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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

David Shean
Baseball Cards, 1887-1914

Woman at sewing machine

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

map of San Francisco

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

Herb Pembroke

Portrait of Herb Pembroke
Buckaroos in Paradise, 1945-1982

Millions of Acres

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

John Selleck facing left, head-and-shoulders portrait
California Gold: Northern California Folk Music from the Thirties

iconListen to a recording of Arkansas Traveller

Migrant girl

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

Yellowstone Lake

Yellowstone Lake
Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920

rosie the riveter

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

A Street Arab

A street Arab
The Life of a City: Early Films of New York, 1897-1906

View the film in QuickTime (2 MG)

Heidelberg

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

Jefferson's pasta machine

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

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