U.S.A., Los Angeles, California. 1895: Employees of the Southerm California Packing Company, Macy and Anderson Streets

 

U.S.A., 1911: Workers fitting the Titanic's propeller shafts into place

 

U.S.A., 1912: A lifeboat of survivors from the Titanic

 

U.S.A.: The Great Chicago Fire of 1871

 

W. D. Kerfoot's block following the fire.

U.S.A.: Maricopa Girl

 

by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

U.S.A.:Wisham Child

 

by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952)

USA: Plains Indian Women "Preparation for Dinner" 1899

 

The Sioux Indian women of the Teton if Western Dakota tribe sustained and perpetuated village life using their agriculture and domestic skills. Among Dakota women's many skills were porcupine quill work and bead embroidery. They also performed such essential tasks as dressing hides for clothing and shelter, caring for the children and cooking.

(photo: Heyn 1899)

U.S.A.: Mayflower Landing

 

The arrival of the Mayflower in Plymouth Harbor marked the end of the Piligrims' harrowing journey accross the Atlantic Ocean to a new and unfamiliar world. 

U.S.A.: Amish Country

 

After lightning struck and set fire to this barn, the Helping Hands surrounding the Barrs Mills area have gathered today for a barn raising.

U.S.A.: Votes for Women, 1891

 

For five decades, Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906) and Elisabeth Cady Stanton (1815-1902) led the campain for women's voting rights. Of Anthony's organizing  prowess and her own skillful theorizing, Stanton said, "I forged the thunderbolts and she fired them".

U.S.A.: Saguaro Gatherers

 

by Edward S.Curtis (1868-1952)

U.S.A: Crow Chief's Daughter

 

by Edward S.Curtis (1868-1952)

U.S.A.: Navajo Weaver

 

"Showing Her How", Suzzie Yazzie demonstrates the art of Navajo rug weaving to her granddaughter. 

U.S.A. : Man on The Moon, 1969

 Astronaut Buzz Aldrin walks on the surface of the moon as photographed by astronaut Neil Armstrong during Apollo 11 mission. 

U.S.A.: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, 1963

 

The speech of Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial was the grand finale of the August 28,1963 "March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom". The march, led by union leader A. Philip Randolph and organizer Bayard Rustin, drew 200.000 supporters, 50.000 of them white. They included clergy of every faith, students, blue-collar and white-collar workera and celebrities. 

U.S.A.: Spirit of the Plains, 1903

U.S.A.: A cowgirl

This cowgirl from the Southwest poses in a fringed dress, straw hat and leather gauntlets. Her Colt Single Action hangs low off her hip in typical cowgirl fashion. During the last three decades of the 1800s, women on the frontier were prepared to defend themselves if necessary.

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U.S.A.: Abolitionist Harriet Tubman

U.S.A.: Beaver family, Stoney tribe, 1906