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Photo, Print, DrawingTo all brave, healthy, able-bodied and well-disposed young men [...] 1 print. | Reproduction of engraving by B. Jones; broadside soliciting recruits for Continental Army. The reference to Lieutenant Colonel Aaron Ogden as commander of the 11th regiment of infantry indicates the French war scare between 1797 and 1800. (Source: R. MacKinnon, 2008) Image was formerly misassociated with the American Revolution era.
- Date: 1798-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingFrontispiece to the Middlesex Petition 1 print : etching with letterpress. | Broadside showing, above three columns of text (comprising the petition), George III seated on his throne receiving several men, one, kneeling before him, presents the petition, on May 24th 1769.
- Date: 1769-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingWilkes, and Liberty--A New Song 1 print : engraving. | A broadside comprising an engraving printed above two columns of verse in letterpress. The former represents two groups; in one the Earl of Bute, armed with a dagger, tears away the robe of the fainting Britannia, and is about to stab her bare bosom; Earl Temple, armed with a sword, defends Britannia with that weapon, and thrusts forward a...
- Date: 1763-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingProclamation. In the Name of the Republic. We, Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Civil Officer of the Republic, Delegate in the Islands of the French West Indies to Re-establish Law and Public Order.
Proclamation. Au nom de la République. Nous Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Commissaire Civil de la République, délégué aux Iles françaises de l'Amérique sous le vent, pour y rétablir l'ordre & la tranquillité publique In August 1791, slaves in the French colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) staged a massive revolt, setting in train the chain of events that ultimately led to the founding of independent Haiti in 1804. In 1792, the de facto government of revolutionary France sent Etienne Polverel and Léger-Félicité Sonthonax as civil commissioners to the colony for the purpose of enforcing a decree by the...- Contributor: Sonthonax, Léger-Félicité
- Date: 1793-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages
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Photo, Print, DrawingList of members of the Fourth General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Philadelphia, the 25th day of October, A.D., 1779. 1 print : letterpress.
- Date: 1779-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingMuster of Bays's troops A new. 1 print : engraving and letterpress ; 31.5 x 22.8 cm (broadside format) | Print shows James Lacy, David Garrick, and others in "The Rehearsal," a play by George Villiers, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, revived to satirize Jacobite sympathies, with a list of characters and a ballad sung "To the tune of Sally in our Alley."
- Contributor: Buckingham, George Villiers, Duke of - Buckingham, George Villiers
- Date: 1745-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe election, a medley, humbly inscribed to Squire Lilliput, professor of scurrility 1 print (broadside) : engraving ; 48 x 37.4 cm (sheet, trimmed) | Cartoon shows the old courthouse in Philadelphia during the October 1, 1764 election where a line of men wait at the steps on the right to enter the courthouse and cast their votes; in the foreground, many men, several clergymen and one female slave among them, comment on the candidates and...
- Contributor: Dawkins, Henry
- Date: 1764-01-01
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe Colonial Gazette. Oct. 1781. Supplement Num. 39. Letter from Gen. Washington to the Governor of Maryland, announcing the surrender of Cornwallis
Letter from Gen. Washington to the Governor of Maryland, announcing the surrender of Cornwallis | French at Yorktown Title devised by Library staff. Additional caption title reads: The French at Yorktown with article below written in two columns. Reference copy may be in LOT 4412 K. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress website. Caption card tracings: Shelf. LAC sba 2021-06-09 update (1 card) Scanned card stamped as no. 2146....- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1781
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Photo, Print, DrawingEarly balloon design and flight in Europe 31 items : b&w and color ; 92 x 117 cm. (36.5 x 46 in.) or smaller. | British, French, and Italian prints and drawings show balloon and airship designs; patents; three site plans for balloon inflation stations; balloons in flight. Also, poster and broadside advertisements for balloon ascensions and other events, including balloon departures during the Siege of Paris, 1870-71.
- Date: 1784
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Photo, Print, DrawingThe bottl'd heroes or Madness and folly alamode. -- Being a full description of those Animals, that, by their Biting, occasion that contagious Disorder now so common in Great Britain; and with ... 1 print : engraving ; sheet 410 x 233 mm. | Broadside addressed to William Hogarth and David Garrick warning of the dangers of foreign influences, especially French and Italian, on English arts and culture.
- Contributor: Garrick, David - Hogarth, William
- Date: 1749-01-01
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Book/Printed MaterialStowage of the British slave ship "Brookes" under the regulated slave trade act of 1788. [n. p. n. d.]. 1. Slavery. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 282, Folder 43.
- Contributor: Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) - Printed Ephemera Collection (Library of Congress) Dlc
- Date: 1884
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Photo, Print, DrawingA New humorous song, on the Cherokee chiefs Inscribed to the ladies of Great Britain : To the tune of, Caesar and Pompey were both of the horned / 1 print : engraving. | A broadside comprising seven verses in letterpress below an engraving, representing three Red Indian Chiefs in their national costumes; these men are named, "The Stalking Turkey", "The Pouting Pidgeon", "The Man killer". This satire refers to the arrival in London of three chiefs of the Cherokee Nation, on an embassy to the Court of George III, and the impression...
- Date: 1762-01-01
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CollectionPennsylvania German fraktur, broadsides, and related drawings 158 items (prints, drawings, and manuscripts) on paper : most hand-colored ; sheet 49 x 40 cm. or smaller. | Most of the fraktur, a form of Pennsylvania German folk art, are printed or manuscript birth and baptismal certificates (Taufscheine), with watercolor decoration. The manuscript fraktur also include several writing samples (Vorschriften); two valentines; drawings of various flowers, birds, animals, houses, a farm, and...
- Contributor: Brechall, Martin - Bruckman, Carl Augustus - Brechall, Martin, Active - Sebald, H. (Hugo), Active - Krebs, F. (Friedrich) - Johann Ritter Und Companie - Sebald, H. (Hugo) - Peters, Gustav Sigismund
- Date: 1777
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Photo, Print, DrawingProclamation. In the Name of the Republic. We, Etienne Polverel and Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Civil Officers of the Republic, Whom the French Nation Sent to this Country to Establish Law and Order.
Proclamation. Au nom de la République. Nous Etienne Polverel et Léger-Félicité Sonthonax, Commissaires civils de la République, que Nacion Française voyé dans pays-ci pour metté l'ordre & tranquillité tout-par-tout The broadside presented here is a rare copy of the official Creole text, translated from the French, of a proclamation issued in the colony of Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) granting freedom to enslaved women and to the children of newly emancipated slaves. The articles describe the procedures by which slaves could be married and the laws that governed the status of women and children after...- Contributor: Sonthonax, Léger-Félicité - Polverel, Étienne
- Date: 1793-01-01
- Resource: - 2 pages