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6 PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years Petition for bail from accused witches, ca (John Davis Batchelder Autograph Collection) Many American colonists brought with them from Europe a belief in witches and a fascination with alleged conspiracies with the devil. During the seventeenth century, people were executed for witchcraft throughout the colonies, especially in Massachusetts. Many of the accused were women, prompting some recent historians to suggest that charges of witchcraft were a way of controlling women who threatened the existing economic and social order. In 1692 the famous Salem, Massachusetts, witchcraft trials took place, and that summer hundreds of people in the colony were arrested. Shown here is an appeal from ten women "besides thre or foure men" who were confined without trial in the Ipswich jail for many months. The petitioners--some "fettered with irons," some pregnant, and all "weake and infirme"--request that they be released on "bayle" to stand trial the following spring so that they do not "perish with cold" during the winter months. Janice E. Ruth, Manuscript Division For Additional Information: For additional information on the John Davis Batchelder Autograph Collection, you can leave this site and read a summary catalog record for the collection. Reproduction Number: A7 (color slide of original); LC-MSS (B&W negative of original); LC-MSS (B&W negative of typescript) Related Terms: Imprisonment Law Massachusetts Prisons Salem (Mass.) Witchcraft Women Congress, Law, and Politics Congress, Law, and Politics Items List Women's History Women's History Items List Chronological List Words and Deeds

7 NEXT RECORDS LIST NEW SEARCH HELP cph)) TITLE: Death of a salesman / Joseph Hirsch. CALL NUMBER: POS - ARTCR - TH.D431, no. 1 (B size) [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZC (color film copy transparency) SUMMARY: Poster for play, "Death of a Salesman," by Arthur Miller, at Cape Theatre, Cape May, N.Y., showing back of walking man. MEDIUM: 1 print (poster) : color. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [between 1949 and 1960(?)] CREATOR: Hirsch, Joseph, artist. SUBJECTS: Theatrical productions--new Jersey--Cape May FORMAT: Theatrical posters American Prints Color REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C USA DIGITAL ID: (color film copy transparency) cph 3g CARD #:

8 RECORDS PREVIOUS NEXT LIST NEW SEARCH HELP cph)) TITLE: [Marilyn Monroe, full-length portrait, facing front, standing over grate with dress billowing up] CALL NUMBER: NYWTS - BIOG--Monroe, Marilyn--Actress--Dead <item> [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-ppmsca (digital file from original) LC-USZ (b&w film copy neg.) Publication may be restricted. For information see "New York World-Telegram &...," ( MEDIUM: 1 photographic print. CREATED/PUBLISHED: [1955] NOTES: ABC Photo Division Press Information photograph. New York World- Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress). SUBJECTS: Monroe, Marilyn, Performances. FORMAT: Portrait photographs Film stills Photographic prints REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C USA DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original photo) ppmsca (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c CARD #:

9 "It's okay We're hunting Communists," October 31, 1947 Ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing on layered paper Published in the Washington Post (18) LC-USZ Arthur Miller was brought before the House on Un-American Activities Committee for his literature. the FBI shadowed him for years under suspicion of being a Communist sympathizer, before finally relenting in the late 1950s with no evidence to support their claims.

10 PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH Map Collections [Bird's-eye-view of Manhattan and adjacent districts, New York City]. CREATED/PUBLISHED [New York? : s.n., 190-?] NOTES Lacks title and legend. Reference: LC Panoramic maps (2nd ed.), Not drawn to scale. SUBJECTS Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)--Aerial views. United States--New York (State)--Manhattan (New York) MEDIUM 1 view on 6 sheets ; 204 x 106 cm., sheets 75 x 57 cm. or smaller. CALL NUMBER G3804.N4:2M3A B5 REPOSITORY Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C USA DIGITAL ID g3804n pm PREVIOUS NEXT NEW SEARCH

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