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Sam Watkins
Portrait of Private Samuel R. Watkins, c. 1861-1865. Watkins (1839-1901) was an American author and Civil War veteran best known for his vivid war memoir Company Aytch: Or, A Side Show of the Big Show, published in 1882, in which he recalls...
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Battle of Carabobo, 1821
Battle of Carabobo, oil on canvas mural by Martín Tovar y Tovar, 1887. This portion of the mural depicts an engagement fought at the Carabobo battlefield on June 24, 1821, between the patriot army, fighting for Venezuelan independence, and...
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Ophelia
Ophelia, oil on canvas by John Everett Millais, 1851-1852. This painting depicts the character Ophelia from William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, in which she falls into a stream and drowns after her father is murdered by Hamlet, her lover...
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Grain Requisitioning in Russia
A 1922 painting by Ivan Vladimirov (1870-1947) showing the government requsitioning of grain during the Russian Civil War. This policy and the consequent peasant unrest was one of the reasons the Soviet government adopted Lenin's New Economic...
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Joseph Stalin, 1920
A 1920 photograph of Joseph Stalin (1878-1953).
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Adrienne de La Fayette
Miniature portrait of Adrienne de La Fayette, wife of the revolutionary leader Marquis de Lafayette. By an unknown painter, circa late 18th century.
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Prison Reunion of Lafayette with His Wife and Daughters
After three years of solitary imprisonment, the Marquis de Lafayette is reunited with his wife, Adrienne, and two daughters, who share his cell for the remainder of his confinement. Engraving by Eberhard Siegfried Henne, circa early 1800s...
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Lafayette Imprisoned
The imprisonment of the Marquis de Lafayette during the French Revolution. By an unknown artist, in the portrait set Madame D'Arblay Diary, 1778-1840 (volume 5, part 2).
National Portrait Gallery, London.
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Peutinger Table segments I and II
Segments I and II of the Tabula Peutingeriana, an ancient Roman map showing the road network of the Roman Empire. Published in 1657 by Jan Janssonius (1588-1664) as part of his historical atlas.
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Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth
The Landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, Mass. Dec. 22nd 1620, lithographic print by Currier & Ives, 1876. Based on the original painting by Lucy Charles, c. 1850. This scene dramatizes the arrival of the Pilgrims (a group of English settlers...
