Visual Arts Documents

The Baer-Braddock fight was heavily promoted before fight day.  This press notice is typical of the pre-fight publicity.  

First Officer Robert Bragg survived the crash, as did the captain and flight engineer.  In NOVA's documentary, The Deadliest Plane Crash, Bragg a...

Prior to his election as President of the United States, Herbert Hoover was the U.S. Food Administrator.  This image depicts Hoover's food distri...

President Franklin Roosevelt was in bed, asleep, when he received word during the night that Hitler's troops were invading Poland. This image depicts...

Frederick Douglass writes to then-Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, responding to the President's invitation that Douglass serve as the U.S. Ambass...

Second page of a letter from Frederick Douglass to America's then-Secretary of State, James G. Blaine, accepting the offer (made by President Benjamin...

Frozen in Time:  The Fate of the Franklin Expedition, by Owen Beattie and John Geiger, tells the story of the men who had served with Franklin, t...

This receipt, given to Mary Pickersgill by the U.S. Army, shows that she was paid $405.90 for making the Star-Spangled Banner and $168.54 for making a...

The Federation of American Scientists (FAS) web site provides the following about the UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter: The Black Hawk is the primary di...

After the successful “Trinity Test,” of the plutonium core of “The Gadget,” high-ranking U.S. military commanders made ready t...

George Bentley was an 8-year-old child who worked long, hard hours in a British coal mine. In addition to his workday, George walked 1.5 miles, each w...

George Washington became the Colonials' Commander-in-Chief in 1775. His Commission, a key document from America's Revolutionary Era, depicts his offic...