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ALT Inside a small board-walled shack, a man in a plaid shirt sits at a table covered with a cloth and set with a teapot, cups and plates, looking at the camera; a bed with a pillow and patterned quilt fills the right side, coats hang from nails, and pictures and postcards are tacked to the wall above a curtained window. Interior of a claim shack, Quinn, South Dakota, early 1900s. Kansas Collection, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas.
ALT A person wrapped in a dark head covering and striped clothing sits in a small round hide boat on a wide, calm river, pulling a single paddle, with ripples spreading around the boat and a low tree line on the far shore. Mandan bull boat, North Dakota, circa 1908. Photo: Edward S. Curtis. Library of Congress.
ALT Frank North article and the GREAT Pawnee Scouts.
ALT The living room of Mrs. Elizabeth Almoney in Lititz, Pennsylvania, November 1942. Framed photographs of her three sons in uniform stand on a table between two tall candles, with a loose snapshot in front and more family pictures on the piano behind. Photo: Marjory Collins, Office of War Information, Library of Congress.
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ALT A man in a cap stands beside a dark dog that rears up on its hind legs with its paws on him, next to three children seated together on a white horse, in front of a long log cabin with a grass-covered sod roof below a hillside where a rider and a grazing horse stand. Typical log cabin of the pioneer with sod roof near Big Bend of the Missouri, North Dakota, 1908. International Stereograph Co. Library of Congress.
ALT A handwritten diary page with entries headed April 6th, April 9th and April 14th, 1865; underlined lines read "Genl Lee has surrendered to Genl Grant with his whole Army!!" and "The President has been Assassinated," and the last entry begins "½ past 10 o'clock P.M. O, fatal day. O, noble Victim." Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, vol. 3, April 1865. Library of Congress.
ALT Ranks of soldiers march down Pennsylvania Avenue past crowded sidewalks in President Lincoln's funeral procession, Washington, April 19, 1865.
ALT A woman in a long skirt, seen from behind with a walking stick, reaches for the doorway of a log cabin with a sod roof while a dog lies curled against the wall beside her, a tall picket fence and a barrel on a sawhorse to the right. Woman and dog outside log cabin, Alaska (probably Tanana), between about 1900 and 1916. Frank and Frances Carpenter Collection. Library of Congress.
ALT Battle-torn American flags of the Civil War, 1861–65. Left to right: 44th New York, 2nd Wisconsin (Gettysburg), 19th Massachusetts, 116th Pennsylvania, 6th Wisconsin. Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress.
ALT Men in wide-brimmed hats and women in calico dresses kneel and sit in a tight circle playing cards in front of a dome-shaped wickiup of brush and reeds patched with canvas, a woman beside a large cone-shaped woven basket, a small child at the doorway with a round basket, a man standing at right leaning on a long gun, and a horse by a brush fence. Paiute Indians gambling at the wickiup, circa 1898. Photo: Sage Brush Art Co., Lovelock, Nevada. Library of Congress.
ALT A dead buffalo lies in tall grass in front of a long line of men, most wearing feathered war bonnets and blankets, some holding lances or feathered staffs, with a few men in plain hats and coats and a boy near the front, under the handwritten title "Geronimos Last Buffalo." Geronimo's last buffalo, Oklahoma, circa 1905. Photo: O. Drum, Bartlesville, Oklahoma. Library of Congress.
ALT "Oklahoma Dugout," around 1909. Seven people in their best clothes sit on a blanket in front of a sod-roofed home. No names or town were recorded. Photo: "Oklahoma dugout," copyrighted 1909 by J.V. Dedrick. Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division (LC-USZ62-100337).
ALT First presidential election on Standing Rock Indian Reservation," c. 1913, copyright Fred A. Hassold. Library of Congress
ALT Seen from a bluff, a herd of horses stands drinking in a shallow bend of a creek between eroded banks, a lone figure stands on the bank above, and beyond a bare tree a large camp of tipis spreads across the open prairie to the horizon, with "#3623 Villa of Brule" handwritten below. Villa of Brule, Lakota camp near Pine Ridge, South Dakota, 1891. Photo: John C. H. Grabill. Library of Congress.
ALT An older Lakota man with long dark hair sits in a wooden chair, wearing a suit coat, vest, white shirt and bow tie, with moccasins on his feet; he holds a walking stick in one hand and a hat rests on his knee, in front of a hanging cloth backdrop whose edges show. Albumen cabinet card. Chief Red Cloud, Oglala, 1881 or 1882. Photo: William R. Cross. Library of Congress.
ALT Several dog teams in harness stand in the snow in front of a large building with signs reading "Post Office" and "N.A.T.&T. Co.," while a group of men in dark coats and hats gathers by the door; snowy hills behind. Handwritten on the print: "U.S. Mail teams arriving at Eagle City Feb 21st 1901." Eagle City, Alaska, 1901. William Mitchell Collection. Library of Congress.