"Westward Ho!" Working drawing for the U.S. Capital, 1861

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Library of Congress
Notes
Cropped, sized and prepared for use here by John Osborne, June 12, 2008.
Image type
drawing
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
Study for "Westward Ho!" showing figures with wagon train from "Westward the course of empire takes its way"
Source citation
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Source note
Artist: Emanuel Leutze for his fresco in the U.S. Capitol Building.

The Governor's Mansion, Lecompton, Kansas, June 1857

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Library of Congress
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 12, 2008.
Image type
engraving
Use in Day View?
No
Courtesy of
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
The governor's mansion, Lecompton, Kansas Territory
Source citation
Illustrations Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
First appeared as an illustration in Harper's Weekly, June 6, 1857

Know Nothings topic image ("Right Man...Millard Fillmore)

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Library of Congress
Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use here by John Osborne, Dickinson College, June 12, 2008.
Image type
cartoon
Use in Day View?
No
Permission to use?
Public
Original caption
The right man for the right place
Source citation
Lithograph Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Cropped from larger image.
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