Maps and History

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Do you like maps, history, and libraries? Maps and History highlights historic maps and photos in the public domain from digital library collections. Analog copies for sale here: https://www.zazzle.com/collections/maps_and_history-119075331333656072

Landscape near Black River Falls, Wisconsin
Proprietor of credit clothing store, Mexican district, San Antonio, Texas
HABS ILL,49-HIPA,2- (sheet 3 of 7) - Jens Jensen Studio & Landscape, 950-954 Dean Avenue, Highland Park, Lake County, IL
Boys shooting marbles on roof of apartment building
T︠S︡agverskīĭ istochnik
RED CROSS, AMERICAN. SANITARY RAILROAD CAR
A rural landscape as seen from a bus between Chicago, Illinois and Cincinnati, Ohio
11. Historic American Buildings Survey E.H. Pickering, Photographer June 1936 PORTRAIT OF CHARLES CARROLL OF CARROLLTON Painted by Thomas Sully 1834 Hanging in Statehouse Annapolis, Md. - Caton House, Lombard & South Front Streets, Baltimore, Independent City, MD
[Three African American teenage girls modeling clothing for the "Teen-age Consumer a Go-Go" promotion at J.H.S. 164, New York, New York]
[Untitled negative showing group including (left to right) Julia O'Connor Parker (International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers), Maida Stewart Springer (International Ladies' Garment Workers Union) and Anne Murkovich (American Federation of Hosiery Workers)]
Ri︠e︡ka Suna pered vodopadom Kivach
[Exterior of Peoples Drug Store warehouse, Washington, D.C.]
No. 2, Bethlehem
[Mr. William Forsyth, head-and-shoulders portrait]
Robert Perry, railroad engineer working on the Central Railroad in New Jersey and living on Center Street. Upper Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania
12. View north of the Stone Barn from the North Family gravel drive. - North Family, Mount Lebanon Shaker Village, 202 Shaker Road, New Lebanon, Columbia County, NY
Smoking stacks attract attacks Don't invite disaster /
[Surgeon William Q. Mansfield of Co. I, 92nd New York Infantry Regiment and 118th New York Infantry Regiment in uniform with sword]
East High, West Junior, North Junior, Woodrow Wilson Recreation Centers Arts & crafts, archery, dancing, music, drama, gym classes, shop hobbies /
Steel sculpture "The Sentinels of Justice" at the Charles Evans Whittaker U.S. Courthouse, Kansas City, Missouri
Detail of Mexican house made of sticks and mud. Corn grinder is on post in front. Crystal City, Texas
"A hero is born" A romantic musical by Theresa Holburn - based on an original story by Andrew Lang : Music by A. Lehman Engel - lyrics by Agnes Morgan /
[National Cash Register Company, Dayton, Ohio. Workers garden before landscaping]
[African American man, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]
[World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, Illinois. Administrative Building]. [Elevation and plan]
Zakruglenīe puti, [ok. st. Petrozavodsk]
Completing Hell Gate Bridge
Toll bridge, Newcastle [sic], N.H.
In pasture
Indian court, Federal Building, Golden Gate International Exposition, San Francisco, 1939 Antelope hunt from a Navaho drawing, New Mexico /
3. Historic American Buildings Survey Nathaniel R. Ewan, Photographer January 22, 1938 INTERIOR - BAR DETAIL - BAR ROOM - Cedar Bridge Tavern, Cedar Bridge, Ocean County, NJ
Betonʹerka dli︠a︡ razmi︠e︡shivanīi︠a︡ t︠s︡ementa. [Beloomut]
Obshchīĭ vid mi︠e︡stn. u I︠U︡rezanskago mosta
Konnogvardeĭskīĭ most na kanali︠e︡ Imperatora Nikolai︠a︡ I. Golodnai︠a︡ stepʹ
Harold war worker
R.M. LaFollette & family
Statue Wisdom, Appellate Court Building, New York
General Lew Wallace's Ben-Hur Klaw & Erlanger's stupendous production.
The first sanctum of our President
[The Georgia Negro] Occupations and income.
[Woman Suffrage. Street Car, Susan B. Anthony Pageant]
[Outside of building -- the Royal's Service flag]
Board walk near the casino, Atlantic City, N.J.
Spanish laborers
Chicago, Illinois. Mr. Stuhl, Chief of the Pennsylvania Railroad section of the reservation bureau of the Union Station. The bureau is used jointly by the Pennsylvania Railroad, Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy route, Chicago, Milwaukee, Saint Paul and Pacific Railroad and Alton Railroad
De Land pool. Skilled craftsmen. The De Land, Florida pool didn't have a shop big enough to fulfill a two-million-dollar contract for gliders. So it took over the county fairgrounds, formerly winter quarters for a circus, and built an assembly line through its seventeen roomy buildings. The pool's first machines are shown being moved into the fairgrounds building
Moving Hotel de Gink -- Jeff. Davis
[Construction of a pier for a railroad in Kem-Pristan]
Eagles Nest from Plotts Creek
[Exterior view of large unidentified building in Georgia, with a man standing in front holding an umbrella, and a group of children sitting on the porch]
Charges fraud in PWA Grant to Kansas City, Kan. Washington, D.C., Dec. 1. Turney Gratz, Secretary-Manager of the Produce Dealers Division of the North Side Business and Improvement Association, Kansas City, KS[?], is here to lay before PWA Administrator Harold Ickes charges of fraud and deception in connection with the PWA Grant to the City of Kansas for $1,700,000 to construct a railroad produce market
[Frank J. Hayes, E.L. Doyle, Jas. Lord, three-quarter length portraits, facing front, standing outside building]
[Adobe building in a grassy field, trees in background]
[The Firs, driveway to barn, New Baltimore, Mich.]
Gov. Hughes speaking at the dedication of the Queensboro Bridge, New York
Feeding the calves
[Powhatan Hotel, left, and the Hurley-Wright building, right, which housed the Railroad Commission, among other agencies, at the intersection of 18th Street, Pennsylvania Ave., and H. Street, N.W., Washington, D.C.]
3. Photocopy of postcard showing watercolor depiction of the Hans Herr House by C.X. Carlson, as it appeared in the book, Old Lancaster - Hans Herr House, 1851 Hans Herr Drive, West Lampeter Township, Willow Street, Lancaster County, PA
Gen. Grant's headquarters, City Point, Va.
[African Americans, mostly women, sorting tobacco at the T. C. Williams & Co., tobacco, Richmond, Virginia]