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Description: This late 19th century Native American History photo features Bone Necklace, a Council Chief of the Oglala Sioux, one of the seven bands of the Titowan (Lakota) division of the Great Sioux Nation. The Oglala Sioux Tribe is based in the Pine Ridge Reservation, which is an integral part of the Lakota culture and the economic base and is located in southwestern South Dakota on the Nebraska state line about 50 miles east of the Wyoming border.
Description: This mid 20th century Japanese History photo features a Samurai warrior wearing armor and holding his sword. The samurai, or bushi, were the warriors of premodern Japan, who later made up the ruling military class that eventually became the highest ranking social caste of the Edo Period.
Description: This early 20th century US Military History photo features Henry Johnson of 69th Infantry ("Harlem Hellfighters"), wearing the Croix de Guerre medal. Johnson was snubbed American military awards during his lifetime due to racism, but in 2015, he was posthumously awarded the Medal Of Honor.
Description: This early 20th century US Literary History photo features Mark Twain, an American writer, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher and lecturer. He was lauded as the greatest humorist the US has ever produced, and William Faulkner called him "the father of American literature". Photo taken on May 20, 1907.
Description: This mid 19th century painting titled ‘Martha Bartlett with Kitten’ by an anonymous artist features a girl of about 10 years, presumably Martha Bartlett, sitting with a kitten in her lap. The artwork is typically representative of the genre of American Fine Arts which was prevalent during the 19th century and was characterized by unique topics depicted with simplicity and directness.
Description: This late 19th century US Social History photo features Susan B. Anthony, an American women's rights activist who devoted her life to racial, gender, and educational equality. As one of the most famous women in American history, she played a prominent role in the women's suffrage movement which is why the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, is named in her honor. Photo taken on March 2, 1891.
Description: This mid 19th century US Presidential History print features George Washington, a Virginia plantation owner who served as a general and commander-in-chief of the colonial armies during the American Revolutionary War, and later went on to become the 1st US President, serving from 1789 to 1797. He was accomplished as an American political leader, military general, statesman, and one of the US founding fathers.
Description: This mid 19th century US Political History painting by Theodore Sydney Moise features Henry Clay, who was appointed US Secretary of State by President John Quincy Adams on March 7, 1825. He took over his duties on the same day and became renowned as the “Great Pacificator” for his contributions to the US domestic policy and emphasis on US economic development in his diplomacy.
Description: This mid 19th century US Presidential History photo features Andrew Johnson, 17th US President, who assumed office after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln in 1865 and served until 1869. As a Democrat, he ran with Lincoln on the National Union ticket and during the American Civil War he was the only Southern Senator to have remained loyal to the Union.
Description: This early 20th century US Social History photo features one of the several Woman Suffrage Pickets positioned around the White House reading “To ask freedom for women is not a crime - Suffrage prisoners should not be treated as criminals”. The protests were set up in an effort to pressure President Woodrow Wilson into supporting the proposed “Anthony amendment” to the US Constitution that would guarantee women the right to vote.
Description: This early 20th century British History photo features King George in 1923, when he was the King of the United Kingdom, the British Dominions, and was also the Emperor of India. Also referred to as George V, he ruled from May 6, 1910, till his death in 1936 and became the first monarch of the House of Windsor.
Description: This mid 20th century US Presidential History photo features a Republican Election Night Party wherein President and Mrs. Eisenhower are seen celebrating along with Vice President and Mrs. Nixon. The party was held after the results of the 43rd US Presidential Elections were declared wherein the incumbent President Dwight D. Eisenhower successfully ran against Adlai Stevenson, the former Illinois governor whom he had defeated four years previously. Photo taken on November 6, 1956.
Description: This late 19th century US Presidential History photo features Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President, on horseback after his return from Cuba along with the Rough Riders. The Rough Riders, along with Roosevelt, won fame from their victory in the battle at San Juan Hill in Cuba.
Description: This 19th century British Boxing History print features Tom Sayers, a bare-knuckle prize fighter, who was born in England, at Pimlico, near the seaside town of Brighton that lies south of London. In the absence of formal weight divisions, Sayers, with a height of 5-feet-8-inches and weight of 150 pounds, often fought men who were much bigger than him.
Description: This late 19th century US Literary History photo features Walt Whitman, an American poet, essayist, and journalist who marked the transition between transcendentalism and realism and was among the most influential poets in the American canon, often called the ‘Father of Free Verse’. His most famous work Leaves of Grass was a collection of self-published poetry that shot him to fame.
Description: This mid 19th century US Military History photo features Major General George H. Thomas, a US Army officer who served as a Union General during the American Civil War. He was one of the principal commanders in the Western Theater and also served in the Mexican-American War. He chose to remain with the US Army for the Civil War as a Southern Unionist, despite being a Virginian and went on to win one of the first Union victories in the war, at Mill Springs in Kentucky, and also served in important subordinate commands at Perryville and Stones River.
Description: This mid 19th century US Social History photo by Frederick Gutekunst features Lucretia Coffin Mott, a US Quaker, abolitionist, women's rights activist, and social reformer, who was determined to reform the position of women in society when she, along with other women, was excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention in 1840. Being an ardent abolitionist, she is also well-known for having helped to found the Philadelphia Female Anti-Slavery Society in 1833.
Description: This late 19th century US Presidential History photo features Colonel Theodore Roosevelt posing in Rough Rider uniform, after having taken over the command from his predecessor, Colonel Leonard Wood. ‘Rough Riders’ was the nickname given to the 1st United States Volunteer Cavalry, one of the three such regiments raised in 1898 for the Spanish-American War and the only one which saw combat. Photo taken on October 26, 1898.
Description: This mid 19th century US Military History photo features Major General Robert Anderson standing in uniform with a telescope in his hand. As a US Army Officer who served as a Union Commander during the American Civil War, he is most well-known for moving his command of 85 soldiers to Fort Sumter wherein they were bombarded upon by the Confederate Army and forced to surrender.
Description: This mid 20th century US Presidential History photo features Herbert Hoover, 31st US President, who assumed office in 1928 by decisively defeating Al Smith, the presidential candidate from the Democratic Party. One of the central issues of his presidency was The Great Depression, and although he pursued a variety of policies in an attempt to improve the economy, what he vehemently opposed was directly involving the federal government in relief norms.
Description: This early 20th century US Presidential History photo features Theodore Roosevelt, 26th US President, sporting the Rough Riders uniform during the Spanish-American War. He is till this date the youngest person to become the US President, and as a leader of the progressive movement, he championed his "Square Deal" domestic policies, promising the average citizen fairness, breaking of trusts, regulation of railroads, and pure food and drugs.
Description: This early 20th century US History photo features Carrie Catt, a prominent American suffragist, who campaigned for the 19th Amendment to the US Constitution in 1920, which granted American women the right to vote. As a skilled political strategist, she directed the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) and also founded the League of Women Voters to include women into the political mainstream.
Description: This late 16th century British History painting by William Segar features the portrait of Sir Walter Raleigh, a British aristocrat and explorer, who is best known for having sailed to South America in search of El Dorado, the legendary lost city of gold. After having successfully suppressed an uprising in Munster, Ireland, he was knighted by the Queen, was appointed Captain of the Queen’s Guard, and was rewarded with extensive estates in Ireland.
Description: This mid 20th century US History photo by Russell Lee features a miner from the P V & K Coal Company, Clover Mine, Lejunior, Harlan County, Kentucky. At the time, Russell Lee was working with the US Department of Interior and clicked as many as 4000 photos depicting the working conditions in coal mines, communities involved in mining bituminous coal, and the Pentecostal Church of God established in the Kentucky coal camp. Photo taken on September 13, 1946.
