The Louisiana Purchase in the Age of Revolution

Photo Credits

1. H. Davidson, “Bonaparte Discussing the Louisiana Purchase Treaty with Tallyrand and Marbois,” engraving, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.
Note: Part of online exhibit by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, In Motion the African-American Migration Experience, “Haitian Immigration : 18th & 19th Centuries,” http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=5

2. Frank Bond, "Louisiana " and the Louisiana Purchase. Washington, Government Printing Office, 1912. Map No. 4.

3. Robert Lefevre, Portrait of Napoleon Bonaparte, 1809, oil on canvas, Carnavalet Museum, Paris.

4. “French Constitution, Rights of Man and Citizen,” book illustration (undated).
Note: Image listed as within the public domain via www.thelouvertureproject.org
5.  Guillaume De l’Isle, Carte de l’isle de Saint Domingue, 1722, engraving.

6.  “Moi Egal à toi,” c. 1791, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, New York Public Library, New York.
Note: Part of online exhibit by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, In Motion the African-American Migration Experience, “Haitian Immigration : 18th & 19th Centuries,” http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=5

7.  « La Liberté des côlon, » 1794, plate, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

8. Jacques-Louis David, The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries, 1812, oil on canvas, Samuel H. Kress Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

9. Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc, 1802, engraving, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 

10. Toussaint Louverture on horseback, ca. 1800, Private Collection.

11. Book illustration by James Outhwaithe (19th century) after an original steel engraving by Karl Girardet (1813-1871), “St Domingue, Prise De La Ravine Aux Couleuvres (The Taking of Snake Gully),” in Stephen Alexis, Black Liberator: The Life of Toussaint Louverture (New York, 1949).
Note: Image available through Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr., “The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record,” The Digital Media Lab at the University of Virginia Library, http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/index.php

12. Charles Victor Emmanuel Leclerc, 1802, engraving, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California. 

13. J. Barlow, “Revenge taken by the Black Army for the Cruelties practiced on them by the French," engraving, in Marcus Rainsford, An Historical Account of the Black Empire of Hayti: Comprehending a View of the Principal Transactions in the Revolution of Saint-Domingo; with its Ancient and Modern State, (London: J. Cundee), 1805.

14. Black Screen with title: “Jefferson’s Great Gamble”
Title for this section comes from Charles A. Cerami, Jefferson’s Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon, and the Men Behind the Louisiana Purchase, (Naperville: Sourcebooks, Inc.), 2003.

15. Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Carte de la Louisiane et des pays voisins dédiée à M. Rouillé sécretaire d’Etat, ayant le Département de la marine. Par le Sr. Bellin ingr. Ordre. de la marine, 1750, ca. 1760, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C.

16. Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 10 January 1803, The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651-1827,  Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C..

17. “Flatboat on the Mississippi,” MSN Encarta.

18. Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 10 January 1803, The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651-1827,  Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C..

19. Thomas Jefferson to James Monroe, 10 January 1803, The Thomas Jefferson Papers Series 1. General Correspondence. 1651-1827,  Library of Congress, Manuscript Division, Washington, D.C..

20. Rembrandt Peale, Thomas Jefferson, 1805, oil on canvas, The New York Historical Society, New York.

21. Barthélémy Lafon, Carte Générale du Territoire d’Orléans Comprenant aussi la Floride et une Portion du Territoire du Mississippi, 1806, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.

22. Thure de Thulstrup, “Raising of the United States Flag,” 1901, reprint by Goupil & Co. Printers, original an oil painting, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.

23. Jacques Nicolas Bellin, Plan de la Nouvelle Orleans, 1764, from Le petit atlas maritime, Library of Congress Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C.

24. E. B. Savary, William Charles Cole Claiborne, 1840, Louisiana Historical Society on loan to the Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

25. Charles Willson Peale, General Wilkinson, 1797, oil on canvas, Independence National Historical Park, Philadelphia.

26. Thure de Thulstrup, “Raising of the United States Flag,” 1901, reprint by Goupil & Co. Printers, original an oil painting, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.

27. William Edward West, Julien Poydras, 1817, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.

28. A Congo Woman; The Dance in Place Congo, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.
Note: Part of online exhibit by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, In Motion the African-American Migration Experience, “Haitian Immigration : 18th & 19th Centuries,” http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=5

29. Alexander de Batz, Desseins de Sauvages de Plusieurs Nations, 1759, watercolor, Peabody Museum of Archeology and Ethnology, Cambridge, Massachusetts.

30. Franck Schneider, Marie Laveau, c. 1920s, oil on canvas, Louisiana State Museum, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

31. George Caleb Bingham, The Jolly Flatboatmen, 1846, oil on canvas, The Manoogian Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C..

32. John H. B. Latrobe, “The Balise. Mississippi River,” colored aquatint, in Fielding Lucas, Lucas' Progressive Drawing Book, in Three Parts . . . Consisting Chiefly of Original Views of American Scenery, and Embracing the Latest and Best Improvements in the Mode of Instruction, Baltimore, 1827.

33. John L. Boqueta de Woiserie, A View of New Orleans Taken from the Plantation of Marigny, 1803, aquatint engraving, The Historic New Orleans Collection, New Orleans.