Visual Arts Documents

What does it mean when we say "art is in the eye of the beholder?" How have artists' subjects changed over the centuries? This collection features diverse art forms (from ancient mosaics to modern cubism).

This image is a facsimilie of the petition from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the United States Senate in 1874.

This image is a facsimilie of the petition from Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to the United States Senate in 1874.

One of the most astonishing "finds" in the history of dinosaur hunting happened in South Dakota.  The story is told in this book:  A Dinosau...

Page from the autobiography of Olaudah Equiano (also known as "Gustavus Vassa, The African").  Here he tells us what it was like to see a slave s...

Image of a Harper's Weekly article published on February 9, 1861 called Now ready - American slavery Justified, by Reverend Samuel Seabury, ...

Image of a copy of Thomas Jefferson's Declartion of Rights, approved by the Continental Congress and published in Colonial newspapers on October 14, 1...

This is a page from the Affidavit of Kimbo, one of the Amistad Africans who had been kidnapped in Sierra Leone.  The original document is maintai...

ANATOMY OF A CONTROVERSY:Anatoly F. Dobrynin’s Meeting With Robert F. Kennedy, Saturday, 27 October 1962 by Jim Hershberg - Article online at ...

This map, of first-century Jerusalem, depicts the location of the Temple on the east side of the city.  The Antonia Fortress, a garrison for Roma...

This image is a facsimile of the signatures which appear on the Anglo-Irish Treaty.

Bookcover image of The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles, by Anne Savage.

This image depicts an oil-on-panel portrait of Anne Boleyn, created by an unknown artist (sometime between 1533-1536). Purchased by the National Port...

Show tooltips