Date: | 1883 |
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Description: | Engraving of a woman carrying a bundle of clothing and standing with her back to the sea. Behind her other women are in the process of doing wash in the wa... |
Date: | 1886 |
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Description: | Advertisement for the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad featuring an illustration of Uncle Sam stretched from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean.... |
Date: | 1655 |
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Description: | Christopher Columbus begins his first expedition, 1492. |
Date: | 1655 |
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Description: | Encounter with Indians during Christopher Columbus' first expedition in 1492. |
Date: | 1784 |
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Description: | Plate 57. Scene from Cook's Third Expedition, 1776-1779, while in Alaska. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Photographer Ansel Adams mounting his Hasselblad camera onto the tripod on a rocky shore near or at Point Lobos. |
Date: | 1968 |
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Description: | Photographer Ansel Adams setting up his camera in a wooded waterfront area near Point Lobos. |
Date: | 12 1951 |
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Description: | Philleo Nash (playing the guitar), Presidential adviser on Minority Affairs, entertains President Harry Truman (in the sunglasses), with folk songs during ... |
Date: | 1860 |
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Description: | Jefferson Davis and six sailors sail in a tea cup. A pirate flag flies overhead. One sailor is in the "crow's nest." Another is using a paddle. Three sailo... |
Date: | 1920 |
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Description: | Templeton (played by Jack Perrin) holds Marama Thurston (Edith Roberts) by the wrist as they stand calf-deep in the surf on the island of Fiji in a scene s... |
Date: | |
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Description: | I had to know the point to which the path was tracked and when the definition would cease to be my own |
Date: | 1720 |
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Description: | Double hemispherical world map showing routes of Tasman, Magellan, Mendana, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Title in oak wreath cartouche. Map between four ... |
Date: | 1712 |
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Description: | Engraved double-hemispherical world map by Moll, included in his atlas The world described, or, A new and correct sett of maps: shewing the kingdoms and st... |
Date: | 1696 |
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Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of Ethiopia, from Blaeu's General Atlas. Map title is framed by a man and a woman, both wearing head turbans, who are standin... |
Date: | 1740 |
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Description: | Engraved and hand-colored map of the Iberian peninsula as a theater of war during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714). The map is dedicated to Ki... |
Date: | 1785 |
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Description: | Map of part of North America engraved and hand-colored (the light brown design is a superposition of the map and cartouche derived from the oxidation of th... |
Date: | 03 24 1950 |
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Description: | Front cover of a farewell dinner menu from the Italian Line ship Saturnia, with two Commedia dell' Arte characters: Tartaglia, a rotund figure who w... |
Date: | 1917 |
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Description: | Advertisement featuring a painting by artist Henry Mosler, dated 1915, titled "The Stars and Stripes Forever." In the painting a young man dressed in cut-o... |
Date: | 1627 |
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Description: | Map of North and South America showing settlements, rivers, lakes, mountains, islands and regions of the western hemisphere. It includes an inset map of Gr... |
Date: | 1630 |
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Description: | One of the few maps by Dutch cartographer Willem Blaeu depicting the Americas, this map shows regions, settlements, islands, mountains, forests, rivers, an... |
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