Aftermath of Civil War:

 

 

The Black Codes of 1865:

 

Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth (1889):

 

Photographs, L.O.C., American Memories Collection: "Touring Turn-of-the-Century America," from the Detroit Publishing Co. (1890-1920):  

 

Photographs of the Mid-Atlantic states--New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut--from the 1850s to the 1910s, from the Robert N. Dennis Collection of Stereoscopic Views at the New York Public Library.

 

Pioneering the Upper Midwest:  Books from Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin, ca. 1820-1910:  (click on this title in Collections list at following webpages:

 

Broadsides (posters): Prepare to meet us at Chetopa, Kan. a large area of the beautiful Indian territory open to homesteaders … the Indian Territory Colonization Society [1879]

(Type in "Chetopa, Kan." in search box after "Search key words" at following web pages):

 

Broadside (poster) for Lecture:  "Three days longer! New route to California via Wentworth's Hall! Original panorama of the gold regions of California! (Type in "three days longer" in search box after "Search key words" at following web pages):

 

Broadside (poster): Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10 years credit by the Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co. (Buffalo. N. Y.1872) (Type in "millions of acres" in search box after "Search key words" at following web pages)::

 

Broadside (poster): Ho! for the New Eldorado! 1,400 second-hand six-shooters for sale. Also 1,100 double-barrel shot guns and 1,000 winchester rifles! As the route from Independence to Carpenter City lies through the Cheyenne and Arrapahoe Country, it is necessary that all parties should go well armed ... Independence Arms Co., Independence, Kansas (1879) (Type in "Eldorado" in search box after "Search key words" at following web pages):

 

Library of Congress' Geography and Map Division web pages containing Panoramic (Birds'-eye view) Maps of Cities and Towns in the U.S., 1847-1920

 

From Library of Congress' "American Memories" Website, "California As I Saw It"  Collection of First-person narratives of California's early years, 1849-1900:

 

History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Denver Public Library Collection, at L.O.C., "American Memories":

 

Debate on woman suffrage in the Senate of the United States, 2d session, 49th Congress, December 8, 1886, and January 25, 1887:

 

"The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920" Library of Congress collection:  books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage

 

Large collection of photographs documenting natural environments, ecologies, and plant communities in the United States (1891-1936), American Memories Collection, L.O.C., from University of Chicago Library:

 

"The Feather Trade and the American Conservation Movement", "Virtual Exhibit" from Smithsonian American History Museum on the first conservation and Audubon Society movements of the late 1800's:

 

 

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