Search Images
Browse Content (p. 143)
Image
Litterae Ignotae from Hildegard’s Riesencodex
The litterae ignotae from Hildegard of Bingen’s Riesencodex, Folio 464v, Hs. 2.
Hochschul- und Landesbibliothek RheinMain.
Image
Henry Clay Speaks in Favor of the Compromise of 1850
Henry Clay (1777-1852), the Great Compromiser, takes the Senate floor one final time to present the Compromise of 1850, drawn by P. F. Rothermel, engraved by R. Whitechurch, published circa 1855.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Image
Zachary Taylor
US President Zachary Taylor, daguerreotype by an unknown photographer, circa 1845.
Image
Stephen A. Douglas
Stephen A. Douglas, a US Civil War era politician from Illinois, photo by Julian Vannerson, 1859.
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Image
John C. Calhoun, 1849
John C. Calhoun, shortly before his death, photographed by Mathew Brady, 1849.
Image
Henry Clay, 1848
Henry Clay, toward the end of his long congressional career, photo by Julian Vannerson or Montgomery P. Simons, 1848.
Image
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Author of Uncle Tom's Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe, engraving based on an oil painting by Alonzo Chappel, published by Johnson Fry & Co, 1872. Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) became famous in 1852 with the publication of her anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Library...
Image
Sarah Hopkins Bradford - Harriet Tubman's Biographer
Portrait of Sarah Hopkins Bradford (1818-1912), who wrote the first biography of Harriet Tubman, Scenes in the Life of Harriet Tubman (1869) and a follow-up volume, Harriet Tubman, Moses of her People (1886), both of which became bestsellers...
Image
Henry Clay, 1818
Portrait of Henry Clay (1777-1852) as Speaker of the House, painting by Matthew Harris Jouett, 1818.
Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky.
Image
James Tallmadge, Jr.
Representative James Tallmadge, Jr. (1778-1853) of New York, whose 'Tallmadge Amendment' sparked the controversy that led to the Missouri Compromise of 1820. By Jeremiah Nims, 1825.
New York Public Library.
