Tsar Alexander II, detail

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Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, May 8, 2010.
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print
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New York Public Library Digital Gallery
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Yes
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Alexander II, Emperor of Russia.
Source citation
Historical and Public Figures, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note
Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

Tsar Alexander II

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New York Public Library
Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, May 8, 2010.
Image type
print
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Permission to use?
Yes
Original caption
Alexander II, Emperor of Russia.
Source citation
Historical and Public Figures, NYPL Digital Gallery
Source note
Original image at NYPLDigitalGallery

American bark sails from Buenos Aires to New York in thirty-six days, fastest on record

The bark Dawn, under the command of Captain Chase, completed the fastest voyage yet between Buenos Aires in Argentina and a United States port when she reached New York Harbor around two o'clock in the afternoon.  He had left Buenos Aires thirty six days before and was able to deliver news dated as late as May 5, 1860 to the city's newspapers.  (By John Osborne)  
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In Philadelphia, the visiting Japanese Embassy tours manufacturing establishments

Members of the Japanese Mission visiting Philadelphia toured establishments and workshops around the city.  They were taken to several jewelry companies and a type and stereotype foundry and were given demonstrations in the state of the art workshops at each stop.  They also saw the Fairmont Park Water Works, the Good Will Fire Company, and the J.B. Lippincott and Company presses.  (By John Osborne)   
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Doctors of the visiting Japanese Embassy observe an operation using ether in Philadelphia

The doctors with the large party of Japanese diplomats making the historic first visit to the United States were invited to observe an operation at a private house during their visit to Philadelphia.  A medical professor from Jefferson College removed gall bladder stones using ether as anesthetic, a procedure none of the visitors had seen before.  They later visited Jefferson College and the Pennsylvania Hospital.  (By John Osborne)   
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The "Great Comet of 1860" reaches its closest point to the Earth

A comet, later designated "Comet C/1860 M1" but known popularly as the "Great Comet of 1860," was discovered simultaneously by astronomers all over Europe and the eastern United States.  Seen first on June 18, 1860 in Italy, reports of sightings poured in over the following days, all noting its brilliance and visibility to the naked eye.  It came closest to Earth on July 11, 1860 and was last seen on October, 18, 1860.  (By John Osborne) 
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A large new comet, visible to the naked eye, is observed all over the northern hemisphere

A comet, later designated "Comet C/1860 M1" but known popularly as the "Great Comet of 1860," was discovered simultaneously by astronomers all over Europe and the eastern United States.  Seen first on June 18, 1860 in Italy, reports of sightings poured in over the following days, all noting its brilliance and visibility to the naked eye.  It came closest to Earth on July 11, 1860 and was last seen on October, 18, 1860.  (By John Osborne) 
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U.S. Coast Survey steamship sinks off New Jersey coast with heavy loss of life

In the early morning dark, the U.S. Coast Survey steamer Robert J. Walker collided with a schooner in heavy weather twelve miles off the Absecom Light near Atlantic City on the New Jersey coast.  The 133 foot vessel sank quickly and twenty of her sixty man crew were lost.  The Coast Survey was a predecessor of the U.S. Coast Coast and Geodetic Survey and this loss of life remains the greatest the agency has ever suffered.  (By John Osborne) 
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Pierre Soulé (Congressional Biographical Dictionary)

Reference
“Soulé, Pierre,” Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=S000682.
SOULÉ, Pierre, a Senator from Louisiana; born in Castillon-en-Couserans, near Bordeaux, France, August 31, 1801; attended the Jesuit College at Toulouse and later an academy in Bordeaux; exiled to Navarre at the age of fifteen for anti-Bourbon activity and worked as a shepherd boy in the Pyrennes for a year; pardoned in 1818 and returned to school in Bordeaux; studied law in Paris and practiced; engaged in journalism; imprisoned for publishing revolutionary articles in 1825, but escaped to England; went to Haiti in 1825, and then to the United States; after travelling aro
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present

Topeka, Kansas, 1869

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Notes
Cropped, sized, and prepared for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 1, 2008.
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map
Use in Day View?
No
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Library of Congress Geography and Maps Division
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Public
Original caption
Bird's eye view of the city of Topeka, the capital of Kansas 1869. Drawn by A. Ruger
Source citation
Ruger Map Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Artist: Albert Ruger
Ruger Collection No. 69
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