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When You Ride Alone You Ride With Hitler!--Join a Car-Sharing Club Today!

The Tetons - Snake River by Ansel Adams

Three steps to start your 1940 Census Research

The truth about the Von Trapp Family aka family of The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews.

"13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery. The House Joint Resolution proposing the 13th amendment to the Constitution, January 31, 1865; Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of Congress, 1789-1999; National Archives. Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865, and ratified on December 6, 1865, the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the US and provides that "Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly..."

Read about The Sinking of the Rueban James.

U.S. Constitution: Get the facts and understand its meaning. There is a movement to get back to the basics.

Oyster fleet in Baltimore Harbor, Md., ca. 1885.

Another Ansel Adams. "Grand Canyon National Park" ~1941

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"Cliff House and Seal Rocks." An outing at the beach in San Francisco. By Peabody, 1902

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13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery

Emancipation Proclamation; FREEDOM OF ALL SLAVES

19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Women\'s Right to Vote

Declaration of Independence - Page 2

I don't have the recipe, but I wish I did. We all need more pep and vigor in our lives!

Chinicahua Apache prisoners, including Geronimo (1st row, 3rd from right) headed for Florida from Arizona, 1886

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"Residence of G. L. Rule Feb. 18, 1898. Have lived here since Sept. 1893." Arizona Territory.

Row of men at the New York City docks out of work during the depression.

Two officials of the New York City Tenement House Department inspect a cluttered basement living room, ca. 1900.

Smartly dressed couple seated on an 1886-model bicycle for two. The South Portico of the White House, Washington, D.C., in the background.

Orient Saloon at Bisbee, Arizona... Faro game in full blast. Recognized: Left to right-Tony Downs (standing with derby) part owner; Doyle, a concert hall singer at corner of table, sitting, with derby; back of him standing is Dutch Kid; Sleepy Dick, the porter, to right with light felt; Charlie Bassett, with soft felt hat in rear next to wall; dealer is Johnny Murphy, and Smiley Lewis in silk hat.

"English Kitchen, meals 20 cts. Broadway St., Round Pond, Okla." By Kennett, January 1894.

1886 in Loup Valley, Nebr. A family poses with the wagon in which they live and travel daily during their pursuit of a homestead.

Cars coming out of shaft, Comstock Mine, Virginia City, Nev. By O'Sullivan, 1867-68

N. P. Railway, Tacoma [Wash. Terr.] Shipping first cargo of halibut caught in Puget Sounds by crew of schooner Oscar and Hattie. September 20, 1888.

Trappers and hunters in the Four Peaks country on Brown's Basin [Ariz. Terr.]. Two Crab Tree boys, their father and the dogs and burrows [sic] which they hunt with.

Picking cherries on an Oklahoma Fruit Ranch." A baby in a stroller watches the busy family at work

Residence of G. L. Rule Feb. 18, 1898. Have lived here since Sept. 1893." Family stands in foreground; sod building and cabin in background, Arizona Territory.

A rider fills his keg from a desert well 30 miles north of Palomas, Ariz. Terr.

John K. Hillers at work with his negatives. In camp, Aquarius Plateau, Utah Terr. Hillers was a photographer with the John Wesley Powell Geological Survey.

Fred W. Loring, in his campaign costume, with his mule `Evil Merodach.' Taken about 48 hours before he was brutally murdered by Apache--Mohaves, while en route from Prescott, A. T. [Ariz. Terr.]

Least we forget. Bodies destined for burning. Buchenwald Concentration Camp when captured by U.S. troops. Taken Pfc. W. Chichersky 04/14/1945

...we the people...

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New York City at night, ca. 1935.

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