Pictorial Americana
Selected Images from the Collections
of the Library of Congress
TRIPOLITAN WAR
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A perspective view of the loss of the U.S. frigate Philadelphia in which is represented her relative position to the Tripolitan gunboats when during their furious attack upon her she was unable to get a single gun to bear upon them. Engraving after Dencon.
Reproduction
number: LC-USZ62-60
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The burning of the American fregate the Philadelphia in the harbor of Tripoli. Engraving by John B. Guerrazzi, 1805
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number: LC-USZ62-59
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Desperate conflict of the American seamen under Decatur, on boarding a Tripolitan corsair. Wood engraving by Henry Howe, Life and death on the ocean, 1855, after F.O.C. Darley.
Reproduction
number: LC-USZ62-3760
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Bombardment of Tripoli, August 1804. Lithograph by N. Currier, 1846.
Reproduction
number: LC-USZ62-4
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