CONTENTS
  

  American History PicturePack

Collection F:
Post-Civil War Expansion
and Change, 1865-1900
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
  

PicturePack F01: Post-Civil War Expansion: The Western Frontiers ● Map, the United States in 1865 ● Landing the Atlantic telegraph cable, July 1866 ● Scene, NYC as telegrams are first sent to Europe ● Signing the treaty for purchase of Alaska, 1867 ● U.S. Geological Survey, Red Buttes, Wyoming, 1870 ● Powell party beginning Grand Canyon tour, 1871 ● Frontiersman "Kit" Carson (1809-1868) ● An Indian council, 1868 ● Execution of 38 Sioux, Mankato, Minnesota, 1862 ● Chief Red Cloud of the fierce Oglala band ● Encampment of Dakota Indians at Ft. Laramie ● The ruins of Ft. Bowie in Arizona ● Fort Yuma in California in 1864 ● Fort Davis, Texas, a San Antonio-El Paso outpost ● Cartoon, "The Senatorial Roundhouse." ● Ad for opening transcontinental RR, May 10, 1869 ● Samuel B. Reed, in charge construction UP RR ● Workmen building the Central Pacific Railroad ● C.P. & U.P. join, Promontory Point, Utah ● U.P. Railroad station, Sherman, Wyoming Territory ● Omaha, eastern terminus of U.P. Railroad, 1879 ● Map, expansion of railroads & land grants ● Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794-1877) ● Leland Stanford (1824-1893) ● Collis Potter Huntington (1821-1900) ● Charles Crocker (1822-1888) ● "Ten Minutes for Refreshments" in crowded station ● Interior of an original Rock Island dining car ● Map, railroad time zones, established in 1883 ● Construction of Secret Town trestle on C.P. RR ● Chinese immigrants at the SF custom house, 1877 ● A market in San Francisco's Chinatown ● Denis Kearney (1847-1907) ● "A Picture for Employers" anti-Chinese cartoon ● An anti-Chinese riot in Denver, October 1880 ● "Every Dog (no distinction of color) has his day." ● Cartoon lampooning racism ● Cattle on the trail in the Matador Range, Texas ● Cowboys at a line camp ● Cowboys in a Texas bar, 1908 ● Chuck wagon in roundup in Dakota Territory, 1887 ● African-American cowboys ● Loading Texas cattle on the Kansas Pacific RR ● Cedar Street in Abilene, Kansas, around 1900 ● Faro game in Orient Saloon at Bisbee, Arizona ● Hurdy Gurdy House, a saloon, Virginia, Montana ● Jesse James (1847-1882) ● Judge Roy Bean's court ● This first jail in Montana, at Bannock 
 

PicturePack F02: America at Work: Stockyards, Farming, Mining & Oil, 1865-1900 ● The Union Stockyards, Chicago, in 1878 ● A hog line in a meat packing plant in Chicago ● Cyrus McCormick (1809-1884). ● A recreation of the first mechanical reaper ● Plowing with a steam tractor in South Dakota ● Wheat harvesting in Dakota Territory, 1877 ● A threshing crew at dinner ● A 30-horse-drawn combined harvester and thresher ● Threshing in California using a steam engine ● A grain mill at South Vallejo, California ● A Union veteran's land certificate ● A Missouri Railroad Company land advertisement ● A homesteading family with covered wagon ● A homestead family posed before its sod house ● A mare with her colt behind a barbed wire fence ● A homesteader's cabin on the Yampa Bench ● Clearing a field of grasshoppers in 1875 ● A local Grange meeting in Edwardsville, Illinois ● "The Granger Shirt," a color lithograph ● Hon. William H. Hutch (1833-1896) ● A North Dakota farmer gets his morning mail ● Hydraulic mining at Wardner, Idaho ● Montezuma silver smelting works in Nevada ● "Down in a Silver Mine," 1892 ● Anaconda, Colorado, in 1899 ● The Homestake mines and mills, Lead City, Dakota ● Men at work in the Terra gold stamp mill ● First oil well derricks, Titusville, Pennsylvana ● John Davison Rockefeller (1839-1937) ● John D. Rockefeller's Standard Oil Refinery ● An early household kerosene lamp ● Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) ● A Bessemer converter ● The American Iron Works at Pittsburgh ● Henry Clay Frick (1849-1919) ● Steam shovel, workers, Mesabi open pit iron mine ● A Great Lakes ore carrier at Ashtabula, Ohio ● Woodward coal mine near Plymouth, Pennsylvania ● Part of coal mining town, Dorothy, West Virginia ● Victims of mine disaster at Avondale and Plymouth  
 

PicturePack F03: Inventions & Progress, 1865-1900 ● Thomas Alva Edison with his first phonograph ● The first telephone ● An early telephone switchboard ● Women telephone operators in the Bell exchange ● The cover of the "Handy Dandy Cook Book." ● The 1860 "Home Washer and Wringer." ● The invention of the incandescent lamp ● Works of Edison General Electric Company, 1891 ● The electric lamp transformed the urban landscape ● Telephone and electric wires in New York City ● Laying tubes for underground electric wires ● James B. Eads (1820-1887) ● John A. Roebling (1806-1869) ● Building the Brooklyn Bridge, 1877 ● The Corliss engine, exhibited in 1876 ● Visitors to Philadelphia Centennial Exposition ● Building the Washington Monument, 1879   
 

PicturePack F04: Immigration & the Emergence of the American Labor Movement ● A small tinsmith workshop ● A shoe factory in Plymouth, Massachusetts ● "Bell Time." ● Founders of the Knights of Labor ● Terence V. Powderly (1849-1924) ● Women attending meeting of Knights of Labor, 1886 ● "The Great Strike - destruction of Union Depot..." ● RR workers attempt to prevent train from starting ● Samuel Gompers (1850-1924) ● Cigar makers, around 1873 ● Roustabouts unloading freight ● Mexican-American farm laborers, San Antonio ● Map: Principal European origins of immigration ● Emigrants leaving Bremen for America ● Ellis Island a primary U.S. immigration port ● Immigrants in "pens" at Ellis Island ● Physicians examining a group of Jewish immigrants ● An immigrant train at the Baltimore pier in 1880s ● The head of Statue of Liberty during construction ● "Five cents a spot" unauthorized rental lodgings ● The roof of a "dumbbell" tenement building ● The "bathroom"; New York City cold-water tenement ● Bohemian cigarmakers at work in their tenement ● "Female Slaves of New York" picture of sweat shop ● Mulberry Street in New York City about 1900 ● Slavic coal miners working 3 miles underground ● An Italian mother, Jersey Street, NY, 1890 ● Jane Addams (1860-1935) ● Frances E. C. Willard (1839-1898)    
 

PicturePack F05: The "New South" of the Late 19th Century ● Henry Woodfin Grady ● TN Coal, Iron and Railroad Company’s furnaces ● A phosphate plant ● North Carolina "spiritine" or turpentine factory ● An advertisement for Bull Durham tobacco ● Women workers in Virginia cigarette factory, 1877 ● A bust of Robert E. Lee by Stephen Dill ● The sugar harvest in Louisiana, around 1875 ● 1884 Mississippi cotton plantation ● Cotton on the levee at Huntsville, Alabama ● A Mississippi River boat loaded with cotton ● Finishing room, Pepperrell Manufacturing Company ● Conyers family of Maple Mills, Dillon, SC ● Most cotton mill workers were women & children    
  

PicturePack F06: The End of the Western Frontier ● A buffalo hide yard ● Sitting Bull, Chief of the Oglala Sioux ● Panorama of Lt. Col. Custer’s force ● George Armstrong Custer (1839-1876) ● Chief Gall, leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux ● Chief Joseph of the Nez Percé tribe ● Geronimo (1829-1909), his son, and Natches ● Group of "hostiles" from Chief Geronimo’s band ● Sioux camp near Pine Ridge Agency in South Dakota ● Cartoon, "The reason of Indian Outbreak..." ● Wovoka, a Paiute medicine man ● Big Foot was a leader of a small band of Sioux ● The bodies of the Indian dead at Wounded Knee ● Students in blacksmith shop at Carlisle, PA ● Dobbin’s Sawmill at Black Hills, Dakota Territory ● U.S. Mail coach ● Land promoters fill in gaps between settlements ● Scene at the polls in Cheyenne, Wyoming, 1888 ● Homesteaders waiting for opening, Cherokee Strip ● "U.S. Land Office Practice, Contracts A Specialty" ● Guthrie, Oklahoma Territory, January 1893 ● An 1899 railroad poster   
  

PicturePack F07: Politics in the Gilded Age ● The assassination of President Garfield ● Chester A. Arthur (1830-1886) ● Roscoe Conkling (1819-1888) ● Thomas Nast (1840-1902) ● Grover Cleveland the 22nd President of the U.S ● Benjamin Harrison with his running mate ● The Charleston earthquake, August 31, 1886 ● The Johnstown flood, May 31, 1889 ● Senator John Sherman (1823-1900) ● "Morgan" silver dollar and a $20 gold piece ● Mary Elizabeth Lease (1853-1933) ● Thomas Edward Watson (1856-1922) ● Benjamin Ryan Tillman (1847-1918) ● Strikers at Homestead, Pennsylvania ● "The Homestead Riot." ● Unemployed men receiving bread, New York City ● Jacob S. Coxey (1854-1951) ● Coxey’s Army.The interior of a Pullman railroad car ● Eugene V. Debs (1855-1926) ● Special train which patrolled Rock Island RR ● William Jennings Bryan (1860-1925) ● "Showman Hanna Catches the Crowd." ● Map: electoral votes, 1896 election ● The Cotton States Exposition in Atlanta ● Booker T. Washington (1856-1915) ● A lynching at Marion, Indiana ● Convicts in segregated crews in Mississippi ● Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) ● Lucy Stone, women’s rights convention organizer ● Mary Ashton Livermore; American Woman Suffrage ● Julia Ward Howe (1819-1910) ● Belva Ann Lockwood (1830- 1917) ● Mary Church Terrell (1863-1954)  
 

PicturePack F08: Expansion Abroad and the Spanish American War ● Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan (1840-1914) ● The Columbia, an armored naval vessel ● Cartoon about German-U.S. disagreement over Samoa ● Queen Liliuokalani, last reigning queen of Hawaii ● Sanford B. Dole (1844-1921) ● The Venezuelan crisis ● Packers ascending the summit of the Chilkoot Pass ● Women prospectors on their way to the Klondike ● Tents and buildings at Nome City, Alaska, in 1899 ● Valeriano Weyler, the Spanish governor of Cuba ● Pulitzer and Hearst in conflict over Cuba ● The wreck of the Maine ● Theodore Roosevelt and his Rough Riders ● African-American soldiers in Cuba ● Admiral George Dewey(1837-1917) ● Emilio Aguinaldo with his mother and son ● The native district of Manila is burned, 1899 ● American soldiers stricken with fever, Manila ● U.S. infantrymen camped in Forbidden City Beijing   
 

PicturePack F09: The Growth of Cities, Late 19th Century ● A horse-drawn streetcar in New York City, 1895 ● Electric streetcars in Atlanta, Georgia, 1895 ● The first train on the Gilbert elevated railroad ● Digging the subway, Union Square in New York City ● Central Park in New York City, 1902 ● Frederick Law Olmsted, designer of Central Park ● The aftermath of the great Chicago fire ● Louis Henry Sullivan, pioneering architect ● The famous "Flat Iron Building" in New York City ● "Bird’s-eye view" of World’s Columbian Exposition ● R. H. Macy & Company, New York City ● A woman with an early typewriter, 1892 ● Richard Sears, co-founder of Sears & Roebuck   
 

PicturePack F10: Sports and Culture in Late 19th Century America ● Boston versus Baltimore Orioles, Baltimore 1897 ● A Notre Dame football player in an 1880s uniform ● John Lawrence Sullivan (1858-1901) ● The Connecticut Bicycle Parade at Hartford, 1885 ● Women rode bicycles, it was considered daring ● Tennis, too, was an individual leisure-time sport ● The beach at Seabreeze, Florida ● The Long Beach, California, pier & bathers, 1905 ● The Chautauqua grounds at Galesburg, Illinois ● Stephens’ Female College at Columbia, MO, 1875 ● A revival meeting in Brooklyn, New York, 1875 ● Primrose and West’s Big Minstrels ● A poster advertising "Signorita Galetti." ● A poster for Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show.Stephen Crane (1871-1900) ● Edward Bellamy (1850-1898) ● A dinner party honoring Mark Twain ● Thomas Eakins (1844-1916) ● Winslow Homer (1836-1910) ● Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) ● Russell Conwell (1843-1925) ● A Horatio Alger book ● Fifth Avenue at Central Park East, 1903 ● The parlor of the Vanderbilt mansion ● Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888) ● "The Royal Family of America," 1902