A frontispiece for a journal
1 print : lithograph ; 30.3 x 24.5 cm (sheet) | Print shows a beggar maid (Fanny Kemble, who married Pierce in 1834 and retired from the stage) holding play-bill, "beggar's petition," and a sheet of paper that states "Pity kind Yankees, friends to Humanity, give me a rich husband and I will be gone." She confronts a fancily dressed woman, holding a paper…
Contributor:
Akin, James
Date:1835-01-01
Photo, Print, Drawing
Implements of torture, and their dangerous effects. Illustrated
1 print on wove paper : lithograph ; image 22.3 x 15 cm. | An impassioned attack on cruelty in Pennsylvania's Eastern Penitentiary. Akin presents a life-size, detailed rendering of an iron gag, "Locked upon Mathias Maccumsey, a Convict from Lancaster County, sentenced to the Cells for Manslaughter; who Died with it in his mouth..." Maccumsey's death, attributed to the iron gag, figured prominently…
A family chart for the United States
1 print : woodcut. | Print shows a historical and statistical chart with 1833 woodcut broadside of USS Constitution in the center.
View of Worcester, Mass. taken from Union Hill
1 print : lithograph ; 52.4 x 73.2 cm (sheet) | Print shows a cityscape view of Worcester, Massachusetts, from an elevated vantage point on Union Hill, with a river in the foreground on which is a canal boat drawn by two horses or mules, and railroads approaching the city from the right and the left.