 | Eyre Crowe, "Slave Market in Richmond, Virginia," 1852-3, oil on canvas, 20 3/4 X 31 '/2 in. Private collection. Courtesy of Laurie Platt Winfrey, Inc., 236 West 26th St, New York, NY 10001. All rights reserved. Our thanks to Laurie Platt Winfrey. |
 | A Franklin Pierce campaign poster, 1852. Currier & Ives. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZC2-2487. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, p. 351. 8.9.5 |
 | Zachary Taylor, twelfth president of the US, around 1850. Photographic portrait. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. In Beaumont Newhall, Daguerreotype in America, 1961, Plate #8. 8.9.5, 8.8.6 |
 | Roger B. Taney, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1836. Photographic portrait 1860-65. U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD 20740-6001. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, p. 374. 8.9.5 |
 | Two men chopping down "tree of slavery," J. Valentine, lithograph. Leeds Anti-Slavery Series, 1850. In Dwight L. Dumond, Antislavery, 1961, p. 141. 8.9.5 |
 | John Neagle, Henry Clay, 1843. Courtesy of The Honorable Alan M. Hantman, FAIA, Architect of the Capitol, US Capitol, Washington, D.C. 20515. All rights reserved. Our thanks to Mr. Hantman. In American Heritage, VII, 6, Oct. 1956, p. 27. 8.9.5 |
 | Senator Henry S. Foote pointing a pistol at Senator Thomas Hart Benton in the U.S. Senate during the Great Debate of 1850. Cartoon. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZ62-4835. In American Heritage, IV, 4, Summer 1953, p. 13. 8.9.5 |
 | The opening of the debate of the Compromise of 1850. Drawing. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-USZCN4-149. In Eds. of American Heritage, An American Heritage Pictorial History of the Presidents of the U.S., I, 1968, pp. 324-5. 8.9.5 |
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South Carolina troops in Missouri, carrying a banner reading "South Carolina and State Rights," 1856. They came to provoke war. William Cullen Bryant, "A Popular History of the United States," (London: Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, & Rivington, 1882) p. 412. |
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Henry Clay addressing the U.S. Senate, 1850. Daniel Webster is seated to his left, and John C. Calhoun to the left of the Speaker's chair. P.F. Rothermel drawing, R. Whitechurch engraving, c. 1855. (Philadelphia, PA: John M. Butler and Alfred Long, c. 1855.) Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-ppmsca-09398. |
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President James Buchanan, (1857–61). Jacob Eichholtz, oil on canvas, 1834.
Smithsonian American Art Museum, MRC 970, PO Box 37012, Washington, DC 20013-7012. Bequest of Harriet Lane Johnston. 1906.9.5. |
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President Franklin Pierce, 1853-57. Mathew Brady photo. Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC 20540. LC-DIG-cwpbh-02545. |
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Bleeding Kansas: The Free State Hotel at Lawrence, destroyed by pro-slavery forces who included Col. Henry Titus, May 21, 1856. Daguerreotype. Sara T.D. Robinson, "Kansas; Its Interior and Exterior Life," (Boston: Crosby, Nichols and Co., 1856). |
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