hill, united states history

View of Bunker's Hill - from a drawing in possession of the Revd. Mr E...

Illus. in: The Gentleman's magazine. Ed. by Sylvanus Urban, gentleman. London : 1790 (February), opp. p. 140. Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in ... More

To the inhabitants of certain counties lying west of the Laurell Hill,...

Title.; Imprint 3.; Evans 27978.; On verso: 02-82-086.34 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; Po... More

Monument on Beacon Hill, Boston / Sully, del. ; K. Turner, sc.

Designed by Charles Bulfinch. Illus. in: Portfolio (Nov. 1811), p. facing p. 409.

Sanford Hill, has just received a general and elegant assortment of dr...

Imprint 2.; Advertisement. 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 136, Folder 5.

To the citizens of the third Eastern district, in the State of Maine ....

Imprint 2.; Title. 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 191, Folder 12.

Supreme court, February, 1820. John Hopkins. Plaintiff in error, versu...

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 191, Folder 10a.

Dreadful riot on Negro Hill! O read wid detention de melancholly tale ...

Imprint 2.; Negro Riot.; Verse. 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 54, Folder 10.

The battle at Bunker's Hill near Boston. June 17, 1775 / John Trumbull...

Print shows British and American soldiers in hand-to-hand combat during the Battle of Bunker Hill; among the soldiers depicted are Major General Joseph Warren, Captain Thomas Gardner, Major Andrew McClary, Colo... More

Cash! All persons that have slaves to dispose of, will do well by givi...

Slaves- Sale. 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 186, Folder 27.

Anniversary of the Lowell Sabbath School Union, in the grove on Chapel...

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 56, Folder 30.

[Bunker Hill] - Drawing. Public domain image.

Soldiers digging and pulling artillery, horse pulling, and battle scene. Title devised by cataloger. Purchase; Childs Gallery; (DLC/PP-1984:368). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).

New England Convention Bunker Hill. September 10TH. 1840

Campaign badge produced for the New England Whig Convention in Boston, September 10-11, 1840. An aureole of light surrounds an oval bust portrait of Harrison, ringed by medallions of the arms of the states of... More

Bunker Hill convention. All persons who propose to join the Harrison p...

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 57, Folder 3.

Primrose Hill, July 11th. 1842. Rules and regulations drawn up and agr...

Coal mines- wages.; Unions. 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 154, Folder 10.

Programme of the procession at the celebration of the completion of Bu...

Bunker Hill monument. 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 58, Folder 4.

Bunker Hill monument. [Cut of monument] Commenced June 17, 1825. Compl...

Satin ribbon badge. 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 58, Folder 4a.

Gravestones at Oak Hill Cemetery, Washington, D.C.

Founded by Mr. W.W. Corcoran, the cemetery was incorporated by an Act of Congress on March 3, 1849. Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Col... More

[San Francisco, 1851, from Rincon Hill]

J141156 U.S. Copyright Office Reproduction of daguerreotypes likely taken prior to April 22, 1851. Date based on the presence of the steamer "C.M. Weber," which was in San Francisco for repairs. Sections missin... More

Round Hill Water Cure Northampton M / Drawn by E.W. Farmer Jan: 17th 1...

Landscape drawing shows the building and grounds which housed the Round Hill Water Cure in Northampton, Massachusetts, a medical institution based on hydropathic principles, opened by Dr. E. E. Denniston in 184... More

Prof. J. Isaacs, oculist and aurist of Philadelphia, formerly of Leyde...

Lt. Colonel B.H. Hill, 5th U.S. Artillery

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Rebel Army of Virginia: Longstreet, Beauregard, Breckenridge, Fitzhugh...

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Rebel Army of Virginia: Longstreet, Beauregard, Breckenridge, Fitzhugh...

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[Portrait of Capt. Murray F. Taylor, C.S.A., aide to General A. P. Hil...

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[Bust portraits of four men including Colonel Hill of the Athens, Geor...

Title devised. Portrait of Colonel Hill similar to DRWG/US - Waud, no. 1036 (AA size). Formerly Waud no. C-111. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.1038) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Rebel Army of Virginia: Longstreet, Beauregard, Breckenridge, Fitzhugh...

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Lt. Colonel B.H. Hill, 5th U.S. Artillery

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Lt. Colonel B.H. Hill, 5th U.S. Artillery

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[Sloped hill near the river] - A black and white photo of a river and ...

Title devised by library staff. Gift; George Holmes; July 26, 1941.

View from Libby Hill, Richmond, Virginia looking westward up James Riv...

No. 733. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites an... More

Confederate dead on Matthews Hill, Bull Run (i.e. Antietam)

Illustrated in: Divided We Fought: A Pictorial History of the War, 1861-1865, p. 21. Illustrated in: Frassanito, William A., E474.65.F7 (P&P) Antietam: The Photographic Legacy of America's Bloodiest Day, E474.... More

View of James River and part of city of Richmond looking west from Lib...

No. B151. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

The poor man's remedy. Hill's clarified decoction of hoarhound candy ....

Patent medicine. 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 68, Folder 26.

Camp of 40th Massachusetts. Infantry Miner's Hill, Virginia

Purchase; L.C. Handy, Washington, D.C.; 1905 Nov. 25; (DLC/PP-1905: 42760A)

View from Libby Hill looking west on Main Street

No. B851. Photographer identified in Catalogue of photographic incidents of the war, from the gallery of Alexander Gardner...by Bob Zeller, published by the Center for Civil War Photography, c2003. Mounted wit... More

Battle-field of Gettysburg. Culp's Hill

No. 962. Caption continues: The intrenchments (i.e. entrenchments) on side of the hill was the line of Wadsworth's Division. The lunettes in foreground covered the guns of Reynolds, (L, 1st New York) Battery. ... More

Reception of Col Wood--by the 14th Brooklyn Regt.--(after his return f...

Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.373) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Belle Plain Landing, Virginia, Confederate entrenchments on hill

No. 29. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and... More

Belle Plain Landing, Virginia, Confederate entrenchments on hill

No. B455. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Globe Tavern - Meade's hdq. at the battle of Malvern Hill

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[Bolling house originally named "Mitchell's" (later "Bull Hill"), poss...

Photograph shows men sitting on the steps and on the lawn on front of Bolling house. Title devised by library staff. Caption continues: It stood in the present day "Mansion Hills" subdivision of Hopewell, Virgi... More

[Bolling house originally named "Mitchell's" (later "Bull Hill"), poss...

Photograph shows men and tents on the lawn of Bolling house. Title devised by library staff. Caption continues: It stood in the present day "Mansion Hills" subdivision of Hopewell, Virginia on the south bank of... More

Headquarters of General Morell, Miners Hill, Virginia

Photograph shows General George W. Morell standing with a group in camp. No. 4108. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.

Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. View from Culp's hill

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Battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, July 1, 1862 - the Rebels repulsed b...

Print shows Confederate infantry attacking Union artillery during the battle at Malvern Hill, Virginia, the beginning of July 1862. General George B. McClellan, of the Union, had well positioned his artillery a... More

General George B. McClellan and staff, Miner's Hill, Virginia March 18...

Portrait shows from left: Lieut. Williams, A.D.C., Surgeon Walters, Gen. G. W. Morell, Lt. Col. A. V. Colburn, A.D.C., Gen. G. B. McClellan, Lt. Col. N. B. Switzer, Prince de Joinville, Comte de Paris as identi... More

Headquarters Co. F, 11th Rhode Island Inf'y (i.e., Infantry), Miner's ...

No. B349. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites a... More

Stone wall at foot of Marye's Heights, Fredericksburg, Virginia at the...

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[Civil War envelope from Private G.H. Fellows, Fort Federal Hill, Balt...

Envelope shows view of Fort Federal Hill, Baltimore, Maryland. Bears cancelled three cent stamp. Found with letter processed as LOT 14043-3, no. 32. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP-2012:127). Forms part o... More

The siege of Vicksburg, the fight in the crater of Fort Hill, after th...

Print shows Union soldiers in trench and behind wooden walls and gabions as an assault is made on Fort Hill during the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi. Includes a "description of the position" with a key that i... More

Scene of the charge of the Louisiana Tigers. View taken from Cemetery ...

Photo shows the site where confederate infantry commanded by Brigadier General H.S. Hays (the Louisiana Tigers) charged against Union batteries on Cemetery Hill on the evening of July 2nd and broke through the ... More

View of Gettysburg from Cemetery Hill

No. 967. Illus. in: Gardner's photographic sketch book of the war / Alexander Gardner. Washington, D.C. : Philp & Solomons, [c1866], v. 1, pl. 35. Caption continues: The road on the left is the Baltimore pike... More

Rock Creek, below Culp's Hill, Pennsylvania, 19th century stereoscope ...

Civil War Photograph Collection. No. 502. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

North Anna River, Virginia. View of log bridge at Quarles' mill. Where...

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The war in Louisiana--the Battle of Pleasant Hill, between General Ban...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 May 14, pp. 120-121.

The war in Louisiana--Commodore Porter's fleet before Alexandria, Marc...

Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 April 30, pp. 88-89.

The gunboat candidate at the Battle of Malvern Hill

Democratic presidential candidate George Brinton McClellan is lampooned as an incompetent military leader. He sits in a saddle mounted on the boom of the Union ironclad vessel "Galena." The print recalls two p... More

Confederate prisoners captured at the battle of Fisher's Hill, Virgini...

Devised title based on information from: The Image of war, 1861-1865, vol. 2, page 338 and National Archives photograph 111-B-497. Erroneous title on item: Confederate prisoners captured at the battle of Fisher... More

Prospect Hill, Virginia. Signal station at camp of 13th New York Caval...

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Richmond, Virginia. Pratt's castle on Gamble's Hill

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General Henry S. Gansevoort and staff, Prospect Hill, Virginia (near W...

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Death of President Lincoln! Born February 12th, 1809:--- Died April 15...

Death of President Lincoln.; Verse.; On verso: 1404 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; Portfol... More

Prospect Hill, Virginia. General Henry S. Gansevoort and staff

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Prospect Hill, Virginia. Distant view of the camp of the 13th New York...

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View from the Petersburgh [i.e. Petersburg] railroad Depot, Richmond, ...

Photo shows buildings damaged by fires that began to burn out of control after the Confederate government and troops left Richmond, Va., at the end of the Civil War. Union troops helped put the fires out when t... More

Prospect Hill, Virginia. 13th New York Cavalry on inspection

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Prospect Hill, Virginia. General Henry S. Gansevoort & staff

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Richmond, from Oregon Hill, April 1865 (Andrew J. Russel)

Photograph shows an aerial view of Richmond, Virginia. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of ... More

Prospect Hill, Virginia. Officers of 13th New York Cavalry (Seymour Li...

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View from Gamble's Hill, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865

No. B24. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites an... More

Prospect Hill, Virginia. Camp of the 13th Regiment New York Cavalry. (...

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Prospect Hill, Virginia. Headquarters of 13th New York Cavalry

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Prospect Hill, Virginia. Camp of the 13th New York Cavalry

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Prospect Hill, Virginia. General Henry S. Gansevoort & staff

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Prospect Hill, Virginia. Officers of 13th New York Cavalry

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Battle-field of Gettysburg The effect of musketry and shell on the tre...

Tipton & Myers' Stereoscopic Views. No. 522. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Orphans' homestead, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania The building, now newly r...

Photograph shows Gen. Samuel W. Crawford, Gen. Andrew Porter, Gov. John W. Geary, and Gen. Ulysses S. Grant outside the orphanage and flanked by girls on the left and boys on the right. Gift; James Monroe Memo... More

Battle-field of Gettysburg Trees showing the effect of musketry, oppos...

Tipton & Myers' Stereoscopic Views. No. 523. Public domain photograph of 19th-century stereoscopic card, landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Prospectus of the true Georgian [letter to Governor Samuel Bard dated ...

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 14, Folder 33.

... Pompeii. A. W. A. Cedar Hill, West Roxbury. [1871].

At head of title: From the Boston Courier, June 11th, 1871.; Verse. Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Coll... More

[Nicholas G. Wilson, Soldier's National Cemetery superintendent, and o...

Photograph shows Nicholas G. Wilson, veteran of Co. G, 138th Pennsylvania Infantry Regiment, with two unidentified men. Related to AMB/TIN no. 3177. Purchased from: Scott Felix, 2014. Forms part of: Liljenqui... More

Jamestown from "The Past and the Present. Narragansett sea and shore. ...

This image has been taken from scan 000093 from "The Past and the Present. Narragansett sea and shore. An illustrated guide to Providence, Newport, Narragansett Pier, Block Island, Watch Hill, Rocky Point, Silv... More

[Invitation to be present at the ceremonies attending the reinterment ...

Payne, John Howard. Page Order: Leaflet 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 207, Folder 19a.

Natchez, under the hill and the Miss.

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Wawona from the hill, mammoth plate negative

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David B. Hill. Knights of labor repudiate and denounce him. The follow...

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 129, Folder 40b.

[Bunker Hill Monument, Bunker Hill Day, Boston, Massachusetts.]

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Bunker Hill Monument - A black and white photo of the washington monum...

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Lemon Hill, country house of Robert Morris [sic], Fairmount Park, Phil...

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[Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., Great Asquam [i.e. Squam] from Shepard Hill...

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Yellow Hill and beyond, on the Potomac

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From Shawnee Hill, Marshall Creek, Pennsylvania

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[Boston, Massachusetts., birdseye view of Charlestown & Bunker Hill]

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Natchez, under the hill, and the Mississippi

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Old battle grounds, Fishers' Hill, mammoth plate negative

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Indian Hill, WY - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface to h... More

Indian Hill, Wy. - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

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South from Breakneck Hill, south branch of the Potomac

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Grove Hill cottages, near Sykesville, mammoth plate negative

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South branch of the Potomac, south from Yellow Hill

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