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[Broadside]: New-York Canal Lands on Sale. ... Hez. B. Pierpont, October 1823

[Broadside]: New-York Canal Lands on Sale. ... Hez. B. Pierpont, Octob...

Reference copy may be in LOT 4397A. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; NY Hist.; Ad. Land; Broadsides 1823; BI BUSINESS; Shelf.

Map representing the route of the Philada. & Erie Rail Road its connections and the mineral lands in its vicinity.

Map representing the route of the Philada. & Erie Rail Road its connec...

Detailed map of Pennsylvania and parts of adjacent states indicating major drainage, relief by hachures, state boundaries, county boundaries in Pennsylvania, and major cities. Canals and railroads are annotated... More

Nebraska Congressman reports to Indians of progress on compensation bill. Washington, D.C., July 5. Rep. Karl Stefans, of Nebraska today conferred with tribesmen of the Winnebago Reservation over his Indian bill to provide compensation for members of the Winnebago Tribe for lands which the Indians[?] were forced to leave in Wisconsin in 1863, despite the fact that the tribe had never fought against the U.S. Rep. Stefans points out that the Sioux Nation is now receiving compensation for its lands, and feels that Winnebagos should be compensated for their lands. Left to right: Frank Beaver, Chief of the Winnebago Tribal Council, Rep. Stefan, and William Davis, tribesman

Nebraska Congressman reports to Indians of progress on compensation bi...

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Logging in the alluvial lands of the Mississippi River. Cotton plantation in the Arkansas River Valley

Logging in the alluvial lands of the Mississippi River. Cotton plantat...

Workers posed among logs in The Mississippi River plain, and a farmer working in a cotton field in the Arkansas River Valley. Engraving by Brinkerhoff & Barnett Co. of Chicago and Gatchell & Manning of Philadel... More

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a dirt road, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A one-grave cemetery in the cut-over lands near Tipler, Wisconsin

A one-grave cemetery in the cut-over lands near Tipler, Wisconsin

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Admits Army finance office honored allegedly fraudulent CCC vouchers. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. Major General Walter L. Reed, (left) Inspector General of the Army, today told Senator Key Pittman, Chairman of the Senate Public Lands Committee, the Army Chief Finance Offi[...] honor allegedly fraudulent CCC vouchers in go[...] faith. Reed made this declaration as he was [...] by the committee on the alleged defalcations o[...] Stitley, former Chief Voucher Clerk for the CCC [...] totaling $87,000, 1/18/38

Admits Army finance office honored allegedly fraudulent CCC vouchers. ...

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Productive America. The University of Texas campus. Petroleum and rich farming and grazing lands produce the wealth to support a rich cultural life

Productive America. The University of Texas campus. Petroleum and rich...

Public domain photograph of life in the United States in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The four freedoms. The hot dog is 100 percent American. It is an inevitable symbol of an American enjoying himself. America is one of the very few lands where citizens are still able to "have a good time"

The four freedoms. The hot dog is 100 percent American. It is an inevi...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Hinkletown, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Farm lands

Hinkletown, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Farm lands

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Trampas, New Mexico. Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), cannot read English, but pictures of other lands and maps of the world fascinate him

Trampas, New Mexico. Juan Lopez, the majordomo (mayor), cannot read En...

Public domain photograph of 1930s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Higgins, Texas. Going across flat lands along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad

Higgins, Texas. Going across flat lands along the Atchison, Topeka and...

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

David Sterrett House, State Game Lands Plot No. 169 (Upper Mifflin Township), Newville, Cumberland County, PA

David Sterrett House, State Game Lands Plot No. 169 (Upper Mifflin Tow...

Written data includes a floor plan. Significance: The Sterrett House is one of the oldest extant brick dwellings in rural Cumberland County. commissioned by Sterrett, ca. 1789, the house still exhibits much of ... More

Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota

Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota

V16220 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Forbes.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

5th annual tour, B.A. Bamber's Dime Show travels, art, history, astronomy, fun, electricity : grand stereoptical dissolving views : scenes in many lands.

5th annual tour, B.A. Bamber's Dime Show travels, art, history, astron...

Program includes: pt. 1, The planetarium ; pt. 2, Natural scenery ; pt. 3, The ill-fated ship ; pt. 4, The highland lover's courtship for marriage ; pt. 5, Statuary ; pt. 6, Miscellaneous. Forms part of: Theatr... More

Cameramen charge John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as he leaves U.S. Capitol. John D. Rockefeller, Jr., facing a battery of cameramen at the Capitol in Washington today after testifying before the Senate Public Lands Committee investigating the Teapot Dome leases

Cameramen charge John D. Rockefeller, Jr., as he leaves U.S. Capitol. ...

A crowd of people standing around a man with a camera. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a dirt field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a dirt field, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Pho...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Flood refugee camp for Negroes from the bottom lands. Forrest City, Arkansas

Flood refugee camp for Negroes from the bottom lands. Forrest City, Ar...

Public domain photograph - United States during 1930s Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Burlew before Senate Public Lands Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 21. Hearing by Senate Public Lands Committee to determine the qualification of Ebert. Burlew nominated Assistant Sec. of the Interior, Veered from its original course to probe of wire tapping in the department and the study of recent CCC frauds to the tune of $80,000, Burlew is shown with some of the vouchers that were forged, 1/21/38

Burlew before Senate Public Lands Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 21...

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Rail fence around pasture and grazing lands. Near Granby, Colorado

Rail fence around pasture and grazing lands. Near Granby, Colorado

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rail fence around pasture and grazing lands. Near Granby, Colorado

Rail fence around pasture and grazing lands. Near Granby, Colorado

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Wheat lands. Idaho County, Idaho

Wheat lands. Idaho County, Idaho

Public domain photograph of United States countryside, nature, during 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The four freedoms. It's serious business, this milk drinking. Maybe this youngster is thinking of the millions of youngsters in other lands who can never take their milk for granted

The four freedoms. It's serious business, this milk drinking. Maybe th...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Rail fence around pasture and grazing lands. Near Granby, Colorado

Rail fence around pasture and grazing lands. Near Granby, Colorado

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Fence around ranch grazing lands. Near Birney, Montana

Fence around ranch grazing lands. Near Birney, Montana

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November 16, 1795, Halifax, For sale of glebe lands. [10 identical petitions]

November 16, 1795, Halifax, For sale of glebe lands. [10 identical pet...

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Praise ye the Lord all lands and nations; Magnificat

Praise ye the Lord all lands and nations; Magnificat

From: Music Copyright Deposits, 1870-1885 (Microfilm M 3500) Also available through the Library of Congress Web Site as facsimile page images. (additional physical form)

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia ; containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ; with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. ; also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia ; containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ; with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. ; also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

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David Sterrett House, State Game Lands Plot No. 169 (Upper Mifflin Township), Newville, Cumberland County, PA

David Sterrett House, State Game Lands Plot No. 169 (Upper Mifflin Tow...

Written data includes a floor plan. Significance: The Sterrett House is one of the oldest extant brick dwellings in rural Cumberland County. commissioned by Sterrett, ca. 1789, the house still exhibits much of ... More

... Committee, appointed to examine into the measures taken by Congress and the State of Virginia, respecting the lands reserved for the use of the officers and soldiers of the said state, on Continental and state establishments, in the cession

... Committee, appointed to examine into the measures taken by Congres...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Page Order: Multipage Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 21... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

Map of the state of Texas showing the line and lands of the Texas and Pacific Railway reserved and donated by the State of Texas, 1873.

Map of the state of Texas showing the line and lands of the Texas and ...

Shows relief by hachures, drainages, cities and towns, counties, railroads, and the land grant. Scale ca. 1:2,150,000. LC Railroad maps, 578 Description derived from published bibliography. Inset: Map showing t... More

Map of the state of Nebraska showing the lands of the Burlington & Missouri Riv. R.R. Co. in Nebraska.

Map of the state of Nebraska showing the lands of the Burlington & Mis...

Land grant map showing drainage, cities and towns, townships, transportation network and main railroads in heavy lines. Scale ca. 1:1,000,000. LC Railroad maps, 353 Description derived from published bibliograp... More

Where 100 bananas are sold for 8 cents, Cordoba, hot lands of Mexico

Where 100 bananas are sold for 8 cents, Cordoba, hot lands of Mexico

H8088 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by Underwood & Underwood. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Delegation composing the Council of the Osage Indian tribe of Oklahoma in Wash. to confer with Secy. Work and Commissioner of Indian Affairs Burke to take up the question of leasing oil lands in the Osage reservation

Delegation composing the Council of the Osage Indian tribe of Oklahoma...

A black and white photo of a group of men. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Senate Com. on Pub. Lands, 1/30/24

Senate Com. on Pub. Lands, 1/30/24

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Miss Frances Densmore, expert in Indian music, who has been added to the staff of the Nat'l Museum at Wash., she was formerly connected with the Amer. Bureau of Ethnology, the Smithsonian. She is now in charge of the unique collection of musical instruments gathered from all lands and located in the Museum. Here shows with 2 of the oldest musical instruments of the Indians, an old violin and a horn made from elephant tusk

Miss Frances Densmore, expert in Indian music, who has been added to t...

A woman sitting at a table working on a basket. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Aged cotton farmer, Greene County, Georgia. He inherited his lands which are now heavily mortgaged

Aged cotton farmer, Greene County, Georgia. He inherited his lands whi...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, office meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Senate Committee questions Inspector General of Army. Washington, D.C., Jan. 18. Maj. General Walter Reed, Inspector General of the Army, takes the oath before testifying before the Senate Public Lands Committee. Questioned by the committee on the alleged defalcations totaling $87,000 of reno[...] Stitley, former Chief Voucher Clerk of the CCC, Reed declared the Army Chief Finance Office acted in good faith when the alleged fraudulent vouchers were honored. He added the finance officer was instructed to honor any and all vouchers presented by persons designated in communications between the Army and other government departments concerning handling of finances for the CCC, 1/18/38

Senate Committee questions Inspector General of Army. Washington, D.C....

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Construction work on Pit River Bridge, Shasta County, California. This bridge will be necessary after the Shasta Dam is completed. The backed up water will cover the lower lands

Construction work on Pit River Bridge, Shasta County, California. This...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is much more than just a job to Peter Dykzeul. Born in Holland, this employee of a Midwest tank plant knows the brutality and horror Nazi agression can bring to a freedom-loving people. And he's just one among America's many loyal, foreign-born workers who are pitching in with every ounce of strength to keep the nation free, and to lift the yoke from their native lands. Pressed Steel Can Company, Chicago, Illinois

Manpower. Americans all. Machining hoods for America's medium tanks is...

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Join the Army; travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual people and kill them

Join the Army; travel to exotic, distant lands; meet exciting, unusual...

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The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars in 1731 in what is now San Antonio, Texas. It was built to supply irrigation water to the lands near Mission San Francisco de la Espada, today part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

David Sterrett House, State Game Lands Plot No. 169 (Upper Mifflin Township), Newville, Cumberland County, PA

David Sterrett House, State Game Lands Plot No. 169 (Upper Mifflin Tow...

Written data includes a floor plan. Significance: The Sterrett House is one of the oldest extant brick dwellings in rural Cumberland County. commissioned by Sterrett, ca. 1789, the house still exhibits much of ... More

Motion of Mr. Dane : resolved, that the geographer of the United States, and the surveyors appointed pursuant to the ordinance of Congress, passed May 20, 1785, for ascertaining the mode of disposing of lands in the Western Territory, and who have accepted their appointments proceed in the execution of the said Ordinance ...

Motion of Mr. Dane : resolved, that the geographer of the United State...

Imprint from Evans. Ascribed to the press of John Dunlap in the Journals of the Continental Congress, v. 31, p. 962 (#531), an attribution later rejected. Cf. v. 33, p. 753. Evans gives title as: On motion of M... More

Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota

Free homes, government lands, and cheap deeded lands in South Dakota

V16220 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Forbes.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

A survey of the northern neck of Virginia, being the lands belonging to the Rt. Honourable Thomas Lord Fairfax Baron Cameron, bounded by & within the Bay of Chesapoyocke and between the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack: With the courses of the rivers Rappahannock and Potowmack, in Virginia, as surveyed according to order in the years 1736 & 1737.

A survey of the northern neck of Virginia, being the lands belonging t...

Scale ca. 1:875,000. Relief shown pictorially. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Annotated to show roads, plantations, counties and towns. AACR2: 651/1;700/1

To farmers, and others disposed to settle on new lands ... [Signed] William Poyntell. Walnut Street, between 7th and 8th streets, Philadelphia. [Philadelphia 1809-1811.

To farmers, and others disposed to settle on new lands ... [Signed] Wi...

Wm. Poyntell was living on Walnut St. 1809 1810, 1811 His widow on Spruce St. 1812, 1813 1814. Prior to 1809 he lived on Second St. & Chestnut St.; Title.; Imprint 2. Available also through the Library of Congr... More

View of the insulated table lands at the foot of the Rocky Mountains / S. Seymour, del. ; C.G. Childs, sc.

View of the insulated table lands at the foot of the Rocky Mountains /...

Major Long's expedition to the Rocky Mountains, 1820. Reference copy in LOT 4390-D. Illus. in: James, Edwin / Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains,..., 1822-1823.

"Terrasse" of Edward L. Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Plessis Piquet. Opened on Christmas day of 1917, by the American Red Cross, this establishment of 80 beds (which is capable of indefinite extension) is occupied by women and children refugees sent out from Paris, many of the patients coming from the Red Cross dispensary of the 19th arrondissement of Paris, which is deemed the worst section of the city from the standpoint of vital statistics. Surrounded by a park about 40 acres including woodlands, and with other lands adjoining and other land nearby also at the disposal of the Red Cross, the site is ideal for the purpose to which it has been put

"Terrasse" of Edward L. Trudeau Tuberculosis Sanatorium of Plessis Piq...

Title and note information from Red Cross caption card. Group Title: France, Tuberculosis. On caption card: (422), (423) Data: Mr. Gresemer, Eastern Medical Review, 1018; Miss Evans, Aug. 14/18; Men's Class, Ph... More

Former Interior Department investigators summoned before Senate Committee. Washington, D.C., Jan. 22. Two former investigators for the Interior Department, Col. W.L. Simpson (left) and Capt. J.G. Ghoslton, were summoned today to testify before the Senate Public Lands Committee considering the nomination of Ebert K. Burlew as Assistant Secretary of Interior, 1/22/38

Former Interior Department investigators summoned before Senate Commit...

Two men in suits are sitting in a chair. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a beach, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a beach, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photogra...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A black and white photo of a person sitting on a rock, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a person sitting on a rock, Great Depressio...

Public domain photograph - United States during the 1930s and 1940s, Farm Security Administration, New Deal, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Georgetown University to have brain institute. Washington, D.C., Sept. 15. A Brain Institute, second to none in the world, is being established here by Georgetown University Medical School under the direction of Dr. Othamr Solnitsky, of Germany. Dr. Solnitsky has already collected several thousand brains from all over the world, which will be used for experimental purposes, and is making arrangements with the Biological Survey and the Bureau of Fisheries to furnish a supply of brains of North American Vertebrates. The facilities of the institute will be placed at the disposal of scholars and practitioners from all lands, Dr. Solnitsky has announced. 9/15/37

Georgetown University to have brain institute. Washington, D.C., Sept....

Public domain photograph of college lab, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

A black and white photo of a man standing in a field. Farmers during Great Depression

A black and white photo of a man standing in a field. Farmers during G...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farmer worker, 20th-century dust bowl, great depression era, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Wife and child of sharecropper, cut-over farmer in bottom lands of Mississippi River

Wife and child of sharecropper, cut-over farmer in bottom lands of Mis...

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Digging in. Sicilian invasion. A shore party digs in on the beach and its radio operator sets up this portable equipment to make and maintain contact with ships off shore. In the distance an LCI lands troops under fire from hidden enemy pillboxes

Digging in. Sicilian invasion. A shore party digs in on the beach and ...

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Rail fence around pasture and grazing lands. Near Granby, Colorado

Rail fence around pasture and grazing lands. Near Granby, Colorado

Public domain photograph of United States agriculture in the 1930s, country, farmer, farm, great depression, migration, dust bowl refugees, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. The symbol of democracy, newly painted on a heavy bomber at the Long Beach, California, plant of Douglas Aircraft Company, brings hope to enslaved people in Axis-dominated lands. Most important are the many types of aircraft made at this plant are the B-17F ("Flying Fortress") heavy bomber, the A-20 ("Havoc") assault bomber and the C-47 heavy transport plane for the carrying of troops and cargo

Production. Airplane maufacture, general. The symbol of democracy, new...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a bomber aircraft, military aviation, air forces, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars in 1731 in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was built to supply irrigation water to the lands near Mission San Francisco de la Espada, today part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

A tourist's camp in the Bad Lands, Wyoming

A tourist's camp in the Bad Lands, Wyoming

Eleven people in front of large tent; food set out in back of open wagon; mountain in background.

Brookrace Estate, Bounded to north by Roxiticus Road, west by Union School House Road, south by Pleasant Valley Road, & east by private lands, Morristown, Morris County, NJ

Brookrace Estate, Bounded to north by Roxiticus Road, west by Union Sc...

Significance: Bookrace Estate includes buildings and structural remains from three centuries of use. 18th century land uses included two homes, a grist mill and structures related to an adjacent iron forge. In ... More

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia ; containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ; with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. ; also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

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The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia ; containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ; with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. ; also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

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David Sterrett House, State Game Lands Plot No. 169 (Upper Mifflin Township), Newville, Cumberland County, PA

David Sterrett House, State Game Lands Plot No. 169 (Upper Mifflin Tow...

Written data includes a floor plan. Significance: The Sterrett House is one of the oldest extant brick dwellings in rural Cumberland County. commissioned by Sterrett, ca. 1789, the house still exhibits much of ... More

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Lands North & South of Gila River, Coolidge, Pinal County, AZ

San Carlos Irrigation Project, Lands North & South of Gila River, Cool...

Significance: It is significant for creating an integral irrigation system to serve both Indian and non-Indian lands along the GIla River. Prior to project construction, irrigation of area lands was piecemeal a... More

Washakie Bad Lands, Wyoming - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Washakie Bad Lands, Wyoming - Public domain albumen print photogrpaph

Photo shows the photographer Timothy O'Sullivan seated on rock in foreground; 2 buttes in background. Plate 39 from: Geological exploration of the fortieth parallel / U.S. Army Corps. of Engineers ; Clarence K... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Galliopolis, and for other purposes therein mentioned ... [179-].

An act to authorize a grant of lands to the French inhabitants of Gall...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 223, Folder 27.

Lands End, Rockport, Massachusetts.. 19th century, Library of Congress collection

Lands End, Rockport, Massachusetts.. 19th century, Library of Congress...

Bird's-eye view. Partial cadastral map showing lots and lot numbers. Relief shown pictorially. In lower left margin: House lots for sale, Meredith & Grew, 15 Congress St., Boston, Mass. In lower right margin: T... More

Floyd County, Ga. embraces 512 square miles of the most picturesque and fertile lands, conceded to the state Cherokee Indians /

Floyd County, Ga. embraces 512 square miles of the most picturesque an...

Cadastral map showing the lot/block numbers and the names of landowners. Relief shown by hachures. Differs from other 1895 ed. in not having same topography, illustraitions, and border. "Ordered and approved by... More

Edward S. Curtis - [Entering the Bad Lands. Three Sioux Indians on horseback]

Edward S. Curtis - [Entering the Bad Lands. Three Sioux Indians on ho...

H66972 U.S. Copyright Office. Edward S. Curtis Collection. Curtis no. 1453-05.

A black and white photo of a river, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a river, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photogra...

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

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Above the coal seam, dairy and farm lands lay undisturbed. Only occasionally there will be "sinks" and large "pot holes" caused by the collapsing of "mined out" areas of the seam

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Training. Ramp boats. A thirty-six foot ramp boat lands a Marine Corps truck from a ship to a beach position as the leathernecks perfect themselves in new invasion techniques at a Gulf Coast point. The company that makes this boat and other naval craft conducts a training school in which the men are taught the fine points of handling the equipment

Training. Ramp boats. A thirty-six foot ramp boat lands a Marine Corps...

Picryl description: Public domain image of military vehicle, automobile, tractor truck, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Above the coal seam, dairy and farm lands lay undisturbed. Only occasionally there will be "sinks" and large "pot holes" caused by the collapsing of "mined out" areas of the seam

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsburgh Coal Company. Above the coal seam, dairy and farm lands lay undisturbed. Only occasionally there will be "sinks" and large "pot holes" caused by the collapsing of "mined out" areas of the seam

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (vicinity). Montour no. 4 mine of the Pittsbu...

Public domain photograph of Pennsylvania in 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars in 1731 in what is now San Antonio, Texas, United States. It was built to supply irrigation water to the lands near Mission San Francisco de la Espada, today part of San Antonio Missions National Historical Park

The Espada Acequia, or Espada Aqueduct, was built by Franciscan friars...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

November, 1786, Lancaster, Christ Church Parish inhabitants for rejection of petition which asks for sale of glebe lands of the parish.

November, 1786, Lancaster, Christ Church Parish inhabitants for reject...

Public domain scan of 18th-century drawing, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

An act to establish offices for the purpose of granting lands within the territories of the United States. [Philadelphia] Printed by John Fenno [1791].

An act to establish offices for the purpose of granting lands within t...

Imprint 3.; Not in Evans. Page Order: Leaflet Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 216, Folder 6.

A tourist's camp in the Bad Lands, Wyoming

A tourist's camp in the Bad Lands, Wyoming

Eleven people in front of large tent; food set out in back of open wagon; mountain in background.

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, esquires, and their associates ; for a grant of lands on the River Ohio, in North America ; for the purpose of erecting a new government ; with observations and remarks

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the p...

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the petition of the Honourable Thomas Walpole, Benjamin Franklin, John Sargent, and Samuel Wharton, esquires, and their associates ; for a grant of lands on the River Ohio, in North America ; for the purpose of erecting a new government ; with observations and remarks

Report of the Lords commissioners for trade and plantations : on the p...

November 4, 1790, Amelia, Opposed to sale of glebe lands.

November 4, 1790, Amelia, Opposed to sale of glebe lands.

Picryl description: Public domain copy of a historic document - petition, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia ; containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ; with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. ; also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

Picryl description: Public domain book scan - American Civil War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoining to the Missisippi East and West Florida, Georgia, South and North Carolina, and Virginia ; containing an account of their origin, language, manners, religious and civil customs, laws, form of government, punishments, conduct in war and domestic life, their habits, diet, agriculture, manufactures, diseases and method of cure ; with observations on former historians, the conduct of our colony governors, superintendents, missionaries, & c. ; also an appendix, containing a description of the Floridas, and the Missisippi lands, with their productions--the benefits of colonizing Georgiana, and civilizing the Indians--and the way to make all the colonies more valuable to the mother country

The history of the American Indians : particularly those nations adjoi...

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