Images

A monument marking the birthplace of US Chief Justice John Marshall, near Germantown, Virginia. Photo by Jwalk1230, 2013.

The US Capitol Building around the year 1800, before it was burnt by the British in 1814 during the War of 1812. The Capitol Building housed both the US Congress and the Supreme Court. Painting by William Russell Birch, c. 1800.

Statue of John Marshall and George Wythe outside the William and Mary School of Law in Virginia. Photo by Rpogge, November 2007.

Chief Justice John Marshall (1755-1835), oil on canvas by Chester Harding, c. 1830. Virginia Museum of History and Culture, Richmond.

Tanasee Bald viewed from the Courthouse Overlook, North Carolina, October 2016. Photograph by Thomson 200. Tanasee Bald is the mountain said to be the home of the giant Tsul'Kalu, the earth spirit who presided over hunting and hunting rituals...

Statue of Walt Whitman (1819-1892), Philadelphia.

Walt Whitman (1819-1892), age 35, frontispiece to Leaves of Grass, Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., 1855, steel engraving by Samuel Hollyer from a lost daguerreotype by Gabriel Harrison. Morgan Library & Museum, New York.

American poet Walt Whitman, photograph by George C. Cox, taken in New York, 1887. Restored by Adam Cuerden. Library of Congress, Washington D.C.

Wood engraving showing Bluebeard and his wife by Gustave Doré (1832-83). Bluebeard is a character from a French folktale. (National Library of France)

A 1940s photograph of the Hungarian composer Béla Bartók (1881-1945).