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U.S.S. Columbia, pioneers - Public domain portrait photograph

U.S.S. Columbia, pioneers - Public domain portrait photograph

Picryl description: Public domain image of military personnel, parade, conscription, group of people in uniform, armed forces, infantry, war activity, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Route of the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake, Feb'y 1846-July 1847.

Route of the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake, Feb'y 184...

Not drawn to scale. Cover title: Pictorial map showing the route traveled by the Mormon pioneers from Nauvoo to Great Salt Lake. Pictorial map. Shows daily progress along the route. Accompanied by: Guide to the... More

Old Settlers Picnic at Gibbon, Buffalo County, Nebraska

Old Settlers Picnic at Gibbon, Buffalo County, Nebraska

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Monument to the pioneers. Santa Clara, Utah. See general caption

Monument to the pioneers. Santa Clara, Utah. See general caption

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

Main Street, General View, Aurora (historical), Mineral County, NV

Main Street, General View, Aurora (historical), Mineral County, NV

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

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washington County, UT

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...

Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washington County, UT

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...

Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washington County, UT

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...

Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, Hebo, Tillamook County, OR

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, H...

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

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing pioneers as 19th-century family around Conestoga wagon on prairie]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing pioneers as 19th-cent...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Rock Creek Mining District, Upper, Lower & Waterman Ditches, Near intersection of U.S. Route 26 & Antone Road, Dayville, Grant County, OR

Rock Creek Mining District, Upper, Lower & Waterman Ditches, Near inte...

Significance: The hydraulicking ditches of the Rock Creek Mining District are early representatives of a hydraulic mining process invented in California in 1852. The ditches preserve an early localized impleme... More

Rock Creek Mining District, Upper, Lower & Waterman Ditches, Near intersection of U.S. Route 26 & Antone Road, Dayville, Grant County, OR

Rock Creek Mining District, Upper, Lower & Waterman Ditches, Near inte...

Significance: The hydraulicking ditches of the Rock Creek Mining District are early representatives of a hydraulic mining process invented in California in 1852. The ditches preserve an early localized impleme... More

Gray Brothers Block, 101 West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Gray Brothers Block, 101 West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, ...

Significance: This structure is one of the finest remaining examples of stylish commercial buildings of the territorial period in Oklahoma. It was built for and occupied by important pioneer-entrepeneurs, and ... More

Chaney Log House, Highway 68, North side, Osage, Carroll County, AR

Chaney Log House, Highway 68, North side, Osage, Carroll County, AR

1986 Charles E. Peterson Prize, Honorable Mention Significance: The James C. Chaney House, a log "I" house, is an excellent example of the vernacular architecture that dominated Arkansas' landscape during the a... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Pioneers in the great religious reformation of the nineteenth century / eng. by J.C. Buttre ; designed by J.D.C. McFarland.

Pioneers in the great religious reformation of the nineteenth century ...

Head-and-shoulders portraits of Thomas Campbell, B.W. Stone, Walter Scott, and A. Campbell. Q4583 U.S. Copyright Office. Copyright by J.D.C. McFarland, Des Moines, Iowa. Exhibited: "Religion and the founding o... More

Indian wars of the West : containing biographical sketches of those pioneers who headed the western settlers in repelling the attacks of the savages, together with a view of the character, manners, monuments, and antiquities of the western Indians

Indian wars of the West : containing biographical sketches of those pi...

Public domain history book page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Swann's Drugstore, Fifth Avenue & Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

Swann's Drugstore, Fifth Avenue & Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, N...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kluge House, 540 West Main Street, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, MT

Kluge House, 540 West Main Street, Helena, Lewis and Clark County, MT

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

W. W. Dwight's Jewelry Store, Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

W. W. Dwight's Jewelry Store, Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

Significance: The building was built in 1902 to serve both commercial and residential use. It functioned as such under various ownerships until it was sold in 1939 to the American Legion, Frank Griener Post No... More

Hole-in-the-Rock Trail, Running From Bluff Vicinity to Escalante, Garfield County, Bluff, San Juan County, UT

Hole-in-the-Rock Trail, Running From Bluff Vicinity to Escalante, Garf...

Significance: The Hole-in-the-Rock Trail was used by Mormon pioneers to settle the area around Bluff, Utah, and transportation from their origin around Escalante, Utah. The trail is an example of the engineeri... More

Hole-in-the-Rock Trail, Running From Bluff Vicinity to Escalante, Garfield County, Bluff, San Juan County, UT

Hole-in-the-Rock Trail, Running From Bluff Vicinity to Escalante, Garf...

Significance: The Hole-in-the-Rock Trail was used by Mormon pioneers to settle the area around Bluff, Utah, and transportation from their origin around Escalante, Utah. The trail is an example of the engineeri... More

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Street & Glenarm Place, Denver, Denver County, CO

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...

Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Street & Glenarm Place, Denver, Denver County, CO

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...

Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More

Genoa, General View, 1890, Genoa, Douglas County, NV

Genoa, General View, 1890, Genoa, Douglas County, NV

Survey number: HABS NV-3-12 Public domain image of 19th-century Genoa architecture, historical city building, Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pioneers of 1847 at the Utah Pioneer Jubilee, Salt Lake City, Utah, July 24th 1897

Pioneers of 1847 at the Utah Pioneer Jubilee, Salt Lake City, Utah, Ju...

Photo copyrighted by Geo. Ed. Anderson, Springville, Utah. This record contains unverified data from caption card.

Holzwarth Trout Lodge, Joe Fleshut's Cabin, Trail Ridge Road, Grand Lake, Grand County, CO

Holzwarth Trout Lodge, Joe Fleshut's Cabin, Trail Ridge Road, Grand La...

Significance: This structure contributes to the historical theme of Pioneer Settlement and the Resort Industry. It was a typical western homestead cabin of the time and important for demonstrating the growth of... More

The life of Buffalo Bill. Parts I-III

The life of Buffalo Bill. Parts I-III

Several events from Buffalo Bill Cody's life are reenacted in the form of dreamed flashbacks. Many scenes are from the Wild West show scenarios, including Buffalo Bill taking the scalp of Yellow Hand, an Indian... More

A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a man sitting in a chair, Great Depression....

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dr. Cooley, one of the pioneers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in study of ticks and development of spotted fever vaccine. USPHS (United States Public Health Service)  Laboratory, Hamilton, Montana

Dr. Cooley, one of the pioneers at the Rocky Mountain Laboratory in st...

Public domain photograph of laboratory, science, research, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Called "El Paso's Boot Hill," Concordia Cemetery contains the remains of more than 60,000 people, including black "buffalo soldiers" (whose headstones are shown here), Mormon pioneers, Texas rangers, and gunfighters, including John Wesley Hardin. El Paso, Texas

Called "El Paso's Boot Hill," Concordia Cemetery contains the remains ...

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

Called "El Paso's Boot Hill," Concordia Cemetery contains the remains of more than 60,000 people, including black "buffalo soldiers" (whose headstones are shown here), Mormon pioneers, Texas rangers, and gunfighters, including John Wesley Hardin. El Paso, Texas

Called "El Paso's Boot Hill," Concordia Cemetery contains the remains ...

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

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, Hebo, Tillamook County, OR

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, H...

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

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, Hebo, Tillamook County, OR

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, H...

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

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, Hebo, Tillamook County, OR

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, H...

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

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, Hebo, Tillamook County, OR

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, H...

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

Hot Springs Bridge, Spanning Bruneau River, Hot Springs Road, Bruneau, Owyhee County, ID

Hot Springs Bridge, Spanning Bruneau River, Hot Springs Road, Bruneau,...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a river or lake, forest, trees, water stream, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

Koster's Theatre, North side of Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

Koster's Theatre, North side of Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

Significance: The theatre was the center of entertainment in the town of Niobrara. Architecturally, the theatre reflects simplicity in design with an arcaded entryway. The H.E. Bonesteel Company was one of the... More

Pioneers 8th N.Y. German rifles 1861

Pioneers 8th N.Y. German rifles 1861

Two soldiers, one carrying an axe, the other a raised sword. Title inscribed below image. Gift, J.P. Morgan, 1919 (DLC/PP-1919:R1.2.247) Forms part of: Morgan collection of Civil War drawings.

Rock Creek Mining District, Upper, Lower & Waterman Ditches, Near intersection of U.S. Route 26 & Antone Road, Dayville, Grant County, OR

Rock Creek Mining District, Upper, Lower & Waterman Ditches, Near inte...

Significance: The hydraulicking ditches of the Rock Creek Mining District are early representatives of a hydraulic mining process invented in California in 1852. The ditches preserve an early localized impleme... More

American progress - Print, Library of Congress collection

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

Trinity Episcopal Church, 310 East Noble Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Trinity Episcopal Church, 310 East Noble Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County...

For additional information, see HABS No. OK-10, Town of Guthrie. Significance: This 1890 frame Church building is a prototype of early Episcopal churches in the southwest, a strict adherent to the formula for p... More

Trinity Episcopal Church, 310 East Noble Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Trinity Episcopal Church, 310 East Noble Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County...

For additional information, see HABS No. OK-10, Town of Guthrie. Significance: This 1890 frame Church building is a prototype of early Episcopal churches in the southwest, a strict adherent to the formula for p... More

Trinity Episcopal Church, 310 East Noble Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Trinity Episcopal Church, 310 East Noble Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County...

For additional information, see HABS No. OK-10, Town of Guthrie. Significance: This 1890 frame Church building is a prototype of early Episcopal churches in the southwest, a strict adherent to the formula for p... More

Gray Brothers Block, 101 West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Gray Brothers Block, 101 West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, ...

Significance: This structure is one of the finest remaining examples of stylish commercial buildings of the territorial period in Oklahoma. It was built for and occupied by important pioneer-entrepeneurs, and ... More

Woodville Canal Company, West side of Snake River (River Mile 796), Woodville, Bingham County, ID

Woodville Canal Company, West side of Snake River (River Mile 796), Wo...

Significance: The Woodville Canal Company represents one of the few remaining small-scale canal companies operating in eastern Idaho that continues to be administered and managed by district farmers. The Woodv... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Swann's Drugstore, Fifth Avenue & Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

Swann's Drugstore, Fifth Avenue & Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, N...

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

Swann's Drugstore, Fifth Avenue & Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

Swann's Drugstore, Fifth Avenue & Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, N...

Public domain photograph of industrial architecture, factory building, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Pine Street Bridge, Pine Street (State Route 66) ,spanning Cumberland River, Pineville, Bell County, KY

Pine Street Bridge, Pine Street (State Route 66) ,spanning Cumberland ...

Significance: The bridge derives its significance from its representative nature as an open spandrel deck concrete arch bridge and from its associations with the Luten Bridge Company and the historic Cumberland... More

Holzwarth Trout Lodge, Twin No. 1 & Rose Cabin, Trail Ridge Road, Grand Lake, Grand County, CO

Holzwarth Trout Lodge, Twin No. 1 & Rose Cabin, Trail Ridge Road, Gran...

Significance: This cabin contributes to the Pioneer Settlement and Resort Industry themes. Twin No. 1, one of the earliest cabins, was constructed in 1921. In 1945, a second cabin was attached, but with no inte... More

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Town of Guthrie, U.S. Route 77 & State Road 33, Guthrie, Logan County,...

Significance: Guthrie is a town which sprang up literally overnight. On April 21, 1889, the site was occupied by numerous lot markets, several skulking "sooners" and two wooden buildings, the recently construct... More

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Street & Glenarm Place, Denver, Denver County, CO

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...

Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Street & Glenarm Place, Denver, Denver County, CO

Empire Building, 430 Sixteenth Street, South Corner of Sixteenth Stree...

Significance: Designed by Frank E. Edbrooke, the Empire Building is a significant example of the later works of one of Denver's most prominent architects, and represents early low-rise commercial construction i... More

A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat of Tom Green County, Texas. It depicts an early stagecoach of the type that brought pioneers to the city in the 1840s

A downtown mural, by artist Crystal Goodman, in San Angelo, the seat o...

Picryl description: Public domain image of horse riding, cavalry, military, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Grandmaw Puchett, one of the pioneers in this region in her home at Alvin, Wisconsin

Grandmaw Puchett, one of the pioneers in this region in her home at Al...

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

Old lumberjack now living in Northern Minnesota Pioneers' Home. Spooner, Minnesota

Old lumberjack now living in Northern Minnesota Pioneers' Home. Spoone...

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

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Milton, pioneers at El Indio, Texas

Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Milton, pioneers at El Indio, Texas

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Resident of Northern Minnesota Pioneers' Home

Resident of Northern Minnesota Pioneers' Home

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

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a woman in a kitchen, Great Depression. FSA...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Resident of Northern Minnesota Pioneers' Home. Spooner, Minnesota

Resident of Northern Minnesota Pioneers' Home. Spooner, Minnesota

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

Pioneers Monument by Frank Happersberger located outside City Hall, San Francisco, California

Pioneers Monument by Frank Happersberger located outside City Hall, Sa...

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

Called "El Paso's Boot Hill," Concordia Cemetery contains the remains of more than 60,000 people, including black "buffalo soldiers" (whose headstones are shown here), Mormon pioneers, Texas rangers, and gunfighters, including John Wesley Hardin. El Paso, Texas

Called "El Paso's Boot Hill," Concordia Cemetery contains the remains ...

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

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washington County, UT

Hurricane Irrigation Canal, State Route 15 Vicinity, Hurricane, Washin...

Significance: When an expanding population created a demand for more farmland, the residents of the narrow Virgin River valley turned to the Hurricane Bench, a broad expanse of fertile land requiring only water... More

William H. Tracy House, 5 West Mendenhall Street, Bozeman, Gallatin County, MT

William H. Tracy House, 5 West Mendenhall Street, Bozeman, Gallatin Co...

Significance: This house was built in 1882 for William H. Tracy, one of the earliest pioneers in the Gallatin Valley. Tracy settled on three forty-acre tracts in what is now the city of Bozeman in 1864-65. In... More

Pioneers of Alaska Igloo No. 8, Koyukuk River at Wiseman Creek, Bettles Vicinity, Wiseman, Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area, AK

Pioneers of Alaska Igloo No. 8, Koyukuk River at Wiseman Creek, Bettle...

Significance: Mortgaged to Erle R. Brown, March 18, 1913, when it was known as the Siverly and Bowker Saloon. Sold by E.R. Brown to Igloo #8 of the Pioneers of Alaska, November 2, 1914. Owned in 1972 by Burt ... More

Henefer Bridge, Spanning Weber River at Center Street, Henefer, Summit County, UT

Henefer Bridge, Spanning Weber River at Center Street, Henefer, Summit...

Significance: The Henefer Bridge is a single-span pony truss bridge constructed in 1907-1908. The bridge is one of the few, if not the only, example of a pony truss with pinned connections built in the State o... More

Henefer Bridge, Spanning Weber River at Center Street, Henefer, Summit County, UT

Henefer Bridge, Spanning Weber River at Center Street, Henefer, Summit...

Significance: The Henefer Bridge is a single-span pony truss bridge constructed in 1907-1908. The bridge is one of the few, if not the only, example of a pony truss with pinned connections built in the State o... More

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, Hebo, Tillamook County, OR

Dolph Toll Road, State Highway 22 vicinity, Sinslaw National Forest, H...

Public domain image of wetland, water, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Fort Riley, Riley, Riley County, KS

Significance: Fort Riley was established in the 1850's to protect settlers and traders traveling along the Santa Fe and Oregon Trails. It was laid out in a traditional cavalry post plan with limestone officer'... More

Koster's Theatre, North side of Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

Koster's Theatre, North side of Elm Street, Niobrara, Knox County, NE

Significance: The theatre was the center of entertainment in the town of Niobrara. Architecturally, the theatre reflects simplicity in design with an arcaded entryway. The H.E. Bonesteel Company was one of the... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing pioneers as 19th-century family around Conestoga wagon on prairie]

[Design drawing for stained glass window showing pioneers as 19th-cent...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Gray Brothers Block, 101 West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, OK

Gray Brothers Block, 101 West Oklahoma Avenue, Guthrie, Logan County, ...

Significance: This structure is one of the finest remaining examples of stylish commercial buildings of the territorial period in Oklahoma. It was built for and occupied by important pioneer-entrepeneurs, and ... More

Woodville Canal Company, West side of Snake River (River Mile 796), Woodville, Bingham County, ID

Woodville Canal Company, West side of Snake River (River Mile 796), Wo...

Significance: The Woodville Canal Company represents one of the few remaining small-scale canal companies operating in eastern Idaho that continues to be administered and managed by district farmers. The Woodv... More

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

Strawberry Valley Project, Payson, Utah County, UT

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

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