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Emigrants Crossing the Plains

Emigrants Crossing the Plains

Credit: National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Media type: painting Museum Number: Annotation: Bierstadt, Emigrants Crossing the Plains Year: 1867

Indian Rancheria of Jose Antonio Venado, at San Luis Rey Mission, Near the Zanja. Caicha-Tribe, Quechumas

Indian Rancheria of Jose Antonio Venado, at San Luis Rey Mission, Near the Zanja. Caicha-Tribe, Quechumas

Credit: The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley Media type: painting Museum Number: Year: 1868

Let Us Have Peace

Let Us Have Peace

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-96533 Annotation: Ulysses S. Grant and Red Cloud, a great Lakota leader of the 19th century. The…

Cyprus Swamp On the Opelousas Railroad, Louisiana

Cyprus Swamp On the Opelousas Railroad, Louisiana

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-108302 Annotation: The image of this ominous swamp is an allegorical depiction of social and philosophical issues…

Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia By the Colored People in Washington, April 19, 1866

Celebration of the Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia By the Colored People in Washington, April 19, 1866

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-33937 Annotation: Three days after President Lincoln signed an act abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia,…

Glimpses at the Freedmen’s Union Industrial School, Richmond, Virginia

Glimpses at the Freedmen’s Union Industrial School, Richmond, Virginia

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: engraving Museum Number: LC-USZ62-33264 Annotation: This illustration of African American women sewing appeared in Frank Leslie’s illustrated newspaper, v. 23, 1866…