Unless noted otherwise, all images on these pages have been taken from the Library of Congress's American Memory Project Web site.  The photo collage was created using Paint Shop Pro.  Follow the links below to view the original image pages on the Library of Congress site.

Apollo 11 Liftoff (from Johnson Space Center Site)

Date:  July 16, 1969
Description: Closeup view as the 363 ft tall Apollo 11 space vehicle is launched from Pad  A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, at 9:37 a.m., July 16, 1969.

Atomic Bomb Test (from CNN site)

Date: July 16, 1945

Calloway, Cab

Photographer:  Carl Van Vechten
Date:  January 12, 1933

Child in Field

Photographer:  Arthur Rothstein
Date:  January 1942
Description:  Child of a migratory farm laborer in the field during the harvest of the community center's spinach crop.

Cinquez, Joseph

Artist:  James or Isaac Sheffield
Date:  1839
Description:  Joseph Cinquez, the brave Congolese Chief.

Cowboys

Photographer:  Carl Fleischhauer
Date:  June 1978
Description:  Dan Martinez and Bob Humphrey rope claves at spring brading at the Circle A, Quinn River Line Camp, Nevada.

Crusader Rabbit (from Retroland)

Artist:  Jay Ward
Date:  1949-1951

Davis, Jefferson

Date:  July 1865
Description:  Portrait of Major General Jefferson Davis, officer of the Federal Army, and staff, Washington, D.C.

Flag

Photographer:  Alfred T. Palmer
Date:  June 1942
Description:  High above, over a true "home of the brave," the floating folds of the Star Spangled Banner symbolize the American way of life to soldiers in training for the battles that will bring freedom to an unhappy, wartorn world.  Fort Knox, KY.

Gravestone

Photographer:  Howard W. Marshall
Date:  May 1978
Description:  Gravestone of Maria Dotta, native of Airolo, Switzerlan, Joseph Scott's sister-in-law.

Great Falls of the Yellowstone River

Photographer:  William Henry Jackson
Date:  1872

Group Meeting

Photographer:  Dorothea Lange
Date:  May 1939
Description:  FSA Camp for migratory agricultural workers.  Meeting of the camp council, Farmersville, California.

"Heroes of the Colored Race"

Artist:  J. Hoover
Date:  1881
Description:  Color lithograph with portraits of Blanch Kelso Bruce, Frederick Douglass, and Hiram Revels.

Johnson, Walter

Issued by:  American Tobacco Company
Date:  1911

Liberty Song

Composer:  George W. Clark
Lyricist:  George Russell
Date:  1844

Lincoln, Abraham, signing the Emancipation Proclamation

Artist:  Ehrgott and Forbriger
Date:  1864
Description:  President Lincoln writing the Proclamation of Freedom.

Nixon Departs (from National Archives)

Photographer:  Robert L. Knudsen
Date:  August 9, 1974
Description:  Richard Nixon delivering the "V" sign upon his final departure from the White House.

Pleading Woman

Publisher:  Richard Barret
Date:  1850
Description:  Broadside of "The Negro Woman's Appeal to her White Sisters.

Political Map of the United States

Artist:  William Reynolds
Date:  1856
Description:  Reynold's Political Map of the United States.

Riverboat

Photographer:  Ben Shahn
Date:  October 1935
Description:  The J.B. Smith, an old river boat, docked at Memphis, Tennessee.

Roping Cowboy

Description:  Payute Indian buckaroo Myron roping cattle at branding, Ninety Six Ranch.

Separate Admission

Photographer:  Marion Post Wolcott
Date:  October 1939
Description:  Negro man entering the movie theatre by "colored" entrance.  Belzoni, Mississippi, in the delta area.

Slave Ship

Publisher: Harper's Weekly
Date:  June 2, 1860
Description:  Africans on board the slave bark Wildfire, April 30, 1860.

Soldier

Photographer:  Alfred T. Palmer
Date:  June 1942
Description:  A young soldier of the armored forces holds and sights his Garand rifle like an old timer, Fort Knox, KY.

Stowe, Harriet Beecher

Publisher:  Johnson, Fry, & Co.
Date:  1872

Thanksgiving

Artist:  Jean Louis Gerome Ferris
Date:  Between 1900 and 1920

Woman Braiding Girl's Hair

Photographer:  Dorothea Lange
Date:  July 1936
Description:  Negro woman near Earle, Kansas.

Woman Knitting

Photographer:  John Vachon
Date:  1941
Description:  Woman knitting, Washington, D.C.

Woman on Motor

Photographer:  Alfred T. Palmer
Date:  June 1942
Description:  Woman working on an airplane motor at North American Aviation, Inc., plant in California.

Women in Internment Camp

Photographer:  Russell Lee
Date:  1942 or 1943
Description:  Japenese-American camp, war emergency evacuation, Malheur County, Oregon (?).