View of the Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Springfield (Sangamon County), Illinois features a granite obelisk, bronze statues, a balustrade and staircase. Passengers in suits, hats and formal dresses admire North American (Shoshone) Indian...
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865--Tomb--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Springfield (Ill.)--1870-1880.; Cradleboards--1870-1880.; Mothers & children--1870-1880.; Spectators--1870-1880.; Tombs & sepulchral...
A man on horseback reaches for the neck of a partly buried rooster in an event described as "Correr el Gallo" or "Running the Cock" in California. Men spectators wear hats and sit on horseback or on the ground. Shows a man with a lasso, and...
View of a horse race in Yosemite Valley (later Yosemite National Park), California. Shows bareback riders with whips or switches, bridled horses and men spectators near the racers. Covered wagons are in the distance.
Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1870-1880.; Horse racing--California--Yosemite National Park--1870-1880.; Spectators--California--Yosemite National Park--1870-1880.
Native American men dance on a wooden stage and wear feather headdresses, fur skirts, necklaces, and carry possibly musical instruments and spears in Germany. German peasant spectators wear bonnets and dresses with aprons, or work clothes and caps...
Indians of North America--Dance--Germany--1870-1880.; Audiences--Germany--1870-1880.; Wild west shows--Germany--1870-1880.
Bust portrait of Lieutenant-Colonel Philip St. George Cooke of the United States Army 2nd Dragoons. Cooke has a moustache, a goatee and mutton chops, and wears a military uniform with a belted, double-breasted jacket and epaulettes.
United States. Army. Dragoons Regiment, 2nd--People.; Cavalry--1850-1860.; Military officers--American--1850-1860.; Cooke, Philip St. George, 1809-1895.
A naked man, the trapper John Colter, stands with arms raised and faces Native American (Blackfeet, Siksika) men who run toward him with spears, tomahawks and shields. Shows prickly pear cactus and shrubs on the ground in Gallatin County near the...
Indians of North America--Montana--Gallatin County--1810-1820.; Siksika Indians--Montana--Gallatin County--1810-1820.; Gallatin County (Mont.)--1810-1820.; Confrontations--Montana--Gallatin County--1810-1820.; Fighting--Montana--Gallatin...
Image on Harper's weekly page shows a bust portrait of Sam Houston. Houston has curly hair and mutton chops, and wears a suit, silk bow tie and a woven overcoat. He wears rings and poses with a cane and a hat.
View of snow removal on the Central Pacific Railroad near Emigrant Gap in the Sierra Nevadas in Placer County, California. Chinese laborers remove snow in Blue Canyon.
Central Pacific Railroad Company--1890-1900.; Alien labor, Chinese--California--1890-1900.; Blue Canyon (Calif. : Town)--1890-1900.; Emigrant Gap (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Sierra Nevada (Calif. and Nev.)--1890-1900.; Blizzards--California--1890-1900.;...
Two men in small boat slide down a narrow, wooden flume filled with water in the Sierra Nevada Range in Nevada or California. Shows the flume on a tree-covered mountain, rock formations and summits in the distance.
People and horse-drawn wagons are on streets in front of brick, stone and frame buildings in downtown Denver, Colorado. Signs read: "A.B. Ingols Jewelry Manufactory," "A.H. Jones & Co. Wholesale & Retail Liquor and Cigars," "Kansas Pacific, Union...
Summer and winter scenes in Leadville (Lake County), Colorado, show frame houses and a busy commercial district. Men and women in formal dress are beside a ditch on Capitol Hill and on row boats on Evergreen Lake. Men sit on a hillside above Fryer...
Lake County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Leadville (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Lakes & ponds--Colorado--Lake County--1880-1890.; Mining--Colorado--Leadville--1880-1890.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Lake County--1880-1890.
View of the National Mining and Industrial Exposition building at the corner of South Broadway and Exposition Avenue in Denver, Colorado. The multi-story building complex is comprised of towers with belvederes, arcades, pediments, hip and gable...
National Mining and Industrial Exposition (1882 : Denver, Colo.)--Buildings.; Denver (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Exhibition buildings--Colorado--Denver--1880-1890.
North American Indian (Arapahoe) men sit with military men in uniform, and smoke a calumet (pipe) near an Indian camp. The Indian men have long hair, necklaces or earrings, and sit wrapped in robes. One man wears a feather in his military hat....
Indians of North America--1860-1870.; Calumets--1860-1870.; Horseback riding--1860-1870.; Indian encampments--1860-1870.; Military scouts--1860-1870.; Smoking--1860-1870.
North American Indians (Bannock) pose near tepees at a camp. The men have long hair and wear shirts, woven blankets and bead necklaces, women wear blankets. A man with a derby hat sits on a horse. A man with a rifle poses on a rock above a river...
Bannock Indians--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Craters of the Moon National Monument (Idaho)--1870-1880.; Indian encampments--1870-1880.; Volcanic rock--Idaho--Craters of the Moon National Monument--1870-1880.
Men stand beside an ox-driven wagon at Fort Garry (later Lower Fort Garry National Historic Park) in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. A man hauls a moose head on his back. Shows a silo and a frame building. A North American Indian in a woven blanket,...
Dakota Indians--Spiritual life--North Dakota--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Spiritual life--North Dakota--1870-1880.; Votive offerings--North Dakota--1870-1880.; Fort Garry (Man.)--1870-1880.; Missouri River--1870-1880.; Carts &...
Cavalry soldiers in military uniforms hold swords and rifles, and stand beside men killed by North American (Modoc) Indians in California. Bust portraits show Captain Evan Thomas with muttonchop whiskers and a moustache, a bow tie and shoulder...
Indians of North America--War--California--1870-1880.; Modoc Indians--Wars, 1873--California.; Battlefields--California--1870-1880.; Dead bodies--California--1870-1880.; Military officers--1870-1880.; Soldiers--California--1870-1880.;...
A North American Indian (Ute) man confronts a prospector on a mountain slope in Utah or Colorado. The Ute man wears a necklace with a star pendant and holds a rifle. Men with rifles stand behind him. The prospector holds a pick axe, and looks over...
Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Ute Indians--1870-1880.; Miners--1870-1880.; Mining--1870-1880.; Pack animals--1870-1880.; Thornburgh, Thomas Tipton, 1843-1879.
Mormon men bow their heads, across the table from Brigham Young and the elders, during communion. Shows a Book of Mormon and a metal container on the table. The men wear suits with scarves or bow ties. Brigham Young stands at the pulpit inside the...
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints--People--1870-1880.; Mormons--Utah--Salt Lake City--1870-1880.; Salt Lake City (Utah)--1870-1880.; Communion--Utah--Salt Lake City--1870-1880.; Families--Utah--Salt Lake City--1870-1880.; Mothers &...
Views of Pike's Peak, Austin Bluff, Loch Ivanhoe, the Robertson & Doll Carriage Factory, and Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Portraits of men include H. B. Chamberlain, Denver business man, H. P. Cowenhoven, an Aspen business man and banker, and Dr....
Robertson & Doll Carriage Co. (Denver, Colo.)--Buildings--1890-1900.; Austin Bluffs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Denver (Colo.)--1890-1900.; El Paso County (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Glenwood Springs (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Ivanhoe Lake (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Pikes...
Views of Cripple Creek (Teller County), Colorado during the 1896 fire. Shows refugee housed in railroad boxcars and gathering their belongings, people fleeing as the Palace Hotel is dynamited to slow the fire, and a rescue train.
Palace Hotel (Cripple Creek, Colo.)--Disasters--1890-1900.; Cripple Creek (Colo.)--1890-1900.; Disaster victims--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Disasters--Colorado--Cripple Creek--1890-1900.; Emergency housing--Colorado--Cripple...
A team of four horses runs with a wooden wagon, probably filled with ore, on a dirt road in a mountain valley. The driver wears a wide-brimmed hat and boots, and holds his foot on the brake. An onlooker with a beard leans on a post beside a dog and...
Bandits in hats and face masks hold up a stagecoach at gun point on a road at night. Stagecoach drivers and a passenger hold their hands up. Two bandits hold the reins of the two teams of spooked horses.
View of a tornado and a billow of clouds in a steep canyon in the Rocky Mountains. Shows splintered trees where the funnel touches the ground. Rocky peaks and a dark sky are in the distance.
View of Ouray (Ouray County), Colorado. Frame and brick buildings include the Beaumont Hotel and the Ouray Public schoolhouse. Shows The Amphitheater, Cascade Mountain and Cascade Falls, and snow on the San Juan Mountains in the distance.
Amphitheater, The (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cascade Falls (Ouray County, Colo.)--1880-1890.; Ouray (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Cities & towns--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1890.; Waterfalls--Colorado--Ouray--1880-1890.
View of Leadville in Lake County, Colorado. Shows miners gathered at a mine. Shows headframes, tailings piles, smelters with smokestacks, and frame or brick buildings and houses. Snow is on the Sawatch Range in the distance.
Colorado scenes show people on horseback, emigrants with covered wagons, miners with an ore car, Native Americans, mountains, rock formations and a waterfall in El Paso County, Summit County and Clear Creek County, Colorado.
Garden of the Gods (Colorado Springs, Colo.)--1870-1880.; Bison hunting--Colorado--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--1870-1880.; Mining--Colorado--El Paso County--1870-1880.; Rock formations--Colorado--El Paso County--1870-1880.
African American (Black) men, women and children stand at a frame cotton elevator building that reads: "Missis[sippi] Elev[ator]," and wave to passengers on a steamship at Vicksburg (Warren County), Mississippi. Shows African American people beside...
View of the Merced River valley in Yosemite (later Yosemite National Park), California. Rock formations include South Dome and Washington Column. Shows sparse buildings and trees in the valley.
Half Dome (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Washington Column (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Yosemite National Park (Calif.)--1890-1900.; Yosemite Valley (Calif.)--1890-1900.; National parks & reserves--California--Yosemite National Park--1890-1900.; Rock...
Men in snowshoes carry climbing ropes and backpacks, and walk on a narrow, snowy ridge on a mountain in Alaska. One man leans against the weight of a sleigh laden with supplies, near the edge of a cliff. Another man on his stomach reaches for a...
Chinese emigrants with queues (braids), in robes and hats or caps, are gathered in the hold of the steamship "Alaska" en route to the United States. The men use chopsticks and eat rice from bowls. Some read or stand near windows. A white man...
Native American (Santa Domingo Pueblo) men and women dance in a row during a "Tablet Dance" at Santo Domingo Pueblo (New Mexico). The women wear mantas and tablitas on their heads. The men wear fringed breechcloths, hoof rattles, kilts, body paint,...
Indian dance--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Clothing & dress--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1890-1900.; Keresan Indians--Dance--New Mexico--Santo Domingo Pueblo--1890-1900.; Pueblo Indians--Dance--New...
A Native American man on horseback aims a pistol at a bull on a grassy plain. The man has braids and wears an ammunition belt over a shirt and pants. Men beside a covered wagon use knives to butcher a dead bull. Shows a fence and a building in the...
Indians of North America--Subsistence activities--1890-1900.; Beef cattle--1890-1900.; Covered wagons--1890-1900.; Horseback riding--1890-1900.; Shooting--1890-1900.
A man with fur chaps, gauntlets and a wide brimmed hat, holds the reins of his horse and stands in front of a Native American man at the entrance to a tepee. Shows a tomahawk on the ground and tepees at a camp in snowy woods.
Indians of North America--1890-1900.; Cowboys--1890-1900.; Horses--1890-1900.; Indian encampments--1890-1900.; Tipis--1890-1900.
Native American (Dakota, Ogalala) men and women stand in a row and perform the Ghost Dance at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota. One man who is possibly in a trance has braids and a hair pipe breast plate, and dances apart from the...
Dakota Indians--Dance--Dance--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Indians of North America--Dance--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Oglala Indians--Dance--South Dakota--1890-1900.; Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (S.D.)--1890-1900.; Ceremonial dancers--Dance--South...
Native American (Dakota, Upper Yanktonai) men, women and children are at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota or South Dakota. A man with a fur hat and feathers, in a robe with fringe and a hair pipe breast plate, stands beside a...
Dakota Indians--Standing Rock Indians Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)--1880-1890.; Indians of North America--Standing Rock Indians Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)--1880-1890.; Yanktonai Indians--Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)--1880-1890.;...
View of Native American (Dakota, Yanktonai) men, women and children at the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota or South Dakota. Men shoot cattle in a fenced corral nearby. Shows tepees at a camp and Native Americans with horses,...
Dakota Indians--Subsistence activities--Standing Rock Indian Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)--1870-1880.; Indians of North America--Subsistence activities--Standing Rock Indians Reservation (N.D. and S.D.)--1870-1880.; Yanktonai Indians--Subsistence...
A crowd of people is inside a tent beside a velodrome track in Boston (Suffolk County), Massachusetts. Cyclists race high-wheeler bicycles. Shows an orchestra on an elevated stage and spectators.
Velocipedes--Massachusetts--Boston--1870-1880.; Velodromes--Massachusetts--Boston--1870-1880.; Boston (Mass.)--1870-1880.; Bicycle racing--Massachusetts--Boston--1870-1880.; Bicycles & tricycles--Massachusetts--Boston--1870-1880.;...
Young women or girls and a man ride burros on a trail on Pikes Peak (El Paso County), Colorado. The girls wear wide brimmed straw hats and dresses and ride sidesaddle. A man in a suit and overcoat rides a mule and holds a whip. One animal carries...
El Paso County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Pikes Peak (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Donkeys--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.; Girls--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.; Riding--Colorado--El Paso County--1880-1890.; Trails & paths--Colorado--El Paso...
An elephant pushes a railroad car with its head during a snowstorm; a trainer stands nearby. In a border, P.T. Barnum circus elephants are trained to use props and perform tricks.
View of travelers on top of a stagecoach on a mountain road. The women wear dresses with fitted bodices, full skirts, lace or ruffled trim, and hats. The men wear suits, neckerchiefs and hats. Two teams of horses kick up dust on the dirt road....
A man in a military uniform holds the reins of the horse "Comanche" at Fort Abraham Lincoln (Morton County), North Dakota. The horse has an English saddle and a pad inscribed with the Seventh U.S. Cavalry "7."
United States. Army. Cavalry, 7th--People--1870-1880.; Fort Abraham Lincoln (N.D.)--1870-1880.; Cavalry--North Dakota--Fort Abraham Lincoln--1870-1880.; Horses--North Dakota--Fort Abraham Lincoln--1870-1880.
Antelope run from people with rifles on a prairie hillside in Colorado. One antelope has been shot and falls to the ground. A railroad train is on tracks beside the passengers. Shows dark clouds in the distance and mountains on the horizon.
Image on Harper's weekly title page shows three bighorn sheep on a steep, rock ledge in the Rocky Mountains. Shows the silhouette of two hunters and a rifle in the distance.
Men hunt American buffalo with rifles on the prairie in Kansas. Shows a wounded buffalo and a buffalo herd. Men cook buffalo meat over a fire at a camp. Shows covered wagons and strips of meat left out to dry.
A hunter on horseback with fringed leather chaps holds a pistol and rides beside an injured American buffalo. Native American men shoot buffalo with bows and arrows, and buffalo bulls charge the hunters.
Indians of North America--1870-1880.; Bison hunting--1870-1880.; Bison--1870-1880.; Horseback riding--1870-1880.
A pack of wolves attacks an American buffalo bull in a snow storm. The bull charges the wolves, and an injured wolf lies on the ground. Shows buffalo skulls on the snowy ground.
American buffalo bulls face a pack of wolves on a prairie. A wolf has been tossed in the air by a bull. Another wolf lies dead beside a buffalo. Shows mountains and the buffalo herd in the distance.
Image on Harper's weekly title page shows a total solar eclipse in the sky. Men and women stand on a mountain pass, probably Argentine Pass in Clear Creek County or Summit County, Colorado, and point or look up at the eclipse.
View of a lunar rainbow, caused by light refracted by raindrops, in the sky above Crisman (Boulder County), Colorado. Shows rings around the moon, and snow on mountains.
Boulder County (Colo.)--1880-1890.; Moon--Colorado--Boulder County--1880-1890.; Natural phenomena--Colorado--Boulder County--1880-1890.