Historical Images

Join, Or Die Cartoon
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Arms payoff for hostage release, Herblock
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
The Founders Would Have Loved It, political cartoon by Herb Block
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
The Woman Who Dared
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Dodge City [Kans.] Peace Commissioners Camillus S. Fly, 1890
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Custer’s Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Park map of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Towner School Bus Photograph
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
Amelia Earhart Signed Photograph
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
The able doctor, or, America swallowing the bitter draught
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Man waiting in the colored-waiting room bus station in Durham, NC.
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
Cartoon
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
General Custer's death struggle. The battle of the Little Big Horn
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Marshall Door
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
Nurses Being Instructed on the Use of Respirator for a Polio Patient
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Map
ERA 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Earhart's flight started in Oakland, California and made it all the way to Darwin, Australia. She was only 3 stops away from returning to Oakland when she disappeared.
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
Harvest of Death
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
John Brown Cartoon
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
Original Lightbulb Patent
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Call for Black Homesteaders to Leave for Kansas
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Clara Barton
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
President John Adams
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
William Franklin
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Sugarhouse Prison
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Shay's Rebellion Illustration
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Map
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861), ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), Multiple Eras
Dorothea Lange Photograph
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Data Chart
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
HMS Jersey
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
map
ERA 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620)
The Revisionist
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
Seal of Bald Eagle, includes the motto E Pluribus Unum, "Out of Many, One."
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
The Bostonians Paying the Excise Man, or Tarring and Feathering
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Political Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Benjamin Franklin
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
L'Amerique Septentrionale 1700 Map by Guilaume Delisle
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)