CONTENTS
  

  American History PicturePack

Collection A:
Prehistory to 1688
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
   

PicturePack A01: The Americas Before Columbus ● Map, geographic area, continental United States ● Bering Strait Land Bridge ● Map, native populations, end of the 15th century ● The Wrestler, an Olmec sculpture ● The Castle at Chichén Itzá, Yucatan, Mexico ● A Mayan Tablet of the Cross ● The founding of Tenochtitlán, ca 1345 ● Montezuma or (Moctezuma) II, ruler of the Aztecs ● Cliff Palace at Mesa Verde, in Colorado ● Spruce Tree House ● A ladder emerging from a kiva, Spruce Tree House ● Pueblo Bonito, New Mexico ● Aerial view, Aztec Ruins National Monument ● A kiva in the Aztec Ruins National Monument ● Deer petroglyphs in the Navajo National Monument ● Petroglyphs in Dinosaur National Park ● The Zuñi Pueblo, Zuñi-Cibola National Park, NM ● Members of Hopi Indian tribe of southwestern U.S ● "Dog Dance of the Dakotas," by Seth Eastman ● A Pacific Coast totem pole ● A Canadian Inuit family ● Eskimos of the Kotzebu Gulf ● Tuski and Mahlemut Alaskan Eskimos ● A map showing the locations of Indian mounds ● Indian burial mounds at Mound City, Ohio ● A Hopewell Indian "platform pipe" from Mound City ● Mound culture site, Cahokia, Illinois ● Excavating Indian bones, Effigy Mounds Iowa ● Indian arrowhead, Effigy Mounds National Monument ● Native American Artifacts from Effigy Mounds ● Cadwallader Colden's map of "the Five Nations." ● "Sauvage Iroquois," a European conception ● The village of Secota ● Timucua Indians, Florida planting beans and maize ● Indian sports, engraving by Theodor DeBry ● Florida Native Americans hunt deer ● Timucua Indians of Florida bring crops to granary ● Leif Ericson rediscovers America, A.D. 1000 ● The Oeseberg Viking ship ● Viking building site, Newfoundland, Canada ● Recreation of the 11th-century Norse community ● The interior of a reconstructed Norse hut
 

PicturePack A02: American Roots in Europe and Africa ● The astrolabe ● European sailors calculating their position ● Portuguese Prince Henry the Navigator (1394-1460) ● Map, voyages of Portuguese navigators ● Major figures, Continental Protestant Reformation ● Henry VIII of England (1491-1547) ● The combatants in the English Reformation ● Elizabeth I (1533-1603), daughter of Henry VIII ● Philip II of Spain (1527-1598) ● James I of England (and James VI of Scotland) ● Charles I (Stuart, 1600-1649), King of England ● A trail of footprints 3.5 million years old ● Map of Africa showing the major language families ● Biblical scene from Ethiopian Coptic manuscript ● A map of the great empires of the Western Sudan ● African trade routes ● A West African king holding a gold nugget ● King of Benin, retinue in a 1686 European print ● Ox cart transporting millet, Gambia, West Africa ● A Bataka iron hoe from southern Africa ● Elaborate fish traps, 19th century central Africa ● Chained slaves taken across the Sahara desert ● A slave coffle in Africa ● Small village workshop in Mogadishu, Somalia ● A traditional African doctor treating a sick baby 
 

PicturePack A03: The Rediscovery of America: Columbus ● Life on a medieval manor ● Agriculture in 18th-century France ● European peasant harvest celebration ● Execution of men accused of spreading the plague ● 15th-century plague victim with three physicians ● A reconstruction of Gutenberg's printing press ● Facsimile page of the Gutenberg Bible ● A 14th-century merchant ship ● Isabella of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon ● Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) ● Christopher Columbus, Lotto (Ellsworth) portrait ● Christofel Colonus, holding a quadrant ● Christopher Columbus, in military regalia ● Columbus with a Franciscan prior ● Columbus before Ferdinand and Isabella ● Columbus embarking at Palos ● Columbus' three ships ● Columbus landing in the Bahamas ● The landing of Columbus in the West Indies ● Columbus at the Royal Court of Spain ● 20th-century version of Columbus's reception ● A Columbus letter ● Map of Columbus's three voyages to America ● The recall of Columbus ● Columbus in chains ● The death of Columbus ● Cathedral built to house remains of Columbus 
 

PicturePack A04: The Spanish and Portuguese After Columbus ● Vasco da Gama (ca. 1469-1524) ● Pedro Alvares Cabral (ca. 1467-1520) ● Cabral’s fleet.Cabral landing on the coast of Brazil in 1500 ● The Florentine Amerigo Vespucci (1454-1512) ● Juan Ponce de León (ca. 1460-1521) ● Vasco Núñez de Balboa (ca. 1475-1519) ● Ferdinand Magellan (ca. 1480-1521) ● A 1544 map of Magellan’s voyage around the world.Hernando Cortez (or Cortés, 1485-1547) ● Francisco Pizarro (ca. 1476-1541) ● Pizarro, Luque, and Almagro sign a contract ● Hernando De Soto (ca. 1500-1542) ● De Soto’s map of America, published around 1544.Coronado’s march into Colorado.Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo (d. 1543) ● Coronado advances against a city ● Map, early explorations of the California coast ● Juan de Oñate enters New Mexico ● Inscription Rock, El Morro National Monument ● Inscription by Oñate carved into Inscription Rock ● A mid-16th century map of the Americas ● Pieces of eight and a gold bar from Atocha ● A map of the route of the Spanish treasure fleets ● Dutch capture Spanish fleet, Matanzas Bay, 1628 ● The entrance to the El Morro fortress at San Juan ● Spaniards building a fort at Santa Elena ● Fort Marion, at St. Augustine, Florida ● The Castillo de San Marcos ● Indians torturing Spaniards, 1598 ● De Soto’s men torturing Indians in Florida.Spanish tyranny in the West Indies ● An Indian being punished by Corregidores ● Bartolomé de las Casas (1474-1566) ● Charles I of Spain (1500-1558) ● Fray Bernardino de Sahagún (ca. 1500-1590) ● Priests with Indians and mestizos ● Cortez’ invasion results in Aztecs’ smallpox.A herd of horses in the western desert ● New food crops for Europe ● Map of European North Atlantic crossings to 1587  
 

PicturePack A05: European Exploration and First Settlement to 1688 ● Giovanni da Verrazano (ca. 1480-1528) ● Jacques Cartier (1491-1557) ● A map of Cartier's explorations, by Lescarbot ● French expedition enters St. Johns River, FL ● René De Laudonnière and Chief Athore ● Laudonnière's expedition arrives in Florida, 1564 ● Fort Caroline, on the St. Johns River, Florida ● Fort Caroline ● Outina defeats Potanou with the aid of the French ● A modern recreation of the palisades ● Le Moyne's map of America ● Samuel de Champlain (ca. 1567-1635) ● Champlain's chateau at Quebec in 1608 ● Champlain battling the Iroquois, 1615 ● French troops attack Onondaga village, 1615 ● A French map of La Floride, 1657 ● Sugar plantation in the French West Indies, 1667 ● 1672 Jesuit map of Lake Superior and nearby areas ● Fr. Jacques Marquette preaching to Indians ● Robert, Cavelier de la Salle (1643-1687) ● Sebastian Cabot (ca. 1483-1557) ● Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) ● Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) ● "Drake's Bay," inset from a 1590 world map ● Drake attacks Cartagena, 1586 ● Hakluyt's map of the Americas, 1587 ● Sir Humphrey Gilbert (ca. 1537-1583) ● Sir Walter Raleigh (ca. 1554-1618) ● The English arrive at Roanoke, 1585 ● The defeat of the Spanish Armada, 1588 ● John White's map of Raleigh's Virginia ● The seals of the Virginia Company ● A model of Jamestown village ● A ship lying at the wharf at Jamestown village ● Ruins of Jamestown Village ● Captain John Smith (ca. 1580-1631) ● Powhatan ● John Smith rescued by Pocahantas ● Pocahontas, 1616 ● Tobacco ships in the James River ● Smokers in an English tobacco shop ● Sir Edwyn Sandys, reformer, Virginia Co ● The first English Legislative Assembly in America ● George Calvert, the First Lord Baltimore ● Leonard Calvert, Maryland's first governor ● Map, Maryland, 1635 ● "Toleration Act." ● 1660 map shows Charles County, MD, Court House 
  

PicturePack A06: The English Settlement of New England ● The French theologian John Calvin (1509-1564) ● John Smith's map of New England ● Codfishing off the coast of New England ● The church at Scrooby in South Yorkshire, England ● Departure of the Pilgrims from Delfthaven, 1620 ● The Mayflower under sail ● A map of Plymouth Harbor ● Signing the Mayflower Compact ● Pilgrims landing at Plymouth, December 21, 1620 ● Gov. Wm. Bradford's house at Plymouth in 1621 ● "The First Thanksgiving." ● A map of "Plimouth Colony" in the spring of 1621 ● Miles Standish (ca. 1584-1656) ● Edward Winslow ● Governor Edward Winslow's house at Plymouth ● John Endecott (ca. 1589-1665) ● Cambridge University, in England ● John Winthrop (1588-1649) ● Winthrop and the first "Great Migration," 1630 ● New Englands Prospect ● John Cotton (1584-1652) ● Minot House, Dorchester, MA, built 1633-34 ● A wooden plow ● Roger Williams (ca. 1603-1683) ● Salem meeting house where Roger Williams spoke ● Roger Williams is sheltered by the Indians ● Anne Marbury Hutchinson (1591-1643) ● Thomas Hooker (ca. 1586-1647) ● Thomas Hooker's house at Hartford ● Roger Williams opposing the Pequot Indians ● The attack on the Pequot fort at Mystic, 1637 ● A 1677 map of New England 
  

PicturePack A07: The Puritan Revolution in New England ● Oliver Cromwell (1599-1658) ● The execution of Charles I, 1649 ● Oliver Cromwell dissolves Parliament in 1653 ● A mid-17th century Puritan woman ● Charles II crowned, Westminster Abbey, 1661 ● American men’s costumes of the mid-17th century.Mid-17th century women’s costumes.Boston in 1764 ● Boston’s original Town House.The Boston Town House Square ● Increase Mather ● Title page, Eliot’s 1663 Bible in Algonquian.John Eliot preaching to the Indians ● Metacomet, chief, Wampanoag Indians ● Indians battling New Englanders, 1675 ● Colonists vs. Indians in King Philip’s War.Strange News from Virginia ● Bacon confronts Governor William Berkeley, 1676  
 

PicturePack A08: The Restoration Colonies - New York, Carolina and Pennsylvania ● Henry Hudson (d. 1611) ● Henry Hudson in the Bay of New York, 1609 ● A part of a 1639 map of Manhattan ● The earliest view of New Amsterdam, 1651 ● Wouter von Twiller (ca. 1580-1656) ● William Kieft, Director-General, New Netherlands ● Peter Stuyvesant (ca. 1595-1672) ● New Amsterdam in 1671 ● Dutch surrender New Amsterdam, September 8, 1664 ● King Charles II ● John Locke (1632-1704) ● Map, Ashley and Cooper Rivers, 1685 ● William Penn (1644-1718) ● A Quaker meeting in England, late 17th century ● William Penn gets a land grant from Charles II ● Penn's 1681 pamphlet promoting Pennsylvania ● William Penn landing at New Castle ● William Penn treating with the Indians ● The plan of Philadelphia, 1684