Reference
Ambrose Everett Burnside (Congressional Biographical Directory)
"Burnside, Ambrose Everett," Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1774 to Present, http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=B001130.
BURNSIDE, Ambrose Everett, a Senator from Rhode Island; born in Liberty, Ind., May 23, 1824; attended a seminary at Liberty and Beach Grove Academy; graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1847; served in the Mexican and Indian wars; resigned in 1852 to manufacture a breech-loading rifle of his own invention; moved to Illinois, and was appointed treasurer of the Illinois Central Railroad in 1858; during the Civil War entered the Union Army in 1861 as colonel; commanded a brigade at the first Battle of Bull Run; commissioned brigadier general and
The Kennedy Farm House, Washington County, Maryland, 1859
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The House at Kennedy Farm, Maryland.
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Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 404.
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Woodcut first appeared in Frank Leslie's Illustrated Paper in November 1859.
Harpers Ferry Region, 1859, detail
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Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years After (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 414.
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Cropped from the larger image of this map, also available.
Harpers Ferry Region, 1859
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Oswald Garrison Villard, John Brown 1800-1859; A Biography Fifty Years Later (Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin, 1911), 414.
San Francisco, California, circa 1860, from the south west
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Vue de San Francisco = Vista de San-Francisco / dessinee et lithog. par Deroy.
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Panoramic Maps Collection, Library of Congress
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Artist: Isador Laurent Deroy.
Sacramento, California, 1849
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Sacramento city, Ca. : from the foot of J. Street, showing I., J., & K. Sts with the Sierra Nevada in the distance / C. Parsons: drawn Dec. 20th 1849 by G.V. Cooper; lith. of Wm. Endicott & Co., N. York.
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Panoramic Maps Collection, Library of Congress
St. Louis, Missouri, circa 1859
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Our city, (St. Louis, Mo.) / lith. by A. Janicke & Co., St. Louis.
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Panoramic Maps Collection, Library of Congress
Denver, Colorado, 1859
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Denver in 1859
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
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Note: This image is not contemporary and was first published in April, 1891.
Trinity Church, New York City, 1846
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Birds-eye view of Trinity Church, New York
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Sixth Street Wharf, Washington, D.C., circa 1865
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Birds eye view of Sixth Street wharf, Washington, D.C.
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Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division