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The awakening / Hy Mayer.
Illustration shows a torch-bearing female labeled "Votes for Women", symbolizing the awakening of the nation's women to the desire for suffrage, striding across the western states, where women already had the right to vote, toward the east where…
The autobiography of Charles Peters, in 1915 the oldest pioneer living in California, who mined in ... the days of '49 ... Also historical happenings, interesting incidents and illustrations of the old mining towns in the good luck era, the placer mining days of the '50s
Portuguese Charles Peters' accounts and stories of seeking gold in California.
The Anza Expedition (National Park Service Film)
In 1776, a multi-ethnic group of families completed an epic, 1900-mile journey at the mouth of San Francisco Bay. These 240 men, women, and children -- the first Spanish settlers to come overland into California -- forged a path through history and…
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840
The Anti-Slavery Society Convention, 1840, by Benjamin Robert Haydon (died 1846), given to the National Portrait Gallery, London in 1880 by the British and Foreign Anti-Slavery Society. Oil on canvas, 1841. 117 in. x 151 in. (2972 mm x 3836 mm). See…
The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife
Image of "The Ancient Egyptian Books of the Afterlife" book cover that was edited by David Lorton.
The American Instructor; or, Young Man's Best Companion
Title page from George Fisher's An American Instructor, instruction manual for schoolchildren and prospective merchants, 15th edition, published in Philadelphia