Aftermath of Civil War:
- Change
- Places
& Regions
- Citizenship:
- Factors
of Production
- Environment
& Society
The
Black Codes of 1865:
Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (1889):
Photographs,
L.O.C., American Memories Collection: "Touring Turn-of-the-Century
America," from the Detroit Publishing Co. (1890-1920):
Photographs
of the Mid-Atlantic states--New York, New Jersey, and
Connecticut--from the 1850s to the 1910s, from the Robert N. Dennis Collection
of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library.
Pioneering
the Upper Midwest: Books from Michigan,
Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910:
(click on this title in Collections list at following webpages:
Broadsides
(posters): Prepare to meet us at Chetopa, Kan. a large area of the beautiful
Indian territory open to homesteaders … the Indian
Territory Colonization Society [1879]
(Type in "Chetopa, Kan." in search box after
"Search key words" at following web pages):
Broadside
(poster) for Lecture: "Three days
longer! New route to California via Wentworth's Hall! Original panorama of the
gold regions of California! (Type in "three days longer" in
search box after "Search key words" at following web pages):
Broadside
(poster): Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land
for sale on 10 years credit by the Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co.
(Buffalo. N. Y.1872) (Type in "millions of acres" in search box
after "Search key words" at following web pages)::
Broadside
(poster): Ho! for the New Eldorado! 1,400
second-hand six-shooters for sale. Also 1,100 double-barrel shot guns
and 1,000 winchester rifles!
As the route from Independence to Carpenter City lies through the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Country, it is necessary that all parties should
go well armed ... Independence Arms Co., Independence, Kansas (1879) (Type
in "Eldorado" in search box after "Search key words" at
following web pages):
Library
of Congress' Geography and Map Division web pages containing Panoramic
(Birds'-eye view) Maps of Cities and Towns in the U.S., 1847-1920
From
Library of Congress' "American Memories" Website, "California As
I Saw It"
Collection of First-person narratives of California's early
years, 1849-1900:
History of the
American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Denver Public Library
Collection, at L.O.C., "American Memories":
Debate
on woman suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d session, 49th
Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887:
"The
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920" Library of Congress
collection: books, pamphlets, government
documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage
Large
collection of photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and
plant communities in the United States (1891-1936), American Memories
Collection, L.O.C., from University of Chicago Library:
"The
Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement", "Virtual
Exhibit" from Smithsonian American History Museum on the first
conservation and Audubon Society movements of the late 1800's:
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