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Description: This late 19th century Native American History photo features Strikes With Nose, one of the chiefs of the Oglala Sioux tribes, which were famous for their hunting and warrior culture. Warfare formed a central part of the culture of the Plains Indians which often led to inter-tribal conflicts and violent clashes with the white settlers and the US Army.
Description: This mid 20th century Law Enforcement History photo features J. Edgar Hoover, an American law enforcement administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or FBI, of the United States. Photo taken on September 28, 1961 by Marion S. Trikosko.
Description: This early 20th century British Royal History painting by Luke Fildes features King Edward VII, King of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and Emperor of India from 1901 until his death in 1910. As the eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, he was related to royalty throughout the European Continent.
Description: This mid 19th century US Presidential History photo features Abraham Lincoln, 16th US President, just before he assumed presidency of the nation. Of this portrait, Abraham Lincoln remarked: "That looks better and expresses me better than any I have ever seen; if it pleases the people I am satisfied." Photo taken June 3, 1860. This image has been professionally colorized.
Description: This 20th century British Political history print features Winston Churchill, UK’s Prime Minister, inspecting a ‘Tommy Gun’ during his visit to the coastal defence positions close to Hartlepool in 1940. Winston Churchill was not just a renowned British politician but also an Army officer and a writer, and served as Britain’s Prime Minister for two terms of 5 years each. This image has been professionally colorized.
Description: This late 19th century Native American History photo features Shout At, a member of the Oglala Sioux, the Native Indian tribe that lives in the Pine Ridge Reservation in southwestern South Dakota. Noteworthy members of the Oglala Sioux tribes include Red Cloud, a Oglala chief who was a respected warrior, and Crazy Horse, a respected war leader of the tribe.
Description: This mid 19th century US Military History photo features Brigadier General Herman Haupt, an officer of the Union Army, who was an American civil engineer, railroad construction engineer and an executive. Serving as a Union Army General during the American Civil War, he revolutionized the US military transportation, particularly in context of using the railroads.
Description: This early 20th century US Ethnic History print features Chief Joseph, or Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt who was a leader of the Wal-lam-wat-kain band of Nez Perce, a Native American tribe of the interior Pacific Northwest region of America, seated wearing a headdress. He is most well-known for having led his people on an epic flight across the Rocky Mountains, only to finally surrender the decimated band to federal troops near the Canadian border in Montana. Photo by De Lancey Gill, 1900.
Description: This late 19th century US History photo features Chief Hollow Horn Bear, a Brulé Lakota leader, who was the chief orator and negotiator for the Lakota, making multiple trips to Washington, DC to advocate on their behalf, and later taking part in the inaugural parades for both Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. Photo taken on November 15, 1898 by Adolph F. Muhr.
Description: This late 19th century Bodybuilding History photo features Eugen Sandow wearing a singlet and Roman sandals. Sandow began exercising, using the methods of the day, shortly after visiting Italy at the age of 10, and inspired by the Greek and Roman statues, the frail and sickly Sandow soon came to resemble the heroes cast in marble.
Description: This mid 19th century British Engineering History photo by Robert Howlett features Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the most ingenious British Civil Engineer in the 19th century, posing in front of the launching chains of the SS Great Eastern, an iron steamship. As one of the engineering marvels created by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, the SS Great Eastern was the largest ship at the time with the capacity to carry 4000 passengers.
Description: This early 20th century US History photo features Harry Houdini shackled in chains as a part of his famed escape performance. During the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Houdini’s acts mostly consisted of being chained and placed in jails by the local police, only to escape courtesy of his strength and his ability to pick locks.
Description: This mid 19th century US History photo features Harriet Tubman in her midlife. She was born Araminta Ross, but later adopted the name Harriet from her mother, Harriet Ross, the surname Tubman being that of her first husband, John Tubman. One of her famous quotes pertaining to rescuing slaves through the underground railroads was - "I was conductor of the Underground Railroad for eight years, and I can say what most conductors can't say – I never ran my train off the track and I never lost a passenger."
Description: This US History photo features Bass Reeves, the first African American US Deputy Marshal on the west side of the Mississippi River, mostly governing Arkansas and Oklahoma. His long career was marked with making more than 3000 arrests on the charges of felony and he is believed to have shot about 14 people in an act of self-defense.
Description: This mid 19th century Japanese History photo features two Japanese women in traditional Kimono holding a large parasol. A Japanese parasol differs from an umbrella in terms of size and purpose, wherein parasols are smaller and lighter than umbrellas, are used only to shade people from the sun and tend to be made from fabric that may or may not be waterproof.
