Messenger Collection

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Bedouin messenger racing across the desert on a camel. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Bedouin, Muslim woman, and a messenger in Egypt
Bedouin girl, Muslim woman selling fruit, and a messenger, Egypt. Antique hand-colored print

Roakoke Colony alarm, 1580s
Messenger warning of a Native American attack, Roanoke Colony, late 1500s. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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Banshee wailing to foretell death in an Irish village. Hand-colored halftone reproduction of a 19th-century illustration

Reading from a scroll in ancient Jerusalem
Proclamation read from a scroll in ancient Jerusalem. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Declaration of war by a Pequot Indian delivering an arrow to Massachusetts Bay colonists, 1636. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Messenger bringing colonists news of the battle at Lexington Green, 1775. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Two lanterns in the belfry of the Old North Church, the signal to Paul Revere to begin his midnight ride, 1775. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration for Longfellows poem

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Paul Reveres ride to rouse Minutemen before the Battle of Lexington, April 19, 1775. Hand-colored engraving of a 19th-century illustration

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Paul Revere alerting inhabitants along the road to Lexington, 1775. Hand-colored halftone of a 19th-century illustration

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Rider warning Minutemen the British were marching to Lexington 1775, beginning the Revolutionary War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Carolina colonists fleeing in canoes from a Native American attack. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Town crier with a lost child
Town crier calling, " Child lost!" and ringing an alarm bell. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

Union sentries reading a Confederate message, Civil War
Confederate messenger stopped by Union pickets, US Civil War. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Minutemen roused by Paul Revere to do battle in Lexington, April 19, 1775. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Paul Revere seeing two lights in the Old North Church steeple, riding to Lexington to warn the Minutemen the British were coming, 1775. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Paul Reveres ride to awaken the Minutemen of Lexington, Massachusetts, April 19, 1775. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

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Paul Revere calling the Lexington Minutemen to arms, 1775. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration by Darley

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General Washington is brought the news that the British had crossed the Brandywine to occupy Philadelphia, 1777. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th century illustration

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