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[Historic structures in Buena Vista, Alabama]
1 photograph : digital, TIFF file, color.
The historic Chicago Theater, Chicago, Illinois
1 transparency : color ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
Historic Jackson Square, New Orleans, Louisiana
1 transparency : color ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.
Historic hotel, Block Island, Rhode Island
1 transparency : color ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller
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.
Lloyd's map of the Southern States, showing all the railroads, their stations & distances : also the counties, towns, villages, harbors, rivers, and forts
Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by form lines. "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1861 by J.T. Lloyd in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States ..." Text of newspaper, entitled "Lloyd's military map and gazetteer of the Southern States, Saturday, September 7, 1861" on verso. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Fold lines and tears in margins mended with tape. Vault CW3
Lloyd's American railroad map of the United States, showing the three proposed roads and the overland mail route to the Pacific
Relief shown by hachures. "Drawn & engraved at Rae Smith's, 71 Nassau St., N.Y. from materials furnished to the 36th Congress, March 1859 by G.K. Warren, Lt. U.S. Top. Eng. for the passage of the Pacific Railroad Bill." "Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1859 by J.T. Lloyd in the clerk's office of the District Court of the United States ..." Includes portraits of 12 railroad presidents and advertisements. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy imperfect: Tears in right and left margins, mended with tape. Water stains in left margin. Vault
A map of a part of the southern & western states showing the contemplated route of the New Orleans & Ohio Railroad and the Central Railroad of Illinois, also the route of the Mobile & Ohio Railroad representing the most central, direct and practicable route for a great national and commercial highway between the Gulf of Mexico and the Great Northern Lakes, and by various branches and intersections with other Railways connecting with all the principal cities of the United States
The map covers an area from Lake Michigan to the Mississippi delta, and from Columbus, Ohio, to Little Rock, Ark. It shows Ft. Massac and "Capitol City" in southern Illinois and northern Kentucky as sites selected by the U.S. for the "Western Armory," and the probable future site for the seat of government of the United States or Western District of Columbia. Chartered January 9, 1852.