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Pictured here are two copies of William Joseph Snelling'sA Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson.If you compare the size of the original publication (on top)to the extra-illustrated version with additional…

The copy of William Snelling's A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jacksonin the William C. Cook Jacksonian Era Collection has been extra-illustrated. Learn more about this book and extra-illustrated books (also known as…

The compiler of this particular "extra-illustrated" book is believed to be autograph collector Ferdinand J. Dreer. The Brooklyn Public Library acquired the volume sometime in or after 1895, when they received funds from a Charles R. Lynde. AAS still…

The frontispiece—an illustration placed opposite a book’s title page—of this volume is an extra illustration of “Maj. Gen. Andrew Jackson”. This portrait of Jackson is an engraving probably based on an 1817 military portrait of the then-general by…

The text of this extra-illustrated life of Jackson comes from a book called A Brief and Impartial History of the Life and Actions of Andrew Jackson. The work was published in 1831 in the run-up to Jackson’s re-election bid in 1832. Despite the…

This fold-out map, inserted between two pages of the volume, was drawn around 1770 “from the Best Authorities” by Thomas Bowen, an English geographer, and was “engraved for Jones’s Geographical Grammar.” It depicts the…

An image of the Hermitage, Jackson’s home in Tennessee, appears opposite the first page of the Preface in the extra illustrated Jackson biography, A Brief and Impartial History. Jackson purchased the land for the plantation in 1804, and he and…

The first page of the biography’s Preface, in which the author sets his work apart from others about Jackson’s life, insisting that his biography will not focus only on the President’s military career (in particular, the author…

Every chapter in this extra-illustrated volume comes accompanied by a portrait of Jackson opposite its first page. This one is an engraving from 1832 by James B. Longacre that depicts Jackson as President and is based on possibly the most famous…

A portrait of Lord Cornwallis appears opposite a description of Jackson’s participation in the Revolutionary War as a young boy of fourteen. After the death of his older brother, Jackson and another brother were captured and badly treated by British…

An image of Daniel Webster, a contemporary and later rival of Jackson, this portrait originally came, like many other portraits in this extra-illustrated Life, from the 1834 book The National Portrait Gallery of Distinguished Americans, [catalog…

An image of Nashville, where Jackson settled as a lawyer in 1788.

A portrait of “General Andrew Jackson” opposite the narration of Jackson’s appointment to the Tennessee constitutional convention in 1796—his first political office. He was elected to the House of Representatives that year…

Was the creator of this Jackson portrait an African American free man of color or not? What we do know: this lithograph was created by Jules Lion. Born in Paris, in the mid-1830s Jules Lion immigrated to New Orleans, where the 1837 city directory…

Pushmataha (1764/65?–1824) was a Choctaw warrior who fought against Creeks and Seminoles with Andrew Jackson during the War of 1812. He later negotiated treaties with GeneralJackson, but Pushmataha died while in Washington,D.C.,to protest the…

The engraving "What de debil you hurrah for GeneralJacksonfor?"was originally part of a racist Life in Philadelphia series satirizing upwardly mobile African Americans that was drawn by Philadelphia native Edward Williams Clay. It was originally…

Rachel Donelson Robards (1767-1828) married Andrew Jackson in 1791 or 1794. The ambiguity in dates depends on which marriage you count. When they first married, the couple had assumed Rachel's first husband had secured a divorce. Turns out he had…

This previously unknown pamphlet is already being used by readers at AAS: a literary scholar working on disability studies and a poet looking for eccentrics and examples of the way they used language.Elegiac poems for President Andrew Jackson were…

Like Jackson himself, Davy Crockett (1786-1836) came to be known as a larger-than-life Tennessee frontiersman. However, Crockett was no supporter of Jackson. He vehemently opposed many of the policies of President Andrew Jackson, most notably the…

The title page ofBiographical Sketch of the Life of Andrew Jacksonis dated 1828, which squares with the description in the text of Jackson and "the important relation in which he now stands to the American people, as a candidate for the splendid…