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Foothold Pueblito, Palluche Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

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Foothold Pueblito, Palluche Canyon, Dulce, Rio Arriba County, NM

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Nebraska--Crazy Horse and his band of Indians on their way from Camp S...

Native Americans on horseback with travois. Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Indian Agency House, Saint Clair, Blue Earth County, MN

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2 Survey number: HABS MN-29-43 Building/structure dates: 1855 Initial Construction

Beef issue to Indians. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Long row of Lakota men on horseback preparing to rope cattle; a few on horseback are galloping toward cattle--probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms pa... More

Handsell, 4835 Indiantown Road, Vienna, Dorchester County, MD

Significance: Handsell—a name derived from the original 1665 English land grant to Thomas Taylor—is a well-preserved example of the vernacular domestic architecture of the Chesapeake region. The house retains ... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

San Jose de Tumacacori (Mission, Ruins), Tubac, Santa Cruz County, AZ

Significance: This monument embraces 10 acres of land in Santa Cruz County, Arizona, about 49 miles south of Tucson and 19 miles north of Hogales. It was created September 15, 1908. Upon the tract is located an... More

Pentagon Site, Pentagon 2, West of Barry's Landing off Highway 37, For...

Significance: Hundreds of crib-style timber structures were once found in the Northern Plains. Today only about 50 or 60 structures remain in upright positions. The structures were made as a temporary house b... More

Petrified Forest National Park Roads & Bridges, Holbrook, Navajo Count...

Significance: The Petrified Forest National Park is so designated for its scientific and educational value, in addition to its natural scenic beauty. Intersecting, and at times, overlaying, prehistoric and his... More

Petrified Forest National Park Roads & Bridges, Holbrook, Navajo Count...

Significance: The Petrified Forest National Park is so designated for its scientific and educational value, in addition to its natural scenic beauty. Intersecting, and at times, overlaying, prehistoric and his... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Fort Leavenworth, Metropolitan Avenue & Seventh Street, Leavenworth, L...

Significance: Founded in 1827, Fort Leavenworth is one of the oldest Army posts in the American West. During the mid nineteenth century the post protected travelers on the Santa Fe Trail and supplied all milit... More

Mission San Gregorio de Abo, State Highway 513, Mountainair vicinity, ...

Significance: The Mission of San Gregorio de Abo, built in the late 1620's, is one of four missions built in the Salinas Province of early Spanish colonization in New Mexico which today comprise Salinas Nationa... More

Cherokee Supreme Court Building, 130 East Keetoowah Street, Tahlequah,...

Significance: In 1844 the Cherokee National Government constructed its first permanent structure in the new Cherokee Nation at Tahlequah, which had been designated as the seat of government in 1839. This build... More

Cherokee Supreme Court Building, 130 East Keetoowah Street, Tahlequah,...

Significance: In 1844 the Cherokee National Government constructed its first permanent structure in the new Cherokee Nation at Tahlequah, which had been designated as the seat of government in 1839. This build... More

Kiva, Nambe Pueblo, Santa Fe County, NM

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Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Significance: As the first project built by the U.S. Reclamation Service in Utah, the Strawberry Valley Project had a major impact on the State. It represents the beginning of Federal assistance in water devel... More

What's left of Big Foot's band - Public domain portrait print

Group of twelve Miniconjou (children and adults)--many are looking away from camera--in a tepee camp, probably on or near Pine Ridge Reservation. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from text provided by the p... More

Town of Mount Union, Near U.S. Highway 522, Mount Union, Huntingdon Co...

See also HABS PA-5973 for related information. Significance: For the first half of the 20th century, Mt. Union was a center of refractory brick manufacture. Three brick plants were built early in the century an... More

Chemawa Indian School, McNary Hall, 5495 Chugach Street Northeast, Sal...

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

Shawnee Methodist Mission, West Building, Kansas City, Wyandotte Count...

Survey number: HABS KS-1 Building/structure dates: 1839- 1840 Initial Construction National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000345

Portrait photo of Edward S. Curtis - Heavy Shield

Half length portrait of a Native man. Curtis no. 59. LC no. 24. Copyright by Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress).

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Roads & Bridges, Gatlinburg, Sevie...

Significance: The transportation system of Great Smoky Mountains is representative of NPS park road designs throughout the country. Much of the construction work was undertaken by the Civilian Conservation Cor... More

Edward S. Curtis - Apache land, Native Americans

Three Apache people riding pack horses make their way along rocky bottom land. Curtis no. 133. LC no. 36. Copyright by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in... More

Phoenix Indian School, War Memorial, Northeast Corner of Central Avenu...

Significance: The War Memorial commemorated "the students of this school who enlisted in the Army and Navy during the World War." The number of memorials dedicated particularly to service in the US armed force... More

Springdale Bridge, Federal Aid Secondary Route 563, Springdale, Park C...

Significance: The bridge is significant for its associations with the development of transportation systems to accommodate settlement and tourism in the early 20th century; and as an example of the work of the ... More

Springdale Bridge, Federal Aid Secondary Route 563, Springdale, Park C...

Significance: The bridge is significant for its associations with the development of transportation systems to accommodate settlement and tourism in the early 20th century; and as an example of the work of the ... More

Cherokee National Capitol Building, 101-29 South Muskogee Avenue, Tahl...

Significance: The Cherokee National Capitol, completed and occupied by circa 1869, was constructed on the site which had served as the meeting place for the Cherokee Government since their arrival in Indian Ter... More

Cherokee National Capitol Building, 101-29 South Muskogee Avenue, Tahl...

Significance: The Cherokee National Capitol, completed and occupied by circa 1869, was constructed on the site which had served as the meeting place for the Cherokee Government since their arrival in Indian Ter... More

Chemawa Indian School, House, 2994 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-H National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 92001333

Thanksgiving scene in ye old Plymouth colony / Ehrhart.

Illustration shows a Thanksgiving Day celebration at Plymouth Colony with a "Hot Dog" vendor in the foreground, a "Pink Firewater" booth on the upper left, where the Natives have congregated, and a large group ... More

Ceremonial Cave, Bland, Sandoval County, NM

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Kiva (Large), Bland, Sandoval County, NM

Survey number: HABS NM-16 Building/structure dates: ca. 1513 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1908 Subsequent Work Building/structure dates: 1937 Subsequent Work

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Du...

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. Tapacito Pueblito was one such refugee si... More

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Du...

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. Tapacito Pueblito was one such refugee si... More

Tapacito Pueblito, North of confluence of Tapacito & Largo Canyons, Du...

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. Tapacito Pueblito was one such refugee si... More

Plaza del Cerro, State Routes 76 & 4 vicinity, Chimayo, Rio Arriba Cou...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-23 Survey number: HABS NM-128 Building/structure dates: before 1740 Initial Construction Building/structure dates: 1813-1816 Subsequent Work

Quniaika--Mohave, Head and Shoulders Portrait

A Mohave man, head-and-shoulders portrait, draped in blanket, facing front.

Edward S. Curtis - Moving--Apsaroke

Apsaroke woman on horseback along stream bank by cliff, packhorse beside her. H113113 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 2785-08. Forms part of: Edward S. Curtis Collection (Library of Congress). Published in: T... More

Split Rock Pueblito, Mesa Rim of Largo Canyon, south of Dogie Canyon &...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N563 Survey number: HABS NM-159

Pueblo of Jemez, Jemez Pueblo, Sandoval County, NM

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1941 Survey number: HABS NM-145 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 77000926

Desert Botanical Laboratory, Tumamoc Hill, Tucson, Pima County, AZ

Significance: The Desert Botanical Laboratory is important as the first center for the study of desert plant ecology, and for the outstanding scientists who paved the way for further development in the study of... More

Daniel Boone protects his family, engraving, Library of Congress

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

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

Burnsed Blockhouse, Near St. Mary's River, Macclenny, Baker County, FL

These drawings were donated to the H/H collection by the University of Florida's College of Architecture; the drawings were produced by architecture students at the University of Florida who chose to participat... More

Edward S. Curtis - [Navajo riders in Canyon de Chelly]

Photo shows seven Native riders on horseback and dog traveling against a background of canyon cliffs. H52434 U.S. Copyright Office. Curtis no. 1013. Copyright 1904 by E.S. Curtis. Forms part of: Edward S. Curt... 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

Sheldon Jackson College, Stevenson Hall, Baranof Island, Sitka, Sitka ...

2006 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: Stevenson Hall at Sheldon Jackson College, is one of six buildings designed in 1910 by the New York architecture firm of Ludlow and Peabody. Constructed... More

Sheldon Jackson College, Stevenson Hall, Baranof Island, Sitka, Sitka ...

2006 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Third Place Significance: Stevenson Hall at Sheldon Jackson College, is one of six buildings designed in 1910 by the New York architecture firm of Ludlow and Peabody. Constructed... More

Hopewell Plantation, Clemson University Campus, near intersection of O...

2006 Charles E. Peterson Prize Significance: Built about 1785 initially a log structure, Hopewell is representative of a rural house type, which was common in the late 18th and early 19th century in the backcou... 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

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

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

Significance: It is a contributing building to the significance of the proposed Fort Peck Boarding School Historic District. Constructed in 1932, it is one of two buildings within the district built under the a... 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

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

[Arms] By the Honourable William Denny, Esq; Lieutenant-Governor and C...

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

Bee Burrow, Seven Lakes Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The Bee Burrow 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 Southwe... More

Bee Burrow, Seven Lakes Wash, Crownpoint, McKinley County, NM

Significance: The Bee Burrow 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 Southwe... More

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

Pueblo of San Ildefonso, State Road 4 Vicinity, San Ildefonso Pueblo, ...

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1926 Survey number: HABS NM-89 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 74001206

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

Geronimo - (Guiyatle) - Apache, gelatin silver print

Photograph shows Geronimo, half-length portrait, facing front. 59171 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 881. Studio portrait taken by Frank Rinehart's assistant, Adolph Muhr, according to Paula Richardson Fleming, The... More

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...

Public domain image of an arch structure, bridge, historic place ruins, classical architecture, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

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

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

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

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[Joe Black Fox, a Sioux Indian from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show]

Joe Black Fox, half-length portrait, facing front, cigarette in his right hand.

Mission Nuestra Senora de Guadalupe de Zuni, Zuni Pueblo, Zuni, McKinl...

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

By the United States in Congress assembled. August 7, 1786 : An ordina...

The ordinance as passed Aug. 7, 1786. Cf. Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 490-493. Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 965... More

Pimo [i.e., Pima] Fat Boy Joséa Romantic couple among the Delles [sic]...

Picryl description: Public domain image of ethnic group, people gathering, anthropology, colonies, exotic, indigenous people, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

[Group of Native Americans, three standing, one seated on the ground, ...

In: Photographs of British Northwest Boundary Survey, 1858-1861. Public domain photograph of native Americans, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Battle of the Thames and the death of Tecumseh, by the Kentucky mounte...

Print shows the battle of Thames with Colonel Richard M. Johnson and the Kentucky volunteers on the left engaged in battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Prominent figures, including Col. Richard M. Johns... More

Battle of the Thames and the death of Tecumseh, by the Kentucky mounte...

Print shows the battle of Thames with Colonel Richard M. Johnson and the Kentucky volunteers on the left engaged in battle with Tecumseh and his Native troops. Prominent figures, including Col. Richard M. Johns... More

Buffalo Bill's Wild West and congress of rough riders of the world A c...

Circus poster showing American Indians leading attack against pioneers in covered wagons. Includes portrait of Buffalo Bill on horseback. 348 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 2605. Copyright by Courier Litho. Co., Bu... More

Eskimo fishing in ice - Frank G. Carpenter collection

Title transcribed from caption accompanying item. Photo by Lomen Bros., Nome. Forms part of: Frank and Frances Carpenter collection (Library of Congress). Gift; Mrs. W. Chapin Huntington; 1951.

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

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

Cobean Farm, State Route 34 North, Gettysburg, Adams County, PA

Significance: The house is the only Georgian style farmhouse within Gettysburg National Military Park, and is one of the oldest brick houses in Adams County. Due to its size, it is somewhat atypical of the aver... 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

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