Print comments on the issue of the annexation of Texas by the United States in the 1844 U.S. Presidential election. President Tyler is depicted uncomfortably astride a Democratic "Tex-ass" with Democratic candidate James Polk who has annoyed Tyler by ...
Description:
Title from caption below image.
Publisher:
H.R. Robinson, 142 Nassau Street, E.W.C. (signed on stone, E. Clay)
Subject (Geographic):
United States, United States., Texas, and Texas.
Subject (Name):
Polk, James K. 1795-1849 (James Knox),, Clay, Henry, 1777-1852, Tyler, John, 1790-1862, Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845, Equal Rights Party (N.Y.), Equal Rights Party (New York, N.Y.), Whig Party (U.S.), and Democratic Party (U.S.)
Subject (Topic):
Presidents, Election, Caricatures and cartoons, History, Animals, Symbolic aspects, Public buildings, and Annexation to the United States
BEIN 2003 Folio 85: No. 7 of 45 maps bound together with binder's spine title: Atlas of America; manuscript table of contents. Bookplate of Paul Mellon.
Publisher:
Published according to Act of Parliament by Thos. Jefferys, the corner of St. Martins Lane, Charing Cross
A scene on the frontier of the United States: a Native American (left) is shown scalping a dead British soldier. Another British soldier who has already been scalped is shown on the left edge of the design. In the center a second Native American, from...
Description:
Title etched above image.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Geographic):
United States
Subject (Topic):
Indians of North America, History, Scalping, Soldiers, and British
Darly, Matthias, approximately 1720-approximately 1778, printmaker
Published / Created:
Augt. 1, 1778.
Call Number:
778.08.01.02+
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
A scene before an American fort and palisade, perhaps depicting the indifference of Congress to the sufferings of American soldiers and the pro-slavery attitude of the Americans. A black man lies wounded in the foreground, surrounded by cannon balls. ...
Description:
Title from item.
Publisher:
Pubd. by M Darly
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain, America., United States, and Great Britain.
Subject (Topic):
Slavery, Colonies, History, Forts & fortifications, and Blacks
Picart, Charles, approximately 1780-approximately 1837, printmaker
Published / Created:
[1 March 1809]
Call Number:
Folio 53 Sh52 M78
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Abstract:
"Portrait of Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood, nearly half-length, standing slightly to left against background of cloudy sky, looking to left; wearing wig, naval uniform, neckerchief and frill."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title etched below image.
Publisher:
Published March 1, 1809, by T. Cadell & W. Davies, Strand, London
Subject (Geographic):
United States and United States.
Subject (Name):
Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816,, Great Britain. Royal Navy, Hood, Samuel Hood, Viscount, 1724-1816., and Great Britain. Royal Navy.
His Historisch-genealogischer Cakebder; oder, Jahrbuch der merkwurdigsten neuen Welt-Begebenheiten für 1784. Leipzig, Zur Messe bey Haude und Spener von Berlin).