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Title: Portrait of the female pirate
Summary: Fanny Campbell, American Revolutionary pirate, full-length portrait, standing, facing left, holding cutlass and skull-and-crossbones flag.
Date Created/Published: 1845.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2003653780/
Title: Blackbeard the pirate
Summary: Full length, standing, holding sword; naval battle in background.
Date Created/Published: 1725.
Repository: Library of Congress Rare Book and Special Collections Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
Link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2007677050/
Title: JONES, JOHN PAUL. CARTOON, ‘PAUL JONES THE PIRATE,’ DONE IN LONDON
Date Created/Published: 1917.
Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540
Part of: Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress)
Link: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2008005586/
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