1770s Gallery

Hand-colored printed halftone illustration

John Paul Jones in command of the "Ranger" in battle with the British ship "Drake," American Revolution.
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustratioin

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Evolution of the United States flag from red British ensign (left) to the striped Grand Union flag (right), to the thirteen-star flag (center).
Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Colonists fortifying Breed's Hill the night before the Battle of Bunker Hill, at the outset of the American Revolution, 1775.
Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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