TITLE | TYPE | DATE CREATED | COLLECTION(S) | DESCRIPTION |
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To the People of Rhode Island | Image | 1836-06 | Thomas Wilson Dorr and the Gag Rule of 1836 | Public notice of the memorial and the roll call vote of the Newport Town Meeting on June 22, 1836. R… |
Second Ward. For Delegates to the Peoples' Convention of October 4th | Image | 1841 | The Dorr Rebellion | In July of 1841 the Rhode Island Suffrage Association called for a people's constitutional conv… |
People's Constitutional and State Rights' Ticket | Image | 1842 | The Dorr Rebellion | On April 18, 1842 the suffrage party held an extra-legal election to select state officers under the… |
The Dorr Rebellion | Collection | 1841/2023 | The Dorr Rebellion of 1841-43 is considered the most significant constitutional and political event… | |
The Great Political Car | Image | 1845 | The Dorr Rebellion | In 1844 Thomas W. Dorr was tried for treason, found guilty and sentence to life in prison. Dorr… |
The Great Political Car (detail) | Image | The Dorr Rebellion | ||
The Great Political Car (text) | Image | The Dorr Rebellion | ||
The Four Traitors | Image | 1845 | The Dorr Rebellion | Dating from 1845, this broadside depicts Charles Jackson, Samuel Man, James Simmons and Lemuel Arnol… |
Friends of the Constitution | Image | 1842 | The Dorr Rebellion | This broadside was issued for the constitutional vote of March 1842. It suggests to suffrage support… |
Hurrah for the Old Charter | Image | 1842 | The Dorr Rebellion | This anti-Dorrite broadside celebrates the March 1842 defeat of the General Assembly's proposed… |