http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/powhatan This is a depiction of Chief Powhatan, located in the upper-left corner of a map of the Jamestown settlement made in 1624.
This map is the earliest known map of the Chesapeake region drawn by English cartographers (http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trm148.html). It highlights both English and Native American settlements. Home - Overview - Treasure Talks - Learn More About It - Object Checklist (Current) - Credits Exhibition Sections: Top Treasures - Memory - Reason - Imagination John Smith's Map of the Chesapeake Bay John Smith (ca. 1580-1631) Virginia, Discovered and Discribed by Captayn John Smith, Sixth state. [London: William Hole, 1624] Engraved map Geography & Map Division (19.2) Based on a three-month exploratory survey by boat in the summer of 1608 under the direction of Captain John Smith, this map is the earliest published of the entire Chesapeake region. It not only shows the location of Jamestown, the first English settlement in the region, but also the location of Indian villages along the bay and its numerous tributaries. The map is oriented with west at the top, drawing attention to the approaching ships from England at the bottom of the sheet.
Some of the first colonial uprisings against the British government occurred along the eastern coastline in the mid-1700s. There dockworkers rebelled against the British Navy s practice of impressment, in which Naval officers would try to fill out their crew by forcing poor dockworkers to join them. Mobs of anti-impressment rioters led attacks from the 1730s through the 1760s, from Charleston, SC to Boston, MA. Urban mob violence was a common feature of the Revolutionary era along the coast. These mobs, often controlled by community leaders, involved the lower classes organized in multi-cultural groups that cut across racial lines. The most famous incident of mob violence in the American Revolution era was the Boston Tea Party. Samuel Adams was a popular revolutionary leader and pamphleteer during the Revolutionary period. His widely-read pamphlets discussed topics from anti-impressment riots to the Stamp Act and played an important role in winning public support for the Revolutionary cause. He was also a leader in the Boston Tea Party. PREVIOUS NEXT RECORDS LIST NEW SEARCH HELP ABOUT COLLECTION TITLE: The honble. Samuel Adams, esqr. First delegate to Congress for Massachusetts / J. Norman sc. CALL NUMBER: Illus. in E208.I36 Am Imp [Rare Book RR] Copy 1 PGA - Norman--Honble. Samuel Adams,... Another impression. (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-45237 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY: Samuel Adams, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, in medallion on pedestal. MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1781] CREATOR: Norman, John, 1748?-1817, engraver. NOTES: Illus. in: An impartial history of the war in America, between Great Britain and the United States, from its commencement to the end of the war: [...]. Boston : Printed by Nathaniel Coverly and Robert Hodge, [...], 1781, v. 1, p. 193. Stauffer, 2328 Published in: The American Revolution in drawings and prints; a checklist of 1765-1790 graphics in the Library of Congress / Compiled by Donald H. Cresswell, with a foreword by Sinclair H. Hitchings. Washington : [For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.], 1975, no. 3. SUBJECTS: Adams, Samuel, 1722-1803. United States. Continental Congress--People. FORMAT: Portrait prints 1780-1790. Book illustrations 1780-1790. Engravings 1780-1790. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a45440 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a45440 CARD #: 2001696979
Samuel Adams used his position as a pamphleteer to spread Revolutionary fervor throughout the colonies. In addition to organizing the Boston Tea Party, Adams was also instrumental in drawing attention to the Boston Massacre of 1770, depicted in the image here. Adams pamphlets demonized the British soldiers as tyrannical and violent and cast the murdered citizens as martyrs for the Revolutionary cause. NEW SEARCH HELP ABOUT COLLECTION TITLE: The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street Boston on March 5th 1770 by a party of the 29th Regt. CALL NUMBER: FP - XVIII - R452, no. 1 (A size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca-01657 (digital file from original item) LC-USZC4-4600 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC4-110 (color film copy transparency) LC-USZC2-4913 (color film copy slide) LC-USZ62-35522 (b&w film copy neg.) SUMMARY: A sensationalized portrayal of the skirmish, later to become known as the "Boston Massacre," between British soldiers and citizens of Boston on March 5, 1770. On the right a group of seven uniformed soldiers, on the signal of an officer, fire into a crowd of civilians at left. Three of the latter lie bleeding on the ground. Two other casualties have been lifted by the crowd. In the foreground is a dog; in the background are a row of houses, the First Church, and the Town House. Behind the British troops is another row of buildings including the Royal Custom House, which bears the sign (perhaps a sardonic comment) "Butcher's Hall." Beneath the print are 18 lines of verse, which begin: "Unhappy Boston! see thy Sons deplore, Thy hallowed Walks besmeared with guiltless Gore." Also listed are the "unhappy Sufferers" Saml Gray, Saml Maverick, James Caldwell, Crispus Attucks, and Patrick Carr (killed) and it is noted that there were "Six wounded; two of them (Christr Monk & John Clark) Mortally." MEDIUM: 1 print : engraving with watercolor, on laid paper ; 25.8 x 33.4 cm (plate) CREATED/PUBLISHED: Boston : [s.n.], 1770. CREATOR: Revere, Paul, 1735-1818, engraver. NOTES: Title appears as it is written on the item. Engrav'd Printed & Sold by Paul Revere Boston. The print was copied by Revere from a design by Henry Pelham for an engraving eventually published under the title "The Fruits of Arbitrary Power, or the Bloody Massacre," of which only two impressions could be located by Brigham. Revere's print appeared on or about March 28, 1770. Brigham, pp. 41-57 Cresswell, no. 246 Published in: American political prints, 1766-1876 / Bernard F. Reilly. Boston : G.K. Hall, 1991, entry 1770-1. Caldwell, James, 1734-1781. Maverick, Samuel. Gray, Samuel, d 1770. Attucks, Crispus, d 1770. Monk, Christopher. Carr, Patrick, d. 1770. Clark, John. d. 1770. Army of the Revolution. African Americans Boston (Mass.) FORMAT: Engravings. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original item) ppmsc 00174 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00174 (digital file from original item) ppmsca 01657 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.01657 (digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3g04600 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04600 (digital file from color film copy transparency) cph 3b51693 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b51693 (digital file from color film copy slide) cph 3f04913 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3f04913 (digital file from b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a35950 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a35950 CARD #: app1994000761/pp
During the 1800s, Native Americans experienced significant changes in their ways of life. Government policy forced Native Americans to leave their homes, often sending them westward to reservations. Those who did not leave were either imprisoned or forced to adapt to European-American culture. Native Americans resisted these forced changes in a number of ways. While some took the government to court to debate whether or not the changes were legal, others took up more drastic means to assert their rights. One Native American leader was Tecumseh. A member of the Shawneeh tribe, Tecumseh defended Native American rights to land by organizing various tribes of Native Americans against the U.S. Government in the Ohio Valley and Indiana territories. With the aid of his brother, a prophet named Tenskwatawa, Tecumseh led a series of attacks against the United States during the War of 1812. Though his rebellion was defeated, Tecumseh s War represented the willingness and desire of Native Americans to unite across tribal lines to defend their land, rights, and way of life in the face of changing times. PREVIOUS NEXT ITEM LIST NEW SEARCH The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 Life of Tecumseh, and of his brother the Prophet; with a historical sketch of the Shawanoe Indians AUTHOR/CREATOR: Drake, Benjamin, 1794-1841 CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1856 NOTES: 325 p., [3 leaves of plates] ; 19 cm. Frontispiece, General Harrison's victory over Proctor, at the Battle of the Thames; same pl. between 192 & 193, no title. Scanned from original version published: Cincinnati : H.M. Rulison. SUBJECTS: Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813 Tenskwatawa, Shawnee Prophet Shawnee Cincinnati (Ohio)--Imprints--19th Century Politics Cultural Institutions RESOURCE TYPE Text Monograph SOURCE COLLECTION Filson Library REPOSITORY Filson Historical Society DIGITAL ID icufaw bbf0044 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fawbib:@field(docid+@lit(bbf0044))
Smoking pipes was an important part of Native American culture. Often at important meetings, leaders would pass pipes like this one around to one another as a symbol of unity. PREVIOUS NEXT ITEM LIST NEW SEARCH The First American West: The Ohio River Valley, 1750-1820 Ceremonial pipe, attributed to Tecumseh SUBJECTS Calumets Tecumseh, Shawnee Chief, 1768-1813 Native American Cultural Institutions RESOURCE TYPE Image SOURCE COLLECTION Filson Special Collections REPOSITORY Filson Historical Society DIGITAL ID icufaw apf0012 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fawbib:@field(docid+@lit(apf0012))
Alice Paul was one of the leading advocates of women s rights in the early twentieth century. Pictured here with a flag for the National Women s Party, Paul represented the more radical segment of the national movement for gender equality. PREVIOUS NEXT ITEM LIST NEW SEARCH By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920 [Alice Paul, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, raising glass with right hand]. CREATED/PUBLISHED c1920 Sept. 3. NOTES Copyright by Harris & Ewing. SUBJECTS Paul, Alice,--1885-1977. Portrait photographs--1920. Photographic prints--1920. MEDIUM 1 photographic print. CALL NUMBER Item in BIOG FILE - Paul, Alice <p&p> </p&p> REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USZ62-20176 DLC (b&w film copy neg.) REPOSITORY Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3a21383 http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/suffrg:@field(number+@band(cph+3a21383))
Paul s protests and the public s reaction to them often got international attention. This British article describes a time when she was arrested and put in prison for protesting. While in prison, Paul went on a hunger strike, which upset the prison guards. They force-fed her through tubes. In this article, Paul claims that similar methods had been used before, both in America and in England, where she worked with British activists to spread the cause of women s rights across the Atlantic. Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911 View text ITEM TITLE Alice Paul Describes Force Feeding CREATED/PUBLISHED London, England: December 1909 NOTES Alice Paul describes her disruption of Lord Mayor's banquet and subsequent force feeding after hunger strike in Holloway jail. She refused to wear prison clothes or to work, so spent the month in bed SUBJECTS Brown, Amelia Burns, Lucy Churchill, Winston England-suffragists force feeding Holloway Jail, London hunger strike Paul, Alice (1885-1977) suffrage strategies England--London MEDIUM clipping CALL NUMBER: JK1881.N357 sec. XVI, no. 3-9 NAWSA Coll PART OF Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 8; page 134 REPOSITORY Library of Congress, Rare Book and Special Collections Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 DIGITAL ID rbcmil scrp6014301 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbcmil.scrp6014301 RELATED DIGITAL ITEMS: (View item in context of scrapbook; Miller NAWSA Suffrage Scrapbooks, 1897-1911; Scrapbook 1909-1910)
Fannie Lou Hamer was born in the Mississippi River Delta region. She was the granddaughter of a slave and the youngest of 20 children. Her parents were sharecroppers, farmers who give up a share of their crop to pay their rent. She became an organizer for civil rights groups in southern Mississippi. Hamer went door-to-door throughout the region to register people to vote, often using gospel songs and language that everyone could understand to get her message across. Her talent as a speaker and her dedication to equal rights helped Hamer develop into one the most important regional leaders of the Civil Rights movement. Her success in rural Mississippi eventually led her to become a leader in SNCC (Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee), one of the nation s largest civil rights groups in the early 1960s. Despite having her life threatened, being fired from her job, and nearly dying from being beaten by white police officers in prison, she remained dedicated to the cause of civil rights throughout her life. NEW SEARCH HELP TITLE: [Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964] CALL NUMBER: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470B, frame 17 [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-U9-12470B-17 (b&w film neg.) LC-DIG-ppmsc-01267 (digital file from original negative) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Photograph shows half-length portrait of Hamer seated at a table. MEDIUM: 1 negative : film. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1964 Aug. 22. CREATOR: Leffler, Warren K., photographer. NOTES: Title devised by Library staff. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes. SUBJECTS: Hamer, Fannie Lou--Public appearances--new Jersey--Atlantic City. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)--People. FORMAT: Film negatives 1960-1970. Portrait photographs 1960-1970. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsc 01267 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.01267 CARD #: 2003688126
Hamer made national news as the Vice-Chairperson of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a political group trying to draw attention to voting discrimination at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Her group challenged the all-white Mississippi Democratic Party, saying it didn t fairly represent all the people of the state since most black people hadn t been allowed to vote. She spoke on national television of the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi, and her group was given the right to participate in the Convention. In addition, the national Democratic Party ruled that in the future, if a state illegally denied anyone the right to vote, its delegation would not be allowed to participate in the Convention. NEW SEARCH HELP TITLE: [Aaron Henry, chair of the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party delegation, speaks before the Credentials Committee at the Democratic National Convention, Atlantic City, New Jersey, August 1964] CALL NUMBER: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 12470E, frame 28 [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-U9-12470E-28 (b&w film neg.) LC-DIG-ppmsca-04299 (digital file from original negative) No known restrictions on publication. SUMMARY: Photograph shows Henry seated at a table reading from a document. MEDIUM: 1 negative : film. CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1964 Aug. 22. CREATOR: Leffler, Warren K., photographer. NOTES: Title devised by Library staff. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes. SUBJECTS: Henry, Aaron, 1922---Public appearances--new Jersey--Atlantic City. Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party--People--New Jersey--Atlantic City--1960-1970. Democratic National Convention (1964 : Atlantic City, N.J.)--Meetings. FORMAT: Film negatives 1960-1970. REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA DIGITAL ID: (original) ppmsca 04299 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.04299 CARD #: 2003688166