CONTENTS
 

  American History PicturePack

Collection D:
Expansion, Development,
Sectionalism and Division,
1820-1860
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
    

PicturePack D01: Westward Expansion, Transportation and Urban  Growth, 1820-1860 ● Map, the United States in 1820 ● A map of the Missouri Compromise, 1820 ● A plan of St. Louis, ca. 1825 ● Thomas Hart Benton (1782-1858) ● Monrovia, Liberia ● John Quincy Adams at a cabinet meeting ● John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) ● Fort at Astoria, Oregon, as it appeared in 1813 ● Fort Ross, near Russian River California coast ● Reconstructed Russian chapel at Fort Ross in 1934 ● Augusta, Maine, ca 1823 ● DeWitt Clinton (1769-1828) ● Lockport, New York, on the Erie Canal, ca, 1830 ● The Erie Canal locks at Lockport, New York ● American canals built between 1790 and 1850 ● Construction of Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Canal ● A canal boat on the C&O Canal ● Fulton ferryboat Wm. Cutting, built in 1827 ● Provost and Chapel streets in New York City ● Broadway, looking north from Canal Street, 1834 ● "Packet Row," South Street, New York, 1828 ● The life of a fireman ● Five Points in New York City ● Philadelphia in 1836 ● The Philadelphia water works on Schuylkill River ● Baltimore from Federal Hill ● Boston, ca. 1826 ● Shipbuilding in East Boston ● Cincinnati in 1835 ● The steamboat "Walk-in-the-Water" 1820s ● Fur traders meet Native Americans outside a fort ● "View of the Great Treaty ... (Prairie) du Chien." ● Map of the main post roads, 1834 ● One of America's oldest locomotives ● The Dewitt Clinton ● The locomotive Mississippi, built about 1830 ● Replica of Peter Cooper's Tom Thumb ● "The Meeting of the Ways." ● Street railroad cars in New Orleans ● "The Boston and Cambridge New Horse Railroad." ● A steamboat race on the Mississippi river ● Steamboats on the levee at Vicksburg, Mississippi ● A keel boat on the Mississippi 
 

PicturePack D02: The Political Consequences of Growth, 1820-1860 ● Flatboatmen on the Mississippi ● Map shows electoral votes, 1824 election ● John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) ● John C. Calhoun (1782-1850) ● Map shows electoral votes, 1828 election ● Andrew Jackson, the 7th U.S. president ● President Jackson's levee at time of inaugural ● City of Washington from east side Anacostia River ● A map of Washington in 1835 ● "To the Victors Belong the Spoils." ● Mrs. Margaret O'Neale Eaton ● Cartoon, Jackson's Cabinet resignations ● The Custom House at Salem, Massachusetts ● Senator Daniel Webster (1782-1852) ● The South Carolina State House, 1794-1865 ● Nicholas Biddle (1786-1844) ● Cartoon, "General Jackson Slays Monster." ● "Uncle Sam's Pet Pups!" ● Jan. 30, 1835, Richard Lawrence shot at Jackson ● The Charles River bridge at Boston, built in 1785 ● Martin Van Buren (1782-1862) ● Cartoon, "A Grand Match." ● "Capitol Fashions for 1837/A Loose Cloak." ● John Ross, a Cherokee leader ● Cherokee Indian scholar Sequoya ● The Cherokee alphabet ● Osceola, Seminole leader, attacks ● Attack of Seminoles on blockhouse at Fort Brooke ● Fort Brooke, and the settlement on Tampa Bay ● The deportation of the Seminoles ● Zebulon Montgomery Pike (1779-1813) ● The ruins of Jean Lafitte's fort ● The D'Aigleville colony of Texas ● Vincente Guerrero (1782-1831) ● Stephen F. Austin, the "Father of Texas." ● Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna (1794-1876) ● Sam Houston (1793-1863) ● Lorenzo de Zavala (1788-1836) ● The siege of the Alamo, March 6, 1836 ● Juan Nepomucena Seguin (1806-1889) ● San Antonio de Bexar ● James Bowie, one of the defenders of the Alamo ● Surrender of General Santa Anna at San Jacinto ● Houston house, meeting of first Congress of Texas ● Austin, the new capital of Texas, in 1840 ● A map of the Republic of Texas, 1836-1846 
 

PicturePack D03: Slavery & the Southern Economy & Society ● "Life in Eastern Virginia, home of a planter." ● A tobacco plantation in 1856 ● Louisville, Kentucky, in 1835 ● A Richmond, Virginia, slave auction ● Coffle of slaves driven out of South Carolina ● Nat Turner's rebellion, 1831 ● Charleston, South Carolina, in 1838 ● Home of Robert Barnwell Rhett, Sr., Beaufort, SC ● Mobile Bay, 1842 ● A Louisiana plantation house ● Picking cotton ● Hauling cotton to market ● A cotton gin ● Packing cotton for shipment ● A cotton press ● Mill buildings, Pratt's cotton gin factory ● Slave cabins, Hermitage plantation; Savannah, GA ● "A plantation frolic on Christmas Eve." ● The scarred back of a former slave ● An advertisement for a runaway slave ● "The Death of Capt. Ferrer." ● The slave deck of the bark Wildfire, 1860 ● Freed slaves were on guard against re-enslavement ● In the North, African Americans were not free   
 

PicturePack D04: Industrialization, Immigration and Economic Change
in the North ● The Lowell, Massachusetts, mills around 1840 ● Women at work in a power loom mill ● Calico printing ● Boring rifle barrels at Springfield Armory in MA ● Replica of Morse’s first telegraph instrument.Samuel F.B. Morse in his study ● The foundry on Jones Creek near Baltimore, 1828 ● Making steel forgings in Pittsburgh ● Interior of central office of Isaac M. Singer Co ● W.S. and E.H. Thompson's hoop skirt manufactory ● An interior view of S. Klous and Company's store ● Pegging boots by hand ● 1860 strike of 800 women shoemakers in Lynn, MA ● MA Supreme Court Chief Justice Lemuel Shaw ● Irish emigrants leaving for America ● Castle Clinton, on the Battery at New York City ● Irish immigrants landing at New York in 1858 ● The Bible riots in Philadelphia, June 1844    
 

PicturePack D05: Intellectual, Religious and Reform Ferment in the
Middle 1800s ● The poet Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) ● Author Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) ● "The Wayside," at Concord, Massachusetts ● Henry David Thoreau’s cabin at Walden pond.Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) ● Longfellow’s house from 1836 to 1854.Noah Webster (1758-1843) ● Horace Mann (1796-1859) ● A page from McGuffey’s Reader.Prudence Crandell, a Quaker schoolteacher ● Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851) ● Edward Miner Gallaudet (1837-1918) ● New York Institution for Instruction of Deaf ● Samuel Gridley Howe provided for the sightless ● Dorothea Lynde Dix (1802-1887) ● The Lunatic Asylum at New York ● Robert Mills designed an innovative asylum ● The Widows’ and Orphans’ Asylum in Philadelphia.The State Prison at Auburn, New York ● The University of Virginia at Charlottesville ● "Slab Hall" or "Cincinnati Hall," Oberlin College ● The Mount Holyoke Female Seminary ● The Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C ● "The Drunkard’s Progress."One of the earliest Sunday schools ● Charles Grandison Finney (1792-1875) ● William Ellery Channing (1780-1842) ● Robert Owen, the British social reformer ● "A Bird’s Eye view of new communities, Indiana.""Shakers," a communal living experiment ● The Shaker village of Alfred, Maine ● The business office at the Oneida Community ● The Amana Community, in Iowa, settled in 1855 ● Joseph Smith (1805-1844) ● The Mormon Temple at Nauvoo, Illinois ● Brigham Young (1801-1877) ● Mormons emigrating to Utah in 1847 ● Salt Lake City, 1855   
  

PicturePack D06: Abolitionism Grows in the Middle 1800s ● Arthur Tappan ● Theodore Dwight Weld (1803-1895) ● James G. Birney (1792-1857) ● Sarah Moore Grimke (1792-1873) ● William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) ● Masthead of William Lloyd Garrison’s newspaper.Frederick Douglass, born in slavery ● Antislavery editor Lovejoy is murdered ● Wendell Phillips speaking at antislavery meeting ● Lucretia Mott (1793-1880) ● Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) ● Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s home in Seneca Falls.Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)   
  

PicturePack D07: Political Consequences of Expansion; Manifest Destiny ● Thurlow Weed (1797-1882) ● Anti-Masonic Party symbols ● Announcement of a public meeting ● "A Whig Parade during the Hard Cider Campaign." ● "The Whig Trap." ● "The Trap Sprung! The Kinderhook Fox Caught." ● Map: electoral votes in 1840 election ● William Henry Harrison’s inauguration.The Capitol of the United States in the 1840s ● William Henry Harrison (1773-1841) ● John Tyler (1790-1862) ● Black Hawk, leader of the Sauk Indians ● Poweshiek, a Fox Indian ● Fort Des Moines in 1844 ● "The Council Bluffs Ferry." ● The trailhead at Independence, Missouri ● Independence, Missouri, in 1855 ● Map, westward trails in the 1840s ● The Pawnee Indian chief Pes-Ke-Le-Cho-Ko ● Encampment of Piekann Indians, near Ft. McKenzie ● A fur trader ● Fort Bridger on Black’s Forks of the Green River.Fort Scott in Kansas ● An 1830s caravan starting out on Santa Fe Trail ● An early street scene in Santa Fe, New Mexico ● Santa Fe, ca. 1846-47 ● A ranch in New Mexico ● Wagon ruts of the Santa Fe Trail  
 

PicturePack D08: Early Days in the American West ● Jedediah Smith’s party crossing the Mojave Desert ● The Mission San Gabriel Arcangel ● Inhabitants of the California coast ● Hides transported to a ship, 1840 ● An example of an adobe house, early 1800s ● Spanish-style California carreta or ox cart ● Vallejo,Californio forces commander, 1829 ● Abel Stearns (1799-1871) ● Thomas O. Larkin ● "Texas Coming In," 1844 ● 1844 Whig campaign banner ● Electoral college votes, 1844 election ● Map, Pacific Northwest boundary dispute ● Fort Vancouver, Hudson’s Bay Company HQ, ca 1828 ● Coeur d’Alene mission, Idaho ● Diamond Peak of the Willamette River, Oregon ● Marcus Whitman (1802-1847) ● U.S. army of occupation, Texas ● Camp of Donner party at Donner Lake, 1846 ● Anchorage, Yerba Buena (San Francisco), 1846-47 ● Gen. Andres Pico ● U.S. troops at Monterrey, Mexico ● Landing of American forces at Vera Cruz, 1847 ● The storming of Chapultepec ● U.S. troops defeat Mexican army, Churubusco, 1847 ● Parade of troops going off to Mexico ● A cartoon about the Wilmot Proviso ● "The Grand National Whig Banner." ● "Barn-burners in a Fix," ca. 1848 ● Zachary Taylor, nickname, "Old Rough and Ready." ● John A. Sutter (1803-1880) ● Sutter’s Mill before the discovery of gold ● Sutter’s sawmill at Coloma, California ● Vaucluse gold mine of Orange Grove Mining Company ● "Off for California." ● San Francisco in 1846-47, before gold rush began ● San Francisco in 1849 ● Early photograph of San Francisco street, 1849 ● The Post Office at San Francisco, mid-1800s ● An 1851 view of San Francisco ● Sacramento in 1850 ● "Gold Mining in California." ● Early placer workings near Prescott, Arizona ● Chinese men labor for white California miners ● African Americans in gold fields ● Los Angeles in 1854   
 

PicturePack D09: The Growing Sectional Crisis of the 1850s ● Henry Clay addressing the Senate, 1850 ● Millard Fillmore (1800-1874) ● A slave coffle passing the Capitol ● A handbill warning the "Colored People" of Boston ● October 1850 California statehood celebration ● Executions in California ● Fort Defiance, in the New Mexico Territory 1852 ● A sugar estate in Cuba, 1852 ● Franklin Pierce, elected to presidency in 1852 ● Commodore Matthew Perry (1794-1858) ● Japanese admire gifts brought by Commodore Perry ● Honolulu in 1854 ● Torchlight meeting of the "Know-Nothings." ● A Know-Nothing cartoon ● Cartoon, divisive issues in the 1850s ● Map, Compromise of 1850 & the Kansas-Nebraska Act ● Stephen A. Douglas (1813-1861) ● Chicago in 1865 ● The old "Bull’s Head" stockyards in Chicago.The Constitutional Convention of Kansas Territory ● Picture from Uncle Tom’s Cabin.Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) ● Harriet Tubman (1821-1913) ● Walt Whitman (1819-1892) ● Salmon P. Chase, early leader in Republican Party ● The schoolhouse at Ripon, Wisconsin ● Andrew Butler (1796-1857) ● Congressman Brooks thrashing Charles Sumner ● General John C. Fremont, presidential candidate ● James Buchanan, 15th president of the U.S ● Map: electoral votes, 1856 election ● Roger B. Taney (1777-1864) ● Dred Scott with his wife, Harriet Scott ● Governor’s mansion of Kansas Territory in 1857.The Marais des Cygnes Massacre, May 19, 1858 ● Fifth debate between Lincoln and Douglas ● Lincoln had an office in Springfield, Illinois ● Abraham Lincoln’s Springfield, Illinois, house.Kitchen of Lincoln’s Springfield, Illinois, home.Cartoon, "Honest Old Abe on the Stump." ● The locale of John Brown’s raid, Harper’s Ferry.John Brown (1800-1859) ● John Brown’s "fort" at Harper’s Ferry.Captain Robert E. Lee ● Arraignment of John Brown before Federal court