Gallery

Here's a selection of images from a variety of American Memory collections. Click on the image to see a larger version. Click on the title to go to the image's bibliographic information.

Coal breaker boys
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1901

Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine
America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotypes, 1839-1864

Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in Calif
FSA/OWI Photographs, 1935-1945

Tyrus Raymond Cobb
Baseball Cards, 1887-1914

Firemen's Barbecue Picnic, Sunday, June 18, 1978 Paradise Valley, Nev.
Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982

Map of the territory of the United States from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean; ordered by Jeff' Davis, Secretary of War
Railroad Maps, 1828-1900

Group of children sitting on wooden bench
Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940-1941

No annexation of Texas Ð Broadside
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

Portrait of Langston Hughes
Creative Americans: Portraits by Carl Van Vechten, 1932-1964

Woman suffrage headquarters in Cleveland
By Popular Demand: "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures, 1850-1920

Panorama of Lincoln, Neb
Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs, 1851-1991

Registered letter from Harry Houdini regarding water torture cell, 1913.
The American Variety Stage: Vaudeville and Popular Entertainment, 1870-1920

$200 reward, Oct. 1, 1847 Ð Broadside
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

The Senate as a court of impeachment for the trial of Andrew Johnson
By Popular Demand: Portraits of the Presidents and First Ladies, 1789-Present

Breakfast in camp - West Branch, Penobscot, Maine - Sept. 5th 1885.
The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

View of the Apollo Theatre marquee, New York, N.Y., between 1946 and 1948
William P. Gottlieb - Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz