Unification Collection

Feudal Map of Japan in 1615, (1903). Creator: Unknown
Feudal Map of Japan in 1615, (1903). The feudal period of Japanese history was a time when powerful families (daimyo) and military warlords (shogun) ruled Japan

Feudal Map of Japan before Sekigahara, 1903. Creator: Unknown
Feudal Map of Japan before Sekigahara, 1903. The feudal period of Japanese history was a time when powerful families (daimyo) and military warlords (shogun) ruled Japan

Feudal Map of Japan between 1573 -83, (1903). Creator: Unknown
Feudal Map of Japan between 1573 -83, (1903). The feudal period of Japanese history was a time when powerful families (daimyo) and military warlords (shogun) ruled Japan

View of Capua, from Monte St. Angelo - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

The Battle on the Volturno - the final repulse of the Neapolitans - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

The first visit of Victor Emmanuel to the camp of the national army at St. Angelo - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

General Garibaldi - from a portrait by Orsani, 1860. Creator: Smyth
General Garibaldi - from a portrait by Orsani, 1860

The vote for annexation at Naples - polling booth at Monte Calvario - from a sketch by T. Nast, 1860. Italian elections on 21st October

Triumphal Arch erected at Naples during the Fetes recently held in that city - musicians and singers serenading Victor Emmanuel - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

Padre Giovanni addressing the people in front of the Jesuits College, Naples - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

Farewell visit of Garibaldi to Admiral Mundy on board the "Hannibal" at Naples, 1860

Entry of Victor Emmanuel into Naples - sketched in the Toledo... 1860. Creator: Unknown
Entry of Victor Emmanuel into Naples - sketched in the Toledo by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860....on Wednesday

Victor Emmanuel's entry into Naples: scene in the Piazza del Palazzo Reale, looking up the Toledo, 1860....on Wednesday

The Liberators of Sicily - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860. Creator: Unknown
The Liberators of Sicily - from a sketch by our special artist, 1860. Italian revolutionaries, ...in their rough-and-ready uniforms...A cacciatore of the Alps, Garibaldi's guide, Col

Garibaldian volunteers - from a photograph by Herr Fehrenbachs, 1860. Creator: Unknown
Garibaldian volunteers - from a photograph by Herr Fehrenbachs, 1860. Sergeant Sparkhall, Major Styles, and Lieut. Ceuto, of the Glasgow company

Ovation to the first Garibaldian who entered the Café di Europa
Ovation to the first Garibaldian who entered the Cafe di Europa, Naples - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

The Battle on the Volturno - fight in the field near St. Angelo - from a sketch by T. Nast, 1860

The Revolution in Naples - street scene in Naples the day after the arrival of Garibaldi - from a sketch by T. Nast, 1860

The Battle on the Volturno - battery where the Neapolitans burnt the wounded Garibaldians - from a sketch by T. Nast, 1860

Neapolitans proceeding to record their votes for annexation... 1860. Creator: Unknown
Neapolitans proceeding to record their votes for annexation - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

The War in Naples - Victor Emmanuel giving commands to commence the bombardment of Capua - from a sketch by our special artist

The release of politicial prisoners from the Castellamare, Palermo, on June 19 - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

The Battle on the Volturno - the Neapolitan troops passing along a ravine - from a sketch by T. Nast, 1860. War in Italy: Garibaldians ambushing the enemy

The War in Naples - Garibaldian troops crossing the Volturno... 1860. Creator: Unknown
The War in Naples - Garibaldian troops crossing the Volturno - from a sketch by our special artist, Frank Vizetelly, 1860

Landing of a portion of the national army at the Marina di Palmi, Calabria - from a sketch by our special artist in south Italy, 1860

Bismarck at Seventy-Nine, c1895, (c1900). Creator: Unknown
Bismarck at Seventy-Nine, c1895, (c1900). Portrait of Otto von Bismarck, Prussian and later German statesman and diplomat; first Chancellor of the German Empire, Minister President of Prussia

"KULTUR"; Les Heures D'Ivresse; specimen des pages inspirees par le debut de la guerre au plus grand journal illustre d'Allemagne, l'Illustrierte Zeitung

A Berlin, la statue de Bismarck est un centre de ralliement pour la foule
Les nerfs des foules; A Berlin, la statue de Bismarck est un centre de ralliement pour la foule, qui salue et acclame l'effigie du Chancelier de fer, 1914

The Lorraine Reunited with France, 1737. Creator: Charles Nicolas Cochin
The Lorraine Reunited with France, 1737

Panel (Commemorative), England, c. 1883. Creator: Barlow & Jones
Panel (Commemorative), England, c. 1883. Printed cotton with image of the Niederwalddenkmal monument depicting Germania, the personification of Germany

Pinback button promoting All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, after 1958
The All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, a socialist political party founded by Kwame Nkrumah in 1968, expanded to the United States in 1972

Pinback button promoting African Liberation Day, 1977. Creator: Unknown
The All-African Peoples Revolutionary Party, a socialist political party founded by Kwame Nkrumah in 1968, expanded to the United States in 1972

The Union, January 1, 1801. January 1, 1801. Creator: Thomas Rowlandson
The Union, January 1, 1801

Das Niederwalddenkmal, 1923. Creator: Nikolai of Astudin
Das Niederwalddenkmal, 1923. Niederwalddenkmal is a monument located on Niederwald in Hesse, Germany. It overlooks the valley of the Rhine

Giuseppe Garibaldi helping Victor Emmanuel II put on the boot of Italy, 1860
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82) helping Victor Emmanuel II (1820-78) put on the boot of Italy. The Unification of Italy. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 17 November 1860. Wood engraving

Victor Emmanuel II knocking on the door of Naples, 1861. Artist: John Tenniel
Victor Emmanuel II knocking on the door of Naples, 1861. Victor Emmanuel became the first king of Italy from February 1861

Victor Emmanuel II (1st King of Italy) shaking Leopold II (Duke of Tuscany) out of Italy
Victor Emmanuel II (1st King of Italy) shaking Leopold II, Holy Roman Emperor (Duke of Tuscany) out of Italy, from Punch, London, 2 March 1861. The unification of Italy. Wood engraving

The Giant and the Dwarf, 1859

Joy for the Union, 1897. Creator: John Leech
Joy for the Union, 1897. A tartan-clad Scottish piper with the symbols for pounds, shillings and pence on his bagpipes

Karl Freiherr vom und zum Stein, (1933). Creator: Unknown
Karl Freiherr vom und zum Stein, (1933)

Visigothic gold coin from the period of political unification of the Iberian Peninsula

Giuseppe Garibaldi, Italian soldier and politician, 1860s (1936). From William Ewart Gladstone and His Contemporaries, Vol. II, 1840-1854, by Thomas Archer, F.R.H.S

Don Fernando de Aragon, c1910. Ferdinand II (1452-1516), called the Catholic, was King of Sicily from 1468 and King of Aragon from 1479

Prince Otto von Bismarck (1815-1898), 1875. Otto Eduard Leopold, Prince of Bismarck, Duke of Lauenburg, Count of Bismarck-Schonhausen, was a Prussian and German statesman of the 19th century

Heinrich von Gagern, (1799-1880) statesman who argued for the unification of Germany, 1900
Heinrich von Gagern (1799-1880), German statesman, 1900

The King of Prussia Addressing the Berliners, 1848, (1900). Artist: William Barnes Wollen
The King of Prussia Addressing the Berliners, 1848, (1900). In the streets of his capital, His Majesty Friedrich Wilhelm IV, King of Prussia, announces the unity of the German nation

Dates of admission to the Union of the States, and the alignment for the civil war, 1933. Published in The American Presidents, (London, 1933)

Guiseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, 19th century. Artist: W Holl
Guiseppe Garibaldi, Italian patriot, 19th century. Leading his 1, 000 Red Shirts, Garibaldi (1807-1882) conquered Sicily and Naples

Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann, 19th century German historian and politician, (1900). Dahlmann (1785-1860) was a proponent of the unification of Germany as aconstitutional monarchy

Volunteer your Assistance!, 1920. Artist: Vladimir Mayakovsky
Volunteer your Assistance!, 1920

Ferdinand I of Aragon and his Queen at prayer, 1417 (mid 19th century). The King and Queen are pictured at prayer at the time of the Council of Constance, 1417

Ferdinand II of Aragon, King of Spain. Ferdinand (1452-1516) married Isabella of Castille in 1469, uniting the kingdom of Spain

Giuseppe Garibaldi trying to persuade Pope Pius IX, 1860. Artist: John Tenniel
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82) trying to persuade Pope Pius IX that the Cap of Liberty would be far more comfortable than the Papal crown, 1860

Discussion over the future ruler of unified Italy, 1860
Discussion over the future ruler of unified Italy, 1960

Giuseppe Garibaldi turning the British idea of the Roman Catholic church out of Naples, 1860. Cartoon from Punch, London, 22 September 1860. Wood engraving

Giuseppe Garibaldi, conquering Sicily and Naples for the new kingdom of Italy
Giuseppe Garibaldi (1807-82), Italian Patriot, conquering Sicily and Naples on behalf of the new kingdom of Italy. John Tenniel cartoon from Punch, London, 16 June 1860. Wood engraving

A Good Offer, 1860. Garibaldi remarks to the pope Take to this cap, Papa Pius. You will find it more comfortable than your own

The Last Act of the Italian Drama, 1861. The final act of the ongoing problems surrounding the unification of Italy. King Victor Emmanuel II on the left and Napoleon on the right

A Hint to Louis Napoleon, 1859. The Pope has threatened to Excommunicate the Emperor Napoleon - French Paper

The First Lesson!, 1859. Not so Bad for a Beginner! In this cartoon, Liberty in the role of a schoolmistress helps a childish Napoleon III to write the word Amnesty on the blackboard

The Armistice, 1859

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