revolution

Wife of CIO leader attends Soviet Reception. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7....

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Washington's headquarters [i.e. Morris-Jumel mansion], 160th St., New ...

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[Repulse of Leslie at the old North Bridge]

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Carrying the bateaux at Skowhegan Falls / drawn by Sydney Adamson ; ha...

Troops, under command of Benedict Arnold, portaging with boats, at Skowhegan Falls, Maine, en route to invasion of Canada. Illus. in: The Century illustrated monthly magazine. New York : The Century Co., 1903 ... More

South-west trenches Major Francisco S. Peralta standing back to shack,...

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Death of General Montgomery at Quebec

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Episodio historico. El C. Ex-Presidente de la República don Francisco ...

Ex-president of the Republic Don Francisco I. Madero leaving the National Palace on 1913 Feb. 9, with the forces of Señor General Don Félix Díaz, during the Mexican Revolution; dead soldier lying on street in f... More

Pancho Villa, General Hugh Scott, and others at a race track, Ciudad J...

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[Mexican revolution], George Grantham Bain Collection

Mexico - Torreon. Mass meeting for Federals. Title and other information transcribed from caption card and item. George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress). Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Mex. Hist. 1914.

Villa's artillery in Mexico during the Carranza revolution against Hue...

Bird's-eye view of cannons and caissons. J194168 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Mex. Hist. 1914; Artillery.

Petrograd. The Russian's favorite way of letting off steam. A popular ...

Photograph of Russian's favorite shows soldiers on horseback; way of letting off steam shows people carrying a banner and marching. From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and As... More

War time demonstrations in Mexico, Revolution of 1914

Photograph shows people marching down Libertad Avenue in Chihuahua City, Mexico. Protograph possibly taken from a window of the Palacio Federal (Source: researcher R. Duarte, 2012) Stereo copyrighted by Keyston... More

[Petrograd. Soldiers on horseback and trolley in street. Neva River]. ...

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

Moscow. [People gathered in city square]. Effect of the Bolshevik Revo...

Photograph captioned Effect of the Bolshevik Revolution shows bullet-pocked building. Titles from item and devised by library staff. From disbound album of James Maxwell Pringle's business trip to Russia and As... More

Mexican Revolution - 1916. Villista prisoners gathered in by American ...

Guarded by African American troops of 24 Infantry. 213128 U.S. Copyright Office. Photographed and copyrighted by Underwood and Underwood. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption car... More

DAUGHTERS OF AMERICAN REVOLUTION. OPENING OF D.A.R. CONGRESS. FROM 2ND...

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Stamps honoring Pulaski issued. Postmaster General Brown presents Poli...

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L'armée françoise courant en echiquier et combattant les vaisseaux des...

Photograph shows the French fleet, in the foreground, in pursuit of the British fleet which is attempting to flee; Grenada is visible in the distance. Includes legend. Original wash drawings Available in the O... More

Thomas Paine / Romney pinxt. ; W. Sharp sculpt.

Print shows Thomas Paine, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, with papers labeled "Rights of Man" and "Common Sense" on a desk with an inkwell on the left. Trimmed to within plate mark. Forms part of: ... More

Vuë de Quebeck. Quebeck - eine stadt in Nord-America, in Canada, an de...

Print shows the wharf at the city of Québec with ship at dock and men working in small boats. (as characteristic of optical prints, series title is printed in reverse). Collection des prospects. Printed at bot... More

Lady Harriet Ackland / drawn & engraved by Robt. Pollard ; aquatinta b...

Print shows Lady Harriet Acland standing in a rowboat on the Hudson River appealing to a sentry at the American camp for permission to come ashore. Includes description printed below title. Published in: The A... More

Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : by which Meer Ja...

Published anonymously. Written by William Watts, formerly attributed to John Campbell. LC copy imperfect? Prelim. leaf may be wanting. ESTC T102030 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web ... More

The capture of the Laughing Mary : a story of three New York boys in 1...

Publisher's advertisements on 30 pages at end. Also available in digital form.

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

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.

A view of the City of Boston the capital of New England, in North Amer...

Print shows view of Boston, Massachusetts, from Cambridge looking across the Charles River. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer at No. 53 in Fleet Street, Thos. Jefferys the corner of S... More

Provision train / Painted by Imogene Robinson; Engraved by C. Tomkins...

Print shows Washington, his officers and troops hailing a provision wagon train as it approaches their encampment. H4922 U.S. Copyright Office. Reference copy in LOT 4412 N.

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

Print on recto shows calendar from the Home Insurance Company almanac, March 1876, with illustration of Faneuil Hall in Boston; description of the role of Faneuil Hall in the American Revolution on verso. Pict... More

The repeal, or the funeral procession of Miss Americ-Stamp, British Ca...

Illustration shows a group of men in a funeral procession on the banks of the Thames River with a row of warehouses in the background, one of which is labeled "The Sheffield and Birmingham Warehouse Goods now s... More

Surrender of Lord Cornwallis at Yorktown Virginia Oct. 19th. 1781

Print shows British officers walking next to General Lincoln between lines of American and French soldiers.

Pulling down the statue of George III by the "Sons of Freedom," at the...

Men pulling down the statue of George III with ropes as crowd of men, women, and children watch, Bowling Green, New York City.

Vue de la ville de Savannah, du camp, des tranchées et de l'attaque Oc...

Photograph shows a bird's-eye view of Savannah from the French camp.

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.

The genius of France extirpating despotism tyranny & oppression from t...

Cartoon shows a woman wearing a liberty cap, representing the genius of France, holding a cat-o'-nine-tails in one hand and the reins of a donkey in the other; on this donkey and another bucking in the backgrou... More

Combat memorable entre le Pearson et Paul Jones / Richard Paton pinxit...

Vue d'optique showing naval battle during Revolutionary War between John Paul Jones of the Bonhomme Richard and Capt. Richard Pearson of the British naval vessel Serapis, Sept. 22, 1779. Title appears in revers... More

Bombardement de tous les trônes de l'Europe et la chûte des tirans pou...

Print shows members of the French National Assembly exposing their posteriors, from which streams labeled "Liberté ca ira" pour down on the heads of rulers of Europe, while Liberty ignites a cannon labeled "Vio... More

Letter from John Todd to Arthur Campbell

[Washington and his generals] / drawn and engraved by A.H. Ritchie.

Print showing General George Washington and other Revolutionary War generals meeting in a large room. LC-USZ62-3977 is a key to identifying the men in the print. Title from related item. Reference copy in Presi... More

Decout, June 1804, Haitian Revolution, in French

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By the United States in Congress assembled, August 7, 1782 : Resolved,...

Six resolutions replenishing the strength of the senior regiments and retiring the surplus of officers, especially in the southern army. Signed: Extract from the minutes, Charles Thomson, sec. Imprint supplied ... More

The curious zebra - alive from America! walk in gem'men and ladies, wa...

Cartoon shows a group of men, including George Washington who is standing to the right holding the tail of the zebra, and Lord North, standing on the left gripping the reins, trying to guide the zebra on whose ... More

[Baron von Steuben drilling Washington's army at Valley Forge]

Photograph of a painting by Edwin Abbey in Pennsylvania State Capitol Building, Harrisburg. File print in LOT 4412 ED.

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

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

[Sketch map of fortifications in the vicinity of Fort Washington, Manh...

Relief shown by hachures. In German. Title devised by cataloger. Gift; Carroll B. Cox, Dana Point, Calif.; 1997. From the Johann Carl Philipp von Krafft papers in LC Manuscript Division. Pen-and-ink. Watermark ... More

A view in Hudson's River of the entrance of what is called Topan Sea V...

Print shows view of the Hudson River at a point where it broadens to form a lake called Tappan Sea in New York.

Desespoir des ennemis de la France a la decouverte de leurs complots

Print shows a 42 bust caricatures of members of a conspiracy discovered by no. 1 "La Vigilance du Gouvernement Français", a rooster or the Gallic cock, depicted at top center, holding "Correspondance de Mr. Dra... More

Surrender of Cornwallis: at York-Town Va. Oct. 1781

Print shows Major General O'Hara, surrounded by French and American soldiers handing his sword in surrender to General Lincoln. Reference copy in LOT 4412 JJ. Currier & Ives : a catalogue raisonné / compiled by... More

This representation of Peter Franciscos gallant action with nine of Ta...

Print shows Peter Francisco in a clearing near a tavern, with sword raised, assaulting a British soldier on horseback, another soldier lies at his feet, dead or wounded, and seven other dragoons flee on foot to... More

This representation of Peter Franciscos gallant action with nine of Ta...

Print shows Peter Francisco in a clearing near a tavern, with sword raised, assaulting a British soldier on horseback, another soldier lies at his feet, dead or wounded, and seven other dragoons flee on foot to... More

Yankee Doodle / Ryder's, Cleveland, O., Cabinet photograph

Recto shows soldiers marching, with three men in foreground playing two drums and fife. Verso shows photographer's trademark. 11242J(?) U.S. Copyright Office. Photoprint of lithograph(?)

Mal lui veut mal lui tourne dit le Bon Homme Richard - sujet mémorable...

Cartoon shows a man with feathered cap labeled "Ameriquain" (representing America) cutting the horns off a cow labeled "Commerce d'Angleterre" (representing British commerce) which is being milked by a Dutchman... More

The council of the rulers, & the elders against the tribe of ye Americ...

Print shows a group of men in the Hall of Commons, several seated around a table, on the wall is a map labeled "North America" which has burst into flames, in the foreground stands Lord North passing banknotes ... More

A N.W. view of the state house in Philadelphia taken 1778 / C.W. Peale...

Illus. from: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for Seddon, Spotswood, Cist, and Trenchard, 1787 July, opp. p. 516. Fielding, 1710 Published in: The American Revolution in d... 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

Sublime and beautiful reflections on the French revolution, or the man...

Print shows Edmund Burke sitting at a desk on a crescent moon, holding a quill pen, an open "pamphlet" and an inkwell are on the desk, broken chains hang from his wrists; a scene on the front of the desk, label... More

Assemblée des Capucins l'Assemblée des aristocrates, ou l'harmonica de...

Print shows a Capucin monk standing on a platform covered with money bags, ringing a bell, with a bird perched on his head, amid a collection of various jugs, jars, vases, pots (aristocratic dolts or blockheads... More

A view of Louisburg in North America, taken near the light house when ...

Print shows view from the headlands above the lighthouse, with ships in the harbor, Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, center, and distant view of the harbor. Printed for John Bowles at No. 13 in Cornhill, Robert Sayer ... More

The lord god omnipotent reigneth - let all the earth rejoice! / P. Rev...

Print shows Britannia, wearing crown, seated on a throne and Liberty seated at her feet; behind them, to the left, two ships collide in storm-tossed seas, and on a cloud above them are two angels, the one on th... More

King George II, crowned June 11, 1727 - King George III, crowned Oct. ...

Print shows right profile bust portraits of King George II and King George III wearing laurel wreaths. Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, ... (Boston, Mass.). Boston, 1774, p. 6. Published in: The Ameri... More

Frontispiece - when fell debate & civil wars shall cease ...

Print shows an allegorical scene with three female figures, seated on the left is America, standing center, on clouds, is Peace holding an olive branch in her right hand raised toward an airy "Temple of Commerc... More

Virtual representation, 1775. Book illustration from Library of Congre...

Print shows Lord Bute aiming a blunderbuss at a man representing colonial America; a member of Parliament, pointing at the American, tells Bute "I give you that man's money for my use", to which the American re... More

[A scene in the West Indies showing Natives on the beach with a Britis...

Illus. in: The West-India atlas; or, A compendious description of the West-Indies: illustrated with 40 correct charts and maps, taken from actual surveys.... / Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to the King. London :... More

General Howe, Head and Shoulders Portrait

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

Miss L--n [and] the martial lover

Cameo portraits of a young woman, Miss L--n (who became his mistress) and Charles Stanhope, Earl Harrington, who is depicted wearing a military uniform; in ovals with ribbons at top. Illus. in: The town and co... More

[Taking of Savannah in Dec. 1778]

Scale ca. 1:21,000. Manuscript, pen-and-ink. Oriented with north to the bottom. Relief shown by hachures. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 1574 Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a r... More

E of Chatham, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows William Pitt, head-and-shoulders portrait, right profile; in oval with allegorical scene in lower foreground showing Britannia seated, leaning against her shield, an owl and caduceus on the ground i... More

Israel Putnam, Esq'r. - general-major der Americaners

Print shows Israel Putnam, half-length portrait, wearing military uniform, standing, facing slightly right, leaning on unseen object. Illus. in: Geschichte der kriege in und ausser Europa / Christoph Heinrich ... More

Le Destin molestant les Anglois, British Cartoon Print

Print shows the Comte d'Estaing presenting a palm frond to America, a Native wearing feathered headdress and skirt and holding a staff topped with a liberty cap and who is seated on a throne of bales and barrel... More

Grand Passage in the Bay Fundy, on the western shore of Nova Scotia

Print shows ships passing cliffs at the entrance to the Grand Passage of the Bay of Fundy along the western shore of Nova Scotia. Illus. in: The Atlantic Neptune, published for the use of the Royal Navy of Gre... More

Earl Mansfield, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Print shows William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, head-and-shoulders portrait, left profile, wearing wig and parliamentary robe; in oval. Illus. in: The London magazine, 1780 (June), pp. 243-245. Published in... More

Lt. Col. Tarleton. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Print shows Banastre Tarleton, bust portrait, facing right; medallion on pedestal featuring cavalry scene. Illus. in: The Westminster magazine, 1782 (March), p. 115. Published in: The American Revolution in dr... More

Prince Stadhold--r resuming his deliberation, British Cartoon Print, T...

Print shows a caricature of Prince William V of Holland as a slightly obese man, of deficient intellect, with empty ("MT") trouser pockets, and holding a sword by the blade against his breast, while notes and v... More

Anticipation; or, the contrast to the royal hunt / Britons fact., Brit...

Print shows the restoration of England under the new ministry; the pillars that supported the Temple of Fame are being righted and put back in place; a soldier with sword in hand protects a Native, representing... More

The amiable Miss W-bb [and] the intrepid partizan

Cameo portraits of Miss W-bb and Banastre Tarleton; in ovals with ribbons at top. Illus. in: The town and country magazine, or, Universal repository of knowledge, instruction, and entertainment. London : Print... More

Carte generale des colonies angloises dans l'Amerique Septentrionale p...

Scale ca. 1:5,100,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Ferro. Includes historic notes and insets "Suite de la Floride et la position des Isles Lucayes et des Grandes Antilles" and "Le de... More

In the background is Admiral Rodney's engagement with Count de Grasse ...

Caption continues: Washington & Rochambeau's advantage over the English army, shews the injustice, fate & uncertainty of war. The glorious rays from providence over Rodney's fleet bring peace and plenty to Bri... More

John Singleton Copley - [George Washington] / J. Norman sc.

Allegorical print shows George Washington, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front; in medallion surrounded by Nature, Genius of Liberty, Fame, and Astrea. After Copley portrait ca. 1765. Illus. in: The Bost... More

Ezra Stiles S.T.D. L.L.D. - president of Yale College / drawn & engrav...

Print shows Ezra Stiles, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left; in oval. Stauffer, 1380 Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Cong... More

Quand ce ra la Poule au Pot - A drawing of a man holding a bird in his...

Print shows a poor old man sliding a chicken onto a long spit. Trimmed within plate mark. de Vinck, 2890 Blum, 27 Forms part of: French Political Cartoon Collection (Library of Congress).

[A Native warrior on the cartouche for "Map for the Interior Travels t...

Print shows a Native warrior sitting on the ground with a rifle resting on his right shoulder. Illus. in: Travels through the interior parts of America : In a series of letters / Thomas Anburey. London : Print... More

L'Attaque de la constitution - A painting of a group of people on a be...

Cartoon showing clergy, nobility, and fugitive counterrevolutionaries, carrying flags labeled "Vive la noblesse et le Clerge", "Lettre Pastorale", and "Voincre ou Courir", attacking a rock, identified as the "C... More

Frederick William - L'enjambee imperiale

Print shows Catherine II, Empress of Russia, bare-breasted, holding a scepter and sphere, taking a large step from a piece of land on the right labeled "Russie" to a crescent moon atop a steeple or minaret labe... More

Cloture de la salle des Jacobins, dans la nuit du 27 au 28 Juillet 179...

Title translated: Closing of the hall of the Jacobins, in the night of the 27th or 28th July 1794 or 9 or 10th Thermidor year 2 of the Republic. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques ... More

Supplice de Louis XVI, Place de la Révolution, le 21 Janvier 1793; ou ...

Print shows French soldiers, some on horseback, and citizens gathered around the platform where Louis XVI stands before the guillotine on the day of his execution. Plate from: Collection complète des tableaux ... More

Houston, Santa Anna, and Cos - A cartoon of a group of men with skis

An imaginative portrayal (with overt propaganda value) of an event in the Texas war of independence --the surrender of Mexican commander Santa Anna and his brother-in-law General Martin Perfecto de Cos, to Amer... More

Marche du Dom Quichotte moderne pour la deffence du Moulin des Abus

Print shows the Prince de Condé as Don Quixote on a white horse and vicomte de Mirabeau (Mirabeau Tonneau) as Sancho Panza riding on a barrel-shaped ass on wheels, surrounded by a ragged group of counterrevolut... More

View of the federal ediface in New York

Print shows exterior view of Federal Hall, designated the site of the federal government in 1788, New York City, New York. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscellany. Philadelphia : Printed for ... More

Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.

Print shows a well-dressed peasant woman nursing an infant, riding on the back of a noblewoman who is holding onto the shoulders of a nun, representing the clergy. This cartoon presents a realingment of the Est... More

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

Addressed to Miss Jane Grace, Camden, Ohio ; postmarked Paducah, Ky., March 5, 1863 ; bears 3 cent stamp. Deposit; Tom Liljenquist; 2018; (D074) pp/liljmem

[Battle scene - soldiers storming a fort, engaging troops defending th...

Print shows a battle with soldiers storming a fort during the Nanjing Uprising which took place between Nov. 24 to Dec. 2, 1911. The Nanjing Uprising was part of the Xinhai Revolution also known as the Revolut... More

At Soviet reception. Washington, D.C., Nov. 7. Henrik De Kauffmann, le...

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Minute Man, Concord - A black and white photo of a statue of a man wit...

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Battle Monument, Lexington - A black and white photo of a small buildi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a cemetery, memorial, monument, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[The Spinning room, Washington's headquarters (i.e. Morris-Jumel mansi...

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The Russian crown / Hassman̄. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Illustration shows a crown in the shape of a human skull against a background of blood dripping into the title area at the bottom. Illus. in: Puck, v. 58, no. 1504 (1905 December 27), cover. Copyright 1905 by ... More

General Francisco Villa, George Grantham Bain Collection

Photograph shows portrait of Pancho Villa, general of the Mexican Revolution. No. 604. Photographic print from Bain negative LC-B2- 3785-1. Accession box no. DLC/PP-2012:147.11 c1 f1

[Mexican revolution against the Diaz government]

American soldiers at Presidio, Texas unloading supplies. J155025 U.S. Copyright Office This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Army, U.S. 1911; Mex. Hist. 1911.

The 1st of May celebration Dvortsovyĭ Square, Petrograd

Photograph shows a large crowd of mostly soldiers with some men and women in Dvortsovyĭ Square in Saint Petersburg. Includes Russian caption. No. 11.

Celebrating Rus. [i.e. Russian] Revolution, Vladivostock

Photograph showing residents of Vladivostok celebrating the Russian Revolution. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2015)