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Views of the West

After the Civil War, the United States government commissioned several surveys of the American West. Photography was widely used to document the region's unusual geography, and it was this visual evidence that spurred Congress to create the national park system.

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All images are from the Gilder Lehrman Collection

Sidney Diamond to Estelle Spero, ca. April 1942 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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A soldier’s reasons for enlisting, 1942

“Our country is the...

Frederick Douglass to unknown, November 23, 1887 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Frederick Douglass on Jim Crow, 1887

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Paul Revere, “The Bloody Massacre in King-Street, March 5, 1770.” Boston, 1770.

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Paul Revere’s engraving of the Boston Massacre, 1770

By the beginning of 1770, there...

The Algonquian village of Secotan in present-day North Carolina, an engraving ba

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Secotan, an Algonquian village, ca. 1585

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Novi Belgi Novaeque Angliae [New Netherland and New England], 1682.

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Late seventeenth-century map of the Northeast, 1682

Like many other explorers, Henry Hudson stumbled upon North America almost by accident. Employed by the Dutch Republic to...

Christian Discipline: Certain Good and Wholesome Orders for the Well-Governing o

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William Penn on the “Well-Governing of My Family,” ca. 1700

Quaker school teacher Josiah Forster first published this broadside in 1751, thirty years after the...

A view of Savanah [sic] as it stood the 29th of March, 1734, engraving by Pierre

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A View of Savannah, Georgia, 1734

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Henry Knox, Order of march to Trenton, December 26, 1776 (Gilder Lehrman Collect

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Henry Knox’s Order of March to Trenton, 1776

On Christmas Day in 1776 the American Revolution was on the verge of...

[Map of Yorktown, Virginia], October 1781 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Surrender of the British General Cornwallis to the Americans, October 19, 1781

These three documents—a map, a manuscript, and a print—tell the story of the surrender of British...