Gallery

This is your first look at American Memory. Choose an item that you like - something that represents your hobby, talent, future ambitions, secret wishes, alter ego, or just your favorite in the Gallery! Sample a few while you are here. Get to know a bit about what you'll be exploring in our search workshop.

DISCUSSION: When you've chosen and sampled, go to our Introductions discussion and tell which item you've selected and why. Mention the collection(s) you've sampled and any treasures you've found.

David Shean
Baseball Cards, 1887-1914

Occupational portrait of a woman working at a sewing machine
America's First Look into the Camera: Daguerreotypes, 1839-1864

View of San Francisco, formerly Yerba Buena, in 1846-7 before the discovery of gold.
Panoramic Maps 1847-1929

Portrait of Herb Pembroke
Buckaroos in Paradise, 1945-1982

Millions of acres. Iowa and Nebraska. Land for sale on 10 years credit by the Burlington & Missouri River R. R. Co. at 6 per ct interest and low prices ... Buffalo. N. Y. Commercial advertiser printing house [1872].
An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera

John Selleck facing left, head-and-shoulders portrait
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties
Listen to a recording of Arkansas Traveller

Migrant girl. Tulare migrant camp. Visalia, California
FSA/OWI Photographs, 1935-1945

Yellowstone Lake
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

Operating a hand drill at Vultee-Nashville, woman is working on a "Vengeance" dive bomber, Tennessee
FSA/OWI Photographs, 1935-1945

A street Arab
The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1897-1906
View the film in QuickTime (2 MG)

Old Heidelberg
Touring Turn-of-the-Century America, 1880-1901

Thomas Jefferson's drawing of a macaroni machine and instructions for making pasta, ca. 1787.
Words and Deeds in American History