frontier

Plan of a rout undertaken in winter, Jany. 26th, from Quebec, the capi...

Scale 1:506,880; miles 8 to an in. Manuscript; pen-and-ink and watercolor. Oriented with north to the right. Relief shown pictorially. LC Maps of North America, 1750-1789, 808 Available also through the Library... More

[An accurate map of North and South Carolina, with their Indian fronti...

Scale ca. 1:530,000. Hand colored. Imperfect: Part of title wanting. Prime meridian: London. Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings. Shows precinct boundaries. Insets: The harbour of Port Royal [ca... More

5 Fort Sackville: Britain Yields Possession

This mural shows the formal surrender of Fort Sackville by British Lt. Governor Henry Hamilton to George Rogers Clark on February 25, 1779. Since Hamilton was not a military officer, it is not known whether he... More

United States Congress Committee on Taking Possession of Frontier Post...

[Title page of narrative of the captivity and suffering of Benjamin Gi...

Illus. in: William Walton, Narrative of Benjamin Gilbert, Philadelphia, 1790. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: RBD; BI WORKS; BI; Indians Attacks...; Pa. Hist.; Shelf.

An accurate map of North and South Carolina with their Indian frontier...

Address to the inhabitants of the Upper Province of Canada ... Geo McC...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 114, Folder 14.

Plan of the N.W. frontier / - Public domain old map

Shows the Mississippi River from St. Anthony Falls to St. Louis, the Missouri River west to South Dakota, the Illinois River east to Lake Michigan, and tributaries. Title from verso. Gift; Woodbury Blair, Minna... More

Gen. McClure's further relation of facts. To the public. In my last ad...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 114, Folder 17.

map from "Narrative of an Expedition from Tripoli in Barbary, to the W...

This image has been taken from scan 000022 from "Narrative of an Expedition from Tripoli in Barbary, to the Western Frontier of Egypt, in 1817, by the Bey of Tripoli ... With an appendix, containing instruction... More

map from "A political history of the ... events which led to the Burme...

This image has been taken from scan 000022 from "A political history of the ... events which led to the Burmese war, illustrated with a map of the British frontier". The title and subject terms of this image ha... More

The Colonel electioneering. How to get a vote, or going fixed for the ...

Print shows a man at center, assumed to be Davy Crockett, standing on a busy commercial street, offering one man a drink and another man tobacco, while campaigning for political office. Two dogs have stopped to... More

A piece of an 1840s-vintage log cabin at the Grayson County Frontier V...

Title, date and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and Ph... More

map from "Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington to the f...

This image has been taken from scan 000039 from "Excursion through the Slave States, from Washington to the frontier of Mexico, with sketches of popular manners, and geological notices". The title and subject t... More

The hunter of Kentucky - coin, public domain photograph

Henry Clay is the hunter, and various Democrats his quarry. Clay wears a fringed buckskin outfit and coonskin cap reminiscent of Davy Crockett and the Western characters of the contemporary stage, such as Nimro... More

[A Frontier Home] - Early photography, Public domain image

The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper support with a mixture of egg whites and salt, which creates a glossy surface t... More

Assouan, the Frontier Town of Upper Egypt

Public domain image of Egyptian art, free to use, no copyright restrictions photo - Picryl description

map from "A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49"

This image has been taken from scan 000725 from volume 02 of "A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British... More

map from "A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49"

This image has been taken from scan 000724 from volume 02 of "A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British... More

map from "A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49"

This image has been taken from scan 000661 from volume 01 of "A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British... More

manuscript from "A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49"

This image has been taken from scan 000102 from volume 02 of "A year on the Punjab frontier, in 1848-49". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British... More

map from "Historical Collections of the Great West; containing narrati...

This image has been taken from scan 000094 from "Historical Collections of the Great West; containing narrations of the most important ... events in Western History, remarkable individual adventures, sketches o... More

Native_Americans from "Border Wars of the West. Comprising the frontie...

This image has been taken from scan 000461 from "Border Wars of the West. Comprising the frontier wars of Pennsylvania, Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Tennessee and Wisconsin, etc". The title and ... More

map from "The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk; comprising...

This image has been taken from scan 000440 from "The Frontier Lands of the Christian and the Turk; comprising travels in the regions of the Lower Danube in 1850 and 1851. By a British Resident of twenty years i... More

map from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcar...

This image has been taken from scan 000022 from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B., relative to his military operations in Kaffraria ... and to his measures for the future ma... More

map from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcar...

This image has been taken from scan 000040 from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B., relative to his military operations in Kaffraria ... and to his measures for the future ma... More

map from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcar...

This image has been taken from scan 000020 from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B., relative to his military operations in Kaffraria ... and to his measures for the future ma... More

map from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcar...

This image has been taken from scan 000199 from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B., relative to his military operations in Kaffraria ... and to his measures for the future ma... More

map from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcar...

This image has been taken from scan 000156 from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B., relative to his military operations in Kaffraria ... and to his measures for the future ma... More

map from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcar...

This image has been taken from scan 000056 from "Correspondence of Lieut.-General the Hon. Sir George Cathcart, K.C.B., relative to his military operations in Kaffraria ... and to his measures for the future ma... More

Principal Source of the Jordan, Flowing From a Cave Near Banias, Near ...

Francis Frith (British, Chesterfield, Derbyshire 1822–1898 Cannes, France) The albumen silver print is a photographic printing process that was widely used in the 19th century. It involves coating paper suppor... More

Boston, Sept. 15, 1859. Dear Sir: Our attention has been called by the...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. 2 duplicate copies Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 64, Folder 40. Copy scanned: 1

Our Mexican frontier - cotton press at Piedras Negras, on the Rio Gran...

Men transporting bales of cotton. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1864 Sept. 3, p. 372.

McMillan, Honorable Samuel James Renwick of Minn. 2nd Lt. in Stillwate...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Frontier - Engraving, Public domain image

Tobacco label showing bear mauling fallen horse and Indian. LOT subdivision subject: Indians and Indian life (anonymous) Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Color lithograph by Major & Kn... More

McMillan, Honorable Samuel James Renwick of Minn. 2nd Lt. in Stillwate...

A black and white photo of a man with a beard. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Frontier life - Print, Library of Congress collection

J5552 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Nehlig, V.

map from "Bannú; or, our Afghán Frontier"

This image has been taken from scan 000011 from "Bannú; or, our Afghán Frontier". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

map from "Bannú; or, our Afghán Frontier"

This image has been taken from scan 000010 from "Bannú; or, our Afghán Frontier". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library's flickr photostream.

Centennial reminiscences [caricature of vignette scenes from 1876 Phil...

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v. 21, (1877 February 10), p. 112. Ref. copy in SSF(Gr) - Indians Cartoons. Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Caption card tracings: Exhibitions 1876; Indian... More

Across the continent - The Frank Leslie excursion to the Pacific - Sce...

Title and other information transcribed from caption card. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, vol. 45, no. 1149 (1877 Oct. 6), pp. 72-73. Caption card tracings: West Towns...; Stage coaches; Mines... More

tiger from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years spo...

This image has been taken from scan 000012 from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years sporting reminiscences of an Indigo Planter. By “Maori” (J. I.)". The title and subject terms of this imag... More

Nepal from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years spo...

This image has been taken from scan 000183 from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years sporting reminiscences of an Indigo Planter. By “Maori” (J. I.)". The title and subject terms of this imag... More

factory worker from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve ...

This image has been taken from scan 000068 from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years sporting reminiscences of an Indigo Planter. By “Maori” (J. I.)". The title and subject terms of this imag... More

tiger from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years spo...

This image has been taken from scan 000007 from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years sporting reminiscences of an Indigo Planter. By “Maori” (J. I.)". The title and subject terms of this imag... More

hindu from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years spo...

This image has been taken from scan 000192 from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years sporting reminiscences of an Indigo Planter. By “Maori” (J. I.)". The title and subject terms of this imag... More

residence from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years...

This image has been taken from scan 000070 from "Sport and Work on the Nepaul Frontier, or twelve years sporting reminiscences of an Indigo Planter. By “Maori” (J. I.)". The title and subject terms of this imag... More

map from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and...

This image has been taken from scan 000168 from volume 01 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

diagram from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan...

This image has been taken from scan 000147 from volume 02 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

map from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and...

This image has been taken from scan 000133 from volume 02 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

map from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and...

This image has been taken from scan 000326 from volume 01 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

diagram from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan...

This image has been taken from scan 000295 from volume 01 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

map from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and...

This image has been taken from scan 000175 from volume 01 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

map from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and...

This image has been taken from scan 000054 from volume 02 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

map from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and...

This image has been taken from scan 000113 from volume 02 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

map from "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and...

This image has been taken from scan 000141 from volume 02 of "Narrative of a journey through the province of Khorassan and on the N.W. frontier of Afghanistan in 1875 ... With illustrations". The title and subj... More

map from "Our Scientific Frontier ... With sketch-map and appendix"

This image has been taken from scan 000006 from "Our Scientific Frontier ... With sketch-map and appendix". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the Briti... More

A frontier post office, eastern Montana

Photograph shows individuals, some on horseback and others riding in wagons, waiting outside of post office. Foster & Co., Miles City, Mont.

Destructive fires in a frontier village

Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, 1881 Sept. 17. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Map illustrative of the march of the Indian section of the Boundary Co...

Scale 1:2,027,520; 1 in. = 32 miles. Relief shown by hachures. LC copy annotated in orange, red, green, and yellow ink. Shows western half of Afghanistan, "Russian Dominions," "Persia," and "Beluchistan." Also ... More

"Bradhum alone on the Frontier." Sargent, Custer County, Nebraska.

original size: 6x8 Public domain photograph - historical image of Nebraska, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

map from "Through Central Asia. With a map and appendix on the diploma...

This image has been taken from scan 000006 from "Through Central Asia. With a map and appendix on the diplomacy and delimitation of the Russo-Afghan frontier ... With ... illustrations. [A popular edition of th... More

The Frontier trooper's thanatopsis / from the painting by Frederic Rem...

Frontier soldier, standing by horse, looking at skull on ground, with burial scaffold in background. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1889 April 13, p. 277.

Frontier Cabin, 19th century - Drawing. Public domain image.

Picryl description: Public domain photo of landscape art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Frontier Cabin, 19th century - Drawing. Public domain image.

William Louis Sonntag (1822–1900) Public domain photograph of 19th-century painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Calamity Jane, General Crook's scout, no. 1

Photograph shows Martha Jane Burke, popularly known as Calamity Jane, full-length portrait, standing, facing front, wearing fringed leather jacket and pants, holding a rifle with her right hand, with butt resti... More

Khatmandu from "On India's Frontier; or Nepal, the Gurkhas' mysterious...

This image has been taken from scan 000163 from "On India's Frontier; or Nepal, the Gurkhas' mysterious land". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the Br... More

[Martha Canary, 1852-1903, ("Calamity Jane"), full-length portrait, se...

Photo copyrighted by H. R. Locke. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Frontier Pathways Scenic and Historic Byway - Cripple Creek District M...

The original finding aid described this photograph as: Original Caption: From 1896 to 1949, this building served continuously as a railroad depot. In 1953, it was converted into a private, non-profit museum in... More

Insurgents from Sparta - guarding the mountain pass, Grecian frontier

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Undewrood (J.F. Jarvis, publisher). No. 2. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Soldiers 1897; Greco-; Boundaries; Greece Sparta;... More

Kalambaka, Grecian frontier, from which the first insurgents crossed i...

Group of men, some armed, posed in foreground. 40361 U.S. Copyright Office. No. 4.

Greek irregular volunteers on the frontier, Thessaly, Greece

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood (J.F. Jarvis, publisher). This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Soldiers 1897; Boundaries; Gr. Thessaly; Greco...; Greco... More

map from "The Making of a Frontier: five years' experiences and advent...

This image has been taken from scan 000357 from "The Making of a Frontier: five years' experiences and adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral, and the Eastern Hindu-Kush ... With portrait, map, and illustr... More

map from "The Making of a Frontier: five years' experiences and advent...

This image has been taken from scan 000321 from "The Making of a Frontier: five years' experiences and adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral, and the Eastern Hindu-Kush ... With portrait, map, and illustr... More

map from "The Making of a Frontier: five years' experiences and advent...

This image has been taken from scan 000171 from "The Making of a Frontier: five years' experiences and adventures in Gilgit, Hunza, Nagar, Chitral, and the Eastern Hindu-Kush ... With portrait, map, and illustr... More

Swiss frontier observation post

Picryl description: Public domain image of a mountain pass, summit, rocks, mountains, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A frontier ranch, eastern Montana

Photograph shows two men and a woman standing outside a log cabin.

Boy soldiers in the regular Panama Army - contrasted with U.S. officer...

Stereo copyrighted by Underwood & Underwood. This record contains unverified data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Geogr.; Army, U.S.

On the Bayano River, interior Panama - Indians supplying Panama soldie...

Struggle of a frontier militiaman with a Mohawk brave

Title transcribed from item. Illustration from: Our pioneers, by Augustus L. Mason, 1904.

Perils of frontier life - a fierce encounter with a giant of the fores...

Man and bear lying on the ground, as another man holds gun by barrel behind head of a stuffed(?), standing, bear. Copyright by C.L. Wasson.

Bear shooting on the frontier - stereoscopic view, public domain photo...

Two hunters, one of them shooting at bear. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Welcoming T. R. Roosevelt at Dutch frontier

Bain photo. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Crowd to see T. R. Roosevelt at Dutch frontier

Bain photo. Public domain photograph related to President Theodore Roosevelt, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Buffalo Vernon Buldogging Steer, Cheyenne Frontier Days

Photo copyrighted by the Union Pacific R.R. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cattle; Cowboys Misc.; Cowboys Broncos; PI(2); Shelf.

Unruly Butcher Bob, Cheyenne Frontier Days

Four cowboys taming a buckign bronco. Photo copyrighted by Union Pacific R.R. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Rodeos; Cowboys Broncos; Geogr.; Shelf.

Jones on Silver City [bucking bronco], Cheyenne Frontier Days

Photo copyrighted by the Union Pacific R.R. Co. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cattle; Cowboys Misc.; Cowboys Broncos; PI(2); Shelf.

Bulgaria - Bivouac on frontier - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Public domain photograph related to music, performing arts, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

O'Donnell on Whirlwind [bucking bronco], Cheyenne Frontier Days

Copyright by Union Pacific R.R. Co. No copyright renewal. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cowboys; Horses "Whirlwind"; B.F.; Wyoming Cheyenne; Rodeos; Shelf.

A new scout on the old trail / Will Crawford.

Illustration shows a young "Boy Scout" standing outside his tent, meeting "Davy Crockett, Buffalo Bill, Texas Jack [Omohundro], Kit Carson, California Joe, [and] Dan'l Boone". Caption: "Put it thar, Pard! Yer ... More

[Swiss soldiers entranched on the frontier]

George Grantham Bain Collection. Public domain photograph - United States during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Dutch soldiers on Belgian Frontier

Photograph shows soldiers during World War I. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2012)

German Frontier Post -- Alsace - Glass negative photogrpah. Public dom...

Photograph shows German sign reading "Deutsches Reich" in Alsace region of France at the beginning of World War One. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2011)

A Serbian field hospital on the Serbo-Bulgarian frontier, 1915 Hôpital...

Photograph shows oxen-drawn ambulance and carts, people, tents, and supplies in a rural landscape. Postcard originally part of paperbound book: How the Serbs abandoned their homes / as seen by Sampson Tchernof... More

Lowering the Flag - National Parks Gallery

Lowering the flag. Public domain photograph by National Parks Administration, nature conservation, tourism, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Welcome to Fort Larned! - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Although we don't get a lot of visitors in the winter, we're still open and ready for them.

Snow falls on the shops building and the Blockhouse

As the snow falls the fort begins to transform into a lonely looking outpost on the prairie.

No. 512: French and Belgian boys in a play ground of the Paris depot o...

Title, date and notes from Red Cross caption card. Photographer name or source of original from caption card or negative sleeve: Wm. G. Foster. Group titles: Refugees. Hospitals. Gift; American National Red Cro... More

American Red Cross - Prisoners of War - Prisoners' relief. American, I...

Photographer: American Red Cross American Red Cross - Prisoners of War Public domain photograph - prisoners of war, military forces during World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Swiss cavalry patrolling the frontier

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.