Alabama's Coastal Connection - Boardwalk at Steadman's Landing
The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: A historic marker at the top of the boardwalk to the beach at Steadman's Landing, part of Baldwin County Parks System reads: Established... More
Powder Horn, 18th century - Public domain dedication photo
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Powder Horn, 18th century - Public domain weapon drawing
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Ogee frame, 18th century - Public domain dedication. Metropolitan Muse...
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Ogee frame, 18th century - Public domain dedication photo
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Body armor, Powder Horn and Wampum Shoulder Belt
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Andrew Jackson, with the Tennessee forces, on the Hickory Grounds (Ala...
Print shows Andrew Jackson, full-length portrait, sitting on a horse, facing right, with military troops in the background on the lower right. Includes quotes by and about Jackson. (DLC/PP-1903:41860).
New edition of MacBeth. Bank-oh's! Ghost
Another satire on the Panic of 1837, again condemning Van Buren's continuation of predecessor Andrew Jackson's hard-money policies as the source of the crisis. Clay shows the president haunted by the ghost of C... More
Expansion & contraction. Book illustration from Library of Congress
A ludicrous contrast of two influential Democrats, the obese Alabama Representative Dixon Hall Lewis and gaunt "Globe" editor Francis Preston Blair. The artist comments upon the unlikely alliance established in... More
Clar de kitchen. Book illustration from Library of Congress
Another Whig campaign satire, picturing incumbent Martin Van Buren and his Democratic advisers or "Kitchen Cabinet" routed by Whig candidate William Henry Harrison. In a domestic kitchen Harrison, dressed as a ... More
[Jeremiah Clemens, half-length portrait, facing front]
Democratic Senator from Alabama, 1849-1853. Scratched on back of plate: 151; Sen. Clemens, Indiana. Transfer; U.S. War College; 1920; (DLC/PP-1920:46153). Forms part of: Daguerreotype collection (Library of Con... More
Funeral obsequies of free-trade, Political Cartoon
A gloomy view of the effects of the Polk administration's Tariff of 1846. The artist echoes Whig condemnation of the measure as adverse to American trade. A funeral cortege, composed of administration supporter... More
Auburn College, Ala. / T.B., Landscape view print
Print shows a front view of the main building; includes list of members of the "Executive Committee", "Agents", and "Building Committee", with "Revd. A. A. Lipscomb D.D. Chairman, Montgomery, Ala." as chairman ... More
The gladiators of the Senate! The bulley's of the House
The artist parodies recent outbreaks of violence in Congress, and offers a pointed comparison between the elevated rhetorical sparring in the Senate and a more physical brand of combat in the House of Represent... More
[Design drawing for stained glass window "In the Temple," American sty...
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[Design drawing for stained glass window with Hannah presenting Samuel...
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Carrie and Alfred with Alfred's pony 'Tim' [showing man and woman in s...
Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of mo... More
De Soto crossing the Tombigbee River / J.W. Orr, N.Y.
De Soto and men crossing the Tombigbee River on rafts, probably in Marengo County, Alabama. Illus. in: The Life, travels and adventures of Ferdinand de Soto, Discoverer of the Mississippi / Lambert A. Wilmer. P... More
Steamer loading cotton, Mobile, Alabama. NYPL Sterescope Card Collecti...
Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who assembled it over a period of mo... More
The Capitol of Montgomery, Alabama. NYPL Sterescope Card Collection
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[Railroad bridge, Mobile, Alabama.] NYPL Sterescope Card Collection
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[Railroad bridge, Mobile, Alabama.] NYPL Sterescope Card Collection
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[Railroad bridge, Mobile, Alabama.] NYPL Sterescope Card Collection
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[George S. Houston, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 174. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[James F. Dowdell, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress,...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 172. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[Sydenham Moore, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, h...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 173. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[James A. Stallworth, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congre...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 170. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[Benjamin Fitzpatrick, Senator from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, ha...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 168. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[Clement C. Clay, Senator from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, half-le...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 169. Each item includes subject's orig... More
[Williamson R.W. Cobb, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congr...
Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washington: McClees & Beck, [1859], page 175. Each item includes subject's orig... More
El Alabama fabrica de tabacos de las mejores vegas de la vuelta abajo
Tobacco label showing bales of tobacco carried by several laborers from tobacco plantation to a sailboat moored below the plantation.
[Eli S. Shorter, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress, h...
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[Jabez L.M. Curry, Representative from Alabama, Thirty-fifth Congress,...
Title devised by Library staff based on name provided in book's index. Illus. in: McClees' gallery of photographic portraits of the senators, representatives & delegates of the thirty-fifth Congress... Washingt... More
General John W. Frazer, Colonel of 28th Ala Infantry. CSA
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Andrew B. Moore, war governor of Ala.
Notation on recto: B8161-10033. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, w... More
Honorable Charles Hays of ALA. - Public domain portrait photograph
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Honorable George Eliphaz Spencer of ALA.
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Honorable Alfred Eliab Buck of Ala. - Public domain portrait photograp...
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Union / painted by T.H. Matteson ; engraved by H.S. Sadd.
Print showing original image from 1852 with Henry Clay, sitting to the left of center, John Calhoun, and Daniel Webster standing at center, except that the plate has been reworked so that Abraham Lincoln (with ... More
General Henry De Lamar Clayton of Ala
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Honorable Peter Myrident Dox of ALA - Public domain portrait print
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Honorable William Crawford Sherrod of Alabama
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Honorable Charles Hays of ALA - Public domain portrait photograph
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Honorable Peter M. Dox of ALA - Public domain portrait print
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Honorable Alfred Eliab Buck of Ala - Public domain portrait photograph
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General John W. Frazer, Colonel of 28th Ala Infantry. CSA
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General John W. Frazer, Colonel of 28th Ala Infantry. CSA
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Honorable Charles Hays of ALA - Public domain portrait photograph
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Honorable Robert Stell Heflin of ALA
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Honorable Joseph Humphrey Sloss of Ala.
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Honorable Charles Hays of Ala - Public domain portrait photograph
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Strong's dime caricatures. No. 4, "The schoolmaster abroad" at last
The fourth in Strong's series of antisecessionist satires. Here the artist is optimistic about newly elected Abraham Lincoln's ability to end the secession movement among the Southern states. (The Library's imp... More
The city of Montgomery, Alabama, showing the state house where the con...
People in the street in front of the state Capitol building. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 5, no. 215 (1861 Feb. 9), p. 88 (bottom).
The Honorable Jefferson Davis, president-elect of the new southern con...
Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1861 March 16, p. 257.
City of Montgomery, Alabama [6 blacks farming in field in foreground b...
Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 5, (1861 June 1), p. 344-345. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Negroes ; Farming.
An Alabama regiment marching Capitol Square, Richmond, on their way to...
Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 5, (1861 October 19), p. 661. Title and other information transcribed from caption card.
Strong's dime caricatures. No. 2, Little Bo-Peep and her foolish sheep
The second in a series of caricatures criticizing the secession of several Southern states from the Union during the last months of the Buchanan administration. Here the young nursery-rhyme shepherdess Bo-Peep ... More
[Enoch Hooper Cook, Jr., Pvt, Co. H. 38th Alabama Infantry, C.S.A., ha...
Written on negative sleeve: Pvt. & Sgt. Enoch Hooper Cook, Jr., Co. H. 38th Ala. Inf. C.S.A., one of ten brothers=CSA. Original in possession of Mrs. Rebecca Springer, Union Springs, Ala. Copy photo made by LC... More
Confederate ram Tennessee, Mobile, Alabama, Confederate States of Amer...
No. 3151. Mounted with five other photographs with general caption: Mississippi River Fleet. Cited in The End of an Era: the Image of War, vol. 6, p. 106. Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
The fox without a tail, Confederate States of America.
A satire on South Carolina's role as instigator of secessionism in the South. The artist may be lampooning the convention of seceded states which assembled at Montgomery, Alabama, on February 4, 1861. The promi... More
[Private Parris P. Casey of Company I, "Cherokee Rangers," 19th Alabam...
Photograph shows identified soldier, Parris Pace Casey (1839-1863). (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012 and 1860 U.S. Federal Census, Ancestry.com) Case: Berg, no. 1-54. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2012; (DLC/PP... More
Secession exploded, Confederate States of America.
This strongly anti-Confederate satire is a fantastical vision of the Union defeat of the secessionist movement. A hideous monster representing secession emerges from the water at left. He is hit by a charge fro... More
Confederate camp, Confederate States of America.
Photograph showing Alabama troops at camp, Pensacola, Fla. Photo attributed to J. D. Edwards.
The cabinet of the Confederate States at Montgomery / from photographs...
Group portrait of the Confederate cabinet including President Jefferson Davis, Vice President Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Attorney General Judah P. Benjamin, Secretary of the Navy Stephen M. Mallory, Secretary... More
The Dis-United States. Or the Southern Confederacy
The Confederate leaders are portrayed as a band of competing opportunists led by South Carolina governor and secessionist Francis Pickens (far left). The artist criticizes the January 1861 secession of five sta... More
Strong's dime caricatures. No. 1, Domestic troubles
The first in a series of four satires published by Thomas W. Strong, criticizing the secession movement in the South during the closing months of the Buchanan administration. (This impression was deposited for ... More
The Southern Confederacy - Senate Chamber in the Capitol at Montgomery...
Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 11, no. 275 (1861 Mar. 2), p. 229. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421-A. Caption card tracings: Al... More
The pirate "Alabama", Confederate States of America.
Anti-CSA showing English anger at the loss of British-insured property destroyed by the Confederate ship ALABAMA. Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1862. Reference copy may be in LOT 4421. This record contains unveri... More
[Private John P. Alldredge of Co. A, 48th Alabama Infantry Regiment in...
Photograph shows identified soldier. Case: Leather; geometric design. Service records for Alldredge in collections file. Gift; Tom Liljenquist; 2015; (DLC/PP-2015:180) Purchased from: B.G. "Chip" Newman, Brok... More
Capt. Semmes, of the pirate "Alabama"
Raphael Semmes, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Public domain scan of portrait print from Library of Congress, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Ruins of R.R. bridge across Tennessee River, at Bridgeport, Tenn.? (i....
Caption provided by Minnesota Historical Society from the NPS Civil War Series: The Battles of Chickamauga: The Confederates destroyed the railroad bridge over the Tennessee River at Bridgeport, Alabama, in th... More
The pending conflict, Confederate States of America.
One of three similar prints published by Oliver Evans Woods, reflecting grave northern fears of British and French interference on behalf of the Confederacy in the Civil War. (See also "The Pending Conflict" an... More
Mobile and Vicinity. Prepared by Order of Maj. Gen. N. P. Banks; D. C....
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Fort Morgan just after the surrender, August 23, 1864
Battle of Mobile Bay, Ala. Wood engraving after sketch by George Slater Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, (1864). LOT 9355; CIVIL WAR, 1861-1865 FORTS. This record contains unverified data from caption card.
Bridgeport, Tenn. (i.e. Alabama), 1864, showing ruins of Nashville & C...
Hand written on mount: "See also LC-B8184-10349". Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Last of the Alabama Commodore Winslows grand victory march. Respectful...
Print shows the battle between the USS Kearsarge and the CSS Alabama off the coast of France, with a private British yacht "Deerhound" nearby; the Alabama is foundering and its crew is being rescued by the Kear... More
Chart of the battle off Cherbourg. - Public domain map
The map charts the course of the two ships in Cherbourg Harbor and in the British Channel off the coast of Cherbourg, France. Made by the British for the Confederacy and captained by Raphael Semmes the C.S.S. A... More
Combat Naval (L'Alabama coulant sous le feu de Kearsage)
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Stevenson, Ala., Showing the Defenses of the Post erected after Plans ...
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Robbins, Rep. William McKendree of N.C. Maj. in 4th Ala. Infantry. C.S...
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Honorable Jeremiah Haralson of Ala. Killed by wild beasts near Denver,...
African American legislator. Public domain photograph - Portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Hewitt, Honorable G.W. of Ala. Private in Co. B. 10th Ala. Regt. C.S....
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Spencer, Honorable George E. of Ala - Public domain portrait print
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Martin, Honorable J.J. of Ala?. Glass Plate Negative, American Civil W...
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Williams, Honorable Jeremiah Norman of Ala. Captain of the Clayton Gua...
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Honorable Jeremiah Haralson of Alabama. Killed by wild beasts near Den...
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Caldwell, Honorable John Henry, M.C. of Ala. 10th ALA Infantry. C.S.A.
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Herbert, Honorable Hillary of ALA. Capt. Of Greenville Guards, CSA. Co...
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Robbins, Honorable W. M. of N.C. Major in 4th Ala. Regt. CSA
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Hon. Thomas Haughey, Ala. Surgeon, U.S. Army
Original Caption: Hon. Thomas Haughey, Ala. Surgeon, U.S. Army..U.S. National Archives’ Local Identifier: 111-B-3238..From:: Series: Mathew Brady Photographs of Civil War-Era Personalities and Scenes, (Record ... More
Caldwell, Honorable J.H. of Ala. M.C.
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Jones, Honorable Jas. Taylor, Rep. From Ala. Capt. Co. D. 4th Ala. In ...
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Lewis, Honorable Burwell Boykin of Ala. Capt in 2nd ALA Cavalry CSA
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Lewis, Honorable Burwell Boykin of ALA
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Houston, Honorable George S. of ALA - Public domain portrait photograp...
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Corcoran, Honorable Jerome of ALA?. Glass Plate Negative, American Civ...
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Alabamians receiving rations / sketched by A.R. Waud.
Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1866 Aug. 11, p. 509. Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
The British lion disarmed / McLoughlin R(?) sc. ; Th. Nast.
Columbia, holding clippers labeled "Alabama claims", is clipping the claws of the "British" lion; a British flag flies above a fort on cliff in the background with American ships at sea on the left. Illus. in: ... More
Leaders of the Democratic Party, Confederate States of America.
A searing, election-year indictment of four prominent figures in the Democratic party, three of them former Confederate officers. Former New York governor and Democratic presidential nominee Horatio Seymour is... More
Honorable Matt Whitaker Ransom of N.C., Peace Commissioner to the Prov...
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