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O! say can you see : the story of America through great paintings. /

Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: National Historical Society
Other Authors: Ray, Frederic E. (Compiler)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Harrisburg, Pa.] : Stackpole Books, [1970]
Subjects:
United States > History > Pictorial works.
Painting, American.
Peinture américaine.
United States.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
History.
Pictorial works.
Ouvrages illustrés.
Table of Contents:
  • The indian in his solitude / by N.C. Wyeth
  • Landing of Leif Ericson in the New World in 1001 / by Edward Moran
  • The landing of Columbus / by N.C. Wyeth
  • The first sermon ashore / by J.L.G. Ferris
  • The fall of New Amsterdam / by J.L.G. Ferris
  • Landing of William Penn / by J.L.G. Ferris
  • Death of Wolfe / by Benjamin West
  • Old Bruton Church, Virginia, in the time of Lord Dunmore / by Alfred Wordsworth Thompson
  • George Washington / by Charles Willson Peale
  • At Concord Bridge / by N.C. Wyeth
  • The Battle of Bunker Hill / by Howard Pyle
  • Drafting the Declaration of Independence / by J.L.G. Ferris
  • The Battle of Germantown / (detail) by Howard Pyle
  • Von Steuben at Valley Forge / by Edwin A. Abbey
  • The ship that sank in victory / (detail) by J.L.G. Ferris
  • Daniel Boone escorting a band of pioneers into the western country / by George Caleb Bingham
  • The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown / by John Trumbull
  • The first steamboat / by Clyde O. DeLand
  • Thomas Jefferson / by Rembrandt Peale
  • Bombardment of Tripoli / by N.C. Wyeth
  • Tecumseh and Harrison at Vincennes / by Stanley M. Arthurs
  • We have met the enemy and they are ours / (detail) by J.L.G. Ferris
  • By the dawn's early light / by N.C. Wyeth
  • The old House of Representatives / by Samuel F.B. Morse
  • The trek of the mountain men / by W.H.D. Koerner
  • The Battle of the Alamo / (detail) by F.C. Yohn
  • The bay and harbor of New York / (detail) by Samuel B. Waugh
  • News from Mexico / by Richard Caton Woodville
  • The Battle of Chapultepec / by James Walker
  • The jolly flatboatmen in port / by George Caleb Bingham
  • Wagon train West / by W.H.D. Koerner
  • Sunday morning in the mines / by Charles C. Nahl
  • Fugitive slaves on the Underground Railway / by Charles T. Webber
  • Lincoln raising the Flag at Independence Hall / by J.L.G. Ferris
  • The Battle / by N.C. Wyeth
  • The wounded drummer boy / by Eastman Johnson
  • A rainy day in camp / (detail) by Winslow Homer
  • The Battle of Nashville / by Howard Pyle
  • Let us have peace / by J.L.G. Ferris
  • Forging the shaft: a welding heat / by John Ferguson Weir
  • The 9:45 a.m. accommodation, Stratford, Connecticut / by Edward L. Henry
  • The stoic of the plains / by Charles M. Russell
  • Stampeded by lightning / by Frederic Remington
  • The country school / by Winslow Homer
  • Thomas Edison's greatest invention / by Dean Cornwell
  • The statue of liberty unveiling / by Edward Moran
  • Charge of the Rough Riders up San Juan Hill / (detail) by Frederic Remington
  • Allies' Day, May 1917 / by Childe Hassam
  • The prisoner / (detail) by Harvey Dunn
  • The cliff dwellers / by George Bellows
  • Attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 / (detail) by Commander Griffith Baily Coale
  • Tank breakthrough at St. Lô / (detail) by Ogden Pleissner
  • MacArthur Receiving the Japanese surrender / (detail) by C.C. Beall
  • The Eagle has landed / by Cliff Young.