Winslow Homer - Argument of the chivalry
A dramatic portrayal, clearly biased toward the northern point of view, of an incident in Congress which inflamed sectional passions in 1856. The artist recreates the May 22 attack and severe beating of Massach... More
Jeff Davis, on his own platform, or the last "act of secession"
Another state of no. 1861-23, with the addition of a skull and crossbones drawn on Davis's chest. Probably published by Currier & Ives, New York. Title appears as it is written on the item. Weitenkampf, p. 129.... More
![[Robert Augustus Toombs, of Georgia, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzE4NjAvMDEvMDEvcm9iZXJ0LWF1Z3VzdHVzLXRvb21icy1vZi1nZW9yZ2lhLXRocmVlLXF1YXJ0ZXItbGVuZ3RoLXBvcnRyYWl0LWZhY2luZy1zbGlnaHRseS02NDAuanBn/40/74/webp "[Robert Augustus Toombs, of Georgia, three-quarter length portrait, facing slightly left]")
[Robert Augustus Toombs, of Georgia, three-quarter length portrait, fa...
Reference copy in BIOG FILE. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The folly of secession, Confederate States of America.
South Carolina struggles against the outgoing Buchanan administration in an attempt to "smash the Union up!" The artist uses the age-old pictorial conceit of two parties pulling on the different ends of a cow, ... More
The fox without a tail. - Public domain broadside, Library of Congress
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Winslow Homer - Argument of the chivalry
A dramatic portrayal, clearly biased toward the northern point of view, of an incident in Congress which inflamed sectional passions in 1856. The artist recreates the May 22 attack and severe beating of Massach... More
Jeff Davis on the right platform, or the last "act of secession"
A caricature of Jefferson Davis, probably issued not long after the bombardment of Fort Sumter, but certainly postdating his February 1861 election as president of the Confederacy. Davis is shown standing on a ... More
The Southern Confederacy a fact!!! Acknowledged by a might prince and ...
A biting vilification of the Confederacy, representing it as a government in league with Satan. From left to right are: "Mr. Mob Law Chief Justice," a well-armed ruffian carrying a pot of tar; Secretary of Stat... More
![[Robert Tombs, Senator from Georgia, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDgvcm9iZXJ0LXRvbWJzLXNlbmF0b3ItZnJvbS1nZW9yZ2lhLXRoaXJ0eS1maWZ0aC1jb25ncmVzcy1oYWxmLWxlbmd0aC1wb3J0cmFpdC1iZDFmMzgtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/51/webp "[Robert Tombs, Senator from Georgia, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-length portrait]")
[Robert Tombs, Senator from Georgia, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-lengt...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 158. Each item includes subject's orig... More
Brady's political photography, Mathew Brady Photograph, 1850s.
Photograph shows a composite photograph of the members of the thirty-sixth Senate; Jefferson Davis (first figure, second row), Southern secessionists Judah P. Benjamin, (third from the left, fifth row from the ... More
Jeff Davis on his own platform; or the last "act of succession."
Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
An Abolition traitor. There are traitors in the North as well as in th...
Picryl description: Public domain American history related, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
