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Commo. Perry Meeting the Imperial Commissioners at Yokuhama
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| Title: | Commo. Perry Meeting the Imperial Commissioners at Yokuhama |
| Artist: | Sarony & Co. |
| Created: | 1856 |
| Caption: | Image of Commodore Matthew Perry meeting with Japanese leaders on his mission to open up trade with the isolated nation. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Death of Genl. Z. Taylor
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| Title: | Death of Genl. Z. Taylor |
| Artist: | Nathaniel Currier |
| Created: | 1850 |
| Caption: | Image depicts President Taylor on his death bed, surrounded by family, friends, and supporters. The man standing to the right of the minister, with his arms crossed, is Vice President Millard Fillmore. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Engine House Fortified by John Brown at Harper's Ferry, VA
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| Title: | Engine House Fortified by John Brown at Harper's Ferry, VA |
| Artist: | George Stacy |
| Created: | c. 1860 |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Harper's Ferry Insurrection
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| Title: | Harper's Ferry Insurrection |
| Subtitle: | Interior of the Engine-House, just before the gate is broken down by the storming party - Col. Washington and his associates as captives, held by Brown as hostages |
| Artist: | Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper |
| Created: | November 5, 1859 |
| Caption: | John Brown, his men, and hostages inside the engine house of the Harper's Ferry Armory. United States Marines, under Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee, stormed the engine house. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln
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| Title: | Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln |
| Subtitle: | March 4, 1861 |
| Created: | March 4, 1861 |
| Caption: | Abraham Lincoln's First Inauguration. Lincoln stands under the wooden canopy before the Capitol, which is still under construction. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
Missourians Going to Kansas to Vote
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| Title: | Missourians Going to Kansas to Vote |
| Artist: | Felix O.C. Darley (designer) ; John Rogers (engraver) |
| Caption: | After the Kansas Nebraska Act was passed in 1854, proslavery Border Ruffians from Missouri sought to influence the vote in Kansas over whether the territory would allow slavery. |
| Source: | Orville, Victor J. History of American Conspiracies. New York: James D. Torrey, 1863. |
Secession meeting in front of the Mills House, Meeting Street, Charleston, S.C.
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| Title: | Secession meeting in front of the Mills House, Meeting Street, Charleston, S.C. |
| Artist: | Frank Leslie's Illustrated Newspaper |
| Created: | 1860 |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia
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| Title: | The Resurrection of Henry Box Brown at Philadelphia |
| Subtitle: | who escaped from Richmond Va. in a bx 3 feet long 2 1/2 ft. deep and 2 ft wide |
| Created: | c. 1850 |
| Caption: | Depiction of the escape of Henry "Box" Brown, who had himself shipped in a box from Richmond, Virginia, to abolitionists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States
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| Title: | The Starting Point of the Great War Between the States |
| Subtitle: | Inauguration of Jefferson Davis as President of the Confederate States of America, at Montgomery, Alabama, February 18, 1861. |
| Artist: | James Massalon (artist); based on photograph by Col. William C. Howell |
| Created: | c. 1878 |
| Caption: | A crowd gathers before the Capitol building in Montgomery, Alabama, where Jefferson Davis, standing with other Confederate leaders, is inaugurated as the first President of the Confederacy. |
| Source: | Library of Congress |
