A crude portrayal of a fight on the floor of Congress between Vermont Representative Matthew Lyon and Roger Griswold of Connecticut. The row was originally prompted by an insulting reference to Lyon on Griswold's part. The interior of Congress Hall is...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Griswold, Roger, 1762-1812, Lyon, Matthew, 1749-1822, Dayton, Jonathan, 1760-1824, Condy, Jonathan Williams, 1770-1828, Green, Ashbel, and Congress Hall (Philadelphia, Pa.),
Manuscript contract, dated 1847 Feb 4, in ink, between Thomas L. McKenney and John T. Bowen. Agreement states terms for the revision and republication of McKenney's History of the Indian Tribes of North America, a work McKenney first published in 1837...
Description:
Thomas Loraine McKenney, author, Superintendent of Indian Trade (1816-1822), first Superintendent of Indian Affairs (1824-1830). John T. Bowen, British artist and engraver born in 1801, active in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Subject (Geographic):
United States.
Subject (Name):
Audubon, Victor Gifford, 1809-1860., Bowen, John T., approximately 1801-1856?, Hall, James, 1793-1868., McKenney, Thomas L. 1785-1859. (Thomas Loraine),, Paine, John, fl. 1847., and Strattan, Robert M.
Neagle, John B., approximately 1796-1866, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1830]
Call Number:
830.00.00.161
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A man, wearing only a loincloth, is shown being stretched on a rack. Two men, on the right and left edges of the image, work the mechanism of the torture device. Three men observe from the far side of the rack, the central figure wearing aristocratic ...
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J.J. Woodward
Subject (Name):
Tower of London (London, England),
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs, Punishment & torture, and Punishment devices
Badby is shown in a barrel surrounded by flaming faggots, with Henry Prince of Wales standing in the right foreground and a cleric holding up a small disc on the left. A crucifix hangs on an outside wall in the background
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
J.J. Woodward
Subject (Name):
Badby, John, -1410., Henry V, King of England, 1387-1422., and Foxe, John, 1516-1587.
Subject (Topic):
Martyrs, Burning at the stake, Crucifixes, and Clergy
View of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, seen from across the Allegheny River. Factories are seen sending up smoke through their chimneys and steamboats fill the river also sending dark smoke into the air. In the foreground, cattle are seen grazing and a cov...
Description:
BEIN BrSide4o Zc99 O3 854sm: On sheet 16.5 x 26.8 cm.
Publisher:
L. Swormstedt and J.H. Power and E.C. Middleton, printer
Subject (Geographic):
Pittsburgh (Pa.), Allegheny River (Pa. and N.Y.), Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh., United States, and Allegheny River.
Correspondence, photographs, and an incomplete catalog raisonné related to the work of artist Charles Demuth, which Richard W. C. Weyand collected and compiled from 1940 to 1955, as well as auction catalogs related to Weyand's estate, 1957-1976. Corr...
Description:
Richard W. C. Weyand (1905-1956), born Richard Conklin Weyand, was the son of Edwin Stanton Weyand (1863-1913) and Wilhelmina Thompson Weyand (1873-1943). He had two sisters, Dorothy Adams Weyand Grether (1897-1982) and Louise Victoria Weyand White (1...
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Lancaster.
Subject (Name):
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935., Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, Locher, Robert Evans, 1888-1956., and Weyand, Richard W. C., 1905-1956.
Correspondence, photographs, and an incomplete catalog raisonné related to the work of artist Charles Demuth, which Richard W. C. Weyand collected and compiled from 1940 to 1955, as well as auction catalogs related to Weyand's estate, 1957-1976. Corr...
Description:
Richard W. C. Weyand (1905-1956), born Richard Conklin Weyand, was the son of Edwin Stanton Weyand (1863-1913) and Wilhelmina Thompson Weyand (1873-1943). He had two sisters, Dorothy Adams Weyand Grether (1897-1982) and Louise Victoria Weyand White (1...
Subject (Geographic):
Pennsylvania and Lancaster.
Subject (Name):
Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935., Demuth, Charles, 1883-1935, Locher, Robert Evans, 1888-1956., and Weyand, Richard W. C., 1905-1956.
