The Coronation of Napoleon is a painting by Jacques-Louis David. It was commissioned by the emperor himself. The oil painting was made to commemorate Napoleon Bonaparte’s coronation ceremony at Notre-Dame de Paris. The oil painting shows Napoleon placing a crown on Josephine de Beauharnais. She was become Empress of the French and the Queen of […]
Read More The Coronation Of Napoleon (1807)The political cartoon shows women as warriors destroying brandy, gin, whiskey rum, wine, and liquors. Women were active in the temperance movement. There was also a connection to the suffrage movement. The reasoning was that drinking caused domestic concerns and abuse by husbands. The temperance movement mostly had a religious orientation. Women were active in […]
Read More Temperance Movement Political Cartoon (1874)The lithograph depicts Crispus Attucks a martyr who died in the Boston Massacre. The image pays tribute to the man who was believed to be the first to die in the American Revolution. Abolitionists brought attention to Attucks as being an important figure in American history. Attucks was a sailor and whaler who had grown […]
Read More Crispus Attucks Lithograph (1800s)This is the first page of the patent to Elijah McCoy’s improvement to lubricators for steam engines. Born in Canada to parents who fled enslavement in the US, Elijah McCoy would return to the United States to become a successful machinal engineer and inventor. McCoy’s automatic lubricator was useful for steam engines on locomotives and […]
Read More Elijah Mccoy’s Patent For The Improvment in Lubricators of steam Engines (1872)When Napoleon invaded Portugal, the monarchy fled to Brazil. At the time it was a colony of the Portuguese Empire. However, during the 1820s a wave of independence movements swept across Latin America. Spain and Portugal were not strong enough to stop them. Pedro I would wage a war against his father Joao IV and […]
Read More Pedro II of Brazil Portrait (1846)Japan was becoming a major imperial power. During the Meji Restoration the country went through rapid industrialization and modernization. This drive to conquer other lands was a response to European colonization within Asia. The French, British, Dutch, and Americans were carving up China. Japan preemptively acted by invading territories that belonged the Qing Empire. The […]
Read More Meji Era Map of Japan With Formosa Included (1895)Bohemia was at one time dutchy of Moravia and then a principality. This was a political entity that was located in what is now the Czech Republic. The territory would later be incorporated into the Austro-Hungarian Empire. The use of the term Bohemia would sometimes be applied to the lands that were also ruled by […]
Read More Bohemian Political Map (1892)The cabinet card was a type of photographic portraiture used in the late 19th century. This cabinet card shows Tatanka Iyotake ( Sitting Bull). The image was taken by O.S. Goff for Zimmerman Brothers Publishers. The image is from 1881 and as seen on the picture the copyright was applied for. Most likely this was […]
Read More Sitting Bull Cabinet Card (1881)Chinese Americans were critical in the construction of America’s railroads in the 19th century. The illustration shows Chinese railroad workers looking at a locomotive passing by. The railroad shown was Central Pacific Railroad which passed through the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Frank Leslie’s Newspaper reported about the railroad’s condition during intense snow storms. Working on railroads […]
Read More Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper Image of Chinese Railroad Workers (1870)The map shows the colonies of the British Empire in 1897. The pink colored areas are British possessions on the map. At the time it was the most powerful empire in the world. How it maintained its domination was through naval power and the exploitation of African as well as Asian lands. To the peoples […]
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