positions, etc. Accompan... More

[Views of the coastline of New York, Long Island, Staten Island, and t...

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 contains unverified, old data from Cresswell, 1975. Pu... More

Plan of the operations of General Washington against the King's troops...

Scale ca. 1:113,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink and watercolor. Relief shown by hachures. Shows area from Newtown, Pennsylvania to Kingston, New Jersey, with routes of British and American forces. LC Maps of North... More

East view of Hell Gate, in the province of New York / W.A. Williams de...

Print shows an artist in the foreground sketching scene of the Hell Gate section of the East River; includes numbered legend identifying features of the straits. Illus. in: The London magazine, 1778 (April), p... More

Der Americanische Gener: Arnold

Benedict Arnold, half-length portrait, facing right, wearing military uniform; in oval frame. Illus. in: Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa / Christoph Heinrich Korn. Nürnberg : G. N. Raspe, 1776-84, p.... More

The Hon[ora]ble S[i]r William Howe, Knight of the Bath and commander i...

Print shows Sir William Howe, three-quarter length portrait, in uniform. Reference copy in BIOG. FILE. Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires, v. 5, no. 5405.

Robert Rogers - commandeur der Americaner, engraving, Library of Congr...

Print shows Robert Rogers, half-length portrait, wearing military uniform, standing, facing slightly left, with musket nestled in crook of left elbow, and Native American standing in the background. Illus. in:... More

The defeat of the Spanish fleet under Don Juan de Langara, by Sir Geor...

Print shows a naval battle between the British fleet, under the command of Sir George Brydges Rodney, and a much smaller Spanish fleet, under the command of Don Juan de Langara, off Cape Saint Vincent, Portugal... More

The gig / Wells del., British Cartoon Print

Print shows two British sailors waving banners labeled "Rodney," one smokes a long clay pipe, between them is a Dutchman, his hands behind his back, sitting in the bottom portion of a toy top, he says, "Mine he... More

Jack England fighting the four confederates

Print shows a British sailor about to fight the "four confederates" America as "Yanky Doodle" (represented by a Native man wearing feathered headdress and skirt) lying on the ground moaning, "This fall has hurt... More

The catch singers. Book illustration from Library of Congress, British...

Print shows Lord North, on the right, Lord Germain, and Lord Sandwich (or Richard Howe) sitting around a table, with William Howe standing at the end of the table on the left; they are toasting their financial ... More

Charles Henri Comte Destaing, né le 24 Novembre 1729

Charles Henri comte d'Estaing, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing uniform, facing slightly right; in framed medallion. Illus. in: Extrait du journal d'un officier de la marine de l'escadre de M. le comte d'Es... More

Commodore Hopkins / R. Pollard sc., engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows Esek Hopkins, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing military uniform, in oval. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America; ... More

Siege du Fort S. Philippe dessiné par le Paon peintre de S.A.S. Mgr. l...

Print shows the bombardment of the fort St. Philip's Castle on the island of Minorca during the siege of the fort by French and Spanish forces; Lt. General Duc de Crillon, on horseback, watches from near an art... More

1. Americanischer scharffschütz oder Jäger (rifleman) 2. regulaire inf...

Print shows German versions of an American rifleman and a soldier with the Pennsylvania infantry, full-length, standing, facing each other, wearing military uniform, holding rifles. Illus. in: Allgemeines hist... More

Die Americaner wiedersetzen sich der Stempel-Acte, und verbrennen das ...

Print shows citizens in Boston burning proclamations from England pertaining to the stamp act of 1765, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. S. 61. [Plate] 1. Published in: The... More

1. General Washington's reitende leibgarde 2. die independent company,...

Print shows German versions of a member of the Commander-in-Chief's Guard and a company soldier under Washington's command, full-length, standing, facing each other, wearing military uniform.

George the III / Reynolds del. ; Angus sculp.

Print shows King George III, full-length portrait, facing left, wearing ermine robe and powdered wig, left hand resting on shelf with orb, crown, and scepter. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France... More

The armorial bearings of the states of Pennsylvania & New Jersey

Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1787 (June), opp. p. 491. Stauffer, 3279 Published in: The American Revolution in d... More

Par moy vous êtes tous freres - A black and white drawing of a man hol...

Print shows on the right, a woman, "la réligion" (possibly representing the Virgin Mary), labeled no. 1, standing, holding a cross illuminated by the sun, on the left, a cluster of figures includes an angel-lik... More

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.

Honneurs rendus à la Pauvreté en l'Eglise de St. Jacques de la Boucher...

Print shows draperies being hung on the walls of Church of St. Jacques de la Boucherie as a crowd of working class men, women, and children, many carrying torches, accompany a coffin carried by two men during a... More

J'suis du Tiers-ètat - A drawing of a man holding a glass of wine

Print shows a cobbler, representing the Third Estate, walking to the right, holding up a bottle and a glass. Trimmed within plate mark. Possibly purchased by George IV from William Holland in 1790. Source: Kat... More

The right honourable the Marquis De La Fayette, unanimouslly chosen co...

Print shows Marquis de Lafayette, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly right, wearing uniform; in oval. Includes four lines of verse "translated from the French of the Chev. P. de Berainville" below ima... More

View of the triumphal arch and colonnade, erected in Boston / engrav'd...

Print shows an arch spanning the street in front of the state house in Boston, Massachusetts, in honor of George Washington's visit in October 1789. Illus. in: The Massachusetts magazine, or, Monthly museum of... More

Assemblée nationale, abandon de tous les privileges, à Versailles scea...

Print shows the Assemblée nationale meeting in a large room with amphitheater seating as members of the clergy and the nobility come forward to renounce their priviledges. No. 4 from the series "Principales Jo... More

Confederation Nationale du 14 Juillet 1790 Aux deux soutiens de la lib...

Print shows a central scene at the National Federation festivities recognizing the union of the three estates with a display on a tiered stage illuminated by torches and with many figures making salutory gestur... More

French happiness - English misery / IC.

Print shows, on the left, four ragged and starving sansculottes fighting over a frog, a cat has dropped dead at their feet, and scenes of death in the background; on the right, a scene in an English tavern with... More

Pariser poisarden / C. Katz, [s. or f.]c.

Satire on revolutionaries. Possibly by Cornelis Katz. Purchase; Kunsthandel Antiquariaat Sothmann; 1985; (DLC/PP-1985:398).

[Du pain et la constitution de LXXXXIII] / dessiné par C. Monnet ; gra...

Print shows the Assemblée nationale législative meeting in a large room crowded with French citizens, many of them armed with swords and pikes, one holding aloft a victim's head on a pike, another firing a rifl... More

New morality; or The promis'd installment of the high-priest of the Th...

Print shows French politician and Theophilanthropist Louis Marie la Révellière-Lépaux standing on a three-legged stool perched upon a stone dais reading Religion de la N[ature] to surrounding caricatures of peo... More

Robespierre amené blessé, dans l'anti-salle du comité de Salut public ...

Maximilien Robespierre, laying wounded on a table in the anteroom of the Committee of Public Safety. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, chez Auber, 1804, no. 107.

Pillage de la Maison de St. Lazare, le lundi 13 Juillet 1789 / [Prieur...

Print shows a mob of French citizens looting the Maison de St. Lazare at the beginning of the Revolution in 1789. Trimmed to edge of image, to include title, but not artist statements. Illustration from: Colle... More

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

Washington crossing the Delaware, engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows George Washington on horseback. Copyright by Humphrey Phelps. From the collection of Sherman Adams. Original item not at LC. Reference print in Presidential File.

Derniere procession constitutionelle pour l'Enterrement du serment civ...

Procession of priests with long noses, with Archbishop of Paris, Gobel, in front and mythical creature holding casket of civil oaths bringing up rear. Represents priests who were against the civil constitution ... More

The late auction at St. Eustatia - by R-- & V--

Print shows the interior of an auction house where Admiral Rodney and General John Vaughan are disposing property seized from citizens on the island of Saint Eustatius which the British captured from the Dutch.

Dédiée l'Assemblée Nationale--Liste de MMr. les Deputes de Paris a l'A...

Deputies of the Third Estate in a carriage drawn by two sheep and two bulls on their way to the Versailles directory; dishevelled lion; figure of the Republic with anchor on low platform behind; list of deputie... More

Mort affreuse de Louis XVI, le plus vertueux et le plus infortuné de m...

The execution of Louis XVI by France. John Davis Batchelder Collection. No. 87.

Civil War envelope showing Continental Army soldier with sword and Ame...

Addressed to Mr. Joseph A. Houston, Washington, D.C., Fourth Vt. Regiment, Co. H ; postmarked East [...], Feb. 18 ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) Purchased from: Frank Kaplan, Mr. ... More

[Yorktown Monument (Alliance and Victory Monument), Yorktown, Virginia...

Original architectural drawing showing the Yorktown Monument nearing completion, with scaffolding still in place. Gift; American Institute of Architects / American Architectural Foundation; 2010; (DLC/PP-2010:... More

Washington crossing the Delaware

Print is reproduction of Emanuel Leutze's painting used as a sheet music cover for "The Contintental March." Copyright 1898 by A. W. Elson & Co., Boston.

New York, N.Y., Washington's bedroom, Washington headquarters (Morris-...

Title from jacket. Detroit Publishing Co. no. 043822. Gift; State Historical Society of Colorado; 1949.

Washington's headquarters, Newburgh, N.Y.

Public domain photograph of 19th-century vintage card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Washington's headquarters [i.e. Ford Mansion], Morristown, N.J.

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Puck magazine cover - A revelation in revolutions / Kep.

Illustration shows Uncle Sam with a bundle of papers labeled "Canal Plans" patting a diminutive man, wearing a hat labeled "Panama", on the shoulder. The man smiles broadly and is leaning on a large sword. Cana... More

[Washington taking command of the American army under the old elm at C...

67429 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - historical image of Massachusetts, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Gun of the insurrectos - Mexican War

Group of soldiers posed with cannon and guns, during Mexican revolution. J155027 U.S. Copyright Office.

Lunch in insurrecto camp near Juarez--Mexican War

Battle of Ciudad Juarez during the Mexican revolution against the Diaz government. J155921 U.S. Copyright Office.

[General Campa and staff, Mexican War]

Six men with rifles. J166903 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - military portrait, armed forces officer, leader, commander, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mexico, Federalists at Ojinaga, watching advance of rebels

J191433 U.S. Copyright Office. Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Long live the Council of Workmen's and Soldiers' Deputees!

Photograph shows a crowd of mostly women and children with banner on a street in Saint Petersburg. Includes Russian caption. No. 406.

Moscow. [Building on street corner with signs and banners]. Bringing f...

Titles from item and devised by library staff. From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and Asia for First National City Bank of New York. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2010:041

General Obregon receiving medal from admirers in Celaya, Mexico Mexica...

Photograph shows two women presenting medal to General Álvaro Obregón Salido as military officers look on. J213172 U.S. Copyright Office.

Perhaps if I feed him he'll go to sleep

Rabbit "Idealist" holding pail of "sweet stuff" to feed "Bolsheviki" snake in desolate landscape. Variant title on verso: Perhaps after he is fed he'll go to sleep. (DLC/PP-1932:0042). Forms part of: Cabinet of... More

Hoover with Sons of American Revolution, 10/25/29

A group of men standing in front of a building. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Woodburn," built shortly after the Revolution by Charles Cotesworth P...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a small palace, chateau, villa, residential historic building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

L'armée françoise combattant l'armée Angloise à bord opposé troisieme ...

Photograph shows the French fleet, in the foreground, attacking the British fleet, with the island of Grenada in the background. Includes legend. Original wash drawings Available in the Ozanne map collection i... More

Ministry of interior building in Plaza de la Revolution (Revolution Sq...

The Iron face on the façade is Che Guevara. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Carol M. Highsmith Archive, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Divisio... More

H. Gates / drawn from the life by Du Simitier in Philadelphia ; engrav...

Horatio Gates, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, in medallion. Illus. from: Portraits des généraux, ministres et magistrats [...]. Paris : 1781, no. 6. After a drawing by Pierre Eugène Du Simitière. Pu... More

The French revolution: burning the royal carriages at the Chateau d'Eu...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2317

Grand funeral procession of the victims of the revolution: les tunebie...

Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 2700

Nelson House, Yorktown, Virginia, headquarters of General Cornwallis

No. 16544. Public domain photograph of building, stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Roshia daikakumeishi, Japanese Censorship Collection

Cover title. "Kominterun hensū"--1st p. of plates. "MOJ 75-A 200" : intended for microfilm. LC copy from Naimushō Keihokyoku censorship collection; classified as "annei kinshi". LC copy brittle; placed in aci... More

La Carmagnole - early American - Public domain music sheet scan

For high voice and piano; includes guitar arrangement on page 3 [104]. Caption title. Page numbering in ink. French words. (language) Staff notation. (language)

William A. Gladstone Afro-American Military Collection: Business card ...

Serii︠a︡ plakatov "Grazhdanskai︠a︡" voĭna v 10 listov : Sovetskiĭ Soi︠...

Series of 10 pictorial wall maps issued as posters to illustrate the military successes of the Red Army in the Russian Civil War of 1917-1922. Some maps cover the entire Soviet Union, some cover only the Europe... More

Travels through the interior parts of America,

"Five hundred and seventy-five copies of this edition were printed ... in September, 1923, of which five hundred and twenty-five are to be sold." LC has copy no. 549. Also available in digital form on the Libra... More

Vuë de Boston. Prospect der Könnig Strasse gegen das land thor zu Bost...

Print shows view of King Street in Boston, Massachusetts. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Se vend á Augsbourg au Negoce com̄un de l'Academie... More