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IMMIGRANTS ON SHIP, c1900. Two Eastern European women aboard an immigrant ship bound		OWENITE COMMUNITY, 1824. Design for an Owenite community by Stedman Whitwell, the		CARTOON: EMBARGO, 1811. Ograbme, or the American Snapping-Turtle: American cartoon		ANTI-SUFFRAGE POSTER, 1915. 'Which do you prefer? The home or the street corner		COWBOY CHRISTMAS, 1889. 'Cow-Boys Coming to Town for Christmas
SCOTTISH COLONEL, c1894. 'Colonel Joseph Laing, of the Disbanded 79th Regiment		GOLD RUSH: DIARY, 1848. Diary entry by gold prospector Henry Bigler in California		COLONIAL CLOTH MAKERS. Carding, spinning, and weaving woolen cloth in an 18th century		FERDINAND & ISABELLA, 1493. King Ferdinand of Aragon and Queen Isabella of Castile		KNOW NOTHINGS, c1850. 'Uncle Sam's Youngest Son, Citizen Know Nothing
KNOW NOTHING ALMANAC, 1856. Advertisement for 'The Know Nothing Almanac,' 1856		POSTER: PROHIBITION, c1915. 'Close the Saloons		BOOK: KNOW NOTHINGS, 1855. 'The Satanic Plot, Or, Awful Crimes of Popery in High		NATIVIST CERTIFICATE, c1845. Membership certificate for the Native American Republican		PLATTE RIVER, 1859. Covered wagons being ferried down the Platte River in Wyoming
RIGHTS OF BRITISH AMERICA. Cover of Thomas Jefferson's "A Summary View of		ROBERT B. ELLIOTT. 'The Shackle Broken - by the Genius of Freedom,' Lithograph		BOY SCOUT, 1913. Making a deposit at a postal savings location, United States		BOUCK WHITE ARRESTED, 1914. Minister and socialist Bouck White arrested for disrupting		WAR OF 1812: NAVAL BATTLE. The capture of the HMS Frolic, under Commander Thomas Whinyates
BILL OF RIGHTS, 1789. Draft of the Bill of Rights; Senate revisions to the house-passed		COLORADO: ROUND UP, c1898. 'Round Up' on the Cimarron River in Colorado		PHILIPPINE AMERICAN WAR. Colonel J. Franklin Bell and officers of the Fourth Cavalry		CATTLE HERDING, c1905. Cowboys with a large herd of cattle on the Great Plains		COLORADO: RAILROAD, 1899. Retouched panoramic photograph of a train on the Great
DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. Detail of the third and fourth lines of the Declaration		KLONDIKE GOLD RUSH, 1898. Crowd near Dyea, Alaska, en route to the Klondike gold fields		SUPREME COURT, 1896. Portraits of the U		IRVING HALE (1861-1930). American Army general. Photograph, 1898		SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898. The Spanish publication of president William McKinley's
CUBA: YELLOW FEVER, 1898. '"The Home of Yellow Fever" - Santiago de Cuba, July, 1898		SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898. Cornell University members of the First Regiment of		SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898. The Statue of Liberty greeting returning U		SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR, 1898. American members of the commission to determine the		SETTLERS, 1880. 'The Settler's First Home in the Far West
IMMIGRANT SHIP, 1875. Landing of an immigrant ship in America. Wood engraving, American		NEW YORK: IMMIGRANTS, 1880. European immigrants arriving at Castle Garden, New York City		DRINKING, 1874. 'Like Father Like Son.' Men drinking and gambling in a saloon		TEMPERANCE MOVEMENT, 1874. A speaker at a temperance meeting held on the stage		IMMIGRANT WAGON, 1873. A wagon carrying luggage of immigrants on the way to the
LABOR EXCHANGE, 1873. A newly arrived immigrant being interviewed by prospective		CASTLE GARDEN: 1880. Registering newly arrived immigrants at Castle Garden, New York City		CASTLE GARDEN: EXAMINATION. Examining newly arrived immigrants at Castle Garden, New		SCOTTISH DANCE, c1894. 'Dancing the Highland Fling.' Illustration by W.A. Rogers		NAST: RECONSTRUCTION, 1868. Personification of the ideals of the Reconstruction
THE PIONEER, 1868. 'The Pioneer.' Wood engraving after a drawing by Alfred R		EMIGRANTS TO WEST, 1883. Emigrants traveling westward make camp for the night in		NEW YORK: IMMIGRANTS, 1870. Interior of an immigrant boarding house in New York City		CHINESE IMMIGRANTS, 1870. Chinese immigrants flying kites in North Adams, Massachusetts		CHINESE IMMIGRANTS, 1870. Dormitories for workers at a Chinese shoe factory in North
IMMIGRANT SHIP, 1870. 'Steamship Life - Steerage Passengers		IMMIGRANT SHIP, 1870. 'Steamship Life - Oiling the Binnacle' on an immigrant		IMMIGRANT SHIP, 1870. European immigrants traveling to America, sleeping on the		IMMIGRANTS, 1888. Immigrants moving to the coal mining regions of Pennsylvania		IMMIGRATION, 1878. 'Two Phases of Immigration
IMMIGRANT RUNNERS, 1858. 'Runners of the Olden Time		IMMIGRANT SHIP, 1871. 'Land, Ho! - Scene on Board an Emigrant Ship		NEW YORK: IMMIGRANTS, 1858. Immigrant men in New York City. Wood engraving, American		CASTLE GARDEN: DANCE, 1882. Newly arrived immigrants celebrating and dancing at		NEW YORK: IMMIGRANTS, 1858. Immigrant women in New York City. Wood engraving, American
CASTLE GARDEN, 1880. Scenes of newly arrived immigrants in Castle Garden, New York City		REMINGTON: SPANIARDS, 1897. 'Spaniards Search Women on American Steamers		BATTLE OF NEW ORLEANS, 1815. Andrew Jackson at the Battle of New Orleans, 8 January 1815		MORAN: PURITAN WOMAN. 'A Fair Puritan.' Chromolithograph by Percy Moran, c1897		ELLIS ISLAND, c1910. Men loading immigrants' baggage on to a wagon at Ellis Island
NEW YORK: CAMP WIKOFF, 1899. Colonel J		JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, 1889. 'The broken dam at South Fork Lake.' Engraving, 1889		JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, 1889. 'General view of the wreckage on the Johnstown flats		NEW YORK: IMMIGRANTS, c1900. Immigrants at Battery Park in New York City. Photograph		PHILIPPINES, 1898. Major-General Wesley Merritt responding to an Independence Day
ELLIS ISLAND, c1910. New immigrant awaiting examination at Ellis Island. Photograph		IMMIGRANTS, 1891. 'Detained Polish Jew.' Engraving, 1891		PYLE: RETURN FROM CHURCH. 'The Return from Church, Christmas Morning		AVONDALE MINING DISASTER. 'Reviving miners after their explorations		WAGON TRAIN CAMP, 1864. 'Halt of a Wagon Train.' during the American Civil War
IMMIGRANTS, 1891. 'At the railroad ticket-office.' Engraving, 1891		IMMIGRANTS, 1891. 'Swiss peasants.' Engraving, 1891		JOHNSTOWN FLOOD, 1889. 'Burning ruins above the Pennsylvania Railroad Bridge		WOMEN'S RIGHTS, 1890. 'For the benefit of the girl who is about to graduate		ELLIS ISLAND, 1917. A new immigrant family at Ellis Island. Photograph, March 1917
ELLIS ISLAND, c1915. Immigrants arriving at Ellis Island in New York Harbor. Photograph		ELLIS ISLAND, C1910. New immigrants sitting on the lawn at Ellis Island. Photograph		NEW YORK: CAMP WIKOFF, 1899. Surgeon General Sternberg and Chief Surgeon Colonel		ELLIS ISLAND, 1902. Friends being reunited at the gate at Ellis Island. Photograph		OKLAHOMA LAND RUSH, c1888. Troop C of the 5th Cavalry, which arrested boomers
IMMIGRANTS, 1891. 'Five immigrants from Belgium.' Engraving, 1891		NEW YORK: CAMP WIKOFF, 1899. Provost-Marshal Captain Chase at Camp Wikoff, at Montauk		NEW YORK: CAMP WIKOFF, 1899. Colonel Stuart, a bacteriologist, at Camp Wikoff, at		CALIFORNIA: GOLD MINERS. Gold miners at a camp along the Yuba River in California		IMMIGRANTS, 1891. 'A motherless Italian child.' Engraving, 1891
PIONEER FAMILY. 'The Emigrant's Sabbath		CALIFORNIA: GOLD MINERS. Gold miners in California. Wood engraving, English, 1853		EMIGRANTS: FENCE BUILDING. Emigrants building a fence at a settlement in the American		ELLIS ISLAND, c1910. Immigrant children at Ellis Island. Photograph, c1910		CALIFORNIA: GOLD MINERS. Gold miners washing gold in the Yuba River in California
GOLD RUSH: BRITISH CARTOON. 'The Rush to California		HEART OF THE KLONDIKE, c1897. Poster for 'Heart of the Klondike - Over the Chilkoot		SPANISH DEFEAT, 1515. 'The Defeat of D'Ayllon by the Chicoreans		IMMIGRANTS, 1891. 'Marriage of Austrian Jews by the rabbi.' Engraving, 1891
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