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Child survivors of Auschwitz
Child survivors of Auschwitz, wearing adult-size prisoner jackets, stand behind a barbed wire fence. Among those pictured are Tomasz Szwarz; Alicja Gruenbaum; Solomon Rozalin; Gita Sztrauss; Wiera Sadler; Marta Wiess; Boro Eksztein; Josef Rozenwaser;…
Philadelphia riots of 1844
Depiction of the destruction of the St. Augustine Church in the 1844 Philadelphia Nativist riots, from “A Full and Complete Account of the Late Awful Riots in Philadelphia,”
The mountain in labor
The artist employs Aesop's fable about the mountain which was said to be in labor, its dreadful groans attracting expectant crowds only to be disappointed when it issued forth a small mouse. Here the mountain is the "Volcano of Loco-Focoism"…
The truth unveiled;
or, A calm and impartial exposition of the origin and immediate cause of the terrible riots in Philadelphia, on May 6th, 7th, and 8th, A.D. 1844.
The cover page of a pamphlet published in the wake of the 1844 Philadelphia Riots
