Content: "But the President's mansion and the unfinished Capitol were burned,--one of the stories of the time being that Cockburn leaped into the Speaker's chair, as his followers filled the halls of Congress, and shouted, 'Shall this harbor of Yankee democracy be burned? All for it will say Aye!'"--from text accompanying image.
Source Note: Popular history of the United States, from the first discovery of the western hemisphere by the Northmen to the end of the Civil War. (New York : Scribner, c1876-1881) Bryant, William Cullen (1794-1878), Author.

Physical Description

Wood engravings
Extent: 1 print : b ; 11 x 12 cm. (4 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.)

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b17168662
Barcode: 33333159315288
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1a5a7fc0-c531-012f-3e59-58d385a7bc34

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1881

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MLA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cockburn in the chair" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1881. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1a5a7fc0-c531-012f-3e59-58d385a7bc34

APA format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. (1881). Cockburn in the chair Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1a5a7fc0-c531-012f-3e59-58d385a7bc34

Chicago/Turabian Format

The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. "Cockburn in the chair" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 12, 2026. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1a5a7fc0-c531-012f-3e59-58d385a7bc34

Wikipedia citation

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