Astor Place Riot, May 10, 1849

Great Riot at the Astor Place

Nathaniel Currier

Union Meeting in the Open Air Outside the Academy of Music

Winslow Homer

Burning of the City Hall New York, on the night of the 17th August 1858 – Supposed to have taken fire from the fire works exhibited in commemoration of the successful laying of the Atlantic telegraph cable

Lithographed and published by Currier & Ives

The Storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789 (Prise de la Bastille le 14 juillet 1789)

Charles Thévenin

Abraham Lincoln, The President Elect, addressing the People from the Astor House Balcony, February 9, 1861

Winslow Homer

The Storming of the Bastille, July 14, 1789

Charles Thévenin

Bois du Monde: Les troubles du quartier Latin

Auguste Louis Lepère, published in Le Monde Illustree, June 10, 1882, and later issued as signed print in the delux portfolio Bois du Monde

"Den Rædsomste Nat i Kiøbenhavn"

J.F. Clemens

Het beschieten met kanonnen van het huis Leeuwenburg van Dr. Lucas van Steveninck te Middelburg in de nacht van 30 juni op 1 juli 1787

Unknown Artist

Expulsion of Negroes and Abolitionists from Tremont Temple, Boston, Massachusetts, on December 3, 1860

Winslow Homer

Place du Pantheon, Night of December 22 to 23, 1830

Denis Auguste Marie Raffet

Hanington's Dioramic Representation of the Great Fire in New York, Dec. 16 and 17, 1835. Now Exhibiting with Other Moving Dioramic Scenes, at the American Museum Every Evening...

H. Sewell