Speech Collection

President Kennedy makes his We choose to go to the Moon speech, Rice University, 1962. US President John F. Kennedy gives his We choose to go to the Moon speech in Houston, Texas

Will you follow me, men?, c61 AD, (1905). Artist: As Forrest
Will you follow me, men?, c61 AD, (1905). The British Queen Boudicca (or Boadicea) of the Iceni encourages her soldiers to fight the Romans

Election fair, Copenhagen Fields, Islington, London, 1795. Artist: James Gillray
Copenhagen House.I tell you, citizens, we mean to new-dress the Constitution and turn it, and set a new nap on it Shakespeare ; showing an election fair in Copenhagen Fields, Islington, London, 1795

Roosevelt at Washington, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Roosevelt at Washington, 1912.

Mrs. H.S. Blatch in Wall St., between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Mrs. H.S. Blatch in Wall St., between c1910 and c1915. Shows suffragist Harriot Stanton Blatch (1856-1940) speaking with a crowd gathered below her.

T. Roosevelt speaking, gesticulating with fist, outside, Yonkers, NY, 1910. Creator: Bain News Service
T. Roosevelt speaking, gesticulating with fist, outside, Yonkers, NY, 1910.

Marshall accepting nomination, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Marshall accepting nomination, 1912. Shows Thomas Riley Marshall (1854-1925), Governor of Indiana, giving his acceptance speech to be Woodrow Wilson's running mate in Indianapolis, Indiana

Pres. Wilson addressing Congress, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
Pres. Wilson addressing Congress, 1913.

Elbert Martin and bullet-pierced speech, 1912. Creator: Bain News Service
Elbert Martin and bullet-pierced speech, 1912. John F. Schrank's attempted assassination of U.S. President Teddy Roosevelt in Oct. 1912.

Theodore Roosevelt speaking in N.J., between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Theodore Roosevelt speaking in N.J., between c1910 and c1915.

Theodore Roosevelt speaking in N.J., between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Theodore Roosevelt speaking in N.J., between c1910 and c1915.

(Terauchi?) addressing Lower House, Japan, 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
(Terauchi?) addressing Lower House, Japan, 1917. Probably shows politician and officer Count Terauchi Masatake (1852-1919) who was a Gensui (Marshal)

Ollie James speaking at Wilson's Notification, between c1910 and c1915. Creator: Bain News Service
Ollie James speaking at Wilson's Notification, between c1910 and c1915.

President Wilson addressing Congress, 1913. Creator: Bain News Service
President Wilson addressing Congress, 1913. Shows President Woodrow Wilson addressing Congress on April 8, 1913. He made a speech on adjusting tariff duties.

Dean Woodbridge, Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Dean Woodbridge, Oct 1918. Professor Frederick James Eugene Woodbridge (1867-1940) who was dean of Columbia University. Woodbridge is giving a speech at a gathering of the Student Army Training Corps

E. Root, between c1915 and c1920. Creator: Bain News Service
E. Root, between c1915 and c1920. Former Secretary of War Elihu Root (1845-1937) giving a speech at a gathering of the Student Army Training Corps and others on the steps of the Low Memorial Library

Departure of Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Cameron from...New Zealand...farewell address, 1865. Creator: C. R
Departure of Lieutenant-General Sir Duncan Cameron from Auckland, New Zealand: presentation of a farewell address, 1865. Engraving from a photograph by Mr. J. N. Crombie

Col. J.P. Finley, Oct 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Col. J.P. Finley, Oct 1918. John Park Finley (1854-1943), meteorologist and Army Signal Service officer giving a speech at a gathering of the Student Army Training Corps

Opening of the Birmingham Central Free Library, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Opening of the Birmingham Central Free Library, 1865. 'The Central Free Library (the second institution of this kind established, under Mr)

Meeting of the British Association at Birmingham: Professor Phillips...in the Townhall, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Meeting of the British Association at Birmingham: Professor Phillips, the President, delivering the Inaugural Address in the Townhall, 1865

The Social Science Congress at Sheffield: Sir Manockjee Cursetjee...on education in India, 1865. Creator: Unknown
education in India, 1865. View of '...the meeting, on Friday, of the Educational Department, Mr. Thomas Chambers, M.P., presiding, when Sir Manockjee Cursetjee, a Parsee gentleman of Bombay

Lord Brougham opening the Social Science Congress at Sheffield, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Lord Brougham opening the Social Science Congress at Sheffield, 1865. View of 'the inaugural address of Lord Brougham at the opening meeting of the ninth annual Congress of the National Association

Meeting of the Church Congress in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Meeting of the Church Congress in St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, 1865. '...the first meeting for discussion took place in St

Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel addressing bystanders...at Valencia, 1865. Creator: Unknown
Laying of the Atlantic Telegraph Cable: Sir Robert Peel addressing the bystanders after the taking of the shore end of the cable to the Telegraph House at Valencia, 1865

"Whitefield Preaching in Moorfields" A.D. 1742, by E. Crowe...the Royal Academy, 1865. Creator: W Thomas
"Whitefield Preaching in Moorfields" A.D. 1742, by E. Crowe, in the exhibition of the Royal Academy, 1865. Engraving of a painting

The Elections in the Metropolitan Boroughs: Finsbury...the nomination on Clerkenwell Green, 1865. Creator: Unknown
The Elections in the Metropolitan Boroughs: Finsbury election: the nomination on Clerkenwell Green, [London], 1865. 'The Finsbury nomination took place in front of the Middlesex Sessions House

Garibaldi in England: Garibaldi receiving addresses at the Crystal Palace, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Garibaldi in England: Garibaldi receiving addresses at the Crystal Palace, 1864. '...we see the dais erected in front of the great orchestra, in the north transept

The Royal Visit to Cambridge: presentation of the university address to the Prince And..., 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Royal Visit to Cambridge: presentation of the university address to the Prince and Princess [of Wales] in the quadrangle of Trinity College, 1864

Garibaldi in England: Garibaldi receiving an address at the Nine Elms railway station, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Garibaldi in England: Garibaldi receiving an address at the Nine Elms railway station, 1864. View of '...the interior of the large goods' shed at the Nine Elms station of the London

Garibaldi in England: presentation of address of Southampton Town Council...in the Townhall, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Garibaldi in England: presentation of address of Southampton Town Council to Garibaldi, in the Townhall, 1864. A '...view of the interior of the Townhall, an apartment over the Bargate

The Social Science Congress at New York: Lord Brougham...delivering his address…, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
The Social Science Congress at New York: Lord Brougham, the president, delivering his address in the Festival Concert-room, 1864

Enthronisation of the Most Rev. Dr. Charles Thomas Longley, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury... 1862. Creator: Unknown
Enthronisation of the Most Rev. Dr. Charles Thomas Longley, Lord Archbishop of Canterbury, in the choir of Canterbury Cathedral, 1862

Lord Palmerston making the ministerial statement on Dano-German Affairs... 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Lord Palmerston making the ministerial statement on Dano-German Affairs in the House of Commons on Monday, 1864. Every seat in the body of the house, and the very steps in each gangway

Captain Adams addresses recruits, July 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Captain Adams addresses recruits, July 1917. Captain Charles Albert Adams (1846-1929), a U.S. naval officer who served as the commander of the U.S.S

Colonel Guthrie on U.S.S. Recruit, July 1917. Creator: Bain News Service
Colonel Guthrie on U.S.S. Recruit, July 1917. Colonel Percy Albert Guthrie (1884-1948), leader of the 236th Canadian Infantry (the Maclean Highlanders), speaking on the U.S.S

The banquet given to M. Berryer in the Middle Temple Hall by the members of the English Bar, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The banquet given to M. Berryer in the Middle Temple Hall [in London] by the members of the English Bar, 1864. We give an Illustration of the festive scene in the Middle Tempie Hall

Inauguration of the bust of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales... Edinburgh, 1862. Creator: Unknown
Inauguration of the bust of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales at the high school, Edinburgh, 1862. The coming of age of His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales [future King Edward VII] was

Opening of Southwark Bridge toll free, 1864. Creator: Mason Jackson
Opening of Southwark Bridge toll free, 1864. Southwark Bridge over the River Thames in London links Southwark and the City

The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: torchlight welcome to Prince Frederick, ...Railway Hotel, 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: torchlight welcome to Prince Frederick by the citizens of Kiel in front of the Railway Hotel, 1864

Christmas Entertainment to the Inmates of the Greenwich Union-House, 1864. Creator: Unknown
Christmas Entertainment to the Inmates of the Greenwich Union-House, 1864. Through the liberality of Mrs. Angerstein, wife of the member for Greenwich

The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: great meeting in favour of Prince Frederick... 1864. Creator: Unknown
The Schleswig-Holstein Difficulty: great meeting in favour of Prince Frederick at Elmshorn, Holstein, 1864....the great open-air meeting...was a scene of the greatest enthusiasm...there were 20

Daniels visits RECRUIT, 16 Mar 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Daniels visits RECRUIT, 16 Mar 1918. Crowd gathered to hear Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) during his visit to the U.S.S

Secy Daniels on RECRUIT, 16 Mar 1918. Creator: Bain News Service
Secy Daniels on RECRUIT, 16 Mar 1918. Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels (1862-1948) speaking on the U.S.S. Recruit, a fake battleship built in Union Square

Illustration for Basedow's Elementary Work, 1770. Creator: Daniel Nikolaus Chodowiecki
Illustration for Basedow's Elementary Work, 1770. Table LXXVI. A popular illustrated textbook for children

The Embarkation of Prince Alfred on board the "Euryalus" on Wednesday week, 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Embarkation of Prince Alfred on board the "Euryalus" on Wednesday week - from a sketch by V. Jones, 1858. Naval cadet Alfred, accompanied by his father Prince Albert

Turning the First Turf of the Ceylon Railway, 1858. Creator: Unknown
Turning the First Turf of the Ceylon Railway, 1858. Engraving from a photographs by Mr. Parting, of a ceremony performed...by his Excellency Sir Henry Ward, the Governor of the Island

The Queen's Visit to Leeds - the Town Clerk reading the Address to Her Majesty in the Townhall, 1858. Queen Victoria visits the newly-opened town hall at Leeds in Yorkshire

The Queen's Visit to Birmingham - Reading of the Address of the Interim Managers to Her... 1858. Creator: Unknown
The Queen's Visit to Birmingham - Reading of the Address of the Interim Managers to Her Majesty in the Great Gallery of Aston Hall, 1858. Queen Victoria opens a public amenity

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