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[Chief Joseph - Nez Perce, head and shoulders, facing front]

Photogravure by Edward S. Curtis. Illus. in: The North American Indian, Suppl. v. 8, pl. 256. Reference copy may be in Biog. File. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card traci... More

[Williamsburg, Virginia, ca. 1740], Landscape view print

Print shows two rows of buildings, numbered 1-6, at Williamsburg, Virginia, and plant specimens, insects, and two views of Natives, numbered 7-16, and four tools, numbered a-d, used by the Natives. Inscribed i... More

An Indian town, residence of a chief

No. 2 in set of 8 "Views of Florida." The State Library and Archives of Florida cites as "Lithographs of events in the Seminole War in Florida in 1835. Issued by T.F. Gray and James of Charleston, S.C., in 1837."

Chef der Blut Indianer. Kriegs Chef der Piekan Indianer. Kutana Indian...

Print shows half-length portraits of a man from the Blood Indians, a man from the Piekann Indians, and a man from the Koutani Indians, posed as though they were conversing amongst themselves. Illus from: Reise... More

Buffalo hunt in the wild west - Public domain graphic arts, Library of...

A buffalo hunter shooting a buffalo as two Natives ride alongside with spears. Copyright by Muller, Luchsinger & Co., New York.

Edward S. Curtis - [Zuni Indian bead worker drilling holes in beads]

H34051 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 827.

Indian Dance Lodge, White Shield, McLean County, ND

Survey number: HABS ND-3 Building/structure dates: 1921 Initial Construction

Edward S. Curtis - Black Hair, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Black Hair, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing front. Curtis no. 221-05. LC no. 57. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Edward S. Curtis - Mis Se Pah, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of a Mohave woman. Curtis no. 146. LC no. 43. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

The Torreon, Manzano, Torrance County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-11 Survey number: HABS NM-11 Building/structure dates: ca. 1840 Initial Construction

Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Dolores, Montezuma County,...

Significance: Settlement of the Montezuma Valley was made possible in the 1880s with the constructino of the irrigation system. Organized by Cames W. Kanna, the complex series of tunnel (5,400 foot long), "Grea... More

Montezuma Valley Irrigation Company System, Dolores, Montezuma County,...

Honor Heights Park, Agency Hill, Muskogee, Muskogee County, OK

Public domain photograph - historic landmark, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Missions of San Buenaventura & San Isidro, New Mexico Highway 14, Moun...

Significance: During the early period of Spanish colonization in New Mexico, Franciscan missionaries undertook the conversion of the Salinas Pueblos. Four of the missions established at that time are now inclu... More

Gomez Canyon Pueblito, Gomez 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 i... More

Gomez Canyon Pueblito, Gomez Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Skinning Beef - Public domain portrait print

Small group of Lakota skinning cattle--probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of the John C. H. Grabill Collection.

Northern Cheyenne Agency, Building No. 56, 950 feet north of U.S. High...

Significance: Building 56 contributes to the significance of the Northern Cheyenne Agency. The building was part of the systematic construction and modernization program. The structure is significant because ... More

Superintendent's Lodge, Crow Agency, Big Horn County, MT

Significance: Constructed in 1894 to house a Superintendent who was to oversee the placing of grave markers for General Custer and the men of the United States Seventh Cavalry who perished in the Battle of Big ... More

Fort Peck Indian Boarding School, Employee's Quarters, Southwest corne...

Significance: It is a contributing building to the significance of the proposed Fort Peck Indian Boarding School Historic District. It is one of two buildings within the historic district completed in 1938 unde... More

Upper Kin Klizhin, Kin Klizhin Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The upper Kin Klizhin community centers on a rectangular sandstone structure associated with the Anasazi culture which flourished one thousand years ago in the Four Corners region of the American ... More

Edward S. Curtis - Head Carry - Public domain portrait print

Half-length portrait of a Native man, wearing headdress, facing front. Curtis no. 73. LC no. 92. Copyright by Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Battle of Tippecanoe - Print, Library of Congress collection

Print shows American troops under the leadership of General William Henry Harrison fighting the Indian forces of The Prophet, Tenskwatawa (the brother of Tecumseh) in a forest. Tenskwatawa was part of Tecumseh'... More

Sacaton Hospital Residence, 315 West Casa Blanca Road, Sacaton, Pinal ...

Significance: It is associated with the US Army's administration of health-related services for Indians in the area from 1875-1935. It was built ca. 1919 as physician's quarters for Sacaton's first health care ... More

Know nothing soap - Engraving, Public domain image

An illustrated advertising label for soap manufactured in Boston, interesting for its imagery and allusion to the popular "Know Nothing" or nativist movement. In the foreground are two American Indians, emblem... More

Major Ridge, a Cherokee chief / printed & coloured at I.T. Bowen's Lit...

Print shows Major Ridge, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing slightly left, wearing a suit.

Phoenix Indian School, Dairy-Milking Shed, Northeast Corner of Central...

Significance: The Dairy is one of the two buildings remaining from the earliest phase of building on the site, and is one of the last surviving records of the vocational training activities on the site that pre... More

Edward S. Curtis - Joseph--Nez Percé

Photograph shows Chief Joseph, half-length portrait, facing front, wearing war bonnet and several necklaces. H08684 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 478. Copyright 1903 by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S... More

Pueblo Del Arroyo, Nageezi, San Juan County, NM

Photo no. HABS NM-163-1 was removed & sent as an addendum to HABS No. NM-30 (Pueblo Bonito) after recognition that it was part of the wrong survey. (12/16/03, JLB) Significance: Pueblo del Arroyo is located - ... More

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Curley--Apsaroke

Apsaroke man, half-length portrait, wearing headdress, facing front. Curtis no. 212-05. LC no. 52. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Fort Totten, 12 miles southwest of Devils Lake City off Route 57, Devi...

Significance: The Fort Totten State Historic Site, administered by the State Historical Society of North Dakota (State Historical Board), is one of the best preserved military posts of the Trans-Mississippi Wes... More

Dr. F. P. McPherson Cabin, Third Street East, Chewelah, Stevens County...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-9 Survey number: HABS WA-27 Building/structure dates: 1860 Initial Construction

Compressor Station Pueblito, Superior Mesa, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, ...

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

The red man, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Photograph shows head-and-shoulders portrait of Native American man. Signed on print, lower left corner. Media confirmed via XRF testing, Jan. 2019. Source unknown. Library of Congress prints and photographs: ... More

Indian Mound Park, St. Paul, Minn.

Public domain photograph - historical image of Washington State, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Phoenix Indian School, Memorial Hall, Northeast Corner of Central Aven...

Significance: Memorial Hall was the second major building on the site to employ Mission Revival style, and like the first example, the Dining Hall, it was carried out in red brick. It was also sited, parallel ... More

Pueblo of Zuni, Central & Original Portion, Vicinity of State Roads 32...

Public domain scan of a technical diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Agency Employee House, Spalding, Nez Perce County, ID

Significance: This house is one of the employee residences constructed for the Nez Perce Indian Agency in 1896. / Hip-roofed; center of main roof is flat, 6"-8" dry stone wall foundation; brick chimney. Most o... More

Chemawa Indian School, McBride Hall, 5495 Chugach Street Northeast, Sa...

Significance: Chemawa Indian School is the oldest, continuously operating non-reservation boarding school in the United States. Survey number: HABS OR-129-C National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92001333

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Significance: The Pueblo Revolt of 1680 and subsequent Spanish reconquest of 1692 forced many Pueblo tribes to flee westward and seek temporary refuge with the Navajo. Shaft House Pueblito was one such refugee... More

Shaft House Pueblito, Cuervo Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Town of La Luz, La Luz Canyon Creek, Alamogordo, Otero County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1938 Survey number: HABS NM-141

Fort Buford, Old Headquarters Site, Buford, Williams County, ND

Significance: This was a very important place in the history of the West, not only as a place where prisoners from the Confederate Army were put on duty fighting Indians, but in later years the place where Sitt... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Significance: Frances Canyon Pueblito, one of the largest and best preserved Navajo pueblitos, was occupied after the Pueblo Revolt in 1680. This revolt broke the Spanish hold on Pueblo villages along the Nort... More

Frances Canyon Pueblito, Frances Canyon Rincon, Dulce, Rio Arriba Coun...

Salish Canoe, The Center for Wooden Boats, Seattle, King County, WA

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Scalptanz der Mönnitarris Danse du scalp des indiens Meunitarris / / d...

Print shows large group of Hidatsa Indians engaged in a ceremonial dance. Tab. 27. Blind stamp: C Bodmer. Karl Bodmer traveled the American west between 1832 and 1834 as an artist accompanying Prince Maximilia... More

General Miles and staff viewing the largest hostile Indian Camp in the...

Seven military men on horseback viewing a Lakota camp from a distant hillside.

Mission San Jose y San Miguel de Aguayo, Church, 6539 San Jose Road, S...

Significance: The church is a typical component of a Spanish mission complex built during the period of Texas frontier. Survey number: HABS TX-333-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000810

Thomas Asylum for Orphan & Destitute Indians, Administration Building,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a chamber, cell, interior, underground vault architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Thomas Asylum for Orphan & Destitute Indians, Administration Building,...

Picryl description: Public domain image, 19th-20th century drawing, American, free to use, no copyright restrictions

Indian Agency House, U.S. Route 1, Silver Lake, Shawnee County, KS

Significance: This stone house, said to be a former Indian Agency building, is perhaps the earliest structure built by white men still standing in Kansas. Survey number: HABS KS-12 Building/structure dates: c... More

Pueblo Bonito, South terminus of NM56 & North terminus of NM164, Nagee...

Photo no. HABS NM-30-1 was originally part of HABS NM-163. It was moved to this survey after it was recognized that the image is of Pueblo Bonito (this survey), not Pueblo del Arroyo (HABS NM-163). (12/16/03,... More

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, warehouse, depot, train station, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...

Picryl description: Public domain photo of a factory, warehouse, commercial or industrial building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewage Treatment Plant, 700 East Jones Street, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fishing boat, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Episcopal Mission, Santee, Knox County, NE

Public domain scan of an architecture diagram, plan, or drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description.

Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von drey...

Imprint from special t.p. for plates. The general title is printed within the engr. border used for the 1st Latin ed., and the engr. imprint of that ed. (Francoforti ad Moenvm, Typis I. Wecheli, sumtibus T. de ... More

Der ander Theil, der newlich erfundenen Landschafft Americae, von drey...

Thomas Asylum for Orphan & Destitute Indians, Dormitory, Route 438, Ca...

Significance: Four dormitories, two for girls and two for boys, were built from the same plans to house students at the Thomas Indian School during the ca. 1900 building expansion which occurred after the schoo... More

Olympic National Park Road System, Port Angeles, Clallam County, WA

Public domain photograph of water reservoir, lake, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Olympic National Park Road System, Port Angeles, Clallam County, WA

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, railway, train car, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Rocky Mountains / ABierstadt 1863., engraving, Library of Congress

Print shows a Native encampment near lake in the Yosemite Valley of the Rocky Mountains. Signed on plate "ABierstadt 1863" lower right. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1866, by Edward Bierstad... More

Edward S. Curtis - Piegan encampment / Curtis.

Tepees with mountains in background. D15756 U.S. Copyright Office. LC no. 71. Additional negative available (LC-USZ62-49149) from photogravure published in The North American Indian / Edward S. Curtis, v. 6, pl... More

Overlook Pueblito, Superior Mesa, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1214 Survey number: HABS NM-184

Phoenix Indian School, Northeast Corner of Central Avenue & Indian Sch...

Significance: The Phoenix Indian School was the largest off-reservation school for Native American children in the U.S., existing from 1891 to 1990. The institution stood as a memorial to the desire and intent... More

Group of Pah-ute Indians, Nevada / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.

Photograph showing a group of Paiute Indians including women and children. Most members of the tribe wear western clothing while some wear traditional garments. No. 2. Originally published: Photographs showin... More

Lowell Canal System, Merrimack & Concord Rivers, Lowell, Middlesex Cou...

Significance: The City of Lowell is generally considered to be the birthplace of large-scale manufacturing in the U.S. Begun as a transportation canal, the Lowell Canal System evolved, during the 19th century,... More

Northern Cheyenne Agency, Building No. 57, 850 feet north of U.S. High...

Public domain photograph of public works, FDR administration, New Deal, Great Depression, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rant-Che-Wai-Me. Female Flying Pigeon / Lehman & Duval lith.

Print shows Rant-Che-Wai-Me, half-length portrait, facing slightly left, holding feather fan. Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1837, by E.C. Biddle in the Clerks office of the District Court of... More

Governor Jonathan Belcher Place, 401 Adams Street, Milton, Norfolk Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS MA-196 Building/structure dates: 1781 Initial Construction

Governor Jonathan Belcher Place, 401 Adams Street, Milton, Norfolk Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-22 Survey number: HABS MA-196 Building/structure dates: 1781 Initial Construction

Chemawa Indian School, House, 3005 Misty Street, Salem, Marion, OR

Significance: Chemawa Indian School is the oldest, continuously operating non-reservation boarding school in the United States. Survey number: HABS OR-129-A National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92001333

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

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N574 Survey number: HABS NM-179-B

Edward S. Curtis - Sigesh--Apache, Head and Shoulders Portrait

Head-and-shoulders portrait of an Apache Indian, right profile. Curtis no. 134. LC no. 37. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: The North Ame... More

[Martin caught it and threw it to Bat, who was flying near the ground]

(DLC/PP-1936:0107). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Old Crow and his Friends / Katharine B. Judson. Boston : Little, Brown & Co., 1918, p. 55.

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain cliff view, natural rocky landscape, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

Public domain photograph - New Mexico, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crow Canyon Petroglyphs, Cuervo Canyon at junction of Canon Largo, Bla...

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

[Village criers on horseback, Bird On the Ground and Forked Iron, Crow...

H113053 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Curtis no. 2725-08.

Phoenix Indian School, Dining Hall, Northeast Corner of Central Avenue...

Significance: The Dining Hall is the oldest surviving major structure on the site of the Phoenix Indian School. In addition, not only was it the first structure at the School to employ Mission Revival style, i... More

Phoenix Indian School, Dining Hall, Northeast Corner of Central Avenue...

Sutter's Mill, American River (submerged), Coloma, El Dorado County, C...

Address of, Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park, not verifiable in documentation. Survey number: HABS CA-1301 Building/structure dates: 1847 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1848 Subsequ... More

Sutter's Mill, American River (submerged), Coloma, El Dorado County, C...

Chief James Clement Vann House, U.S. Route 76 & State Route 255, Sprin...

Significance: Residence of Joseph Vann, a Chief of the Cherokee Indians. Built in late 18th century. Survey number: HABS GA-174 Building/structure dates: 17q4 Initial Construction

Chief James Clement Vann House, U.S. Route 76 & State Route 255, Sprin...

Significance: Residence of Joseph Vann, a Chief of the Cherokee Indians. Built in late 18th century. Survey number: HABS GA-174 Building/structure dates: 17q4 Initial Construction

Chief James Clement Vann House, U.S. Route 76 & State Route 255, Sprin...

Significance: Residence of Joseph Vann, a Chief of the Cherokee Indians. Built in late 18th century. Survey number: HABS GA-174 Building/structure dates: 17q4 Initial Construction

Chief James Clement Vann House, U.S. Route 76 & State Route 255, Sprin...

Significance: Residence of Joseph Vann, a Chief of the Cherokee Indians. Built in late 18th century. Survey number: HABS GA-174 Building/structure dates: 17q4 Initial Construction

Pentagon Site, Pentagon 1, West of Barry's Landing off Highway 37, For...

Public domain photograph - Montana Folklife collection, ethnography, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Old Sachem bitters - wigwam tonic - William Goodrich, New York George ...

Print showing a Native American man, possibly a chief, full-length portrait, standing, facing right, holding a spear in left hand; in the background are the tipis of a Native village during an assault on the vi... More

Fort Washakie, Building No. 71, Sacajawea Circle, Fort Washakie, Fremo...

Significance: Building No. 71 is a contributing element to the Fort Washakie Historic District, which is enrolled on the National Register of Historic Places. The Fort Washakie Historic District is a small com... More

Pueblo of Taos Central Portion, Taos Pueblo, Taos County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1703 Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1930 Survey number: HABS NM-102 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000496

Shoshone Episcopal Mission, Boarding School & Roberts Residence, Wind ...

Significance: This structure was the first Episcopal Mission Boarding School for Girls established in the Wyoming Territory. The building grew in response to the needs of the school and chronicles the developm... More

Shoshone Episcopal Mission, Boarding School & Roberts Residence, Wind ...

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