Miscellaneous Virginia Illustrations
The Miscellaneous Virginia Illustrations ClipArt gallery includes 13 illustrations related to the commonwealth.
Copper Half Pence Coin, 1773
Virginia Half Pence (half pence) Virginia Colony coin from 1773. Obverse has an image of a right-facing…
Silver Virginia Shilling Coin, 1774
Virginia Shilling (Shilling) Virginia Colony coin from 1774. Obverse has an image of a right-facing…
Constitution Ratification Cartoon
Political cartoon from the Boston Intependent Chronicle June 12, 1788 regarding Virginia's…
!["The war in Virginia- contrabands coming into the Federal camp. The [African American] furnishes, in his various phases of existence, wonderful studies for the artist and philosopher. Never, perhaps, has a race seen such a moment as during the Civil War, when the chains of bondage were breaking from the limbs of 4,000,000 of men. The distant roar of battle was to them a sound of deliverance. With all the uncouth, odd and queer manifestations of joy they prepared to reach the camp of the delivering Yanks. Yoking together most incongruous teams before the farm wagons of their fled masters, with ass and ox and horse, with household gear queerly assorted, with useless truck and little that could rarely serve them, they started for the Promised Land, and might often have been seen coming in as our artist, a most close student of nature, depicted them, with his usual felicity of portraiture."— Frank Leslie, 1896](https://etc.usf.edu/clipart/11700/11752/contrabands_11752_mth.gif)
Contrabands
"The war in Virginia- contrabands coming into the Federal camp. The [African American] furnishes, in…
Paper Money, Four Dollars Bill, 1776
Four Dollars ($4) Virginia currency from 1776. Image is the new Coat of Arms for the State of Virginia.
Paper Money, Three Pounds Bill, 1775
Three Pounds (3 pounds) Virginia currency from 1775. Copper-plate notes as illustrated, each value different.
Southern Republic Built from the Ruins
A political cartoon of the Southern states being built from the ruins after the Civil War.
