colonial period, history

The massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770, ...

Print shows British troops firing on citizens in Boston. Caption continues: in which Messrs Saml. Gray, Saml. Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, Patrick Carr were killed, six other wounded, two of them... More

John Smith - Virginia / Historic map, Library of Congress

Sixth state. Relief shown pictorially. Oriented with north to the right. Accompanied by 2 exhibit notes and LC jacket note. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

The generall historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer isles: ...

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New map of the West Indies for the history of the British colonies /

Representation du théatre ou l'on joue les comédies pour le divertisse...

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A view of Savannah as it stood the 29th of March 1734.

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[View of Boston] / J. Turner. - An open book with a picture of a town ...

Print shows bird's-eye view of Boston, Massachusetts, with view of Native hunting and a palm tree in the foreground. Illus. in: The American Magazine and Historical Chronicle. Boston : Printed and sold by Roge... More

No stamped paper to be had. [Philadelphia : Printed by Hall & Franklin...

Nov. 7, 1765, issue no. 1924, of the Pennsylvania gazette, printed at Philadelphia by David Hall and Benjamin Franklin; without date, number, masthead, or imprint. On Oct. 31, 1765, the publishers announced the... More

No stamped paper to be had. [Philadelphia : Printed by Hall & Franklin...

A sachem of the Abenakee Nation rescuing an English officer from the I...

Print shows a Native chief holds back two Natives who were about to kill an Englishman. Illus. in: Bickerstaff's Boston almanack, .... Boston : 1768, p. E2. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings an... More

A prospective view of the town of Boston, the capital of New-England -...

Print shows eight British warships (numbered and identified in bottom margin) in the harbor with Boston in the background. Illus. in: Edes & Gill's North-American almanack, and Massachusetts register for the y... More

The Seat of war in New England, by an American volunteer, with the mar...

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Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), after a Painting by Greuze of 1777

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Jean Antoine Houdon - Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

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Jean Antoine Houdon - Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

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A new and correct map of North America, with the West India Islands. D...

Scale ca. 1:550,000. Hand colored. Relief shown pictorially. "Longit. w. from Ferro." LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 25 Includes historical notes, notes on territorial claims, and insets of "A particular ... More

Carte du théatre dela guerre actuel entre les Anglais et les Trieze Co...

Print shows title cartouche and ornament; flags and ordnance frame title as troops engage in battle before burning town. Illus. in: Carte du théatre de la guerre actuel entre les Anglais et les Trieze Colonies... More

Premiere assemblée du congrès / dessiné par le Barbier Peintre du Roi ...

Print shows session of the First Continental Congress, September 1774, in Carpenter's Hall, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Illus. in: Essais historiques et politiques sur les Anglo-Américains, ... / par M. Hillia... 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

The United States in Congress assembled, to all who shall these presen...

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[Cartouche showing a Native woman, representing America, nursing infan...

Illus. in: L'Amérique septentrionale, ou se remarquent les États Unis. / par M. Brion de la Tour, ingénieur-géographe du roi. Paris : Chez Esnauts et Rapilly, 1783. Published in: The American Revolution in dra... More

[Silhouette of George Washington and bust portrait of Benjamin Frankli...

Print shows right profile head-and-shoulders portrait of George Washington in oval facing oval containing left profile bust portrait of Benjamin Franklin. Illus. in: The Columbian magazine, or, Monthly miscell... More

Joseph Siffred Duplessis - Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

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Joseph Siffred Duplessis - Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790)

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map from "[The History of America ... A new edition; to which is added...

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A New method of Macarony making as practised at Boston / copied on sto...

Print shows two American revolutionaries tarring and feathering the tax collector. In the background, a gallows.

The Bostons paying the excise-man or tarring & feathering / copied on ...

Print shows a mob pouring tea into the mouth of a Loyalist who has been tarred and feathered. Behind the group, on the right, is the "Liberty Tree" from which hangs a noose and a sign "Stamp Act" written upside... More

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Franklin, Benjamin - Public domain portrait engraving

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Otsego County before 1850 - Public domain map drawing

Pictorial history map with drawings of early buildings/settlers/events and with names of early settlers/landowners. "© Annie Olmstead Peet 1963." LC copy imperfect: Laminated, mounted on cloth backing, rubber-s... More

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Defeat of General Braddock, in the French and Indian War, in Virginia ...

Illustration shows Indians armed with rifles in a forest; in background British soldiers. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial, v. 9 ( 1855 July 7), p. 16. Wood engraving after a work by Billings (possibly Hammett Billings).

First blow for liberty - Public domain engraving

Print show scene at the Battle of Lexington, 1775. Engraving after a painting by F.O.C. Darley.

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[Bank note vignettes showing explorers including Christopher Columbus(...

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Her Majesty Queen Victoria, Empress of India

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Celestial wrath / F. Opper. - A book with a cartoon of a man holding a...

Print shows startled French soldiers in rice paddies confonting an angry blazing sun rimmed with cannon barrels and bayonets, and stating "Population 500,000,000", also signs labeled "Malaria, Disease, [and] Fe... More

Massacre of Conococheague. Book illustration from Library of Congress

Illustration shows Indians attacking a wagon train and killing a man. Illus. in: The romance and tragedy of pioneer life / Augustus Lynch Mason. Cincinnati ; Chicago [etc.] : Jones Brothers and Company, 1884, ... More

Mayflower from "History of the Town of Plymouth, with a Sketch of the ...

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Benjamin Franklin, printer's sample for the World's Inventors souvenir...

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diamond from "Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and South Afri...

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Hooker walk through the wilderness, 1636 / C.H. Niehaus, 1893.

Cartoon for a lunette shows Reverend Thomas Hooker standing and gesturing towards a valley. A sick woman lies on a stretcher in foreground while other people descend. Hooker led members of his Puritan congregat... More

Kimberley Mine from "Illustrated Official Handbook of the Cape and Sou...

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