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Photograph of John Brown (1800-1859), abolitionist and member of the Underground Railroad, famous for his raid on the arsenal at Harper's Ferry in 1859, by Levin C. Handy, c. 1900. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington...

Ruins of Jamestown, 1676. Illustration from page 45 of A School History of the United States, from the Discovery of America to the Year 1878 by David B. Scott, New York, Harper & brothers, 1879 CE. The engraving depicts the ruins of Jamestown...

An early 20th-century illustration by Howard Pyle showing a buccaneer. The buccaneers terrorized the Spanish Main from 1620 to 1697. (From Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates: Fiction, Fact & Fancy Concerning the Buccaneers & Marooners of the Spanish...

Union assault on the Confederate breastworks at the Battle of Cold Harbor on 3 June 1864, sketch by Alfred R. Waud in Harper's Weekly: Journal of Civilization, June 25 1864.

Crow warrior Pine Leaf (associated with the figure known as Woman Chief), illustration from The Life and Adventures of James P. Beckwourth, edited by Thomas D. Bonner, Harper & Brothers Publishers, New York, 1856.

Capture of the Galleon' by Howard Pyle, an illustration which first appeared in Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main in an 1887 edition of Harper's Magazine.

An illustration of a victim walking the plank by Howard Pyle (1853-1911). Published to illustrate Buccaneers and Marooners of the Spanish Main in Harper's Magazine, 1887.

Photo of an early X-ray procedure using a fluoroscope screen, around 1910. No precautions were taken to minimise exposure since the dangers of X-rays were not known at the time. Illustration from p. 233 of The Story of Great Inventions by...

The Burning of the "Gaspee", engraving by Howard Pyle, depicting Rhode Island colonists rowing away after burning the HMS Gaspee in the early hours of 10 June 1772, published in Harper's magazine, c. 1901-1908. New York Public Library.

A scene of the explosion from the Battle of the Crater during the Siege of Petersburg in the American Civil War, illustration by Alfred R. Waud in Harper's Weekly, 30 July 1864. Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.