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Book or Pamphlet

Johnston Harvester Company Catalog

Date: 1893
Description: Cover of an advertising catalog for the Johnston Harvester Company. The cover features a color chromolithograph illustration of Christopher Columbus and hi...
Print

Carib Rebels Hanged by Order of Diego Ocampa

Date: 1655
Description: Girolamo Benzoni (1519-1570) was an Italian from Milan who spent the years 1541-1556 in the New World. His observations of Spanish imperialism were publish...
Print

Pocahontas Is Visited by Her Brothers

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from Jamestown Settlement in which the brothers of Pocahontas visit her.
Print

Chicahominys Become "New Englishmen"

Date: 1655
Description: Scene from near Jamestown Settlement in Virginia, ca. 1614. The Chickahominy tribe's proximity to Jamestown meant they had early contact with the English....
Photograph

Men Discussing DDT Bomb

Date: 1947
Description: Original caption reads: "Alfred G. Mohrman listens intently as Commander Gatti queries him regarding the 'aerosol' DDT bomb."
Book or Pamphlet

Columbian Calendar Cover

Date: 1892
Description: Columbian calendar cover featuring Christopher Columbus, in honor of the anniversary of the four hundredth year of the discovery of America by Columbus (qu...
Drawing

Third Fight with the Iroquois

Date: 1615
Description: Illustration of the Huron Indians and French explorers attacking an Iroquois fort near present day Fenner, New York. A wooden platform was constructed to f...

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