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The Moore House near Yorktown, Virginia (Front) / McIlvaine.

The Moore House near Yorktown, Virginia (Front) / McIlvaine.

Illustration showing the Moore House being hit by a shell, with the sun low on the horizon. Inscribed: Struck by a shell from Yorktown. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

Chinese selling loot after capture of Peking, China

Chinese selling loot after capture of Peking, China

No. 3818. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ruins of the Orange and Alexandria R.R. bridge over Bull Run, near Union Mills

Ruins of the Orange and Alexandria R.R. bridge over Bull Run, near Uni...

Inscribed in red pen: temporary bridge built by the National tropps; ruins of railway bridge cast by Union into stream; rebel batteries. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.1) Forms part of: Morgan collec... More

Only one, the tall blond youth hesitated --

Only one, the tall blond youth hesitated --

Public domain photo of drawing, 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

[Smoking monster engine destroying town]

[Smoking monster engine destroying town]

Title devised by cataloger. (DLC/PP-1934:0056). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "What fool will follow us?" by Gen. Erich Ludendorff, Hearst's international,... More

Bummers [Foragers] - Public domain document scan of drawing

Bummers [Foragers] - Public domain document scan of drawing

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.255) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Burning breastworks and forts at Manassas

Burning breastworks and forts at Manassas

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.7) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

The cross and the crusaders!! / Alex. O. Levy.

The cross and the crusaders!! / Alex. O. Levy.

Allegory showing the figure of Liberty pointing to a crucifix hanging on a wall in church and towards German soldiers looting the church as Allied soldiers advance on the Germans.

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes two lines of text in French that list ... More

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck / gravé par François Xav. Habermann.

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck / gravé par François X...

Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes brief text (five lines) in both German... More

Pillage de la Maison de St. Lazare, le lundi 13 Juillet 1789 / Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.

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. Illustration from: Collection complète des tableaux historiques de la révolution française. Par... More

After the battle - The Rebels in p[ossession] of the field / Th. Nast.

After the battle - The Rebels in p[ossession] of the field / Th. Nast.

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 6, no. 304 (1862 Oct. 25), pp. 680-681.

Pillage de la Maison de St. Lazare, le lundi 13 Juillet 1789 / [Prieur inv. & del. ; Berthault sculp.]

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

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes two lines of text in French that list ... More

[Eh bien, Messieurs! deux millions], Political Cartoon

[Eh bien, Messieurs! deux millions], Political Cartoon

Print shows Napoleon Bonaparte motioning toward a statue, one of the many treasures he brought back from his first campaign in Italy in 1797, and addresses a group of men, possibly of the Directory. Title from ... More

Ruins of the Orange and Alexandria R.R. bridge over Bull Run, near Union Mills

Ruins of the Orange and Alexandria R.R. bridge over Bull Run, near Uni...

Inscribed in red pen: temporary bridge built by the National tropps; ruins of railway bridge cast by Union into stream; rebel batteries. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.1) Forms part of: Morgan collec... More

The Moore House near Yorktown, Virginia (Front) / McIlvaine.

The Moore House near Yorktown, Virginia (Front) / McIlvaine.

Illustration showing the Moore House being hit by a shell, with the sun low on the horizon. Inscribed: Struck by a shell from Yorktown. Forms part of: Marian S. Carson collection (Library of Congress).

View of the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia

View of the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.270) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

A rebel guerrilla raid in a Western town / Th. Nast.

A rebel guerrilla raid in a Western town / Th. Nast.

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 6, no. 300 (1862 Sept. 27), pp. 616-617.

The cathedral of Notre Dame, Verdun, and ruins extending down to the banks of the Meuse

The cathedral of Notre Dame, Verdun, and ruins extending down to the b...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 19258. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Bummers [Foragers] - Public domain  drawing

Bummers [Foragers] - Public domain drawing

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.255) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Jemison's [sic] Jayhawkers. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Jemison's [sic] Jayhawkers. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Antislavery guerrillas under Charles Jennison attacking civilians in Missouri. Drawn and published by Adalbert Volck. Illus. in: V. Blada's war sketches. London [i.e. Baltimore], 1864, pl. 17.

Supplies left by the Germans in their retreat from Soupier, Aisne, France

Supplies left by the Germans in their retreat from Soupier, Aisne, Fra...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18894. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

La destruction de la statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck Die zerstorung der koniglichen bild saule zu Neu Yorck.

La destruction de la statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck Die zerstorung der...

Print shows a misguided attempt by the artist to depict the destruction of an equestrian statue of King George III in New York City on July 9, 1776; this view shows what appear to be mostly slaves attempting to... More

Supplies left by the Germans in their retreat from Soupier, Aisne, France

Supplies left by the Germans in their retreat from Soupier, Aisne, Fra...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18894. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Nicaragua - fillibusters [sic] reposing after the battle in their quarters at the convent

Nicaragua - fillibusters [sic] reposing after the battle in their quar...

General William Walker's men reposing in convent of San Francisco, during entrance into Granada, in 1855. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1856 May 3, p. 336.

Burning breastworks and forts at Manassas

Burning breastworks and forts at Manassas

Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.1.7) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Consequences of a successful French invasion / Sir John Dalrymple, inv.; Js Gillray, fecit., British Cartoon Print

Consequences of a successful French invasion / Sir John Dalrymple, inv...

French soldiers pillaging and destroying the House of Lords. A guillotine takes the place of the throne and above it hangs a Liberty Cap. A French soldier carries away the mace while others rip and burn the tap... More

The miseries of war (Les misères et les malheurs de la guerre.) no. 7, Soldiers pillaging and burning a village Calot ; Isarel. ex. cum privil. reg

The miseries of war (Les misères et les malheurs de la guerre.) no. 7,...

Print shows soldiers sacking a village for provisions and loot, and burning some of the buildings and killing citizens; shows a church on a hill in the background. Includes six lines of verse printed below imag... More

German soldiers stealing a sack of religious objects from an altar as a priest sobs LJ monogram ; Louis Jou

German soldiers stealing a sack of religious objects from an altar as ...

Indecipherable title on item: "La c[...]ée de culte." Edition of 100. Library has "3-100." Straight no. 966-10. In portfolio: Jou, Louis. Spolium! Album de quatorze eaux-fortes sur la guerre par Louis Jous. P... More

The cathedral of Notre Dame, Verdun, and ruins extending down to the banks of the Meuse

The cathedral of Notre Dame, Verdun, and ruins extending down to the b...

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 19258. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

La destruction de la statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck Die zerstorung der koniglichen bild saule zu Neu Yorck.

La destruction de la statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck Die zerstorung der...

Print shows a misguided attempt by the artist to depict the destruction of an equestrian statue of King George III in New York City on July 9, 1776; this view shows what appear to be mostly slaves attempting to... More

"Ceci tuera cela" Et moi je tue ceci et cela L. Moreau

"Ceci tuera cela" Et moi je tue ceci et cela L. Moreau

Prints shows skeleton dressed in armor and holding a sword standing in front of a burning cathedral, library, and town. Edition of 30. Signed and dated on block: "M15." Signed with chop. Library has "3/30." St... More

The miseries of war (Les misères et les malheurs de la guerre.) no. 7, Soldiers pillaging and burning a village Callot inv. et fec

The miseries of war (Les misères et les malheurs de la guerre.) no. 7,...

Print shows soldiers sacking a village for provisions and loot, and burning some of the buildings and killing citizens; shows a church on a hill in the background. Includes six lines of verse printed below imag... More

British soldiers gleaning in the fields of war, Menin Road

British soldiers gleaning in the fields of war, Menin Road

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18870. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck / gravé par François Xav. Habermann.

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck / gravé par François X...

Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes brief text (five lines) in both German... More

Thousands of German trophies from the front at the U.S. gov't war exposition / Philip Lyford ; Illinois Litho. Co., Chicago.

Thousands of German trophies from the front at the U.S. gov't war expo...

Poster showing an American soldier examining German helmets. Text continues: Actual Army and Navy battles, tanks in action, flying battle planes, trench warfare, captured German aeroplanes and guns. Caption: "H... More

Searching the ruins, "somewhere in France"

Searching the ruins, "somewhere in France"

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18629. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

Shell bursting in the Grand Place, Ypres, Belgium

Shell bursting in the Grand Place, Ypres, Belgium

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18850. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck

Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes two lines of text in French that list ... More

Searching the ruins, "somewhere in France"

Searching the ruins, "somewhere in France"

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. 18629. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DLC... More

British soldiers gleaning in the fields of war, Menin Road

British soldiers gleaning in the fields of war, Menin Road

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18870. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Shell bursting in the Grand Place, Ypres, Belgium

Shell bursting in the Grand Place, Ypres, Belgium

Stereograph title from item. Series title and number from accompanying guide book (call number: D521.H32). Keystone catalog no. V18850. Copyright by The Keystone View Company. Purchase; Jeffrey Kraus; 2009; (DL... More

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck / gravé par François Xav. Habermann.

Representation du feu terrible a Nouvelle Yorck / gravé par François X...

Print shows several buildings along street engulfed in flames during fire on September 19, 1776, citizens being beaten by Redcoats, and looting by African slaves. Includes brief text (five lines) in both German... More

La destruction de la statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck Die zerstorung der koniglichen bild saule zu Neu Yorck.

La destruction de la statue royale a Nouvelle Yorck Die zerstorung der...

Print shows a misguided attempt by the artist to depict the destruction of an equestrian statue of King George III in New York City on July 9, 1776; this view shows what appear to be mostly slaves attempting to... More