RMB1707E–George Washington, 1732 - 1799. First president of The United States of America, after an original work by Rembrandt Peale.
RM2R51Y7F–Josiah Henson, 1789 – 1883. Author, abolitionist, and minister. Born into slavery he escaped to Upper Canada (now Ontario) in 1830, and founded a settlement and laborer's school for other fugitive slaves. He is believed to have inspired the title character of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. From America Revisited: From The Bay of New York to The Gulf of Mexico, published 1886.
RM2HWRRBX–Henry Jackson, probably 1747 – 1809. Continental Army officer during the American Revolutionary War.
RM2PYKKYE–General Sir Henry Clinton, 1730 to 1795. British army officer and politician during the American War of Independence. After an 18th century portrait.
RM2D1YKRB–An electric Morse Register, manufactured by L. G. Tillotson & Co., New York in the late 1860’s. After an illustration in Modern Practice Of The Electric Telegraph: A Handbook For Electricians And Operators, by Franklin L. Pope. Third Edition, published 1870.
RM2AK66B5–Samuel Colt, 1814 - 1862. American inventor and businessman whose name is synonymous with the Colt revolver.
RMKJMPWF–Paul Revere, 1734-1818. Patriot in the American Revolution, famed for his ride in April 1775 to alert colonial militia of approaching British forces.
RM2EENJEW–The President's House, Washington. A version of this picture of the White House was used as the White House Christmas Card in 1974 during President Gerald Ford's tenure. After a mid-19th century engraving by Fenner, Sears & Co from a work by H. Brown.
RM2FX3HA2–Elisha Kent Kane, 1820 - 1857. American Arctic explorer and physician. After a photogaph by Mathew Brady.
RM2FWRDC9–William Ellery Channing, 1780 – 1842. American Unitarian preacher and theologian. After a 19th century print.
RM2FMXTRY–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, 1807 –1882. American poet and educator.
RM2C3WR8E–Shooting buffalo on the Kansas-Pacific Railroad line. After a work by an unidentified artist which appeared in the June 3, 1871 edition of Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper. The mass slaughter of buffalo in the USA reduced the wild herds from tens of millions to near extinction. This picture reflects the advertising of railroad companies that a passenger could “hunt by rail.”
RM2C074KF–Barnum’s new American Museum on Broadway, New York, USA. After an engraving in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, September 30, 1865. P. T. Barnum - he of Barnum & Bailey circus fame - opened his original American Museum in 1841. It burned down in 1865. Later that same year he opened the new American Museum, pictured here. In 1868 it also burned down.
RM2HTKR74–David Ramsay, 1749 - 1815. American physician and acclaimed historian of the American Revoutionary War. Ramsay was murdered by a mentally ill man he had examined for a court proceeding. After an engraving by J.B. Longacre from a drawing by C. Frazer after a painting by C.W. Peale.
RMKRR3PH–Samuel Johnson,1696 – 1772, colonial American clergyman, educator and encyclopedist. First president of the Anglican King’s College, now Columbia University.
RMEM1CWH–Facsimile from the field book of Daniel Boone recording the Lincoln claim on Licking River.
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