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The Bryant & Stratton Commercial School

Men on the deck of a ship looking out to sea.

Roping, Grayson Ranch

Poster for a chautauqua in Abilene
The Bryant & Stratton Commercial School Red Start Line Roping, Grayson Ranch [35mm slide] Eskimo mother with child on back.
Collection:
Emergence of Advertising
in America
Collection:
Emergence of Advertising
in America
Collection:
Buckaroos in Paradise
Collection:
Meeting of Frontiers.
 
Poster for a chautauqua in Abilene Community Center: Free- everybody welcome. Poster - I want to learn. Community Center: Free-everybody welcome.
 
" Chautauqua: Abilene..."

Community Center:...
everybody welcome.

I want to learn, will you help?

Sample Copy, Town Talk
Collection:
Traveling Culture: Circuit Chautauqua
Collection:
By the People, For the People: Posters from the WPA
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Emergence of Advertising in America
 
Getting Started
Primary Sources
Qumran Artifacts The History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph Cuba Wiley, Peytona, WV. Omaha Indian Music

Pottery vessels ... Qumran

(note: scroll to find the Pottery section)

The History of the Edison Cylinder Phonograph

Cuba Wiley, Peytona, WV.

Dancing ...at the Library of Congress Neptune Plaza Concert
Exhibit
Scrolls from the Dead Sea
Collection
Inventing Entertainment
Collection:
Tending the Commons
Collection:
Omaha Indian Music
 
Branding, Ninety-Six Ranch [35mm slide]

Branding, Ninety-Six Ranch [35mm slide]

Collection:
Buckaroos in Paradise
 

line
How To
George W. Meyers, operating the Chicago Daily News searchlight at night Holton Arms School. Children linking hands in a circle at Holton Arms School Member of the U. S. Coast Guard looking through binoculars out of a window at the Old Chicago Coast Guard Station Mabel Normand, silent film actress, sitting reading copy of Chicago Daily News

George W. Meyers, operating News searchlight

Children linking hands in a circle at Holton Arms School

Member of Coast Guard looking through binoculars

Mabel Normand, silent film actress
Collection:
Washington as It Was
Collection:
Washington as It Was
Collection:
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
Collection
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
 
  Boy typing on a typewriter at Chicago Daily News sanitarium Two Chicago Daily News telephone operators sitting at a switchboard

Boy typing on a typewriter at Chicago Daily News

Two Chicago Daily News telephone operators
Collection:
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
Collection:
Photographs from the Chicago Daily News
   
Community Center
  Uncle Sam on a tower with a searchlight looking over a map of the U.S. Baseball Game Kellogg's Corn Flakes advertisement: Good Morning! Three portraits of Martin Luther King Jr.
 
Uncle Sam and
his search light

Base ball

Good Morning!

Martin Luther King Jr., facing left
Collection
Map Collections:
1500 - 2003
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Emergence of Advertising in America
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
 
From Fantasy to Flight Encre L. Marquet Thanksgiving dinner scene Immigration Feature Presentation logo

...man who flies with wings attached to his tunic

Encre L. Marquet

Thanksgiving dinner at the house of Earle Landis.

Eskimo mother with child on back.
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
America from the Great Depression to World War II
Collection:
Meeting of Frontiers
 
Lewis and Clark on the Columbian River painting by Ray Swanson One of the early horseless carriages Photo of people standing on Capitol building in Washington, DC.

Lewis and Clark on the Columbian River

Depiction of Navaho Children, Artist Ray Swanson

One of the early horseless carriages.

Chief Justice William Rehnquist - oath of office ... Bill Clinton
Collection:
Meeting of Frontiers
Community Roots
Local Legacies
Collection:
Photographs from the Fred Hultstrand and F.A. Pazandak
Collection:
"I Do Solemnly Swear"
 
Columbus taking possession of the new country World War II poster - Are You Doing All You Can? Coney Island beach and boardwalk scenes Street types of New York City: Emigrant and pretzel vendor
Columbus taking possession of the new country Are you doing all you can? Coney Island beach and boardwalk scenes Street types of New York City: Emigrant and pretzel vendor
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
       
Register/Vote poster Cartoon of Uncle Sam and an elephant trying to fix a broken car family dancing in a firelit room Illustration of Yankee soldiers
Somebody paid the
price for your right
register/vote.
Electoral System Power of music, 1872 chromolithograph Yankee volunteers marching into Dixie / J.H. Bufford's lith., Boston.
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
       
Walt Whitman Theodore Roosevelt and John Muir on Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams. Destitute Pea Pickers in California.  Mother of seven children.
Walt Whitman,
half-length portrait,
seated, facing left,
wearing hat and sweater,
holding butterfly
Theodore Roosevelt
and John Muir on
Glacier Point, Yosemite
Valley, California
Plymouth in 1622 / W.L. Williams. Destitute Pea Pickers in California. Mother of seven children.
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog
Collection:
America from the Great Depression to World War II
Asian children holding up small barbells The Teaching of the Indians mural
Asian children holding up small barbells The Teaching of the Indians
Collection:
Prints and Photographs Online Catalog

Collection:
Hispanic Reading Room

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