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Cyrus McCormick’s Reaper

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: illustration Museum Number: LC-USZ62-44940 Annotation: McCormick who was from Virginia was one of two people to create a reaping machine.…

Roll of Honor – Woman’s Rights Convention at Seneca Falls

Media type: miscellaneous-image Annotation: A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition of woman, was called by the Women of Seneca County,…

Mac-Cut-I-Mish-E-Ca-Cu-Cac or Black Hawk, a Celebrated Sac Chief

Credit: Amon Carter Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Media type: lithograph Museum Number: 1965.10.56 Annotation: Lewis painted a portrait of Black Hawk in 1833 after the chief…

Long-billed Curlew, Numenius longirostris

Credit: Amon Cater Museum, Fort Worth, Texas Media type: engraving Museum Number: 1982.51 Year: 1834

Kansas-Nebraska Act

Media type: treaty-image Annotation: In 1854, a piece of legislation was introduced in Congress that shattered all illusions of sectional peace. The Kansas-Nebraska Act…

The Symbolical Head, Illustrating All the Phrenology

Credit: Library of Congress Media type: print Museum Number: LC-USZ62-100747 Year: 1842