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Government of Canada Travel Bureau, Adventure Along the Trans-Canada Highway, 1961

Image of woman reading map beside Lake Superior on the (relatively new) Trans-Canada Highway.

Tags: Canada, Tourism, transportation, twentieth century

Robert Bracklow, Jewish Cemetery, Chatham Square, 1870-1910

View of the First Shearith Israel Graveyard (or Chatham Square Cemetery) at 55-57 St. James Place in what is now Chinatown, laundry is strung out to…

Tags: jewish, manhattan

Jacob August Riis, American, born Denmark, Ribe, Denmark, 1849-1914, Barre, Massachusetts, Lodgers in a Crowded Bayard Street Tenement--"Five Cents a Spot", 1889

Group of immigrants sitting in a tenement house similar to the last one

Tags: manhattan, poverty, tenement housing

Jacob A. (Jacob August) Riis (1849-1914), In Poverty Gap, West Twenty-Eighth St. An English Coal-Heaver's Home., ca. 1890

Picture of a family in supplemental housing

Tags: immigrant, manhattan, poverty

O.H. Bailey and Co., View of Springfield Mass. 1875, 1875

A bird's eye perspective map of Springfield, Massachusetts

Byron Company
, Narragansett Pier & Newport, Rhode Island., 1891

Man and woman seated outside on folding chairs, photomontaged into a photograph of a larger crowd, sitting on and around a porch at a shingle-style…

Providence Evening Press
, Something About Mr. Slater's First Mill
, September 3, 1875

A piece describing whether or not Slater mill was the first mill in the US

New York Herald, Glance at New York. Population of the State and City, April 11, 1869

description of how things like immigration affected prices of homes

Tags: immigration, manhattan, prices of homes

The Evening Times, Shocking Accident to Wm. H. Cameron, a Fireman at Slater Mill, April 5, 1898

Description of a work-related injury resulting in the loss of a limb

Norwich Packet, page [3], vol. VIII, iss. 407, July 19, 1781

News/Opinion

Connecticut Journal, page [1], iss. 703, April 19, 1781

News/ Opinion

Isaac Moore, Joseph Churchman, Carey & Hart, Eagle Map of the United States, 1833

From Joseph Churchman's Rudiments of national knowledge : presented to the youth of the United States, and to enquiring foreigners. Philadelphia :…

Tags: iconography, nineteenth century, United States

Henry David Thoreau and Samuel Champlain, Carte geographiqve de la novvelle Franse (sketch by Henry David Thoreau), 1850s

Scale ca. 1:5,500,000. Manuscript, pencil and pen-and-ink. Includes illus., index to points of interest, and text. Accompanied by manuscript text. [4]…

Tags: 19th Century, Henry David Thoreau, New World, Samuel Champlain

Everts, Ensign & Everts, View: Penn Yan Companies. #1, 1876

(View) The Penn Yan Express ... Steam Printing Establishment, W.W. Quackenbush Drug Store, M. Parks ... Manufacturer of Light Carriages, H. & E.D.…

Middlesex Center. Himrods Corner, Yates County, New York. (7)

Everts, Ensign & Everts, Court House, Penn Yan, N.Y. (6), 1876

A view of the Penn Yan Court House

Tags: Yates County

Residence of Joseph Abbott. Portrait: Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Abbott. (5)

Everts, Ensign & Everts, Benton Township, Yates County, New York. Rushville.
(7), 1876

Combination Atlas Map Of Yates County New York. Compiled, Drawn and Published From Personal Examinations and Surveys. Everts, Ensign & Everts, 714 &…

Jack Mulay Jakob Campbell, (Text and Portraits) Hon. Elisha Doubleday. Nathaniel Squier. Phebe Squier., 1876

Includes short biographical sketches.

Residences and Portraits of Mr. and Mrs. John Harris and Robert Dunn. (4)