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Two Men Ride Penny-farthings, 1886
Photo Credit: Los Angeles Public Library James Irvine (II) and Harry Baechtel rode bikes from San Fernando to Irvine Ranch (picture was taken in Santa Ana). They rode penny-farthings – also called...
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Steam Powered Plow, 1850-1900
Photo Credit: Kansas Memory The photograph shows the first steam powered plow in Garden City, Finney County, Kansas. A man looks to be steering the plow on the left while another man is riding on it...
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Jumping Cars, 1939
Photo Credit: Huntington Digital Library Two young women stand on the hood of an automobile, one in the act of jumping to another automobile, at the motion picture stunt revue at Gilmore Stadium in...
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Soldier on a Harley-Davidson, 1918
Photo Credit: San Diego Air and Space Museum Soldier on a U.S. Harley-Davidson motorcycle, ca. 1918. During the last years of the war, the United States deployed more than 20,000 Indian and...
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Native American Overlooking Railroad, 1868
Photo Credit: Alfred A. Hart/Library of Congress Native American looking at the newly completed section of the Trans-Continental Railroad from the top of Palisades about 435 miles from Sacramento,...
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Mail Extension Pole, 1975
Photo Credit: United States Postal Service “Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stays these couriers from the swift completion of their appointed rounds” may not be the Postal Service’s...
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Southern Pacific Railroad Brakeman, 1951
Photo Credit: Southern Methodist University, Central University Libraries, DeGolyer Library Brakeman signaling on Freight Car T&NO 47429 of the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, 1951.
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Coffee and Doughnuts on a Train, 1944
Photo Credit: AP Photo This group of soldiers who debarked from a transport drink from mugs of coffee and munch doughnuts on a troop train en route to their station in England, March 15, 1944. From...
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Kutenai Woman by Canoe, 1910
Photo Credit: Edward S. Curtis/Library of Congress Kutenai woman holding a paddle and standing by a canoe at the edge of a lake, probably in Idaho or Montana.
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Theodore Roosevelt & A Canoe, 1905
The following photographs are of President Theodore Roosevelt with a canoe on September 11, 1905. Theodore Roosevelt, standing up in canoe, pushing away from shore with oar. Photo Credit: Library of...
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Cowboy Breakfast, 1905
Photo Credit: F. M. Steele/Library of Congress Cowboys having breakfast next to a chuck wagon, ca. 1905.
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Cutting the S.S. Portland Out of Ice, ca. 1903
Photo Credit: University of Washington Libraries Photograph shows workers cutting the S.S. Portland out of Bering Sea ice off of Alaska around 1903. The S.S. Portland was a 191 foot wooden hull ship...
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Completion of the Northern Pacific Railway, 1883
Photo Credit: Frank Jay Haynes/University of Washington Libraries President Henry Villard of the Northern Pacific Railroad, accompanied by a distinguished party of guests, celebrated the completion of...
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Taking Sight Using a Sextant, 1898
Photo Credit: U.S. National Park Service Mrs. Tapley taking a sight using a sextant. She sailed with her husband aboard the bark Saint James during the late 19th century. Some women learned navigation...
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Wrecked Car & Moonshine, 1922
Photo Credit: Library of Congress Policeman standing alongside wrecked car and cases of moonshine on November 16, 1922.
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Different Jobs on the Shipyard
Photo Credit: U.S. National Park Service During WWII, a shortage of men brought women into the workforce building Liberty Ships. In mid-1943 nearly 65% of shipyard workers on the West Coast were...
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Orphans going to Coney Island, 1911
Photo Credit: Library of Congress On June 7, 1911, around 5,000 of New York’s orphans took part in the seventh annual outing of the New York Orphans’ Automobile Association. They were taken for a...
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Washing the machinery during WWII.
Photo Credit: U.S. Navy Washing the machinery during the Second World War.
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Oakland Commuters on opening day, 1903
Photo Credit: California Historical Society Oakland Commuters leaving the Statehouse Hotel for their first PCL game against Sacramento, 1903.
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D-Day in Pictures: Part V
D-Day in Pictures: Part I D-Day in Pictures: Part II D-Day in Pictures: Part III D-Day in Pictures: Part IV “After enduring all the ordeals and training in England, we felt like we were completely...
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