Boston 1841
‘View of the city of Boston from Dorchester Heights showing ships in the harbor, the “Worcester Rail Road” (left) and the “Lowell Raid Road” (right)/ (Robert Havell, artist). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/ LC-USZ62-7751.

Fugitive Slave Law (1850)
‘Practical Illustration of the Fugitive Slave Law’ (Boston, 1851). A political cartoon showing leading politicians, such as Secretary of States Daniel Webster, and abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison battling over the Fugitive Slave Act. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/ LC-USZ62-28755.

Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law
Political cartoon critiquing the Fugitive Slave Law. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/ LC-USZ62-1286.

Fall of Fort Sumter
Photograph of the Confederate Flag flying over Fort Sumter (Alma A. Pelot, photographer/April 16, 1861). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/ LC-DIG-ppmsca-32284.

Pickets on the Potomac
Engraving of picket-guard, Army of the Potomac (illustration in Harper’s Weekly, November 2, 1861). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/ LC-USZ62-96101.

Balls Bluff (1)
‘Discovering the bodies of the slain in the Potomac (Alfred R. Waud, artist, October 21, 1861). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/ LC-DIG-ppmsca-21071.

Ball’s Bluff (2)
The 15th Massachusetts at Ball’s Bluff (illustration in The Illustrated London News, November 23, 1861). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/ LC-USZ62-83277.

Ambulances (two-wheeled as per Holmes’ description):
his image of a Civil War ambulance train shows the kind of two-wheeled ambulance that Holmes was carried in. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-DIG-ppmsca-33639.

Grave on battlefield of Antietam
Photograph of grave on battlefield of Antietam with troops from 28th Pennsylvania Volunteers (Alexander Gardner, photographer, September 1862). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-DIG-ds-05192.

Officers of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored)
Image of Second Lieutenant Ezekiel G. Tomlinson, Captain Luis F. Emilio (center), and Second Lieutenant Daniel G. Spear of the 54th Massachusetts Infantry (Colored).Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/ LC-DIG-ppmsca-11526.

Grand Army of the Republic
Grand Army of the Republic poster dating from Holmes’ first Memorial Day Speech to the Keene, NH Chapter (c.1884). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-DIG-pga-02019

Haymarket Labor Riot
Print of those involved in the anarchist trial following the Haymarket Riot in Chicago, Illinois, May 4, 1886 (published Inter Ocean Co., 1886). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-DIG-ppmsca-19510.

William Jennings Bryan
Photograph of Democratic Party presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan (October 3, 1896).Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-USZC2-6259

1896 Election
Cartoon by Louis Dalrymple of the issues involved in the 1896 election (note the critique of the Supreme Court) published September 30, 1896. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-DIG-ppmsca-28845.

Arctic Explorer Robert Edwin Peary
Arctic explorer Robert Edwin Peary on the steamship Roosevelt (1909).Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-USZC4-7507.

Standard Oil Company/Big Business
Cover of Puck magazine (May 23, 1906) showing Theodore Roosevelt as a young Hercules battling ‘Big Business,’ represented by John D. Rockefeller and Nelson W. Aldrich. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/.LC-DIG-ppmsca-26061.

The Battle against Big Business
Print by Carl Hassmann (February 21, 1906) showing politicians and journalists battling against graft and corruption. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-DIG-ppmsca-26036.

Sherman Antitrust Act
Cartoon by Thomas E. Powers entitled ‘Everybody’s Doing It,’ (1912) critiquing ‘Big Business,’ and highlighting the political and legal struggles that arose from the Sherman Act (1890). Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-USZ62-85443.

Eugenics
Cover from Puck magazine (June 18, 1913) showing that the idea of eugenics had a long history preceding Buck v. Bell (1927) in the U.S. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-DIG-ppmsca-27955.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. (1903).
Three-quarter portrait in judicial robes. Courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division/LC-USZ62-136646.