Lemmon-Anderson-Hixson Ranch, 11220 North Virginia Street, Reno, Washo...
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Whitcomb Cabin, BZ Corners, Glenwood County Road (Conboy Lake National...
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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.
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
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
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
![[Sylvester Rawding family in front of sod house, north of Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTIvMTEvc3lsdmVzdGVyLXJhd2RpbmctZmFtaWx5LWluLWZyb250LW9mLXNvZC1ob3VzZS1ub3J0aC1vZi1zYXJnZW50LWN1c3Rlci1jb3VudHktMzE4YTdhLTEwMjQuanBn/40/29/webp "[Sylvester Rawding family in front of sod house, north of Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska]")
[Sylvester Rawding family in front of sod house, north of Sargent, Cus...
Photograph shows (from l. to r.) Emma (Leadbetter) Rawding, Sylvester W. Rawding, daughter Bessie, and sons Philip, William, and Harry, sitting and standing in front of their sod house, with a mule team on the ... More
Heart of the Klondike written by Scott Marble.
Public domain scan of American 19th-century print, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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
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
Austin, Nevada / T. H. O'Sullivan, phot.
Photograph showing a small town. Plate 111 from: Geological Exploration of the Fortieth Parallel / United States Army Corps of Engineers; Clarence King, geologist in charge. [Washington, D.C.; 187-?].
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
Transatlantic sketches--the Mississippi River
Wood engravings showing three views of the Mississippi River, captioned: 1. Down the lower Mississippi--from the Baton Rouge; 2. Voyageurs ascending the lower Mississippi; 3. Woodchopper's hut, lower Mississippi.
Panorama, Vancouver, Columbia River no. 1
Photograph shows exterior view of buildings from across broad field. In: Photographs of British Northwest Boundary Survey, 1858-1861.
The "New home" in the far west / W.U. Morgan & Co. Lith, Cleveland, O.
Trade card, advertising New Home Sewing Machine Co., showing family outside of house.
Messengers were sent to warn the settlers of the Indian uprising
Title on verso. (DLC/PP-1933:0131). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: "The Sole Survivors" by George A. Henty, St. Nicholas, 26:226 (Jan. 1899).
The crafty traders and the easy Indians / Will Crawford.
Illustration shows Joseph G. Cannon and Nelson W. Aldrich dressed as a frontiersman labeled "Licensed Trader[" offering trinkets labeled "Pauper-Competition Scare, Steady-Work Yarn, Prosperity-For-All Bluff, Ca... More
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
Letter-book of Thomas Forsyth, 1814-1818
Consists chiefly of correspondence between Forsyth and Ninian Edwards, Governor of Illinois Territory, concerning their dealings with the Indian tribes as allies. Also available in digital form on the Library o... More
Famous frontiersmen, pioneers and scouts;
Also available in digital form.
Fur-trade on the upper lakes, 1778-1815
"From John Askin's letter-book, which now resides in the Burton Library, Detroit." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
An English settler in pioneer Wisconsin; the letters of Edwin Bottomle...
This volume is a collection of important historical documents published by the State Historical Society of Wisconsin. It is entirely devoted to letters from an English immigrant, Edwin Bottomley (1809-1850), wr... More
Letters from the West : containing sketches of scenery, manners, and c...
Picryl description: Public domain illustrated travel, exploration, and geography book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Journal of William Brown while traveling from Virginia to Kentucky
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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
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
Lemmon-Anderson-Hixson Ranch, 11220 North Virginia Street, Reno, Washo...
Public domain photograph of American trade card, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
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.
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
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
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
![The persuit [i.e. pursuit] - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn18/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMTEvMDIvdGhlLXBlcnN1aXQtaWUtcHVyc3VpdC1mMDAxNmQtMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/31/webp "The persuit [i.e. pursuit] - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Congress")
The persuit [i.e. pursuit] - Public domain graphic arts, Library of Co...
Man from the Pony Express, on horseback, fleeing from Indians, on Indian burial grounds.
New Year's : guarding against the dangers of the wilderness (1681), an...
"1681 after Howard Pyle" in inset. Title from handwritten notation on mat. (DLC/PP-1939:0083). Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: Harper's weekly, 25:25 (Jan. 8, 1881).
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
![[Morrison residence on Victoria Creek near Merna, Custer County, Nebraska]](https://cache.getarchive.net/Prod/thumb/cdn4/L3Bob3RvLzIwMTkvMDgvMjMvbW9ycmlzb24tcmVzaWRlbmNlLW9uLXZpY3RvcmlhLWNyZWVrLW5lYXItbWVybmEtY3VzdGVyLWNvdW50eS1uZWJyYXNrYS02Yjc2N2ItMTAyNC5qcGc%3D/40/29/webp "[Morrison residence on Victoria Creek near Merna, Custer County, Nebraska]")
[Morrison residence on Victoria Creek near Merna, Custer County, Nebra...
Photograph shows a family group sitting and standing in front of sod house with antlers in the foreground. No. 150 inscribed on negative lower right.
Oral history with 77 year old female, Grand Junction, Colorado (Transc...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Mesa County Public Library. Grand Junction, CO and Museum of Western Colorado. Grand Junction, CO Ms. Bryant - 77 year old female born in Pickrell (G... 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
The pioneers; or, The sources of the Susquehanna; a descriptive tale
Added t.-p., illus. Also available in digital form.
The pioneer's hoard. A thrilling romance of the Ozarks
Also available in digital form.
Horses hauling spruce log 30 feet in circumference
Photograph shows group of men posing with giant log pulled by a team of horses in the Cascade Mountains, Washington. H70889 U.S. Copyright Office Annenberg batch 4
Lumbering operations in the Cascade Mountains, Washington
Photograph shows clearing in forest with felled trees, small shack, and fenced yard with adults, children, and a dog. Exhibited as a digital copy in: "Not an Ostrich: And Other Images from America's Library" a... More
Old rail fence corners; the A.B.C.'s of Minnesota history
This is an anthology of anecdotes about the Minnesota frontier, dating primarily from the 1840s and 1850s. The material seems to have been collected directly from original settlers who were still alive in the e... More
Tracks and trails; or, Incidents in the life of a Minnesota territoria...
Tracks and Trails presents incidents in the life of a Minnesota pioneer and touches on many facets of frontier life in the second half of the nineteenth century. It depicts the settlers' contact and conflict wi... More
The frontier holiday; being a collection of writings by Minnesota pion...
This collection of brief first-person descriptions and anecdotes chronicles how Christmas, New Year's, and Thanksgiving were celebrated in nineteenth-century Minnesota. The materials are drawn from documents at... More
A new home--who'll follow? or, Glimpses of western life
Caroline Matilda (Stansbury) Kirkland (1801-1864) was a middle-class white woman with a literary bent who moved with her husband and children to the woods of Michigan in the mid-1830s to settle a newly-planned ... More
Thirty years in the itinerancy,
These memoirs, by Wesson George Miller, deal mainly with the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. Miller was born in upstate New York in 1822 and later emigrated with his family to Waup... More
Lena-Wingo the Mohawk : a sequel to The wilderness fugitives
Also available in digital form.
James Fenimore Cooper - The deerslayer,... Public domain book
Also available in digital form.
Reminiscences of pioneer days in St. Paul
Frank Moore, born in 1843, moved to Minnesota from Pennsylvania when he was fifteen years old. Shortly after arriving in St. Paul, Moore was employed by The Minnesotian, a paper owned and managed by his brother... More
Then came May during American Civil War
This is the nostalgic reminiscence of a childhood lived on a homestead near Petoskey, in northern Michigan, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Georgia Hufford's parents, Canadians of Scots ancestry,... More
The pioneers; or, The sources of the Susquehanna; a descriptive tale
Also available in digital form.
Thirty years in the itinerancy,
These memoirs, by Wesson George Miller, deal mainly with the early history of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Wisconsin. Miller was born in upstate New York in 1822 and later emigrated with his family to Waup... More
James Fenimore Cooper - The deerslayer,... Public domain book
Also available in digital form.
James Fenimore Cooper - The last of the Mohicans... Public domain book
Also available in digital form.
Reminiscences of pioneer days in St. Paul
Frank Moore, born in 1843, moved to Minnesota from Pennsylvania when he was fifteen years old. Shortly after arriving in St. Paul, Moore was employed by The Minnesotian, a paper owned and managed by his brother... More
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The Wisconsin Winnebagoes : an interview with Moses Paquette
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
James Fenimore Cooper - The deerslayer,... Public domain book
Also available in digital form.
A Wisconsin fur-trader's journal, 1804-05
"Addressed to the partners of the North West Fur Company." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Then came May during American Civil War
This is the nostalgic reminiscence of a childhood lived on a homestead near Petoskey, in northern Michigan, in the last quarter of the nineteenth century. Georgia Hufford's parents, Canadians of Scots ancestry,... More
James Fenimore Cooper - The last of the Mohicans... Public domain book
Also available in digital form.
James Fenimore Cooper - The last of the Mohicans... Public domain book
"Collateral reading": p. [xvi]. Also available in digital form.
Narrative of Peter J. Vieau : in an interview with the editor
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The ark of 1803, a story of Louisiana purchase times,
Recounts the adventurous journey of a riverboat from Ohio to New Orleans in 1803. Also available in digital form.
Reminiscences of pioneer days in St. Paul
Frank Moore, born in 1843, moved to Minnesota from Pennsylvania when he was fifteen years old. Shortly after arriving in St. Paul, Moore was employed by The Minnesotian, a paper owned and managed by his brother... More
The Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1815-1817
Edited by Reuben Gold Thwaites. The continuation of this article (Fur trade in Wisconsin, 1812-1825) is found in vol. 20 of this series. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Memories of the early life and development of Minnesota
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, January 12, 1914." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The story of my childhood, written for my children
This brief autobiography written for the author's children and illustrated with photographs pays particular attention to children's activities and education in mid- nineteenth-century Minnesota. George describe... More
The frontier holiday; being a collection of writings by Minnesota pion...
This collection of brief first-person descriptions and anecdotes chronicles how Christmas, New Year's, and Thanksgiving were celebrated in nineteenth-century Minnesota. The materials are drawn from documents at... More
James Fenimore Cooper - The last of the Mohicans... Public domain book
Also available in digital form.
The pioneers; or, the sources of the Susquehanna. A descriptivetale
Also available in digital form.
A Red River townsite speculation in 1857
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, May 13, 1913." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
The ark of 1803, a story of Louisiana purchase times,
Recounts the adventurous journey of a riverboat from Ohio to New Orleans in 1803. Also available in digital form.
Long, long ago, by Clara Clough Lenroot
This is a short, anecdotal reminiscence of a mid-nineteenth century Wisconsin girlhood, written over fifty years later. Clara Clough Lenroot grew up in the country, as well as the towns of Hudson, Osceola Mills... More
Stories of the Old Santa Fe Trail
Also available in digital form. Copy 2 formerly shelved in Reserve Storage.
The last trail: a story of early days in the Ohio Valley,
Also available in digital form.
Reminiscences, historical and personal
Reprinted from Annals of the Society, 1856. Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Narrative of Peter J. Vieau : in an interview with the editor
Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
Scouting with Daniel Boone, by Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
Also available in digital form.
Experiences in southwestern Minnesota, 1859 to 1867
"Read at the monthly meeting of the Executive Council, March 13, 1911." Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site.
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
Long, long ago, by Clara Clough Lenroot
This is a short, anecdotal reminiscence of a mid-nineteenth century Wisconsin girlhood, written over fifty years later. Clara Clough Lenroot grew up in the country, as well as the towns of Hudson, Osceola Mills... More
James Fenimore Cooper - The last of the Mohicans... Public domain book
Also available in digital form.
William Gilmore Simms - Guy Rivers; a tale of Georgia,
Also available in digital form.