revolution

The "minute-men" of the revolution

Print shows a man on horseback pointing to the distance as two other men prepare to leave with their rifles. A woman on the porch passes a rifle to one man as a younger woman with a child looks distraught. G740... More

The promotion : a story of the Philippine War

Verso of t.p.: Published September, 1906. Illustrations on p. 5, 21, 37, 51, 52, 73, 75, 86, 117, 120, 142, 157 and 192, and ornamented initials throughout. Photographic illustrations on p. 36, 160 and 181. Als... More

The Bostonian's paying the excise-man, or tarring & feathering, Britis...

Print shows five men forcing a tarred and feathered customs officer to drink from a teapot, a bucket and a liberty cap are on the ground at his feet. They stand beneath the "Liberty Tree" from which a rope with... More

Alexander Hamilton Papers: Legal File, 1708-1804; Columbia College, Ne...

Quaker lady detaining the English general

Print shows a Quaker woman with British soldiers, who are drinking around table. Inscribed in ink on lower right: AX7235

The defense of Fort Henry. A story of Wheeling creek in 1777 by James ...

Imperfect: t.-p. and frontispiece wanting. Also available in digital form.

Alexander Hamilton Papers: Legal File, 1708-1804; Seaman v. Bedell, Po...

Benjamin Franklin Papers: Series I, 1772-1783; Correspondence with Dav...

Corporal 'Lige's recruit : a story of Crown Point and Ticonderoga by J...

Publisher's advertisements on 10 pages at end. Also available in digital form.

Col. Joseph Stebbins house - built just before revolution

In album: Old Deerfield. Title on item. Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. Published i... More

The prayer at Valley Forge / painted by H. Brueckner ; engd. by John C...

Print showing George Washington, kneeling on one knee, praying in a grove of trees, his hores nearby, with soldiers gathered around a campfire on the right and a man watching from behind a tree with a mill in t... More

The prayer at Valley Forge / painted by H. Brueckner ; engd. by John C...

Print showing George Washington, kneeling on one knee, praying in a grove of trees, his hores nearby, with soldiers gathered around a campfire on the right and a man watching from behind a tree with a mill in t... More

Gay is angry, gay revolution networker

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

Los sangrientos sucesos en la ciudad de Puebla, la muerte del jefe de ...

Broadside shows bust portrait of Chief of Police Miguel Cabrera juxtaposed with a scene showing a shootout involving a woman and several uniformed men in a compound. The text conveys the pre-revolutionary alter... More

La entrada a Ciudad Juárez canción popular. Al heroico Aquiles Serdán

Broadside shows bust portrait of Aquiles Serdán as well as masthead illustration. The broadside text, on recto, is two songs: one conveying the entrance of Maderistas--supporters of Francisco Madero--into Ciuda... More

Military costume of the Revolution / B.J. Lossing, invt. ; pr. by T. S...

George Washington, full-length portrait, standing, facing slightly left; surrounded by four soldiers in Hessian, British, and French uniforms; a man holding a rifle; a Native American holding a bow, and America... 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

Viva Cuba, territorio libre de America

Poster showing Fidel Castro raising gun and another soldier.

The Capture of Andre 1780 - A group of men standing next to each other

The Capture of Major John Andre. By John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, N.Y., Sept. 23rd, 1780. He is removing negotiation papers, intended for Benedict Arnold for betrayal of West P... More

Mrs. Murray's strategy / E. Percy Moran.

Mrs. Murray entertaining British soldiers, on porch, during the American Revolution.

Die Helden der Revolution / gest. von F. Girsch, N.Y.

General Washington standing with Johann De Kalb, Baron von Steuben, Kazimierz Pułaski, Tadeusz Kościuszko, Lafayette, John Muhlenberg, and other officers during the Revolutionary War.

Washington, appointed Commander in Chief

Print shows George Washington standing on a platform surrounded by members of the Continental Congress. In the background, women wave their handkerchiefs. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gal... More

Debarquement des troupes Engloises a Nouvelle Yorck Die anländung der ...

Print shows the disembarkation of British troops at New York. (as characteristic of optical prints, title is printed in reverse). Exhibited: "Creating the United States," the Library of Congress, Washington, D... More

Washington crossing the Delaware: on the evening of Dec 25th. 1776, pr...

Reference print in LOT 4412 DB. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by Gale Research. Detroit, MI : Gale Research, c1983, no. 7057.

Shelb---ns sacrifice / invented by Cruelty ; engraved by Dishonor., Br...

Print shows Lord Shelburne watching Natives slaughter loyalists in America; Britannia, with raised spear, attacks Shelburne. Caption continues: Or the recommended Loyalists, a faithful representation of a trag... More

[Zehn Karten und Ansichten den Schlachtfelden des amerikanischen Unabh...

Relief shown by hachures on some maps and by landform drawings on some views. Individual map/view titles in German; statements of attribution in Latin. Statements of attribution differ: Ioh. Martin Will excudit... More

The action between the Serapis and Bon Homme Richard Septr. 23rd 1779 ...

Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1879 by Fishel, Adler & Co. in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington, D.C. Library has two impressions. Copyright statement printed on proof; ti... More

The reconciliation between Britania and her daughter America / Pub. by...

Cartoon shows a Native, representing America, with a flag and liberty cap, rushing to the arms of Britannia, who holds a shield inscribed "George for Ever." A Spaniard and a Frenchman combine efforts to pull Am... More

Sir, Please to deliver for the [blank] armed vessel under my command, ...

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Mayo Indians with bows & arrows joining Obregon in Rio Mayo

Postcard shows a line of men with bows drawn. To the left a man beats a drum and another raises a sword. In the center of the photo a man dressed in dark clothing holds a case. Caption continues: These are all... More

Distinguished masons of the revolution

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

"Johnny, what distinguished foreigner aided the Americans after the Re...

(DLC/PP-1938:0086). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Life, 37:463 (May 30, 1901). BAR updated record 1989-1994.

Letter from George Rogers Clark to George Mason

York town, British Cartoon Print, Political Cartoon

Cartoon shows "America" receiving the surrender of Cornwallis in the background, while an emaciated cow representing "English commerce" is robbed of her milk by France, Spain, and Holland in the left foreground... More

The hour of humiliation - how shall we repass the Rubicon?

Drawing shows several British ministers with their heads bowed in shame over the loss of the colonies in America; Lord North can be seen in the background on the right, separating himself from the group. Publi... More

The hour of insolence - we'll bring them at our feet!

Drawing shows Lord North, two clergymen, and several British ministers gloating while looking at a map of North America. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 g... More

Un Sans culotte instrument de crimes dansant au milieu de horreurs ...

Print shows a sansculotte waving banner labeled "Fête du 21 Janvier" at a female figure labeled "Humanité"; in the background is a scene of murder and mayhem. Satire on the death of Louis XVI. Forms part of: F... More

Evacuation of New York by the British, November 25, 1783

Print showing a man on a flagpole replacing the British flag with an American flag as the British fleet departs New York Harbor. Includes lengthy descriptive text. Library has two impressions.

Key plate of the heroes of the Revolution ... Published by Philip Levy...

Exchange: Historical society of York County, Pa. 7-11-40.; On verso of Copy 2: (Stamp) NEG PHOTOSTAT IN RARE BK, PORTFOLIO 123 ITEM 13. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as f... More

The alternative of Williams-burg, British Cartoon Print

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

State cooks, or the downfall of the fish kettle, British Cartoon Print

Print shows George III and Lord North standing in a kitchen, both wear aprons, George III has his back to the fireplace, between them, on the floor, is an overturned kettle of fish, each labeled with the name o... More

Premier hommage des Habitans de Paris á la Famille Royale le mercredi ...

The royal family--Louis XVI, Marie Antoinette, and their children. Translated title: First hommage of the people of Paris to the Royal Family, Wednesday, October 7, 1789, the day after his happy arrival in thi... More

The jail, Philada. / Malcolm delt. et sc.

Print shows an exterior view of the Walnut Street Jail in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A south west view of the city of New York, in North America Vue de sud...

Print shows 1. The harbour, 2. Nutting Island, 3. Staten Island, 4. Long Island, 5. Rutgars House, 6. South River, and 7. Brew-house. Distant view of the city at right. Plate trimmed. Published in: The America... More

Washington at Princeton. Jany. 3rd. 1777 / Painted by Brückner; D. McL...

Print shows General George Washington, on horseback, leading his soldiers during the battle of Princeton. Reference copy in LOT 4412 DC.

His Excel: G: Washington Esq: L.L.D. Late commander in chief of the ar...

Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, in uniform, facing slightly right; in oval. Gift; Jane Bethune Craig Hawkins, great granddaughter of Genl. John Neville 4th Virginia and wife of Genl.... More

George McCully journal, - Public domain document scan

Manuscript copy of a journal (45 pages) kept by McCully pertaining to his journey (1783 June-July) from Pittsburgh, Pa., to Detroit, Mich., on an expedition headed by Ephraim Douglass to inform the Indians of t... More

Philip Vickers Fithian, journal and letters, 1767-1774, student at Pri...

Vol. 2 has title: Philip Vickers Fithian : journal, 1775-1776, written on the Virginia-Pennsylvania frontier and in the Army around New York, edited by Robert Greenhalgh Albion ... and Leonidas Dodson ... Vol. ... More

Philip Vickers Fithian, journal and letters, 1767-1774, student at Pri...

Vol. 2 has title: Philip Vickers Fithian : journal, 1775-1776, written on the Virginia-Pennsylvania frontier and in the Army around New York, edited by Robert Greenhalgh Albion ... and Leonidas Dodson ... Vol. ... More

[Britannia attacked by her enemies]

Print shows Britannia and the British lion being attacked from the left by a Dutchman, a Spaniard, and a Frenchman, and from the right by a Native woman representing America. Illus. in: The new, comprehensive ... More

Les deux ne font qu'un - A drawing of a goat and a goat in a field

Print shows Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette as a two-headed monster pulling in opposite directions; Louis wears the horns of a cuckold and Marie Antoinette has the head of Medusa wearing ostrich feathers. de Vi... More

Eh bien, J-- F--, dira-tu encore vive la noblesse?

Print shows a man, possibly Joseph-François Foullon, on his hands and knees with a woman of the Third Estate, a sword at her side, riding on his back. de Vinck, 2950 Blum, 206 Forms part of: French Political C... More

Il faut donc mourir puis qu'il n'i a plus de son

Print shows a pig sitting upright on the ground, dressed in ecclesiastical vestiments, on the right is a member of the Third Estate holding a long staff and a bell-like device on a string which he holds up befo... More

Map ornament showing a Native family and a large bison, a pelican perc...

Illus. in: Atlas geographicvs maior ... / per Iohannem Baptistam Homannvm. Norimbergae : Curantibus Homannianis Heredibus, 1753-59 [i.e., 1781 ; v. 1, 1759], no. 139. Published in: The American Revolution in ... More

A view of the City of Quebec, the capital of Canada, taken partly from...

Print shows warships on the Saint Lawrence River with the city of Québec in the background. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of S... More

Paul Revere - [Britannia frees the dove of peace]

Newspaper masthead illustration showing Britannia freeing the dove of peace. Illus. in: The Boston Gazette, and Country Journal, no. 769 (1770 January 1), title page. Published in: The American Revolution in d... More

Bunker's Hill on N. York Island

Drawing shows distant view of wooded landscape with a few buildings. Inscriptions on front are difficult to decipher. Inscribed in ink on the back: Montresor. Possibly owned or drawn by John Montrésor, British... More

Castle William, a British fortification on an island in Boston Harbor

Drawing shows a distant view of Castle William, a British fortification on an island in Boston Harbor. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Lib... More

Liberty triumphant; or the downfall of oppression

Political cartoon shows New England colonists' response to the British Tea Tax, enacted by Lord North's ministry in 1773, superimposed over a map of the Northern and Middle British Colonies. Probably published... More

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

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

Commodore Hopkins, commander in chief of the American Fleet, British C...

Print shows Esek Hopkins, three-quarter length portrait, wearing uniform, standing, facing front, with sword drawn during naval engagement; ships in background display "Dont tread upon me" and "Liberty Tree - A... More

The hon. John Hancock, Esq. - president of the honourable the Continen...

Print shows left profile bust portrait of John Hancock between text on "The Character of a Patriot." Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, ... (Boston, Mass.). Boston : 1777, p. 3. Published in: The Americ... More

The taking of Miss Mud I'land, British Cartoon Print

Print shows a female figure as the Mud Island fortress, Fort Mifflin, with two flags on her bonnet, astride a cannon firing on the British warship "Isis"; also show the "Somerset", "Roebuck", "Eagle", and the "... More

Gen'l. George Washington, portrait print, engraving, Library of Congre...

Print shows George Washington, half-length portrait, facing right, wearing military uniform; framed medallion on pedestal with nameplate. Illus. in: The history of America, from its discovery by Columbus to th... More

The botching taylor cutting his cloth to cover a button / John Simpson...

Print shows George III sitting on a table with the Earl of Bute preparing to cut a piece of cloth labeled "Ireland Great Britain Hanover." Lord North is standing to the left holding a piece of cloth already cut... More

Gin - engine for drawing the fuzes out of the shell - box with grapesh...

Print shows various devices used with artillery and a cross-section of a petard. Illus. in: A treatise on artillery ... / John Muller. Philadelphia : Printed by Styner and Cist, for J. Norman, 1779, [PL] XXVII... More

Plan of the encampment and position of the army under His Excelly. Lt....

Scale ca. 1:14,400. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1186 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2: 100; 650

The honble. Horatio Gates, major general of the American forces

Print shows General Horatio Gates, full-length portrait, standing, wearing uniform, facing slightly right, holding scroll labeled "Articles of Capitulation." Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in Ameri... More

John Andre esqr., late Adjutant General of the British forces in Ameri...

John André, full-length portrait, facing right with left arm raised and pointing to the right, wearing military uniform. Illus. in: Walker's Hibernian magazine; or, Compendium of entertaining knowledge. Dublin ... More

Lord Loughborough, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Alexander Wedderburn, Lord Loughborough, Earl of Rosslyn, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile; in oval with sword and scale at top. Illus. in: The London magazine, 1780 (August), pp. 347-348... More

By his majestys royal letters patent - the new invented method of puni...

Print shows Britannia drawn and quartered at a crossroad by ropes attached to three horses, one labeled "Tyranny" racing down the road "to America", another labeled "Venality" racing down the road "to Spain", a... More

A view of the guard-house and Simsbury-mines, now called Newgate - a p...

Print shows a diagram of the guardhouse with sections identified by letter (legend not visible in print); shows shaft leading to underground chamber, "F. A strong trap door opening the descent to Hell" which le... More

General Gage / R. Pollard sculp., engraving, Library of Congress

General Thomas Gage, half-length portrait, wearing uniform, facing slightly left; in oval. Engraved for Murray's History of the American War. Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America; from its firs... More

St. Lucia in the West Indies taken possession of by Admiral Barrington...

Print shows six ships in line flying the French flag, however, appears to be disembarking British troops who are about to take possession of the island after the French have withdrawn. Engraved for Barnard's N... More

Prise de Tabago dessiné par William ; gravé par N. Ponce, Graveur de M...

Print shows French troops, some suffering from heat exhaustion, during the invasion of British held Tobago in May 1781; the French took advantage of the British pre-occupation with the American Revolution to at... More

Die Einwohner von Boston wersen den englisch-ostindischen Thee ins Mee...

Print shows citizens of Boston, disguised as Indians, boarding ships in Boston Harbor and throwing chests of tea overboard, one of twelve scenes depicting the history of the American Revolution. S. 74. [Plate]... More

Captain Asgill, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Captain Sir Charles Asgill, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing military uniform and hat, left profile; in oval. Illus. in: History of the war with America, France, Spain, and Holland : commencing in 1775 and ... More

Lord Keppel / Golder sculp., Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows Augustus Keppel Viscount Keppel, head-and-shoulders portrait, wearing uniform, left profile, in oval on pedestal with nameplate.

While Commerce spreads her canvas o'er the main, ...

Print shows Columbia with two children being welcomed by Minerva. Public domain scan of 18th-century etching print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

View of the west bank of the Hudson's River 3 miles above Still Water,...

Print shows a panoramic view of three hills along the west bank of the Hudson River in New York.

Encampment of the convention army at Charlotte Ville in Virginia after...

Print shows a panoramic view of the landscape in Charlottesville, Virginia, with British troops, captured at the surrender in Saratoga, engaged in subsistence farming. Illus. in: Travels through the interior p... More

Le tems donnant les cendres à la noblesse et au clergé

Print shows Father Time flying past an altar on which the privileges of the nobility and the clergy are being burned; he is annointing the forehead of one priest with the ashes of the consummed documents as ano... More

Washington. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows George Washington, possibly at the time of inauguration, stepping on a flag with the crest of England on it.

Mirabeau pere du peuple / Lacaille sculp cit.

Print shows Mirabeau, bust portrait, left profile, in medallion. Purchase; Denenberg Fine Arts; 1984; (DLC/PP-1984:180). Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).

Bréf du Pape en 1791 - A cartoon of a man in a blue coat and hat

Print shows a member of the Third Estate, with cockade on his hat and a big smile, using a Papal letter to clean himself after defecating on papers of Le Clerc de Juigné on the ground; Abbé Royou, with glass, a... More

Geo: Washington, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile, wearing military uniform; in oval. Printed at top: Engraved for the Ladies Mag. Portion of a watermark on bottom left: WL. Baker, 429 ... More

Represantant d'une grande nation / J. Cooke, sculpt., 40 Howland St.

"A grotesque monster, nude and hairy, representing the Constitution of the Year III, stands against the trunk of L'Arbre de Liberté (right) with upraised hands. The tree, Emblême de l'Arbre de Connoissance, has... More

Serment du jeu de paume, à Versailles / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault...

Print shows a large group of people taking an oath at the tennis court, Versailles, during the French Revolution. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Paris, che... More

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

Le peuple sous l'ancien Regime - A drawing of a man being carried by a...

Cartoon shows Louis XVI, a bishop, and a member of the aristocracy riding on the back of a man, representing the people, who's blindfolded and in chains and crawling on his hands and knees. de Vinck, 10309 Pur... More

Le tiers état confesseur La constitution Française.

Print shows on the left, a member of the Third Estate sitting in a confessional listening to the confession of the clergy from a clergyman reading a long list of sins, a nobleman is departing, carrying a long l... More

[French atrocities in Germany during Napoleonic War, 1796] / William W...

Reference copy in LOT 7002. Illus. in: Aufrere, Anthony / The cannibals' progress; or ..., 1798, title page.

A view of the town & harbour of Halifax, from Dartmouth shore

Print shows ships in harbor at Halifax, Nova Scotia, with view of town in the distance. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, by Joseph F.W. Des Barres, ...... More

[Panel details from bronze doors for the east portico of the Senate wi...

Photograph of bronze doors detail showing two panels from top of right valve, one depicting the battle of Bunker Hill and death of General Warren and the other depicting the battle of Monmouth and rebuke of Gen... More

The last men of the Revolution - Public domain print

Set of portraits showing American Revolutionary War veterans who lived to be 100 or more years old.

Adam Link, aged 102, one of the survivors of the Revolution

Portrait shows one of the oldest surviving American Revolutionary War veterans. A similar photograph, with hands in a different position and without vignetting, appears in: Hillard, E. B. (Elias Brewster). The ... More

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

Print on recto shows calendar from the Home Insurance Company almanac, July 1876, with illustration of crowd outside of the Pennsylvania State House, Philadelphia, on July 8, 1776, for the announcement of the D... More

Well, sir - A painting of two men standing next to each other

Two soldiers looking at each other in a bedroom. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

[Boston, Mass., Boston Massacre Monument]

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China well represented at Soviet Embassy. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. Ar...

A couple of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description