Poster showing a bust portrait of Pershing flanked by two red crosses. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Poster encouraging enlistment in the Quartermaster Corps of the army, featuring a portrait drawing of Pershing by Oberhardt. P. & S. Hist. Br. 10M. 6-19.

A satiric portrait of Venezuelan-born general Narciso Lopez, leader of an 1850 expedition to liberate Cuba from Spanish rule. Lopez's army of American volunteers captured the Cuban coastal town of Cardenas in May 1850. After a brief occupation Lopez's forces were driven out by Spanish troops, and fled to Key West. Lopez is shown fleeing to the left, holding a sword and a bag marked $50,000 (an exaggerated reference to the small sum of money taken by his men from the Cardenas customhouse). A milestone points "To Cardenas Custom House" in the distance, where a battle rages. Lopez says: "Well! we have not Revolutionized Cuba, but then we have Got what we came for, my Comrades came for Glory, I came for Cash, I've got the Cash, they've got the Glory, & I suppose we're all satisifed. I'm O-P-H [?] for the United States again. Cant Live under a Military Despotism." Weitenkampf dates the print tentatively 1851, the year of Lopez's second Cuban expedition. Specific reference here to the Cardenas affair of the preceding year, however, is persuasive evidence for an 1850 date.|Pubd. & for sale by John L. Magee 34 Mott St. N.Y.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Weitenkampf, p. 103.|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 1850-10.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to determine why colonists were drawn to settle in a particular region of the country.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to examine George Washington's leadership in the French and Indian War, at the Federal Convention, and as chief executive.

This site includes letters, diaries, financial accounts, military records, and other writings from Washington's youth and service as a surveyor and colonel, as delegate to the Continental Congress, as commander during the Revolutionary War, and as president (1789-97). His many interests and correspondents make these papers are a rich source for almost every aspect of early American history.

Poster showing George Washington clasping hands with a minuteman and a modern-day soldier. United Cigars. Poster is trimmed to banner shape.

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

Lord Kitchener says: The Germans have stripped and insulted British Prisoners and have shot some in cold blood. The Germans act with the same barbarous savagery as the Sudan Dervishes. The Prime Minister says: We shall not forget this horrible record of calculated cruelty and crime and we shall exact reparation against the guilty Germans. Poster is text only. Poster no. 100. Title from item.

Students use Library of Congress primary sources to explore German immigration to the Upper Midwest in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century.

Poster showing a German helmet with a question mark superimposed. Text continues: Any bank, banker or trust company will furnish full details and accept your subscription. Or, ask your employer how you can subscribe your share. Or, the folder of complete information will be mailed free by the Liberty Loan Committee, Third Federal District, 108 South Fourth St., Philadelphia. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Poster is text only. Poster no. 39. W. W. 10145/237 25M 1/15. Title from item.

Poster showing a dark sea with ships and submarines on the horizon. United States Food Administration. No. 109. Forms part of: Willard and Dorothy Straight Collection.

Poster showing a young woman tending a garden, with a drawing of a soldier in the background. Copyright by New York State Land Army Membership Committee.

Poster shows an Australian soldier with rifle in one hand gesturing toward other soldiers in battle. Title from item.

Poster shows an Australian soldier, his head and forearm wrapped in bandages, holding a gun with one hand and shading his eyes with the other. Title from item.

An illustrated sheet music cover for an abolitionist song composed by Jesse Hutchinson, Jr. The song is dedicated to antislavery editor Nathaniel Peabody Rogers, "As a mark of esteem for his intrepidity in the cause of Human Rights." It is illustrated with an allegory of the triumph of abolitionism. In a landscape a railroad car, "Immediate Emancipation," is drawn by a locomotive named "Liberator" and followed by another locomotive, the "Repealer," which pulls a second car "Liberty Votes and Ballot Boxes." The "Liberator" was the name of a prominent antislavery newspaper published in Boston by William Lloyd Garrison. "Repealer" probably refers to the Irish insurgent movement in support of the repeal of the Legislative Union, a cause with which many abolitionists in the United States were allied. Flags bearing the names of two other abolitionist publications, the "Herald of Freedom" and "American Standard" (i.e., Rogers's" National Anti-slavery Standard), fly from the "Emancipation" car. The trains approach a bend in the track, nearing a station where a number of people gather to welcome them. Beyond the station is a church. In the distance two other trains, one marked "Van" and the other "Clay," crash and their passengers flee. These allude to Democrat and Whig presidential hopefuls Martin Van Buren and Henry Clay. The reference to Van Buren suggests that the music-sheet appeared before the Democratic convention in May, when James K. Polk, not Van Buren, received the party's presidential nomination.|Entered . . . 1844 by J. Hutchinson.|Thayer & Co's. Lith Boston.|Title appears as it is written on the item.|Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1844-52.