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Composite of six photos showing young Black cotton pickers waiting in pay line, people fishing, a cabin in Kentucky, people dancing, a black cotton picker discussing prices with a cotton buyer, and a head-and-shoulders portrait of the photographer, Marion

Great Falls of the Potomac

The Looking Glass for 1787 - A satire touching on some of the major issues in Connecticut politics on the eve of the ratification of the U.S. Constitution.

The United States Senate, A.D. 1850

Battle of Jackson, Mississippi Gallant charge of the 17th Iowa, 80th Ohio and 10th Missouri, supported by the first and third brigades of the seventh division

Famous Union commanders of the Civil War, 1861-'65

Assault on Fort Sanders

Capture of Fort Fisher

Battle of Franklin. November 30, 1864-Union (Gen. Schofield) ... Conf. (Gen. Hood) ...

Family record. Before the war and since the war

Prominent Union and Confederate generals and statesmen as they appeared during the great Civil War, 1861-5

The pontoon bridge at Cincinnati

The Lexington of 1861

The second battle of Bull Run, fought Augt. 29th 1862

Loo in the kitchin [sic] or, High life below stairs

THE CELESTE-AL CABINET - A mild satire on Jackson and his Cabinet, portraying in imaginative terms a White House reception of popular French dancer and actress Madame Celeste. Seated in chairs in a White House parlor are six cabinet members.

In Washington City--1839

Battle of the Wilderness--Desperate fight on the Orange C.H. Plank Road, near Todd's Tavern, May 6th, 1864

Battle of Spottsylvania--Engagements at Laurel Hill & NY River, Va. ... May 8 to 18, 1864

Battle of Missionary Ridge - fought November 23-25, 1863

Battle of Resaca--May 13 to 16, 1864 ...

Battle between the Monitor and Merrimac--fought March 9th 1862 at Hampton Roads, near Norfolk, Va.

Battle of Opequan or Winchester, Va.--Sept. 19' 1864--Union: (Gen. Sheridan) ... Conf. (Gen. Early) ...

Siege of Vicksburg--13, 15, & 17 Corps, Commanded by Gen. U.S. Grant, assisted by the Navy under Admiral Porter--Surrender, July 4, 1863

Battle of Lookout Mountain--November 24' 1863- 4' & 14' Corps, Army of the Cumberland & Geary's Div. o. 12' Corps, & 11' & 15' Corps A.O.T. Tenn. engaged

Battle of Stone River, Near Murfreesborough, Tenn.--Dec. 31, 62. Jan. 2-3, 1863--Union (Gen. Rosecrans) ... Conf. (Gen. Bragg) ...

Battle of Fredericksburg-the Army o.t. Potomac crossing the Rappahannock in the morning of Dec. 13' 1862, under t. comd. of Gen's Burnside, Sumner, Hooker & Franklin

Battle of Williamsburg--Gen. Hancock's charge, May 5, 1862. Union (Gen. McClellan) ... Conf. (Gen. J.E. Johnston) ...

Battle of Five Forks, Va.--Charge of Genl. Sheridan April 1st 1865

Battle of Chancellorsville--May 2, 3 & 4, 1863--Union (Gen. Hooker) ... Confederate (Gen. Lee) ... Gen. Jackson mort. wd.

Battle of Atlanta--Death of Gen. James B. McPherson--July 22d 1864--Army of the Tennessee engaged

Battle of Chickamauga--Sept. 19' & 20' 1863--Federal ... (Gen. Rosecrans com.) Confederate ... (Gen. Bragg com.)

Battle of Chattanooga--Gen. Thomas' charge near Orchard Knob, Nov. 24' 1863--parts A.O.T. Potomac, Tenne. & Cumbd. engaged

Battle of Fort Donelson--Capture of Generals S.B. Buckner and his army, February 16th 1862

Battle of Corinth--Oct 3 & 4 1862--Union (Gen. Rosecrans). Loss: Gen. Hackleman, Kirby Smith ... Conf. (Gen. Van Dorn). Loss: Col. Rogers

Battle of Kenesaw Mountian [i.e., Mountain]--June 27, 1864--Union (Gen. Sherman, com.) ... Conf. (Gen. Johnston, Com.) ...

Battle of Wilson's Creek--Aug. 10, 1861--Union (Gen. Lyon) ... Conf. (Gen. McCulloch) ...

Training for war

M'Liss

Slave houses on Hermitage plantation, Savannah, Georgia

Greek revival building, Natchez, Mississippi

Battle of Bull Run--July 21st 1861--Federal (Gen. McDowell) ... Confederate (Gen. Beauregard)

View of Washington City and Georgetown

A view of the Federal Hall of the City of New York, as appeared in the year 1797; with the adjacent buildings thereto

Destruction of a railroad bridge The War for the Union

Andrew Jackson, head-and-shoulders portrait, nearly in profile to left, leaning against pillow of which ticking appears in lower left corner

Prang's Christmas cards

Gen. U.S. Grant, lying in state, in City Hall, New York City

Gen. D.E. Sickles and staff at 14th Street. Gen. U.S. Grant's funeral

Gen'l U.S. Grant's steel casket

Remains of President Garfield lying in state in the rotunda of the U.S. Capitol

Gen. Grant's tomb

Garfield obsequies

The Garfield Memorial

Burying the dead at hospital in Fredericksburg, Va.

Dead Confederate soldier, in trenches of Fort Mahone in front of Petersburg, Va., April 3, 1865

Battle-field of Gettysburg--Body of a soldier in the wheat field, evidently killed by the explosion of a shell Photo by James F. Gibson

Battle-field of Gettysburg--Dead Confederate sharpshooter at foot of Little Round Top

Federal dead on the field of battle of first day, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

[Dead horse on battlefield, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania]

Federal soldier disembowelled by a shell

President Abraham Lincoln's tomb, Oak Ridge, Springfield, Illinois

Lincoln lying in state

Recovered

Woman mourning by tomb with inscription, to the memory of Capt. John Williams, died April the 1, 1825

The soldier's memorial Woman mourning at tomb of Civil War soldier.

The mother's grave

Anne Nichols' Abie's Irish Rose

The Funeral of President Lincoln, New-York, April 25th, 1865

C.S. soldier killed by a shell in the trenches of Fort Hell. This view was taken the morning after the storming of Petersburgh [sic], Va., April 2d, 1865

A Dead rebel soldier, barefooted, killed by a shell, which tore his side out The entrails are protruding from his side.

A Dead rebel soldier, as he lay on the foot passage in the trenches of Fort Hell Part of a broken musket and bayonet stuck in the bank.

Dead Confederate soldier in the trenches The war for the Union. Photographic War History. 1861-1865.

Collecting remains of the dead The War for the Union. Photographic War History. 1861-1865

Unburied dead on battlefield This photograph was made several months after the battle, on the field at Gaines' Mills.[i.e. Gaines' Mill], Va. The war for the Union. Photographic War History. 1861-1865.

Attack of Johnston's Div., C.S.A. on the breastworks on Culps Hill defended by Wadsworth's Div., 1st Corps, and a part of the 12th Corps [under] General Slocum, half past seven P.M., July 2nd

Going to church

Deep South

Folk family

Grant from West Point to Appomattox

Lashed to the shrouds--Farragut passing the forts at Mobile, in his flagship Hartford

Springfield Bicycle Club Tournament, Springfield, Mass., Sept. 11 and 12, 1895

Toys for Christmas

Sheridan's ride

Sheridan's final charge at Winchester

Cutting a shine

Gen. Robt. E. Lee at Fredericksburg, Dec. 13, 1862

Yankee volunteers marching into dixie--Yankee Doodle keep it up, Yankee Doodle dandy

Home again Caption: From the original picture in the possession of James Parke Jr., Esq.

Skating

Tobogganing

True Americans

Illus. from: U.S. Pacific railroad explorations and surveys. 47th and 49th parallels. Valley in the slope of the Great Basin, leading from the Tejon Pass

?Mrs. James A. Garfield

Christmas morn

Jamaica Pond, West Roxbury, Mass.

Watch meeting

Arms of the states and territories of the American union

California state flag depicting grizzly bear emblem over the words California Republic

African American soldiers mustered out at Little Rock, Arkansas

New York, 1920

Clipper Ship THREE BROTHERS

Girls in bloomers on climbing apparatus, Western High School, Washington, D.C.

Home sweet home

S.D. Sollers & Co. manufacturers of children's fine shoes, Philadelphia

Going into bivouac at night

Surf riders, Honolulu

United States of America, our standard coffee

Uncle Sam's coffee

Century Magazine - Midsummer Holiday Number

Methodist Church, Thorndale, Ont.

Signal telegraph machine and operator - Fredericksburg

The mangold harvest

Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1826

New Orleans from the lower cotton press 1852

Children who stay in the city -- Children who go to Rockaway

Cavalry fight near Aldie, Va. During the march to Gettysburg; the Union Cavalry; commanded by Gen. Pleasonton, the Confederate by J.E.B. Stuart

Unidentified man with beard, half-length portrait, full face

Wayside scene, Stony Creek, Va.

United States iron-clad screw ram Dunderberg--Designed and constructed by Wm. H. Webb

Presidents of the United States

For president John Bell For vice president Edward Everett. An American flag with portrait of John Bell encircled by 33 stars in a blue field.

Returned prisoners-of-war, exchanging their rags for new clothing on board flag-of-truce boat, New York

Soldier signaling by torches across James River

Funeral car of President Lincoln New York

New York Crystal Palace

Rowntree's elect cocoa

Wolcott's Instant Pain Annihilator

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World Wild rivalries of savage, barbarous and civilized races

Gare Americaine a Maryland

Oh Carry Me Back to Ole Virginny

Arizona cow-boy

Ruins of Stanford Mansion and Hopkins Art Institute, San Francisco, Cal.

Bird's-eye view of the Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress

Battle of Chattanooga

Battle of Port Hudson

Capture of Fort Fisher

Capt. Semmes, of the pirate Alabama

N. TOM O' LOGICAL STUDIES. THE GREAT TUMBLE BUG OF MISSOURI, BENT-ON ROLLIN HIS BALL.

Torchlight procession around the world--Dedicated to young America

The Atlantic Cable - The Eighth Wonder of the World

President Lincoln and Genl. Scott reviewing a regiment

Winter Campaigning. The Army of the Potomac on the move.

Reconnoisance [sic] by Bufords Cavalry towards the Rapidan river

The capture of Andre: By John Paulding, David Williams and Isaac Van Wart, at Tarrytown, N.Y., Sept. 23rd, 1780

The Capture of Major John Andre. Currier & Ives, Revolutionary War

True Sons of Freedom

Cowboy on horseback and two other horses in foreground, other animals hidden in picture.

Pony tracks, written and illustrated by Frederic Remington

Tomb of General Ulysses S. Grant

Abraham Lincoln's last reception

[Black man reading newspaper by candlelight]

Laying corner stone, Washington Monument

The persuit [i.e. pursuit]

The grand review at Washington May 23th 1865 The glorious Army of the Potomac passing the head stand

Gen. J.E.B. Stuart's raid around McClellan, June 1862

We stand for the gold standard, ...

Lincoln the rail splitter

Protection and sound money

Thomas Jefferson

Washington midway between the two armies at Princeton

George Washington

Clara Barton standing under Red Cross flag and crowd posed, Sea Island

Miners prospecting

The rebels of '76--Or the first announcement of the great declaration

The trial of a horse thief

The bellowing steer was dragged backward, his left foot securely roped

[A United States two cents postage stamp with head-and-shoulders portrait of James A. McNeill Whistler]

[George Washington crossing the Delaware River]

Sir William Blackstone, half-length portrait, seated, facing slightly left] / T. Hamilton Crawford, [printer

The foundation of American government

Thomas Paine

The Repeal. Or the Funeral Procession of Miss Americ-Stamp.

Lincoln and Hamlin, on U.S. cloth flag

Little Eva Converting Topsy

This is to certify that ... is a member of the Wide-awake club

The battle of Gettysburg. Prisoners belonging to Gen. Longstreet's Corps captured by Union troops, marching to the rear under guard

The Strong government 1869-1877. The weak government 1877-1881

Peace

Get in and I will take you home

Girl holding doll and boy with dog in waiting room at railroad station

Buffaloes at rest

Native Californians lassoing a bear

The Youth's Companion. Historic milestones. Kit Carson...hunter and trapper

Emigrants crossing the plains

Caravan of emigrants for California (Crossing the great American desert in Nebraska)

The Elevated at One Hundred and Tenth Street, New York City

The Bowery, New York City

South Street and Brooklyn Bridge, New York City

West Street, New York City

Riverside Park and Grant's Tomb, New York

Storming of Independence Hill at the Battle of Monterey

The Field artillery. United States Army. Travel, earn, learn ... adventure and action

The Accident in Lombard Street

Bread line

Elderly man in ragged clothes playing violin amid well dressed crowd in front of Carnegie Hall marquee advertising Fritz Kreisler, violinist

U.S. Navy--first hoisting of the stars and stripes by the marines on Cuban soil--June 11th, 1898

One strike!

Property protected--? la Fran?oise

Union

New York City - St. John's guild

Our country and flag. ... Words & music by Richard Culver

Calvin Coolidge taking the oath of office

Sleighing in front of Barnum's Museum, Broadway & Anne St., New York

View of Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Pea Ridge march. Respectfully dedicated to Maj. Gen. Franz Sigel, U.S.A. Composed by Chr. Bach

The Battle of Fair Oaks, Va. May 31st, 1862

Burning of the town Pilak-li-ka-ha by Gen. Eustis

Troops fording Lake Ocklawaha

I want you

Washington taking command of the American army under the old elm at Cambridge

Little Red-Riding-Hood

The New home in the far west Trade card, advertising New Home Sewing Machine Co., showing family outside of house

American democracy--Private enterprise - and they said our system was crumbling! Thinkamerican Institute poster.

1. Lithograph after pastel drawing. Cowboy on horseback

Paul Jones

American railroad scene: lightning express trains leaving the junction

Base ball

Abraham Lincoln and his son Thad

American homestead summer

The Birth of Old Glory

M. Washington

Madison Square, New York

In danger. Puck: What are you going to do about it?

Crowd of unemployed

Three well-dressed people at door of speakeasy in New York City

The Star spangled banner : national song

The Mexicans evacuating Vera Cruz, and surrendering their arms to the U.S. Army, under Genl. Scott

Memorial Day, May 30th

Beaumont and St. Martin

Ulysses S. Grant, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left

George Washington

The unfinished portrait of Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Student standing alongside tiger; Letter P for Princeton University in background

Thomas Jefferson--Third president of the United States

The battle of Groveton or second Bull Run

Sketch map of the battle of Gettysburg, made while on the march toward Frederick, Md.

Soldier's Home, Washington, D.C.

LIFE

Landing of the pilgrims at Plymouth 11th Dec. 1620

Garfield's prayer

Raising the flag over the Governor's Palace, Santiago Title devised by cataloger. Published in: The Fight for Santiago by Stephen Bonsal, McClure's magazine, vol. 11, no. 6 (Oct. 1898), p. 504

Order coal now

General Washington standing with Johann De Kalb, Baron von Steuben, Kazimierz Pulaski, Tadeusz Kosciuszko, Lafayette, John Muhlenberg, and other officers during the Revolutionary War

El Pozo Centra, Santiago

U.S. Army-Artillery retreat from Long Island-1776

Battle of Fredericksburg, Va. Dec 13th 1862

Alexander Campbell On verso: Chromoed by Colton, Zahn & Roberts

Pocahontas Saving John Smith, 1607

Kearsarce and Alabama

Two scenes of rural rehabilitation

Three scenes of rural rehabilitation

Young man wearing cap

Leaning on the rail aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel

Two scenes aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel

MInnesota families boarding ship in San Francisco

Man with young boy in his arms, both wearing caps

Two scenes of the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel at San Francisco

Snookums

Occupational portrait of a latch maker

Seamstress (Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine)

Life of George Washington--The soldier

Doctor Syntax, in the middle of a smoaking hot political squabble, wishes to whet his whistle

The reception of Benjamin Franklin in France

Franklin's first audience before King Louis XVI, at Versailles. March 20, 1778

New York Herald (James Gordon Bennett)

I want you for the U.S. Army nearest recruiting station

Photograph of San Francisco in Ruins

Military bridge, across the Chickahominy, Virginia, Maryland, June 1862

Two photographs of an Alabama sharecropper's farm--toolhouse, and chicken house and house from rear

Chicago in flames: Scene at Randolph Street Bridge

Occupational portrait of an unidentified man with an engine

Occupational portrait of an unidentified clergyman, three-quarter length, facing front, holding Bible

Occupational portrait of an unidentified surveyor with tools, three-quarter length, seated

Three railroad workers with crank handcar (occupational porttrait)

Occupational portrait of a tinworker

Occupational portrait of a carpenter

Occupational portrait of a cooper, three-quarter length, with barrel and tools

Occupational portrait of a blacksmith, three-quarter length, working on a horseshoe at an anvil, other tools to his side

View of a horse and covered cart in front of County House

Occupational portrait of John Hunt, half-length, facing front, holding whip

Occupational portrait of an unidentified man in uniform, head-and-shoulders, full face, wearing hat that says DELUGE 6

Buccaroos

A bad hoss

Andrew Jackson with the Tennessee forces on the Hickory Grounds (Ala) A.D. 1814

Marriage at the camp of the 7th N.J.V. Army of the Potomac, Va Signed lower right: A.R.Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published with descriptive text in Harper's Weekly, April 4, 1863, p. 216.

James Madison, bust portrait miniature, facing slightly right

Samuel Hanson Cox, half-length portrait, three-quarters to the left

A Monday washing, New York

Old Boston Town House Square about 1657

Camp Pardee--Col. Gearys command--near Upperville, Va.

Papers in camp--Campmen--Rappahannock Station

Beefsteak rare, near Petersburg, Va

Foraging for hay outside of the lines in Virginia

Gen. Meagher distributing the prizes On mat: Mar. 17--St. Patrick's Day at the Army of the Potomac--Sports of the Irish Brigade--Genl. Meagher distributing the prizes.

Campbell U.S. Gen'l. Hospital, Washington, D.C.

If you must be a dumb bunny stay one jump ahead of trouble!

The Landing of the Pilgrims, On Plymouth Rock

Me and my partner

History repeats itself

The political tam o'shanter

The silver candle and the moths

The battle of Antietam--Charge of Burnside 9th Corps on the right flank of the Confederate Army Reproduced as wood engraving in Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, Oct. 11, 1862.

The charge across the Burnside Bridge--Antietam

The Rebel dodge to cover the retreat into Virginia. Flag of truce to look after the wounded

Over-indulgence--a spoiled Thanksgiving The h[...] Thanksgiving dinner. Published in: Harper's weekly, 40:1165 (Nov. 28, 1896).

Railroad train containing President Lincoln crossing Potomac Creek bridge on his way to review the Army of the Potomac

Save waste fats Waste fat, in frying pan, being strained into clean can, stored in cool dark place, and being sold to butcher.

We are cooperating with the 15,000,000 women who are keeping the home front pledge

Men panning for gold, two men in water and four others in rowboat

To the right honorable Randal William W. Donnell, ...

Camp Meeting

The Taking of the City of Washington in America

Mexican News

Martyrdom of Joseph and Hiram [sic] Smith in Carthage Jail

Horses and covered wagon

Waving figure from 'Westward the Course of Empire Takes its Way'

Merit its own Reward, or The best man leads off the Squad

Sheet of sketches for an illustrated edition of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN

Ulysses S. Grant and his war horse, Cincinnati

View in the Burnt District, Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865

John Malcom

Ninth Massachusetts Infantry camp near Washington, D.C.

Confederate artillery near Charleston, S.C.

[George Washington, bust portrait with laurel wreath, facing left]

Women in various occupations

Lest Liberty Perish from the Face of the Earth

Woman and children reading

Physical examination of female immigrants at Ellis Island, New York City

THE RESULT OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT

Hon. William McKinley and Chicago Wheelman at Canton, Ohio

William Jennings Bryan at the Grand Hotel

The Washington Family

First Indian school in Arizona at the Pimo [i.e., Pima] Reservation

Carranza and U.S. troops use trains in search for Villa--Mexican-U.S. campaign after Villa, 1916

Robert La Follette on a whistle-stop tour

Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point

Wild West on Voyage from New York to London

Tremont St. subway - June 17, 1896

Lincoln Memorial, Washington, D.C.

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

Children at work on soap models, Harlem Art Workshop

Thurgood Marshall with Donald Murray and another attorney

Rigger on Cableway Headtower During Erection

The New York World's Fair

The Jolly Flat Boat Men

Historical Lafayette Hall, birth place of Republican Party

President-elect Woodrow Wilson's daughters, Jessie and Eleanor, half-length portrait

Woodrow Wilson in Paris, January 1919

Sold

The Concord stage

Thomas Jonathan Jackson, full-length portrait, on horseback, facing left, holding up hat in his right hand

Plymouth in 1622

RAISING THE FLAG MAY 1861 - A patriotic print dedicated by the publisher to the Defenders of the Union. At left, Union troops march toward the U.S. Capitol. An officer on a spirited white horse brings up the rear.

Washington as a Freemason

Study of infantry soldier on guard--William J. Jackson, Sergt. Maj. 12th N.Y. Vols

KNOW NOTHING SOAP - An illustrated advertising label for soap manufactured in Boston, interesting for its imagery and allusion to the popular Know Nothing or nativist movement.

President Garfield family

For president Grover Cleveland of New York--For vice president Thos. A. Hendricks, of Indiana

The Reverend John Cotton, leader among early colonial thinkers

Prang's aids for object teaching--The kitchen

Thomas Jefferson (1801-09), 3rd President

Portrait of Walt Whitman

The original sketch of Mr. Adams, taken when dying

Mr. Zina Hitchcock Benjamin family, posed left to right: Cornelia, Zina Hitchcock, Frances Antoinette, Samuel Clark, and Joanette Clark

Frances Benjamin Johnston posed with seven members of her family

Frances Benjamin Johnston posed with six members of her family

Salt Mines

Bucker

AMERICA TRIUMPHANT and BRITANNIA in DISTRESS [Published in Boston]

York town

Sixteen Hundred Twenty-Two Massacre in Virginia

Join, or Die

One Hundred Thousand dollar Reward!

The four freedoms

Home of Mrs. Phoebe Apperson Hearst, 1400 New Hampshire Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.

United States Capitol from the Library of Congress Published in: Society in Washington by A. Maurice Low, Harper's magazine, 104:689 (April 1902).

Group of emigrants (women and children) from eastern Europe on deck of the S.S. Amsterdam

Relocation: packing up, Manzanar Relocation Center

Why Not Invest in These Building Materials

Four immigrants and their belongings, on a dock, looking out over the water

The tally-ho

Fun for the politicians, but rough on the business man

Cartoon showing Ulysses S. Grant, as an acrobat, on trapeze third term, holding on to whiskey ring and Navy ring, with strap corruption in his mouth, holding up other acrobats, Shepard, George M. Robeson, etc.

The press view at the candidate show

Columbia (to the three territories) - Your stars shall be put on the flag just as soon as those politicians in Congress will let me

An unexpected blow

The Appomattox of the third termers - unconditional surrender

We are not a nation of swindlers!

Savannah Negro Quarter, 1935 Published in: American photographs / Walker Evans. New York : MOMA, 1938, p. 36.

Steel workers

Girls wanted Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The Masses, v. 8 (1916 February), p. 9.

The Library of Congress when it was located in the Capitol

The commuters, Pennsylvania Station, Philadelphia

Joseph Pennell at printing press at Adelphi Terrace

Edgar Thomson's Steel Works

Where the blame lies

National guards quick step Sheet music cover advertisement for Henry Prentiss, importer and manufacturer of musical instruments, Boston, showing marching band and soldiers marching around his store.

Panoramic view of city of Atlanta, Ga., from the top of the Female Seminary - extending from the Medical College on the south-east

THE RECONSTRUCTION POLICY OF CONGRESS, As illustrated in California.

Wash day on the plantation

Stockdale ranch--Stacking alfalfa hay

Kern County products--Kern County exhibit

Mrs. Wilson calling on Mrs. Coolidge

Mrs. Adams

Mrs. Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Bellevue ranch--Bellevue; employes' (sic) cottage

Where there's smoke there's fire Signed, lower left: RUSSELL / PATTERSON. Title inscribed in blue pencil on verso. Inscribed in pencil on verso: No cut made.

John Quincy Adams, sixth President of the United States

John Q. Adams, 6th President of the United States

Death of John Quincy Adams at the U.S. Capitol Feby. 23d 1848

Blind Ford & Scotts Mill Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image.

Destruction of the locomotives on the bridge over the Chickahominy Signed lower right: A.R. Waud. Title inscribed below image. Published in Harper's Weekly. Inscribed over image: The R.R. Bridge was burned [?]. Trees too high.

Old Man Eddington. The old homestead Title inscribed below image. Formerly Waud no. B-131.

Col. Roosevelt tells the story of the Rough Riders in Scribner's Magazine ... January Scribner's

Americans all! Victory Liberty Loan

A mule and a plow--Resettlement Administration--Small loans give farmers a new start

Miss Mary Olmsted Clarke

The Only Safe Weapons against Cancer

Scribner's for March--Governor Roosevelt's account of the fight at Las Guasimas illustrated--Senator Hoar's political reminiscences ...

Mississippi cotton gin at Dahomey

Freedom for all--6th United States Colored Troops Photograph of the regimental flag of the 6th U.S. Colored Troops depicting an African American soldier with the figure of liberty; plantation scene in the background

Wounded colored soldiers at Aikens Landing

Camp Brightwood, D.C.--Contrabands in 2nd R.I. Camp Capt. B.S. Brown (left); Lt. John P. Shaw, Co. F 2nd Regt. Rhode Island Volunteer Infantry (center); and Lt. Fry (right) with African American men and boy.

Charles Batties

Watch meeting, Dec. 31, 1862--Waiting for the hour

Buffalo soldiers of the 25th Infantry, some wearing buffalo robes, Ft. Keogh, Montana

African American band members on troop ship U.S.S. Philippine, that sailed from Brest Harbor, France, July 18, 1919.

All God's chilluns' got wings! Ben and Beatrice Goldstein Foundation Collection (Library of Congress). Title transcribed from item.

I sell the shadow to support the substance

Girl seated, three-quarter length portrait, facing left, embroidering

Mary Todd Lincoln

Design for a Mouldboard Plow

Alexander Hamilton

Fitch's Steamboat on the Delaware River, Opposite Philadelphia

First trip of Fulton's Steamboat to Albany, 1807

The Paragon Steamboat

American Stage Waggon

1795-Lancaster Pike

Waterloo Inn. The First Stage From Baltimore to Washington

Looking glass frame, President's House

The U.S. Frigate CONSTITUTION

Perry's Victory on Lake Erie, September 10, 1813

Naval Heroes of the United States

The Star-Spangled Banner

Map by which the Creek Indians gave their Statement

Letter to his wife Rachel

Native Americans watching settler advancement

Design of Various Flags and 'National Cockade'

City of Charleston, South Carolina

Dancing for Eels

Barroom Dancing

Farmers Nooning

Certificate of freedom of Harriet Bolling

THE HISTORY OF THE NEW-YORK AFRICAN FREE-SCHOOLS

Proceedings of the Colored National Convention

Have you any flesh coloured silk stockings, young man?

Account of slave Mary Carroll buying her freedom

But I did not want to go

Kidnapping

Magee House

The Oberlin Rescuers at Cuyahoga Co. Jail

Ball Play

Sacramental Scene in a Western Forest

Camp Meeting of the Methodists in N America

Sing-Sing Camp Meeting, 1838

The Jerking Exercise

Bishops of the A.M.E. Church

The Propagation Society--More Free than Welcome

Centenary of American Methodism 1866

The New Jerusalem

Birth and baptismal certificate for Catharina Heilman

Birth certificate for Johannes Heinle

Shakers near Lebanon state of N York, their mode of worship

The Shakers of New Lebanon

The Shakers at Lebanon--The Singing Meeting

Frederick Douglass

Andrew Jackson (1829-37), 7th President

Rachel Jackson, First Lady (1829-37)

View of Battle Monument, Baltimore

Cadets' Monument at West Point

Power Loom Weaving

Calico Printing Equipment

State of Pennsylvania Union Canal Lottery

What hath God Wrought?

General Post Office

Sarah Childress Polk

General Harrison's Log Cabin March & Quick Step

An Ode to Gen. Andrew Jackson

Harrison Quadrilles

Abraham Lincoln's Funeral March

Rest, Noble Chieftan

The School Where Lincoln Went

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: Immediately before his Senate nomination

Abraham Lincoln: Before the final Lincoln-Douglas debate

Abraham Lincoln: Before delivering his Cooper Union address

Abraham Lincoln (1861-65),16th President

During the Civil War: President Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln: Last sitting

Stephen Arnold Douglas

California As It Is, And As It May Be, Or, A Guide to the Gold Region

The Miner's Ten Commandments

Pull Away Cheerily

A Gold Hunter on His Way to California, Via St. Louis

California Gold Diggers--A Scene from Actual Life at the Mines

How We Get Gold in California

Fort Vancouver

Indian Tomb

Westward the Course of Empire Takes Its Way

Across the Continent

Pioneers of America

Pilgrims of the Plains

James Monroe (1817-25), 5th President

John Quincy Adams (1825-29), 6th President

Louisa Catherine Adams, First Lady (1825-29)

Martin Van Buren (1837-41), 8th President

Hannah Hoes Van Buren, First Lady (1837-41)

William Henry Harrison (1841), 9th President

Anna Tuthill Symmes Harrison, First Lady (1841)

John Tyler (1841-45), 10th President

James K. Polk (1845-49), 11th President

Zachary Taylor (1849-50), 12th President

Millard Fillmore (1850-53), 13th President

Family of Slaves at the Gaines' House

The Freedman's Bureau

The First Colored Senator and Representatives

From the plantation to the Senate

Noon at the Primary School for Freedmen

Watermelon market, Charleston

Freedman's National and Family Record

Horace Greeley

Herman Haupt, chief of U.S. military rail transportation

Camp Victory

Group of workmen on the Union Pacific Railroad

Golden Spike Ceremony at Promontory, Utah

Union Pacific Railroad at Weber Canyon, Utah

Benjamin Family group portrait

The Patchwork Quilt

Sarah J. Hale

Fetridge & Co.'s Periodical Arcade

The Progress of Intemperance, Plate II. Sick and Repentant.

A certificate of membership for temperance societies

Signing the Pledge

The Drunkards Pilgrimage, from the first glass to the Grave!

Time Table of the Dead River Grand Trunk Railway

Woman's Holy War. Grand Charge on the Enemy's Works.

The Temperance Crusade--Who Will Win?

An Early Photo of Walt Whitman

Letter to James H. Hackett

For President Abram Lincoln

March 4, 1861, Inauguration of Mr. Lincoln

The Union Must and Shall be Preserved

Grand National Union Banner for 1860

Grand procession of Wide-Awakes

Lincoln Accompanied by Buchanan, On His Way to be Inaugurated

The Inaugural Procession Passing the Gate of the Capitol Grounds

Grand Ball in Honor of the Inauguration of President Lincoln

President Lincoln and His Cabinet, With Lieut. Genl. Scott

Negro teamsters near the signal tower

Company E, Fourth U.S. Colored Infantry

Negro sharpshooters drilling at a picket station

First Tennessee Colored Battery

Storming Fort Wagner

Black troops after the Battle of the Crater

Band of the 107th U.S. Colored Infantry

Camp of the 5th Vt. Vols at Camp Griffin

Gen. Winfield Scott, USA, and staff

David Glasgow Farragut (1801-1870)

Yorktown, Virginia

Anna Ella Carroll of Maryland

Harriet Tubman

Clara Barton

Mary Ashton Rice Livermore

Citizens Volunteer Hospital, Philadelphia

Inflation of Professor Thaddeus S. Lowe's balloon

The Emancipation Proclamation

Gen. Robert E. Lee, commander of Confederate forces

General Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, USA

Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett, CSA

The Gettysburg Address

Dear Mother

Hospital

Jedediah Hotchkiss

Gen. Robert E. Lee, CSA

Gen. George Brinton McClellan, USA, and his staff

Gen. Thomas Jonathan (Stonewall) Jackson, CSA

Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, USA

Gen. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard, CSA

Gen. George Gordon Meade, USA, and staff

Gen. James Longstreet, CSA

Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock, USA

Gen. James Ewell Brown (J.E.B.) Stuart, CSA

Maj. Gen. Philip Henry Sheridan, USA

Gen. Richard Stoddert Ewell, CSA

A Burial Party, Cold Harbor, Va.

Confederate solider killed in the trenches

Confederate dead

The New Railroad Bridge across the Susquehanna

Thomas' Viaduct, Relay

Destruction of locomotives on the bridge over the Chickahominy

First e-flat cornet (leader's) part of 'The Star Spangled Banner'

E-flat Cornet, ca. 1855-65

Band of the 114th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry

Band of the 8th New York State Militia

Band of the 9th Veteran Reserve Corps

The four condemned conspirators

Dawley's New War Novels, BOOTH THE ASSASSIN

Ford's Theater program for Friday evening, April 14, 1865

The commission which tried the Lincoln assassins

We Mourn a Father Slain. ROUTE

Andrew Johnson's Reconstruction and How it Works

Reconstruction

The Shackle Broken--By the Genius of Freedom

One Vote Less

Radical Members of the First Legislature After the War

The Laying of the Cable--John and Jonathan Joining Hands

Atlantic Cable Celebration

Landing the Atlantic cable in Heart's Content Bay, Newfoundland

Telegrams for Europe

Emigrant Train, Strawberry Valley going East

Two women getting on a stagecoach

The Rocky Mountains, emigrants crossing the plains

Wells, Fargo & Co.'s office on C street

American Progress

Franklin Pierce (1853-57), 14th President

Jane M. Pierce, First Lady (1853-57)

James Buchanan (1857-61), 15th President

Andrew Johnson (1865-69), 17th President

Eliza McCardle Johnson, First Lady (1865-69)

Ulysses S. Grant (1869-77), 18th President

Julia Dent Grant, First Lady (1869-77)

The torch and the arm of the Statue of Liberty

Commanding Officers Quarters at Camp Colorado

Gentile photo album

Ancient Halls of the Montezumas, nos. 85 and 86 (top and bottom)

Alfred R. Waud

A Harvest of Death

Dead horses of Bigelow's (9th Massachusetts) Battery

Group at tent and wagon of the NEW YORK HERALD

Council of War

The Champion Chinese Hose Team of America

Clean Up Day at the Deadwood Terea Gold Stamp Mill

Branding Calves on Round-up

Happy Hours in Camp, C. and B&M Engineer Corps and Visitors

The Last Deadwood Coach

At the Dance

What's Left of Big Foot's Band

We Have It Rich

Girl with White Collar

Classroom at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School

Chiricahua Apaches arriving at Carlisle Indian School

Skohlpa (Dusty Dress)

The opening of Oklahoma

World's Columbian Exposition

Admiral Dewey returning thanks for the nation's gift

Theodore Roosevelt and Rough Riders at the top of San Juan Hill

A double exposure

Pemberton Avenue School for the Deaf

A Bell family picnic

Biograph-Photograph Jeffries-Sharkey Contest

THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY

Langley night bombing airplane

Lt. Thomas DeWitt Milling and Lt. Sherman in airplane at Texas City

Early Model Airplane and Soldiers

Hon. W. J. Bryan addressing the Thousands

People on two miniature railroad trains

Entire dining car interior

The Old and the New Engines (Front View)

New York Central and Hudson River Railroad wreck at Batavia

Interior of first Pullman sleeper

Prairie Fires of the Great West

Exterior of Bucyrus Memorial Library

Public Library, Brooklyn, N.Y., Bedford Branch Delivery Room

Gymnasium in Carnegie Library

Children Reading in Roof Garden of the Rivington St. Library

Reading Room, Duluth Public Library

Carnegie Library, Cordele, Georgia

Public Library, Medford, Oregon

Carnegie Library, Sheldon, Iowa

New York Public Library

Arriving at Ellis Island

Immigrants at Battery Park

Awaiting turn at Naturalization Office

Street Vender [sic], Italian Feast

Italian shop on Mott Street

Jewish Market on the East Side

Jewish New Year--boy in prayer shawl

Selling cool drinks in the Syrian quarter

In Chinatown, New York

Chinese New Year, Chinatown, New York

Fly Fishing

Cycloramic View of the Burned Area of Baltimore's Big Fire

The Only Remaining Sod School House in Decatur County, Kansas

Old School House at Eagle Harbor Mich.

The School House, North Branch, N.Y.

Public school, East Marion, Long Island, New York

District No. 3 School, Heron, Montana

District School, Lima, N.Y.

Telluride High School

Mount Hermon School

Monaghan Plant school and employees' children

St. Mary's Roman Catholic school in Blair County, Pa.

Kearney Military Academy

Dinner Time, Gatun Lock

Polish Boy Taking Noon Rest in Doffer Box

Shuckers in the Varn and Platt Canning Company

Children at the dump

Mortaria family

Watering horses on a hot day

Garbage at Essex and Hester Streets during a strike by garbage collectors

Rat catcher at work

Beggar-peddler on Broadway

Mothers and children in a city park on a hot day

City children bathing for free at the Battery

Licking blocks of ice on hot day

Fresh air outing

The goat carriages, Coney Island

Italian bread peddlers, Mulberry Street

Lennox Hill settlement orchestra

Philadelphia Streetcar Strike, Rioters charging a car

I.W.W. [Industrial Workers of the World] demonstration

Massachusetts Militia guarding approach to mills

Children of Lawrence strikers parading

Protest against child labor in a labor parade

Garment workers parading on May Day

Actors' strike

Parade of the unemployed

Union van used to boycott streetcars

Labor Day parade

THE MUSKETEERS OF PIG ALLEY

Hauling flag--Ebbets Park [sic] in Brooklyn

'Hot Dogs' for fans waiting for gates to open at Ebbets Field

Polo Grounds, New York City, during a World Series game

Bill Reynolds catching for the New York Yankees

Spectators at Pittsburg-Detroit game

Onlookers with the burned body of Jesse Washington . . .

Pencil shorthand draft of 'The Fourteen Points' Address

American doughboys dug in

Back Our Girls over There

President Woodrow Wilson delivering his inaugural address, 1917

The Big Four at the Paris home of President Wilson

Colored Women's League of Washington, D.C.

Initiation in the Frat

Love of Winter, Christmas 1917

Horseless buggy made by Charles and Frank Duryea, 1893

Pierce-Arrow

Automobile show, Coliseum

Tin Lizzies or Model Ts fresh off the assembly line

Four men in a 'Premier' automobile in the snow

Charging the battery of a Detroit electric automobile

The Woman Who Dared

A Female Suffrage Fancy

The Only Way

The March to Washington

The Awakening

The Genii of Intolerance

Revised

The Two Adams: 'It Was My Rib, Eve'

Rutherford B. Hayes (1877-81), 19th President

Lucy Webb Hayes, First Lady (1877-81)

James A. Garfield (1881), 20th President

Lucretia Rudolph Garfield, First Lady (1881)

Chester A. Arthur (1881-85), 21st President

Ellen Lewis Herndon Arthur, First Lady (1881-85)

Grover Cleveland (1885-89;1893-97), 22nd and 24th President

Frances Folsom Cleveland, First Lady (1885-89; 1893-97)

Benjamin Harrison (1889-93), 23rd President

Caroline Lavinia Scott Harrison, First Lady (1889-93)

William McKinley (1897-1901), 25th President

Ida Saxton McKinley, First Lady (1897-1901)

Theodore Roosevelt (1901-09), 26th President

Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, First Lady (1901-09)

William Howard Taft (1909-13), 27th President

Helen Herron Taft, First Lady (1909-13)

Woodrow Wilson (1913-21), 28th President

Ellen Axson Wilson, First Lady (1913-14)

Edith Bolling Galt Wilson, First Lady (1915-21)

Flagpole sitting

Lincoln High School

White Elementary School. South Boston, Virginia.

Colored Elementary School Annex. South Boston, Virginia.

Beehive School

Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Trial

The Spirit of Transportation

Largest Locomotive in the World

Interior view of Grand Central Terminal, New York

Pennsylvania Railroad. The Broadway Limited.

The 20th Century Limited streamlined locomotive

New York, New Haven, and Hartford Railroad Co.

Auto parts shop, Atlanta, Georgia

View from the front of a wrecked automobile

The Start of the Round-the-World Flight

East Side Interior

The Cat Boat

Leaning on the rail aboard the U.S.A.T. St. Mihiel

Title page including photographic print of American flag

Father and child on train

Adults and children registering as ship passengers

Monument to John Barleycorn

A consignment

Prohibition officers raiding

The largest still in captivity

Keeping America 'wet'

Daughter of FSA client listening to the phonograph

Boxcar and grain elevators

An elderly woman on her front porch

Church near Junction City, Kansas

Road out of Romney, West Va.

Worker at carbon black plant, Sunray, Texas

Backyard and Roman Catholic church

Workers leaving Pennsylvania shipyards, Beaumont, Texas

[Grand Grocery Co.] Lincoln, Neb

Blind begger [sic]

Omar, on Scott's Run, West Virginia

Cotton pickers on the Alexander plantation at 6:30 A.M.

Cotton picker

Cotton pickers

Picking cotton on the Alexander plantation

Cotton picker

Weighing in cotton

At the end of the day

Tally at the weigh station

Going home

Sharecropper at home on Sunday

Negroes gathered in front of a church on Sunday

Bud Fields and His Family at Home

Broke--baby sick--car trouble. Tracy (vicinity) California.

Eighteen-year-old mother from Oklahoma, now a California migrant

Refugee camp near Holtville

Migratory workers from Oklahoma

A drought refugee living in a camp

A crew of thirty-five Filipinos cut and load lettuce

A migrant agricultural worker in Holtville

Ditch bank housing for Mexican field workers

Migratory Mexican field worker's home

Former tenant farmers on relief

Drought refugees waiting for relief checks in Calipatria

Waiting for relief checks in Calipatria

Migrant Mother

Cabins and outbuildings on the former Pettway plantation

Artelia Bendolph

Houston or Erick Kennedy plowing

Jennie Pettway and another girl with the quilter Jorena Pettway

At the end of the school day

Mr. Charles Hopkins and the Rip Van Winkle marionettes

MACBETH

The family of Peter V. Andrews, Portuguese

Lining up for train reservations in the concourse

Passengers arriving

Engineer and trainman on the platform

Pullman porter

In the interlocking tower

The watch inspector's office

Timetable information room

At the concourse information desk

Train concourse

Model military aircraft hanging from the ceiling

In the concourse

Members of the Primitive Baptist Church

Gospel mission, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

Mennonite wagons outside church, Hinkletown, Pennsylvania

Jewish rabbi who is also a farmer

Roman Catholic church, Isleta, New Mexico

Priest blessing the food on the Sunday before Easter

Church, Wounded Knee, South Dakota

Crowd coming out of the Pilgrim Baptist church

Members of the Pentecostal church on Easter Sunday

Church service in the Negro church, minister and children

Crowd outside of a fashionable Negro church after Easter

Start of the Processional from an Episcopal Church on Easter

Reverend Buck Grant

Deacons' corner in the Church of God in Christ

A youth is converted in the Church of God in Christ

Church services at a Negro Roman Catholic church

Members of the Nation of Islam listen to Elijah Muhammad speak

Silent protest parade in New York against the East St. Louis riots

Portrait of A. Philip Randolph, labor leader

Clayton Powell and the New York delegation

Members of the NAACP Youth Conference

Children coming out of a school house at noon

G.W. McLaurin in class at the University of Oklahoma

Tourist Cabins imitating Indian Teepee, for tourists

Hotel entrance

Bar in a private home

Private home

Employment agency

Before the race, Hialeah Park

At the track, Hialeah Park

Along the beach

A meal on the sidewalk at the beach

At the beach

Soda jerk

Looking east on Vale's main street

Decorations on the main street

Cold drinks inside the Red Robin cafe

Parade float

Motorcycle with stunt bars

Family picnic

After lunch

Tug-of-war

The pledge of allegiance at the ball field

On the midway

Robert H. Goddard with the first successful liquid fuel rocket

A cafe near the tobacco market

Entrance to Manzanar

Washing up

Considering the purchase of a sixty-dollar harness

In grandfather Juan Romero's room

Nuclear explosion, Trinity Test Site, New Mexico

The first Chinese telephone operator in Chinatown, San Francisco

Fruit farmer and his son

Chinese kindergarten pupil at the grade school

Edward Char

Second cook at the Hurricane cabaret

Japanese-American child waiting for a train

Japanese-American who was evacuated from a coastal area

Picnic lunch before their evacuation

Japanese-American soldiers of the 442nd Combat Team at a dance

Warren G. Harding (1921-23), 29th President

Florence Kling Harding, First Lady (1921-23)

Calvin Coolidge (1923-29), 30th President

Grace Goodhue Coolidge, First Lady (1923-29)

Herbert C. Hoover (1929-33), 31st President

Lou Henry Hoover, First Lady (1929-33)

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-45), 32nd President

Eleanor Roosevelt, First Lady (1933-45)

Harry S Truman (1945-53), 33rd President

Bess Wallace Truman, First Lady (1945-53)

Communism's Iron Grip on the CIO

Julius and Ethel Rosenberg

Ben Hogan

Men preparing a UNIVAC computer to predict a winning horse

Teenage girls use lipstick to write on poster

President Harry S Truman

General Douglas MacArthur making his famous farewell address

Neighborhood Children

Two brothers in a one-room flat

Apartment house at 1739 Seaton Road

Mr. and Mrs. Venus Alsobrook in front of their home

Mrs. Ella Watson, a government charwoman

Leaving for work at 4:30 p.m.

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding portrait

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, the bride by her limousine

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, the bride, groom and guests

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, the bride and groom dancing

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, Robert F. Kennedy toasting

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, the bride and groom

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, the newlyweds with the wedding party

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, the groom and his groomsmen

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, the bride

Bouvier-Kennedy wedding, the bride and groom

Draft of decree implementing the Supreme Court opinion

Integration at a high school

Central High School

James Meredith at the University of Mississippi

Smith, Brown, Briggs, Jr., and Bolling, Jr.

Photographer's notes, Birmingham, Alabama

Blown up trailers at side of motel and hole in motel wall

Little House in Harlem Serving as Rights March Headquarters

Crowds at the March on Washington

Fannie Lou Hamer at the Democratic National Convention

Ruth Tinsley being dragged away by two policemen

Puerto Ricans demonstrate for civil rights at City Hall

Women's Lib. march

Indian Sit-in at Bureau of Indian Affairs

Gay demonstrations on 34th Street

Demonstration by people with disabilities

Indian teepee on Monument grounds--White House in background

U.S. Air Force's 100-ton Northrop Flying Wing YB-49 jet bomber

An occasion of the christening of the Pan-Am 747

Howard University Sit-in

Bill of Rights (Void Where Prohibited by Law)

Girl getting water for a field worker's family

Tail dancers

Knights of Lithuania picnic, South Campbell Avenue

North Clark Street

Carlos Cumpian, Jesus Negrete, and Rosa Negrete

St. Joseph Athletic Associations' 51st Annual Parade, Bridgeport

Mike Flately and Kevin Henry

South Berkeley Street

Mary Higeko Hamano's 'ikabana' class, North Halstead Street

Fishing on Lake Michigan

Maxwell Street merchants

Wedding of Gail and Warren Kasztel, Palmer House

Norwegian Independence Day Parade

Family history quilt made by Katy Gregory, West 114th Street

Ellen Henrietta Richards

Maria Telkes

Marjory Stoneman Douglas

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-61), 34th President

Mamie Doud Eisenhower, First Lady (1953-61)

John F. Kennedy (1961-63), 35th President

Jacqueline Kennedy, First Lady (1961-63)

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-69), 36th President

Lady Bird Johnson, First Lady (1963-69)

Richard M. Nixon (1969-74), 37th President

Pat Nixon, First Lady (1969-74)

Gerald R. Ford (1974-77), 38th President

Betty Ford, First Lady (1974-77)

Jimmy Carter (1977-81), 39th President

Rosalynn Carter, First Lady (1977-81)

Ronald Reagan (1981-89), 40th President

Nancy Reagan, First Lady (1981-89)

George Bush (1989-93), 41st President

Barbara Bush, First Lady (1989-93)

William J. Clinton (1993-present), 42nd President

Hillary Rodham Clinton, First Lady (1993-present)

Mail delivery

Public Works Administration housing

House and fence with graffiti

Children on East Sixty-first Street

Tenants on East Sixty-first Street

Tenant on East Sixty-first Street

Moving possessions, 317 East Sixty-first Street

345 East Sixty-first Street

Children were the pride, joy, beauty, and chief delight

Friends

The street of the gamblers (by day)

The lily vendor

In front of the Joss House

Doorways in dim shadows

The devil's kitchen

Three children in front of a cellar door

Man carrying a small child

Pipe dreams

Merchant

The fish dealer's daughter

Frances Benjamin Johnston

Twenty-seven men and women (Johnston family)

White House, The President's Room

White House grounds at the Easter egg roll

Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va.

Portrait of Jacob Riis, journalist and photographer

Quentin Roosevelt and a playmate, Rosewell Flower Pinckney

Family portrait

Louisiana, Orleans County, New Orleans

Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Portrait of Zora Neale Hurston

Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Lyman

Castleton (vicinity), Vermont. Mr. Eliot H. Miller and his wife.

The son of Clinton Gilbert and a collie dog driving the cows

Spring thaw in farm land near Woodstock, Vermont

Farmer's wife

Vermont farmer

Oldest woman resident of Lincoln, Vermont

Wife of a dairy farmer

Cutting hay, Windsor County, Vermont

William Gaynor and two of his boys going home

Fruit and vegetable display, state fair, Rutland, Vermont

Helen Keller and Anne Sullivan

Blessed Art Thou Among Women

Portrait of Unidentified U.S. Capitol Police Officer

Unidentified garage mechanic

Winner at the Delta County Fair

Juan Lopez

Migratory Worker

Portraits

Negro boy near Cincinnati, Ohio

Maclovia Lopez

Portrait of a man

Portrait of a farm boy

Elizabeth Almoney

Floyd Burroughs

Jim Norris, homesteader

Portrait of Miss S. G.

Two women dressed in green seated at a table

People at an outdoor activity

Interior of J. P. Morgan's library

Sunday at Rye Beach, New York

Camp of 31st Pennsylvania Infantry near Washington, D.C.

Putting finishing touches on a B17F navy bomber

Workers at Consolidated Aircraft Corp., Fort Worth, Texas

Buena Vista Farm

Columbia Calls. Enlist Now for the U.S. Army.

Follow the Pied Piper

Uncle Sam Says 'Enlist for college'

Somebody Has to Raise Everything You Eat

Bunkhouse interior

The 96 Ranch crew during the fall cattle drive

On the trail at the fall branding, 96 Ranch

At the Quarter Circle A Ranch spring branding

Fall branding at the 96 Ranch

At the Quarter Circle A Ranch spring branding

In the bar

Buckaroo Chuck Wheelock's boot and spur

Round-up Scenes on Belle Fouche [sic]

Group of Cowboys

Indian Cowboy

Montana Girl

Buck Taylor gives a lesson to his son Rex

Special artist, Alfred R. Waud, sketching the battlefield

Six photographs from the Philadelphia Photographic Salon

Yoked and Muzzled; Find the Parallel

Motherhood

The Manger

Breaker boys in Kohinor Mine, Shenandoah City, Pennsylvania

Students in the Reading Room of the Library of Congress

Chemistry class, Western High School, Washington, D.C.

Hampton Institute campus

The cheese press screw--students studying agricultural sciences

Arithmetic class--Hampton Institute

A class in dressmaking, Hampton Institute

Whittier School students on a field trip studying plants

Class in Mathematical Geography, Hampton Institute

Students in a bricklaying class, Hampton Institute

Student in American history class

Debating class, Carlisle Indian School

Furniture-building shop, Carlisle Indian School

Male and female students reading in class, Carlisle Indian School

Laundry class, Carlisle Indian School

Men debating in class, Carlisle Indian School

Women student activities--playing croquet, Carlisle Indian School

Five boys making tin utensils, Carlisle Indian School

Printing press room, Carlisle Indian School

History class, Tuskegee Institute

Construction by students, Tuskegee Institute

Chemistry laboratory, Tuskegee Institute

Tuskegee Twenty-fifth Anniversary--reviewing stand, Tuskegee Institute

Tuskegee Institute faculty with Andrew Carnegie

Bodies from Washington Place fire, Triangle Waist Company fire

Casualties of Anarchist riot, Union Square

Bridge being swept away by flood

Wagons removing snow

Funeral of Herman Rosenthal, a gambler

Industrial Workers of the World demonstration

Upton Sinclair picketing Rockefeller Building

Mrs. P. Whitney presents flag at reformatory

Woman suffrage pageant

New York [City]--East Side eviction

Free coffee at Bowery Mission for unemployed

The big hand-out--Hobo Convention

Tuberculosis Camp, Ill[inoi]s

New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital

'The Kill'--rats killed by ferrets

Streetcars--Testing devices for saving lives

St. Regis Indians Making Fancy Baskets

Sarah Jane Ayers Harris

Indian Village, Howkan, Alaska

Taking the Census at Standing Rock Agency

Vice President Charles Curtis in the U.S. Senate

Direction Special Issue: AMERICAN STUFF

Design of the Library of the Congress of the United States

Slave quarters on the Oaks plantation

African Americans bagging cotton

The Freedmen's Union Industrial School, Richmond, Va.

Certificate of appointment of Francis L. Cardoza as state treasurer

Signing of the Civil Rights Act

Mercy Warren

Sarah Grimke

Angelina Grimke

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Members of the Thirty-sixth Senate

President Woodrow Wilson addressing Congress

American women at work during the Great War

The Women's Radio Corps on duty in Washington, D.C.

Salvation Army women bring sustenance to soldiers

Vice President Marshall draws a name for the draft

The Human American Eagle

President Woodrow Wilson and American officials

Europeans and Native Americans meet

Governor John Winthrop

A man pressing cloth with an iron

A Watchmaker

A woman with a broom

Steamship BEN CAMPBELL at landing

Five Clark Sisters

Gertrude Grossman, Roberta, and Mabel Bell as girls

Mabel Hubbard

Henry, Abigail, and Anna Adams

Mary Woodburn Greeley, mother of Horace Greeley

Children of Lt. Montgomery C. Meigs

Henry and William Pinkney Rodgers

Unidentified man with a cat

Mathew B. Brady

San Diego, California. Putting up a new traffic signal.

Central Valley, California

Hollywood, California. Girl on the street.

El Centro, California (vicinity). Girls at the Imperial County Fair.

Esmeralda County, Nevada

Tehama County, California. John Frost and his daughter.

Placer County, California. Wife of a fruit farmer.

Merrill, Klamath County, Oregon

Wapato (vicinity), Yakima Valley, Washington

Mission Valley, near San Diego, California

West Stayton (vicinity), Marion County, Oregon

Tulare County, California

San Diego, California. FSA Defense Housing Project.

Cowlitz County, Washington

Untitled man moving timbered logs

Tulare County, California

San Diego, California

San Francisco, California

Tulare, California. Scrap pile.

Calipatria (vicinity), Imperial County, California

Clinic waiting room on the Farm Security Administration Project

Vale-Owyhee Irrigation Project, Malheur County, Oregon

Shasta Dam, Shasta County, California

Refreshment stand on U.S. Highway 99 in Oregon

El Centro, California. Carnival attraction of the Imperial County Fair.

In North American's modern machine shop

Women workers install fixtures and assemblies

Emancipation Day, Richmond, Va.

French Market, New Orleans, La.

City Market, Kansas City, Mo.

On the Streets in a New York Blizzard

Water Works Park, Detroit, Mich.

A New Orleans Milk Cart, New Orleans, La.

A Bovinmobile, Savannah, Ga.

Cab Stand at Madison Square, New York

Free Ice in New York

Betsy Ross House, Philadelphia

Arriving from the Suburbs, Chicago, Ill.

Looping the Loop, Atlantic City

Recreation Dock, New York

Bathing Hour on the Beach, Seabreeze [Daytona Beach, Florida]

General McClellan and Mrs. McClellan

Former slave Lucindy Lawrence Jurdon

The dome of the Library of Congress