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 extraordinary, gazette, or the, disappointed politicians
Print shows a group of British politicians sitting and standing around a table in a public house or club reading the latest news of a dispatch from General Henry Clinton possibly referring to his evacuation of Philadelphia in June 1778. On the wall in the background are maps of the English possessions in America, the first, a large map showing extensive holdings in 1762 when William Pitt was prime minister, and the second, a much smaller map showing reduced holdings filled with snakes in 1778. To the right is a picture of a mountain, "The mountain in labor", from beneath...
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Charles Lee, Esq'r. - major general of the Continental Army in America
Print shows Charles Lee, three-quarter length portrait, wearing military uniform, standing, facing slightly left, gesturing with right hand, cannon firing in the background next to flag "An Appeal to Heaven."
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Coalition arms - Nixon, John, d. 1818, artist.
Print shows Lord North and Charles James Fox standing with a large escutcheon between them which rests on the back of George III. North is holding a flag in his right hand inscribed "Coalition" with two demons depicted, in his left hand he is holding a flag with thirteen stripes. Fox is holding a staff topped with a liberty cap. A key to the quardrants, "to the Coalition Arms," is printed below the image.
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Prattle - Darly, Matthew, fl. 1741-1780, publisher.
Print shows a full-length portrait of a man, right profile, holding hat in right hand. Includes inscription below which expresses the opinion of the character depicted regarding the progress of the war in America.
187.
Mutual accusation
"Two quack doctors (left) are having a heated altercation in a street or square outside their respective houses..." (Source: George)
188.
The burthens of plenty
"An enormously fat man walks (left to right) towards an eating-house followed by a lean and ragged man bent with the weight of a basket laden with food which he carries on his head and shoulders..." (Source: George)
189.
Steel Buttons - Coup de Bouton
Woman with huge feathered coiffured arms to block the sunlight being reflected from the buttons on the coat of a man in front of her.
190.
A speedy & effectual preparation for the next world
"A lady sits, in profile to the right, at a dressing-table; she is dipping a brush into a pot marked Rouge, other toilet implements and a looking-glass are on the table..." (Source: George)
191.
The vis a vis bisected or The ladies coop
"The interior of a closed carriage made visible by being bisected longitudinally. In it two young ladies of pleasing appearance sit face to face in profile..." (Source: George)
192.
A Scotch reel
"Two couples dancing a reel. The ladies wear the monstrous feathered coiffures then fashionable, see No. 5370, & c. ..." (Source: George)
193.
The cork-rump the support of life
"A lake on which a boating accident has just occurred, the overturned boat partly visible on the extreme right..." (Source: George)
194.
Tight Lacing
Woman pulling lacing on the back of a dress of a woman, who is holding onto a bed post.
196.
Miss shuttle-cock
"A game of shuttlecock between two men who face each other, standing at opposite sides of the design, each with a raised battledore..." (Source: George)
197.
Britannias ruin - Darly, M. publisher.
Print shows Britannia lamenting her present state, her shield and broken lance by her side, "What a situation am I in sold by an American & purchased by France & Spain. Oh, wheres my Pitt." Four men are standing before her, from left, an American holding in his right hand a lance topped with liberty cap and in his left a sword with which he threatens her, next a Frenchman urges him to "frighten her." A Spaniard is standing next to the Frenchman with his back to Britannia, he wears a low hat and a cloak, and on the far...
198.
Tippies of 1796 - Newton, Richard, 1777-1798, artist.
Print shows a man and a woman wearing the latest fashion in hats.
199.
A poor man loaded with mischief, or matrimon[y]
Print shows a man chained to wedlock carrying a woman on his back, her breasts exposed, she holds a cup labeled "gin" and toasts "My Bucks Health", and according to a pig in a pen, "She is as Drunk as David's Sow"; a monkey sits on the woman's lap, removing the man's wig, and a magpie sits on the monkey's shoulders. In the background is a building (probably a brothel) with horns mounted above a sign showing two cats and labeled "the Cristian [sic] Mans Arms or the Cuckolds Fortune." Includes six lines of verse.
200.
The polygamist. No more wives (or Mercury) dear Doctor
This record contains unverified, old data from an unpublished P&P checklist, "British Political and Social Caricatures, 1655-1832 ... not in the published catalogs of the British Museum," compiled in 1968 (NC 1470.M4. Vol. 2).
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