From: http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/search/object/nmah_556365Eliza Jane Baile lovingly stitched and inscribed this cotton album quilt top, finishing a few weeks after her marriage to Levi Manahan in 1851. Original patterns of wreaths of…
The facade of the "Eskimo" exhibit at the AYP Expo. Popular "Queen of the Paystreak" Nancy Columbia, a member of the Labrador Inuits, stands behind the dog seated on the ground. Columbia had traveled with her mother and the Eskimo exhibit since her…
Photograph of the marquee of the 500 Cafe (renamed the 500 Club and referred to as The Five) located off of Missouri Ave. Image captured the night Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis first worked together.
This is a famous visual representation of the American war effort in the Pacific Theatre of the Second World War. It depicts a moment during the Battle of Iwo Jima in which a group of soldiers are in the process of erecting an American flag. However,…