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The grand national fight 2 against 1 fought on the 6th Nov.1856; for o...

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The folly of secession, Confederate States of America.

South Carolina struggles against the outgoing Buchanan administration in an attempt to "smash the Union up!" The artist uses the age-old pictorial conceit of two parties pulling on the different ends of a cow, ... More

James Buchanan / daguerrotype by Brady ; engraved by J.C. Buttre.

James Buchanan, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing right. Engraved for the U.S. Dem. Review.

Democratic platform illustrated

Another attack on the 1856 Democratic platform as pro-South and proslavery. The Buchanan-Breckenridge ticket is reviled on the basis of recent developments occurring during the outgoing Pierce administration. I... More

"Buck" taking the "pot" - Drawing. Public domain image.

A pro-Buchanan satire, critical of the divisive or sectionalist appeal of the other two presidential contenders in the 1856 race. "Buck" or Buchanan (left) has evidently won a card game over Fremont (fallen at ... More

Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler

The artist lays on the Democrats the major blame for violence perpetrated against antislavery settlers in Kansas in the wake of the Kansas-Nebraska Act. Here a bearded "freesoiler" has been bound to the "Democr... More

Who is responsible for the war? Who accountable for its horrors and de...

Extracts from a speech by Alexander H. Stephens (now Vice-President of the Confederate States), delivered in the Secession Convention of Georgia, on the 31st day of January, 1861. Who commenced the war?… catalo... More

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 8, Addenda, 1799-1862; 1986 Addition; ...

President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1...

A print based on David Gilmour Blythe's fanciful painting of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation. Contrary to the title, the proclamation was issued in 1862 and went into effect in January 1863. In a ... More

President Lincoln, writing the Proclamation of Freedom. January 1st, 1...

[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]

From Brady daguerreotype. LC-BH821-6628. Public domain photograph of 19th-century daguerreotype portrait, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Forcing slavery down the throat of a freesoiler.

Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Presidents of the United States, [Bouclet & Feusier portraits of the P...

Portrays 16 Presidents. Public domain image related to President Abraham Lincoln, gelatin silver print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Photographs of Construction of U. S. Capitol, November 16 1858, and of...

Forms part of Montgomery C. Meigs Papers; for additional information, see: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms006021 For Wendy Wolff, Editor, Historical Office of the Senate, 4-6750. Photographs of Constructio... More

[James Buchanan, bust portrait, facing right]

Public domain photograph - United States during American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The folly of secession. - Political cartoon, public domain image

Public domain image of cattle, livestock, farm animals, agriculture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

James Buchanan, Democratic candidate for President of the United State...

Proof for a large woodcut campaign poster or banner for Democratic presidential nominee James Buchanan. A bust-length portrait of Buchanan (apparently taken from Mathew Brady's 1854 daguerreotype portrait) is f... More

The morning after the election--November 1856

The victorious James Buchanan sits under a trellis of grape vines, holding reports of election returns on his lap. He reflects, "What a happy morning for my country and myself. Here I find returns for myself & ... More

Liberty, the fair maid of Kansas--in the hands of the "border ruffians...

A bitter indictment of the Democratic administration's responsibility for violence and bloodshed in Kansas in the wake of the 1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act. (See also "Forcing Slavery Down the Throat of a Freesoiler... More

The political quadrille. Music by Dred Scott

A general parody on the 1860 presidential contest, highlighting the impact of the Dred Scott decision on the race. That controversial decision, handed down in 1857 by Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, ruled that ne... More

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

Funeral obsequies of free-trade

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

Political chart. Presidential campaign, 1860

Campaign broadside presenting portraits and platforms of all candidates as well as portraits of the 15 previous Presidents.

James Buchanan / engraved by permission, from the original in the poss...

James Buchanan, full-length portrait, standing by table, facing left, holding book.

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 7, Miscellany, 1814-1910; Typescript o...

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 2, General Correspondence, 1787-1868; ...

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 7, Miscellany, 1814-1910; Typescripts ...

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 7, Miscellany, 1814-1910; Typescript o...

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 2, General Correspondence, 1787-1868; ...

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 7, Miscellany, 1814-1910; Typescripts ...

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 2, General Correspondence, 1787-1868; ...

Illustrated letter, Amasa J. Parker to Harriet Parker describing the b...

Reproduction number: A119 (color slide; pages 2-3); LC-MSS-35477-1 (B&W negative; page 2) In the earlier years of the republic, wives and families of members of Congress often did not accompany their husbands a... More

Martin Van Buren Papers: Series 2, General Correspondence, 1787-1868; ...

Franklin Pierce Papers: Series 1, Diary, 1847; 1847, May 27-July 30

Public domain scan related to Nathaniel Hawthorne, 19th-century novelist, manuscript, document, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist, d... More