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1: Col. Fremont planting the American standard on the Rocky Mountains, by Baker & Godwin, 1856. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-03212.
2: George Catlin, Prairie Meadows Burning, 1832, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Mrs. Joseph Harrison, Jr., 1985.66.374.
3: The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. “Charleston, S.C.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1851. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47d9-7ccf-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
4: View of St. Louis by Leon Pomarede, ca. 1832–1835. Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2007.16. Photography by Dwight Primiano.
5: View of Washington by Robert Pearsall Smith, 1850. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-03316.
6: Art and Picture Collection, The New York Public Library. “Fremont On The Rocky Mountains.” The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1876 - 1877. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e1-1fe4-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99.
7: Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868, oil on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Helen Huntington Hull, granddaughter of William Brown Dinsmore, who acquired the painting in 1873 for “The Locusts,” the family estate in Dutchess County, New York, 1977.107.1.
8: Map of Oregon and Upper California from the surveys of Frémont and other authorities. Drawn by Charles Preuss in 1848. From The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont: Map Portfolio edited by Donald Jackson and Mary Lee Spence, published by University of Illinois Press, 1970.
9: Inauguration of President Polk – The Oath, 1845. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-ppmsca-51565.
10: Portrait of General John C. Frémont by George Peter Alexander Healy. The Athenaeum.
11: Forest Camp—Shastl Peak from Memoirs of My Life by John Charles Frémont. Page 377. Published by Belford, Clarke & Company, 1887.
12: Cascade, Nevada Fall on Left, View above Vernal Fall, 1861, by Carleton E. Watkins. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gilman Collection, Museum Purchase, 2005.
13: Sagundai from Memoirs of My Life by John Charles Frémont. Page 491. Published by Belford, Clarke & Company, 1887.
14: Mexican News, by Alfred Jones (engraver) and Richard Caton Woodville, 1853. . Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-03889.
15: From The Expeditions of John Charles Frémont, edited by Donald Jackson and Mary Lee Spence, published by University of Illinois Press, 1970.
16: Charles Christian Nahl, August Wenderoth, Miners in the Sierras, 1851–1852, oil on canvas mounted on canvas, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Fred Heilbron Collection, 1982.120.
17: Union, engraved by Henry S. Sadd, copied after T.H. Matteson, 1852. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, NPG.87.253.
18: San Francisco / S.F. Marryat, delt., by M. & N. Hanhart, and Frank Marryat, 1850. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-DIG-pga-01463.
19: Mrs. J.C. Fremont sitting on the porch of her house in Mariposa. 1867. Photographer unknown. Albumen print carte de viste. Collection of Oakland Museum of California. Gift of Mrs. Carolyn K. Louderback.
20: Stump Speaking by George Caleb Bingham, 1853–54. Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri, United States.
21: Political cartoon from 1856. Wisconsin Historical Society, WHS56967.
22: John Charles Frémont, his wife Jessie Benton Frémont, and their daughter stand before a redwood tree. Photograph from the John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont papers, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, PR 13 CN 2011:212.
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1: Portrait of Mrs. Jessie Benton Fremont, Wife of Gen. John Fremont, by Thomas Buchanan Read. 1856. Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum, Los Angeles; 81.G.2.
2: John C. Frémont. LC-BH82-523. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
3: Letter from John C. Frémont to Joel Poinsett, Box 1, John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont papers, 1828–1980, MSS1459, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
4: Tasayac, or the Half Dome, from Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, Mariposa County, Cal, by Carleton E. Watkins. LC-DIG-stereo-1s01436. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
5: Christopher Carson, 1943. LC-USZ62-107570. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
6: Thomas Hart Benton. LC-DIG-DS-13456. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
7: From Memoir of the Life and Public Services of John Charles Fremont by John Bigelow. Published by Derby & Jackson, New York, 1856.
8: From box 4, folder 1, John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont papers, 1828–1980, MSS1459, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
9: From box 2, folder 9, John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont papers, 1828–1980, MSS1459, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
10: From box 2, folder 1, Horace Greeley Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
11: Francis Preston Blair. LC-BH83- 45 [P&P]. Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
12: Astor House Broadway, 1867, Society of Iconophiles, 1909 / etched by S.L. Smith, from a photograph. LC-DIG-ds-01872. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
13, 14: From the collection of the Local History & Genealogy Division, Central Library of Rochester & Monroe County, NY.
15: Frederick Douglass, created between 1879 and 1900. LC-USZC4-3623. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
16: “The Grand National Fight 2 Against 1 Fought on the 6th of Nov. 1856” by J. Childs and John L. Magee. 1856. LC-USZ62-92030. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
17: James Buchanan, fifteenth president of the United States, by N. Currier. LC-DIG-pga-09177. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
18: John Bigelow. LC-DIG-DS-13455. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
19: Black Republican Imposture Exposed! Washington, 1856. LC- 1041663032. Library of Congress.
20: From Box 2, John Charles Frémont and Jessie Benton Frémont papers, 1828–1980, MSS1459, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
21: Opening page of Jessie Benton Frémont’s memoir, Fremont Family papers, circa 1839–1927, BANC MSS C-B 397, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
22: Jessie Benton Frémont. UtCon Collection / Alamy Stock Photo.
23: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library.