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Documenting Tenth Street Historic Freedmen's Town District and The Bottom District in Dallas, Texas photos
Provides a snapshot of the Tenth Street Historic Freedmen's Town District and The Bottom in Dallas, Texas, as they appeared in August 2023. Through photos, this documentation captures the remaining structures, streetscapes, and landmarks, showcasing the resilience of these historic neighborhoods amid challenges like development pressures, city-led demolitions under the 3000-square-foot rule, disinvestment, redlining, gentrification, and fires. This visual record preserves the community’s legacy, helping present and future generations understand the neighborhood’s enduring presence and spirit despite the odds, while underscoring the importance of continued preservation efforts.
Little Bahamas of Coconut Grove, Golden Gate and the MacFarlane Homestead Historic District
Plaques installed in the Coconut Grove Walk and Wall of Fame commemorate local leaders and historic figures at 3255 Plaza Street in Miami's Coconut Grove.
A historic conestoga wagon
1 photographic print. | Photograph shows a team of six horses with covered wagon on street; man sits on back of horse and another man standing on sideboard.
Historic Media Pre-2022: Louisiana Lao New Year Parades
Collection of historic photos and videos from previous Lunar New Years (1985-2021) focused on the theme of parades.
Historic Meeting in London
1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller. | Photograph shows a meeting at the Guildhall in London on September 4, 1914, during which Prime Minister Herbert Henry Asquith encouraged military recruitment for World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)
Visit historic Ephrata, Pennsylvania
1 print (poster) : lithograph, color. | Poster promoting the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster Co., Pa., showing two angels dropping flowers on the community.
Visit historic Ephrata, Pennsylvania
1 print on board (poster) : lithograph, color. | Poster promoting the Ephrata Cloister, Lancaster Co., Pa., showing two angels dropping flowers on the community.
Historic Media Pre-2022: Lao Traditional Textile Fashion
Collection of historic photos from previous Lunar New Years (1985-2021) focused on the themes of fashion and textiles. Features costumes worn in religious ceremonies and by street performers.
[Outline map of the United States showing proposed railroad routes to the Pacific]
For a similar map see Carl I. Wheat's Mapping the Transmississippi West, v. 3 (San Francisco, Institute of Historical Cartography, 1957-63.) p. 193.
Richmond and York River Railroad
"Sketch from the Confederate Engineer Bureau in Richmond, Va. General J.F. Gilmer, Chief Engineer[.] Presented to the Virginia Historical Society by his only daughter, Mrs. J.F. Minis, Sav[ana]h, Ga."--Note on map. Extends from Richmond west to West Point. Also shows the course of the Pamunkey River. Forms part of the Gilmer Map Collection. Relief shown by hachures. Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image. Gift of Mrs. Louisa Porter (Gilmer) Minis (i.e., Mrs. J. F. Minis), Savannah, Ga., in 1911. Manuscripts o.s.