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1781, reprint Philadelphia 1807
Plan of the investment and attack of York in Virginia [from Life of Washington]
Plate IX. Shows Yorktown. Published by C. P. Wayne; engraved by Francis Shallus.
GLC04760.02
24 June 1865
Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)
[Proclamation lifting restrictions on trade west of the Mississippi River]
Printed signature of President Johnson and Acting Secretary of State William Hunter. Proclamation will "restore unrestricted commercial intercourse between and in the several States ... and Territories west of the Mississippi river." Opens all trade...
GLC04973
7 September 1863
King & Baird (1839-1876)
The Road to Peace through Pennsylvania via Washington, as Engineered by Southern Rebels and their Democratic Allies.
Includes several excerpts from the Richmond Enquirer, described as Jefferson Davis' Organ. States that the next Congressional session will be important, as "During its deliberation, the Presidential campaign of 1864 will be marked out." Proposes...
GLC05645
circa 1 November 1864
Ringwalt & Brown (fl. 1863-1865)
[Broadside regarding recruitment of African Americans and celebrating emancipation in Maryland]
Printed in commemoration of the adoption of emancipation in Maryland. The print incorporates five illustrations, three documenting African American combat valor and two related to emancipation and the future of African Americans. At the top of the...
GLC05701
1755
Le Rouge, George L. (fl. 1755)
Canada et Louisiane [double page engraving with handcoloring]
Drawn by George Le Rouge, Engineer to the King. With hand-colored outlines. Double-page engraving showing the east coast of North America from New Foundland to Florida, with insets of Niagara Falls (small), New Orleans (medium) and upper Louisiana...
GLC05714
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