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Daniel Boone protects his family

Print showing Daniel Boone fighting with a Native, as his wife cowers over their son on the left. E9763 U.S. Copyright Office. Entd. accordg. to act of Congs. in the year 1874 by H. Schile in the Office of the... More

Gold Hill Mill, Warm Spring Canyon Road, Death Valley Junction, Inyo C...

Significance: The Gold Hill Mill is associated with the operations of Louise Grantham, a mining entrepreneur and owner-operator of the highly successful Warm Springs Talc Mine. In addition to being a well-pres... More

Pointed Butte Pueblito, Cibola Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The pueblitos are small multi-roomed masonry dwellings found in the Navajo homeland, or Dinetah region of northwest New Mexico. Dating from the early 17th century, the pueblitos are significant in... More

Kathio Site Indian Burial Grounds, Along U.S. 169, southwest shore of ...

Significance: Homeland of the Dakota Sioux Indians at the beginning of the historic period. This is an archaeological zone containing at least 17 sites in close proximity, relating to late pre-historic/early h... More

Edward S. Curtis - A Hopi woman

Half-length portrait of Hopi woman, facing front. Curtis no. 189-04. LC no. 78. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis. [Sea... More

Villa of Brule the great hostile Indian camp on River Brule near Pine ...

A Lakota tipi camp in background; horses at a White Clay Creek watering hole in foreground. Grabill's photographer's legend and caption appear in image. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms par... More

Chapel & Manse Congregational Mission, Santee, Knox County, NE

Survey number: HABS NE-16 Building/structure dates: 1870- 1871 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1919 Subsequent Work

Pecos Church (Ruins), Pecos, San Miguel County, NM

Significance: This Mission Church dates from the early 1700's, (probably 1706-1707), built after the Pueblo rebellion on the site of an earlier (1620's) and larger church destroyed during the rebellion. For yea... More

Pecos Church (Ruins), Pecos, San Miguel County, NM

Significance: This Mission Church dates from the early 1700's, (probably 1706-1707), built after the Pueblo rebellion on the site of an earlier (1620's) and larger church destroyed during the rebellion. For yea... More

Pecos Church (Ruins), Pecos, San Miguel County, NM

Significance: This Mission Church dates from the early 1700's, (probably 1706-1707), built after the Pueblo rebellion on the site of an earlier (1620's) and larger church destroyed during the rebellion. For yea... More

Indian art of the United States Prehistoric art living tradition - Ind...

Poster announcing exhibition of Native American art at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York City, showing large hand. An exhibition prepared by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board U.S. Dept. of Th... More

Indian art of the United States Prehistoric art living tradition - Ind...

Poster announcing exhibition of Native American art at the Museum of Modern Art, 11 West 53 Street, New York City, showing large hand. An exhibition prepared by the Indian Arts and Crafts Board U.S. Dept. of Th... More

War dance of the Sauks and Foxes / on stone by Corbould from a paintin...

Print shows a group of Native American men performing a war dance.

Edward S. Curtis - Sioux chiefs, portrait of american indian man

Photograph shows three Native Americans on horseback. H66971 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Edward S. Curtis. Curtis no.1452-05. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published... More

St. Mary's Pharmacy, Stevensville, Ravalli County, MT

Significance: The first Catholic mission in the northwest was founded by Father Jean de Smet for the Salish (Indians) in 1841. The mission was abandoned in 1830 when the land and improvements were sold to John... More

St. Mary's Pharmacy, Stevensville, Ravalli County, MT

Significance: The first Catholic mission in the northwest was founded by Father Jean de Smet for the Salish (Indians) in 1841. The mission was abandoned in 1830 when the land and improvements were sold to John... More

Cannonball Pueblo, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Cannonball Pueblo was constructed and occupied during the late 12th century by people associated with the ancestral Puebloan Mesa Verde culture which flourish... More

Cannonball Pueblo, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

2005 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Entry Significance: Cannonball Pueblo was constructed and occupied during the late 12th century by people associated with the ancestral Puebloan Mesa Verde culture which flourish... More

Hildebrand's Mill, Flint, Delaware County, OK

Significance: Hildebrand's Mill, turn of the century successor to the original 1845 mill, is one of the few remaining in Oklahoma which were provided for by treaty with the United States. As part of the compen... More

Pueblo of Tesuque, Central Portion, Tesuque River vicinity, Tesuque, S...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1931 Survey number: HABS NM-103 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 73001149

Indian Creek, Casa Abajo, Indian Creek, Crownpoint, McKinley County, N...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N573 Survey number: HABS NM-179-A

Congregational Mission, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, White Shield...

Significance: The Congregational Mission building was build at Fort Berthold in 1876 and designed by architect Charles Lemon Hall. Hall was among the many missionaries that came to the Great Plains region to te... More

Congregational Mission, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, White Shield...

Significance: The Congregational Mission building was build at Fort Berthold in 1876 and designed by architect Charles Lemon Hall. Hall was among the many missionaries that came to the Great Plains region to te... More

Congregational Mission, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, White Shield...

Significance: The Congregational Mission building was build at Fort Berthold in 1876 and designed by architect Charles Lemon Hall. Hall was among the many missionaries that came to the Great Plains region to te... More

Congregational Mission, Fort Berthold Indian Reservation, White Shield...

Significance: The Congregational Mission building was build at Fort Berthold in 1876 and designed by architect Charles Lemon Hall. Hall was among the many missionaries that came to the Great Plains region to te... More

Our Indian policy / J. Keppler.

Caricature of alleged frauds in Indian supplies from peace commissioners showing man offering Indians torn blankets, empty rifle case, and spoiled beef, as (Grant Pierce?) Marsh witnesses from over fence and re... More

Bennett Pieters & Cos. celebrated Red Jacket stomach bitters / lith. b...

Patent medicine label showing full-length portrait of Seneca chief Red Jacket holding a rifle. Copyright by Bennett Pieters & Co.

Lunch at chuck wagon - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

H65325 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Alexander Lambert. Public domain photograph of Theodore Roosevelt political campaign, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Mission Road, San Antonio, Be...

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Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Mission Road, San Antonio, Be...

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Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Mission Road, San Antonio, Be...

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Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Mission Road, San Antonio, Be...

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Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Mission Road, San Antonio, Be...

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Edward S. Curtis - The offering--San Ildefonso

Photograph shows a barechested Tewa man, standing high on a cliff, arms stretched before him as he sprinkles cornmeal as an offering at the start of a day, to the sun, or some other deity, or to mundane daily e... More

Simon Canyon Pueblito, Approximately 0.6 mile north of Simon Canyon co...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N558 Survey number: HABS NM-154

Full delegation of Sioux Indians, 1891 / photographed and copyrighted ...

Portrait of delegation, along with T.J. Morgan; includes key to identifications. Published in: Many nations: A Library of Congress resource guide for the study of Indian and Alaska native peoples of the United ... More

Waring Ranch, Littlefield, Mohave County, AZ

Public domain scan of an old vintage map, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

The silenced warwhoop / Chas. Schreyvogel.

Photograph shows reproduction of painting with Indians fighting U.S. Cavalry. H106256 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright by Charles Schreyvogel, February 15, 1908. Library of Congress copy mounted on paper. Negat... More

Lansing-Pemberton House, North Pearl & Columbia Streets, Albany, Alban...

Survey number: HABS NY-3203 Building/structure dates: ca. 1710 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: ca. 19t1 Demolished

Fort Missoula, Powder Magazine, Missoula, Missoula County, MT

Significance: Fear of the recent Indian uprisings led to the establishment of a military post here, six miles southeast of Hell Gate Pass, to protect the Mullan Road. This all important link between Walla Wall... More

Sam Houston Cabin, Fort Gibson, Muskogee County, OK

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2, FN-3 Survey number: HABS OK-9 Building/structure dates: before 1829 Initial Construction

Hovden Cannery, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, Monterey County, CA

Significance: The Hovden Cannery was one of the oldest and largest canneries of the Pacific Sardine Fishery. Its heyday in the first half of the 20th Century marked one of the most lucrative national fisheries... More

Hovden Cannery, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, Monterey County, CA

Significance: The Hovden Cannery was one of the oldest and largest canneries of the Pacific Sardine Fishery. Its heyday in the first half of the 20th Century marked one of the most lucrative national fisheries... More

Hovden Cannery, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, Monterey County, CA

Significance: The Hovden Cannery was one of the oldest and largest canneries of the Pacific Sardine Fishery. Its heyday in the first half of the 20th Century marked one of the most lucrative national fisheries... More

Hovden Cannery, 886 Cannery Row, Monterey, Monterey County, CA

Significance: The Hovden Cannery was one of the oldest and largest canneries of the Pacific Sardine Fishery. Its heyday in the first half of the 20th Century marked one of the most lucrative national fisheries... More

Taos Indian Health Center, 0.3 mile south-southwest of Pueblos Plaza, ...

Significance: The Taos Indian Health Center was constructed by the Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, and opened as a hospital in the late 1920s to serve the Pueblo of Taos and Picuris Pueblo... More

Siuslaw River Bridge, Spanning Siuslaw River, Richardson Road, County ...

Significance: The Siuslaw River Bridge is the oldest extant through truss with riveted connections and one of two steel through truss bridges using the double intersection Warren truss in Oregon. Survey number... More

The Masked Kachinas (Hopi Indian "Rain-makers"), Village of Shonghopav...

H29834 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Lewis Morrision in his new play, The Indian

B245658 U.S. Copyright Office "Copyright 1896 by Edw. J. Abra[ha]m." Caption: Mr. Morrison as Red Feather, chief of the Ogallalas. Created by "Liebler & Maass." Under the management of Edw. J. Abra[ha]m. Forms ... More

Serpents Quarters Pueblo, Approximately 2 miles north of County Road G...

Significance: Located in the Four Corners area of the desert southwest, Serpents Quarters exemplifies a canyon habitation of the ancestral Puebloan McElmo cultural pattern of the later part of Great Pueblo peri... More

Serpents Quarters Pueblo, Approximately 2 miles north of County Road G...

Significance: Located in the Four Corners area of the desert southwest, Serpents Quarters exemplifies a canyon habitation of the ancestral Puebloan McElmo cultural pattern of the later part of Great Pueblo peri... More

Serpents Quarters Pueblo, Approximately 2 miles north of County Road G...

Significance: Located in the Four Corners area of the desert southwest, Serpents Quarters exemplifies a canyon habitation of the ancestral Puebloan McElmo cultural pattern of the later part of Great Pueblo peri... More

Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Michigan Lake Superior Power Company, Portage Street, Sault Ste. Marie...

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Balcony House, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

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Balcony House, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

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Balcony House, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

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Balcony House, Cortez, Montezuma County, CO

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Mesa Verde National Park Main Entrance Road, Cortez, Montezuma County,...

Significance: The main entrance road largely evolved from the earliest surveyed wagon route into the park (1907-1908) into a standard roadway as a result of NPS-BPR aesthetic and engineering collaboration. CCC... More

Mesa Verde National Park Main Entrance Road, Cortez, Montezuma County,...

Significance: The main entrance road largely evolved from the earliest surveyed wagon route into the park (1907-1908) into a standard roadway as a result of NPS-BPR aesthetic and engineering collaboration. CCC... More

Mesa Verde National Park Main Entrance Road, Cortez, Montezuma County,...

Significance: The main entrance road largely evolved from the earliest surveyed wagon route into the park (1907-1908) into a standard roadway as a result of NPS-BPR aesthetic and engineering collaboration. CCC... More

Mesa Verde National Park Main Entrance Road, Cortez, Montezuma County,...

Significance: The main entrance road largely evolved from the earliest surveyed wagon route into the park (1907-1908) into a standard roadway as a result of NPS-BPR aesthetic and engineering collaboration. CCC... More

Mesa Verde National Park Main Entrance Road, Cortez, Montezuma County,...

Significance: The main entrance road largely evolved from the earliest surveyed wagon route into the park (1907-1908) into a standard roadway as a result of NPS-BPR aesthetic and engineering collaboration. CCC... More

Mesa Verde National Park Main Entrance Road, Cortez, Montezuma County,...

Significance: The main entrance road largely evolved from the earliest surveyed wagon route into the park (1907-1908) into a standard roadway as a result of NPS-BPR aesthetic and engineering collaboration. CCC... More