Highlights from the past and present of Louisiana, from the rich online collections of the Library of Congress.

Poster showing two soldiers, one holding an American flag, the other the flag of the Red Cross, and promoting loyalty to both.

Exhibit poster showing a disabled man working with film projection equipment. Poster caption: Disabled men have shown great fondness for Motion Picture Operating and have succeeded well at the trade. Several graduates of the Training Class at the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men, New York City, are now at work in the city's theaters. Exhibit of the Red Cross Institute for Crippled and Disabled Men and the Red Cross Institute for the Blind.

This site includes maps created back to the early 16th century, when exploration and new discoveries brought the need for improved information about the world. The maps, most of which are hand drawn, depict portions of five continents and were prepared by cartographers from Spain, Portugal, France, Great Britain, the Netherlands, Latin America countries, and the U.S., among others. The maps represent different national and political interests and perspectives, at various periods of time.

Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1838, by H.R. Robinson, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States, for the Southern District of New York. Printed & published by H.R. Robinson 52 Cortlandt St. & 11 1/2 Wall & 38 Chathrn. St. N.Y.|Inscribed in stone: By O'Graphic.|Signed in stone: C.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)

Presents the most significant documents from our fourth President, James Madison. Most relate to two events in which Madison played a key role: the drafting and ratification of the Constitution (1787-8) and the introduction in the First Federal Congress of the amendments (1789) that became the Bill of Rights. Other documents relate to the freedom of religion and the burning of Washington, D.C., by the British in 1814 -- perhaps the major embarrassment of Madison's career.

A cartoon ridiculing Whig nominee Winfield Scott as the pawn of New York antislavery senator William Seward. A member of the "Whig Committee" kneels before Scott and offers him a crown and a bag of money marked "50,000,000." The man says, "Behold us at your feet great General, tired of the insolence of our democratic rabble, we, the Whig Party, have made a Coup d'etat, proclaimed an Empire and herewith offer you the Crown, and with the Crown $50,000,000 per annum!! Long live the Emperor!!! Huzza!!" Scott, holding his plumed hat and sword, leans against Seward. He asks his supporter, "Why thats a magnificent offer Seward, shall I accept it?" Sharpening his quill, Seward replies, "Certainly! by all means, you take the Crown and I'll take the $50,000,000 and the Pickings and the Stealings." In the right background stand other members of the "Whig Committee." On the left is Seward's writing table.|For sale by Nathaniel Currier? at No. 2 Spruce St. N.Y.|Signed with initials: J.L.M. (John L. Magee).|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 107.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1852-27.

Satire on the escalation of tensions during the Maine-New Brunswick border conflict in February and March 1839. The dispute involved the claim to valuable, timber-rich territory in the Aroostook region. The area was occupied in 1838 by timber interests from Maine and Massachusetts. Canadian troops were summoned to eject them, and the state militia was called out in their defense. Maine governor John Fairfield pressed for federal military action against the Canadians. The artist here ridicules the bellicose elements on both sides. Van Buren sits astride an ox with Fairfield's head, wielding a sword and a shield emblazoned with a cabbage. The ox confronts a dog with the head of the Duke of Wellington, ridden by England's Queen Victoria, also armed with sword and shield. In the background British and American troops face each other across an open plain, while men fell timber in between. Victoria: "O fie Brother Jonathan, to threaten a young woman with a war about a few sticks of timber. If I have your property make it appear & I will pay for the value: do not compel me to quarrel when we ought to be friends." Wellington: "My Royal Mistress let us give them a touch of Waterloo, by so doing we can turn out the Whig Ministers." Van Buren: "I must make a flourish to please my Loco Foco friends, but in truth I don't relish committing myself in favor of war;--They may think I am not exactly the man to carry it on & call for Clay the never failing pacificator; but I must make a flourish." Fairfield: "Go ahead Matty I want to be elected Governer again. Make them retreat, or pay for the timber. Maine wants money & must have it." The ox's tail is pulled by Virginia Congressman Henry A. Wise. He argues, "Come Matty be Wise, don't be so very warlike, it won't do to fight about the timber, let them pay the value to brother Jonathan & he will be satisfied." Marked stylistic similarities between "The Main Question" and two other 1839 prints by HD, "The Cut Direct" and "The Meeting at Saratoga" (nos. 1839-3 and -4), strongly suggest common authorship.|Entd . . . 1839 by H.R. Robinson.|Probably drawn by H.D. (Henry Dacre?).|Pub. by H.R. Robinson 52 Cortlandt St. N.Y.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 58.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1839-5.

Highlights from the past and present of Maine, from the rich online collections of the Library of Congress..

Democratic senator Nathaniel P. Tallmadge of New York was the leader of the conservative or pro-Bank Democrats. Here Clay satirizes Tallmadge's attempts to undermine party support for Van Buren's hard money fiscal agenda, whose cornerstone was his independent treasury program. The cartoon most likely dates from September 1837, when a coalition of Loco Foco and moderate Democrats robbed the conservative wing of the party of much of its support. Tallmadge appears here in the character of the Yankee militia officer "Joe Bunker," from James Hackett's comic play, "Down East, or the Militia Muster." He marches toward the right where a group of men rally beneath a "Madisonian" banner. (The "Madisonian" was a newspaper advocating the soft-money or pro-Bank interests of the Democratic party). Tallmadge turns to realize that his troops have deserted him to watch a parade of soldiers with a standard "The Message" moving toward the left. The "Message" was Van Buren's important September 14 message to Congress wherein he proposed his independent treasury system, as well as the temporary issue of treasury notes to alleviate the effects of the Panic of 1837. The soldiers loiter under the sign of the Van Buren Hotel. One calls out, "Hallo! Pigtail, you're wrong." Tallmadge also addresses his pigtailed fellow officer, "Blood and Nassacreeation! aint they comin' Captn Ben c. I swow I don't believe they see our colour." Pigtail responds, "If they dont, I'll oppose 'em, if it costs me $1600 and two more bullet holes in my hat." The men under the "Madisonian" banner lament, "We might as well go to Texas!," "Alas! poor Williamsburg," and "We're in the minority." Behind them is the "New National Bank." The expression "go to Texas" may refer to the contemporary code "Gone to Texas," used by embezzlers of the period."|Entered . . . 1837 by H.R. Robinson . . . Southern District of New York.|Signed with monogram: C (Edward Williams Clay).|The Library's impression was registered for copyright on September 16, 1837.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Davison, "E.W. Clay and the American Political Caricature Business," p. 104-105.|Weitenkampf, p. 50.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1837-13.

Poster showing a man working in a shipyard. United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation. Title from item. Exhibited: American Treasures of the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., 2007.

Poster showing a monumental Red cross nurse cradling a wounded soldier on a stretcher. Third Red Cross Roll Call, Nov. 2-11, 1919. Title from item.

Poster showing a portrait of a soldier, suspended as a pendant from a ribbon. Poster no. 119. W 6895 25M. 7/15. Title from item.

Poster showing soldiers marching, bearing rifles on their shoulders, behind an insignia of the Statue of Liberty with the legend, "I own a Liberty Bond." No. 7.

Poster showing troops with bayonets rushing over a hill. The Mayor's Committee on National Defense, issued by the Recruiting Committee. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Poster showing a hand about to pitch a ball labeled "Second Liberty Loan of 1917" at Kaiser Wilhelm with the caption "Swat military autocracy." No. 2.

Poster showing a woman in Salvation Army uniform raising her hand above a variety of destitute people.

The man "wot pays no postage" here is Van Buren ally and publicist Amos Kendall. The profits and influence Kendall derived from publication of the administration organ the "Extra Globe" were no doubt increased by his free use of federal franking privileges and the mails. The particular issue addressed here is uncertain, but involves a claim submitted by a Mr. Reeside. Here Kendall is seated at a table strewn with documents "Post Roads," "Mail," and "A. Kendal Dr. to Reeside." He is confronted by an unidentified man (probably Reeside) at left who presents a bill for |Entd . . . 1839 by H.R. Robinson . . . Southn. Dist. of New York.|Printed & publd. by H.R. Robinson, 52 Cortlandt. |Signed: N.S. (Napoleon Sarony).|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 58.|Forms part of: American cartoon print filing series (Library of Congress)|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1839-17.

U.S. Navy recruitment poster showing a man in Navy uniform, and nine small figures in civilian dress. Furnished by Federal Schools, Minneapolis. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.