Library of Congress Open Archive Initiative Repository 1
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This is an extensive repository containing material relating to the American experience, a large portion of it digitised from the Library of Congress' collections. It includes, but is not limited to, images, monographs, sheet music, sound and visual recordings, pamphlets and posters. It is subdivided into over 100 thematic collections based on original documentation format, subject, author or donor. The site also benefits from an extensive range of background documentation and information on the creation, maintenance and development of this repository. Individual sections of the collection are periodically highlighted, and materials advising on the use of this repository's contents in a classroom situation are also provided. Each major subsection has a discrete site design and interface, although they are all part of the overarching whole.
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An attempt to land a bishop in America
Print shows a bishop climbing aboard a ship labeled "Hillsborough" having been chased there by angry American colonists who use long poles to push the ship away from the quay.
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The council of the rulers, & the elders against the tribe of ye Americanites
Print shows a group of men in the Hall of Commons, several seated around a table, on the wall is a map labeled "North America" which has burst into flames, in the foreground stands Lord North passing banknotes to a man probably on the "List of the King's friends" which extends from North's pocket; on the right stands Lord Mayor Wilkes pointing out North to another man who stands on his left.
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Bunkers Hill or America's head dress - Darly, Matthew, fl. 1741-1780, publisher.
Print shows a half-length portrait of a woman, right profile, with exaggerated coiffure supporting three redoubts with infantry and artillery firing at close range, tents, an artillery train, and a sea battle involving two or three ships; large flags flying over the redoubts are decorated with a monkey, two women, and a goose.
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Missisippi of 't wydbefaamde Goudland door de inbeelding der Windnegotie
"Five distinct designs. This engraved Dutch satire on the share mania of 1720 and few preceding years is No. 5 in vol. ii. of "Het Groote Tafereel der Dwaasheid", a collection of similar satires on the Mississippi, South Sea and West India Companies, and the like bubble schemes..." (Source: Stephens)
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The repeal, or the funeral procession of Miss Americ-Stamp
Illustration shows a group of men in a funeral procession on the banks of the Thames River with a row of warehouses in the background, one of which is labeled "The Sheffield and Birmingham Warehouse Goods now ship'd for America." At the head of the procession, Dr. W. Scott stands at the open doors to the tomb, he holds the text to his sermon, a dog relieves himself on his leg. Two flag bearers follow, behind them stands George Grenville carrying a child-sized coffin, next in line are five men, in various states of distress, followed by two bishops who...
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The taking of Miss Mud I'land
Print shows a female figure as the Mud Island fortress, Fort Mifflin, with two flags on her bonnet, astride a cannon firing on the British warship "Isis"; also show the "Somerset", "Roebuck", "Eagle", and the "Vigilant" of the British fleet at the confluence of the Schuylkill and Delaware rivers.
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The congress or the necessary politicians
Print shows two men sitting in a privy, one uses pieces of the "Resolution[s] of the [C]ongress" to clean himself, while the other intently reads "P[amphlet En]titled Taxation [No] Tir[anny]", suggesting that while one studies the literature, the other responds accordingly. On the wall behind them hangs a print of William Pitt, tarred and feathered.
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The Scotch Butchery, Boston, 1775
Print shows Lords Bute and Mansfield conferring, to their right stands Simon Fraser and Lord Wedderburn, "Deputies" to the aforenamed. On the far right are soldiers wearing Highland dress (of the 71st Regiment of (Highland) Foot (Fraser's)), ready to proceed with the "Scotch butchery" of Boston. On the left are British soldiers who drop their weapons in horror at the sight of the Highlanders. In the background, British, flying the ensign of a thistle (which also appears growing in the center foreground), bombard the city of Boston, Massachusetts. Includes legend to persons and events identified by number.
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The wise men of Gotham and their goose
Print shows Lord Bute, with sword raised, about to cut the head off the goose "who laid each day an egg of gold" representing British policies toward the American colonies. A corpulant bishop is sitting in the foreground observing, other men hold the goose down or observe from the background.
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The political raree-show: or a picture of parties and politics, during and at the close of the last session of Parliament, June 1779
Print shows a man directing a boy to view a peepshow of events and actions of the British government, as well as international affairs involving England. The peepshow presents 12 views in three columns; number 2, at the top of the middle column, is titled "The generals in America doing nothing, or worse than nothing." It depicts General William Howe asleep outside his tent while in the background General Burgoyne surrenders at Saratoga.
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Mr. Trade & family or the state of ye nation
Print shows a ragged family driven to poverty probably through the policies and actions of the Earl of Bute, George Germain, and Lord North, with some able assistence by former Massachusetts governor Francis Bernard (the apparent creators of the print, as well as the situation), though the family blames George Washington and the Americans for the economic problems in England.
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Virtual representation, 1775
Print shows Lord Bute aiming a blunderbuss at a man representing colonial America; a member of Parliament, pointing at the American, tells Bute "I give you that man's money for my use", to which the American responds by saying, "I will not be robbed". On the right, blindfolded, Britannia is about to stumble into "The pit prepared for others" while behind her, in the background, "The English Protestant town of Boston" is in flames. On the left kneels a monk holding a gibbet and a cross, behind him stands a Frenchman with sword raised; perched on a cliff and forming...
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John Bull triumphant - Humphrey, William, ca. 1740-ca. 1810, publisher.
Print shows a bull tossing a Spaniard into the air, the Earl of Bute, Lord North, and the Earl of Mansfield are attempting to hold it back by pulling on its tail; a Frenchman and America (represented by a Native wearing a feathered headdress and skirt) are standing on the right frightened by the actions of the bull; and an amused Dutchman is sitting on a keg of gin on the left.
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Britania [sic] and her daughter - a song
Print shows Britannia standing on the left poised with her spear and shield for battle, on the right America (represented by a female Native with feathered headdress) is standing between a Spaniard and a Frenchman, all with weapons raised to meet the approach of Britannia.
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The English lion dismember'd or the voice of the public for an enquiry into public expenditure
Print shows, on the left, Lord North carrying a large sack labeled "Budget" over his shoulder, tethered to the sack by chain is a lion from which America (represented by a Native man wearing feathered headdress and skirt, holding in his right hand a staff topped with a liberty cap and in his left hand a tomahawk) has cut off a paw, to the right, behind the lion, are standing a Frenchman and a Spaniard, approaching from the far right are three men, members of "Associations" who demand an accounting of expenditures from Lord North.
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The ballance [sic] of power
British cartoon shows a scale on which Britannia outweighs a Frenchman, a Spaniard, America (represented by a Native woman wearing a feathered headdress), and a Dutchman. Includes ten lines of verse.
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Jack England fighting the four confederates
Print shows a British sailor about to fight the "four confederates" America as "Yanky Doodle" (represented by a Native man wearing feathered headdress and skirt) lying on the ground moaning, "This fall has hurt my back," Holland as "Mynheer Frog" (represented by a fat, frightened Dutchman puffing on a pipe), he says, "I have almost forgot how to fight," France as "Monsieur Louis Baboon" who vomits on America saying, "Dem Jersey pills have made a me sick," and Spain as "Don Diego" who is bleeding from his right eye, he exclaims, "St. Jago he has almost blinded me."
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State cooks, or the downfall of the fish kettle
Print shows George III and Lord North standing in a kitchen, both wear aprons, George III has his back to the fireplace, between them, on the floor, is an overturned kettle of fish, each labeled with the name of a colony. George III says, "O Boreas, the loss of these fish will ruin us forever", North replies, "My honored liege never fret. Minden & I will cook 'em yet", on the wall behind North is a map labeled "Plan of North America".
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