Historical Images

Dyer Anti-Lynching bill and the Congressmen who voted against it.
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Political Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Stonewall Jackson
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Immigrant Children, Ellis Island, New York
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Poster discussing the Good Neighbor Policy
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
Lincoln Photo
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Photograph of Peter, a formerly enslaved man
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Arms payoff for hostage release, Herblock
ERA 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the present)
Map showing Indian reservations within the limits of the United States : 1883
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Dorothea Lange Photograph
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Shay's Rebellion Illustration
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
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)
Magna Britannia
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Amelia Earhart Signed Photograph
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
Separated cartoon
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Clara Barton
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Benjamin Franklin
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
John Smith's Map of Virginia
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
Alexander Hamilton
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
England's Vietnam
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763), ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Seal of Bald Eagle, includes the motto E Pluribus Unum, "Out of Many, One."
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Park map of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument, Montana.
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The White Man's Burden cartoon
ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900), ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
William Franklin
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Many Faces of Polio
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
The Bostonians Paying the Excise Man, or Tarring and Feathering
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Marshall Door
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
The Revisionist
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
Nurses Being Instructed on the Use of Respirator for a Polio Patient
ERA 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970's)
Cartoon
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s), ERA 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870-1900)
Henry Knox Travel Kit
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Custer’s Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Tragic Prelude
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
William Sherman
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
Chrysler Advertisement 1928 Chrysler Imperial
ERA 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929–1945)
A Group of Immigrants Outside a Building on Ellis Island
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Map
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
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)
President John Adams
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Map of Salem
ERA 2: Colonialism and Settlement (1585–1763)
John Calvin
ERA 4: Expansion and Reform (1801-1861)
The Freedmen's Bureau Cartoon
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)
The Big Stick in the Caribbean Sea Cartoon
ERA 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890–1930)
Join, Or Die Cartoon
ERA 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754–1820s)
Three Pronged Movements in the Sioux Expedition of 1876
ERA 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850-1877)