Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
[Family at dinner] - Drawing. Public domain image.
Title devised by cataloger. Illustration for "The Log Cabin Lady," Delineator, 99 (Dec. 1921); not published. (DLC/PP-1934:0109). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Daniel Boone - Print, Library of Congress collection
7761 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Juehne.
Recollections of a long life, 1829-1915,
Born in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Isaac Stephenson (1829-1918) followed his interests as a lumberman, sailor, and entrepreneur to Bangor, Maine and, later, to the northern woods of Wisconsin. In 1858, he purc... More
The pioneer's hoard. A thrilling romance of the Ozarks
Also available in digital form.
Floral home; or, First years of Minnesota: early sketches, later settl...
Harriet E. Bishop (1817-1883) emigrated to Minnesota from New England in 1847. She was recruited by Catherine Beecher's Board of National Popular Education to establish a school in St. Paul, Minnesota and to se... More
Virginia [City], Nevada / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.
Photograph showing a small town nestled at foot of mountain. Plate 93 from: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel / United States Army Corps of Engineers; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washing... More
Too near the war path. Public domain reproduction.
Print shows a frontiersman in buckskins and coon-skin cap holding a rifle, and a woman holding a bonnet standing in the forest. In the background Indians can be seen.
[William Moore and family, Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska]
Photograph shows a family group standing in front of farm animals, sod house, and windmill. No. 246 inscribed on negative lower right.
Journal of William Brown while traveling from Virginia to Kentucky
Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Poster - Heart of the Klondike, Alaska - Public domain lithograph
Caption: Across the Chilkoot Pass. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith Co, Cin'ti & New York." Different version of poster with slightly different text: POS - TH - 1897 .H42, no. 4 (C size). N.Y.... More
"Calamnity [i.e. Calamity] Peak." Near Custer City on B. & M. R'y. Ti...
Center view of Calamity Peak. Copyright deposit. Title transcribed from item. Forms part of: John C.H. Grabill collection.
Heart of the Klondike written by Scott Marble.
Caption: The land of promise. Created and "copyright 1897 by The Strobridge Lith. Co., Cincinnati & New York." N.Y. no. 7830. Forms part of: Theatrical poster collection (Library of Congress)
Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction
Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction
Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction
Tyne Woody House, Cataloochee, Haywood County, NC
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-16 Survey number: HABS NC-5 Building/structure dates: 1893 Initial Construction
Proofs of the corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson and of his connection...
Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Proofs of the corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson and of his connection...
Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Whitcomb Cabin, BZ Corners, Glenwood County Road (Conboy Lake National...
Picryl description: Public domain image of wildlife, wild animals, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Rural life in Neb. - Public domain portrait print
Photograph shows the Laulerman(?) family in front of their sod house, with boy holding bull on the right. Title from caption attached to another copy. 348 inscribed on negative lower right.
Fort Bowman, Frontage Road, Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Significance: Built in 1753 for George Bowman, the gray limestone house is a significant example of the influence of Pennsylvania German building traditions on the architecture of the Shenandoah Valley. Survey... More
Curtis Wharf, O & Second Streets, Anacortes, Skagit County, WA
Significance: Curtis Wharf is significant both in its contribution to history at the local and regional levels as a maritime commercial and industrial complex and in its illustration of a type of vernacular arc... More
Curtis Wharf, O & Second Streets, Anacortes, Skagit County, WA
Significance: Curtis Wharf is significant both in its contribution to history at the local and regional levels as a maritime commercial and industrial complex and in its illustration of a type of vernacular arc... More
Brinegar Cabin, Blue Ridge Parkway, Moxley, Wilkes County, NC
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-19 Survey number: HABS NC-188 Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction
[Hunter and Indian] - Public domain portrait drawing
Picryl description: Public domain image, drawing, American, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions
Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-39 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Initial Construction
Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-39 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Initial Construction
Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-39 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Initial Construction
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Gunpowder for sale here / Oliver J. Stuart, N.Y.
Broadsheet advertisement for the Laflin Powder Company, Saugerties, New York, manufacturers of gunpowder, with "Offices [at] 29 Water St. cor. of Olive St. St. Louis Mo. and 79 South Water St. Chicago, Ill." sh... More
An emigrant train attacked by hostile Indians on the prairie / Champne...
Illustration shows an emigrant wagon train being attacked by Natives while traveling across the Great Plains. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, v. 13, no. 7 (1857 August 15), pp. 104-105. A... More
Fort Shepherd, no. 1 - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph
Photograph shows exterior view of the Hudson Bay Co. post at Fort Shepherd, British Columbia.
[Martha Canary, 1852-1903, ("Calamity Jane"), full-length portrait, se...
Photo copyrighted by H. R. Locke. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
[Davy Crockett Ward of Bog Trotters Band and his wife, Galax, Virginia...
Title devised by Library staff based on caption information and inventory lists. Handwritten on back: "Davy Crockett Ward & wife; Galax Va 1937." Accompanying note reads: "These pictures were made by CBS photog... More
George Henry Boughton - Pilgrims going to church
Photograph shows Pilgrims walking through a snowy landscape. Photograph of a 1867 painting by George Henry Boughton.
The Ballad of Davy Crockett (9 Photographs)
Federal Theatre Project Collection: Production Records-Photographic Negatives File. The Photographic Negatives File is a collection of approximately 9,000 negatives, mainly from the New York, NY units, document... More
Our pioneer days in Minnesota,, Pioneering the Upper Midwest 1820 - 19...
Gertrude Vandergon wrote her reminiscences in a series of lengthy letters addressed to her children. It is difficult to date these letters accurately because of conflicting information in the preface and epilog... More
Austin-Whittemore House, 15 Austin Street, Vermillion, Clay County, SD
Significance: Built five years prior to South Dakota statehood, this house is one of the few surviving 19th century structures in the vicinity of Vermillion. It is a rare permanent frontier structure with a fe... More
[J.D. Semler, near Woods Park, Custer County, Nebraska]
Photograph shows (from l. to r.) Lillie Semler holding daughter, Daisy, son George standing next to chair, and J.D. Semler standing with donkey, sod house in background. Identifications received from Betty Winb... More
The miners pioneer ten commandments of 1849--Scenes when crossing the ...
14 scenes of lives of pioneer gold miners, including camp life, attacks by Indians and bears, mining, crossing the plains, etc., with text of "miners pioneers ten commandments."
Denver International Airport Site, Between Fifty-sixth & 128th Avenues...
Significance: The Denver International Airport site has a Euroamerican history that can be traced to the early nineteenth century. Today, cultural remains and archival information exist to explain and interpre... More
Denver International Airport Site, Between Fifty-sixth & 128th Avenues...
Significance: The Denver International Airport site has a Euroamerican history that can be traced to the early nineteenth century. Today, cultural remains and archival information exist to explain and interpre... More
Journal of William Brown while traveling from Virginia to Kentucky
Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Journal of William Brown while traveling from Virginia to Kentucky
Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
American progress - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows an allegorical female figure of America leading pioneers westward, as they travel on foot, in a stagecoach, conestoga wagon, and by railroads, where they encounter Native Americans and herds of biso... More
American progress - Print, Library of Congress collection
Print shows an allegorical female figure of America leading pioneers westward, as they travel on foot, in a stagecoach, conestoga wagon, and by railroads, where they encounter Native Americans and herds of biso... More
Gold Hill, Nevada / T.H. O'Sullivan, phot.
Photograph showing a mill town. The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, wh... More
[Hartley Ranch, Lillian Township on the Middle Loup River, Custer Coun...
Photograph shows a family standing and sitting, two men on horseback, in front of sod house with antlers on the roof. No. 225 inscribed on negative lower right.
Virginia City, General View Area Survey, Virginia City, Storey County,...
Survey number: HABS NV-15-77 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000458
Virginia City, General View Area Survey, Virginia City, Storey County,...
Survey number: HABS NV-15-77 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000458
Virginia City, General View Area Survey, Virginia City, Storey County,...
Survey number: HABS NV-15-77 National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000458
Bowman's Castle, Front & Second Streets, Brownsville, Fayette County, ...
Significance: Originally constructed by Jacob Bowman as a trading post & home, Bowman's Castle was both an important commercial enterprise on Pennsylvania's frontier and home to one of the area's most prominent... More
Proofs of the corruption of Gen. James Wilkinson and of his connection...
Picryl description: Public domain historic political document page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Whitcomb Cabin, BZ Corners, Glenwood County Road (Conboy Lake National...
Picryl description: Public domain image of wildlife, wild animals, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Whitcomb Cabin, BZ Corners, Glenwood County Road (Conboy Lake National...
Picryl description: Public domain image of wildlife, wild animals, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Whitcomb Cabin, BZ Corners, Glenwood County Road (Conboy Lake National...
Picryl description: Public domain image of wildlife, wild animals, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Whitcomb Cabin, BZ Corners, Glenwood County Road (Conboy Lake National...
Picryl description: Public domain image of wildlife, wild animals, nature, free to use, no copyright restrictions.
Calamity Jane on Wild Bill's grave
Photographs shows Martha Jane Burke, popularly known as Calamity Jane, standing by the grave of Wild Bill Hickok in Mt. Moriah Cemetery, Deadwood, South Dakota.
Fort Bowman, Frontage Road, Strasburg, Shenandoah County, Virginia
Significance: Built in 1753 for George Bowman, the gray limestone house is a significant example of the influence of Pennsylvania German building traditions on the architecture of the Shenandoah Valley. Survey... More
Curtis Wharf, O & Second Streets, Anacortes, Skagit County, WA
Significance: Curtis Wharf is significant both in its contribution to history at the local and regional levels as a maritime commercial and industrial complex and in its illustration of a type of vernacular arc... More
Mountain meadows / from nature by S.H. Redmond ; [drawn on stone by] H...
Wagon train and Indians hiding behind rocks. Copyright by H. Williams, Pres. Pacific Art Co.
Gold Hill, Nevada / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.
Photograph shows a mining town. The photographer's portable developing box is in the lower left corner of the image. Plate 127 from: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel / United States Army Corps o... More
Brinegar Cabin, Blue Ridge Parkway, Moxley, Wilkes County, NC
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-19 Survey number: HABS NC-188 Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction
Brinegar Cabin, Blue Ridge Parkway, Moxley, Wilkes County, NC
Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-19 Survey number: HABS NC-188 Building/structure dates: 1885 Initial Construction
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
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
[Pioneers in covered wagons] - Drawing. Public domain image.
Title devised by cataloger. No publication information. (DLC/PP-1939:0060). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress).
Jonathan Hager House (Foundation), Hagerstown, Washington County, MD
Survey number: HABS MD-39 Building/structure dates: ca. 1740 Initial Construction
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Natchez Trace Parkway, Located between Natchez, MS & Nashville, TN, Tu...
Significance: A regional Good Roads movement championed by the Natchez Trace Military Highway Association in 1916 continued an effort initiated by the Mississippi Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) to c... More
Daniel Boon [sic] from a picture by J.W. Berry painted for James Hall ...
Print shows Daniel Boone, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left, wearing coat with fur collar, with handle of knife showing on the right. May have been painted by James W. Berry, 1805-1877. (DLC/PP-1998:151... More
Suspicious guests / drawn by H.F. Farny.
Print shows a Native approaching four men around a fire cooking a meal, in the background are two Natives seated on horseback. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 35, no. 1782 (1887 February 5), pp. 96-97. Signed o... More
A frontier ranch, eastern Montana
Photograph shows two men and a woman standing outside a log cabin.
"49ers" - Drawing. Public domain image., Political Cartoon
Forty-niners arrive and depart from Sacramento, California, a small frontier town with a dance hall, poker parlor, saloon and barter center. Some pan for gold in the nearby river, while others stake their clai... More
Iron River Wis., in 1908, Iron River, Wis., in 1888
Postcard shows a parade on a commercial street in Iron River in 1908 and four scenes of Iron River in 1888 including two scenes of settlers in front of cabins, a man in a canoe, and railroad tracks. F 70753 U.S... More