American rock drilling photo archive, c. 1960 to 1965, documenting the mechanization of blast hole drilling as self propelled crawler rigs replaced equipment that had to be towed, separately positioned, or moved between holes by additional machinery. The photographs center on Drill Carrier Corporation and Gardner Denver equipment marked AT.....
Southern California community mausoleum photo archive, c. 1923 to 1935, documenting when burial was recast as a modern architectural, commercial, and consumer enterprise. Centered on Cecil E. Bryan, Clarence L. Jay, Sunnyside Mausoleum in Long Beach, and Mountain View Mausoleum in Altadena, the photographs show how architecture, landscaping, publicity, and.....
Women motorcyclists photo archive, circa 1910 through 1969, documenting women riders across five decades when they remained a small minority in motorcycling and were largely excluded from the clubs, publicity, and historical narratives that defined the culture as a male domain. In 1915 Effie Hotchkiss and her mother Avis became.....
Pancho Villa’s forces photograph archive of U.S. troops, Mexican soldiers, refugees, and the militarization of the Rio Grande during the 1916 border crisis, documenting the collision of the Mexican Revolution with American militar; within a week, Brigadier General John J. Pershing led an American expedition into Chihuahua, where more than.....
U.S. Navy correspondence, 1904 to 1907, of Gilbert Harold Kelly, documenting enlisted life aboard the newly commissioned armored cruiser U.S.S. Maryland during the expansion of American naval power after the Spanish American War. The letters document his movement from the recently established base at Guantánamo and Atlantic Fleet maneuvers through.....
Automobile accident photo archive, circa 1940s to 1950s, documenting a severe rollover in which a passenger car left the roadway and came to rest inverted on a steep, brush covered hillside. Eleven successive views record the wreck from the road above, at intermediate distance, and at close range, preserving the.....
Women’s same sex intimacy vernacular photo archive, circa 1925 to 1935, documenting social scenes in which women kiss, embrace, pose as couples, and move between conventionally feminine dress and masculine coded work and leisure clothing. The most direct photographs show women kissing while seated together outdoors, holding one another closely.....
Lesbian and gay movement print culture archive, 1978 to 1993, tracing the passage from liberation era attacks on psychiatric authority to affirmative youth work, lesbian feminist cultural criticism, and the professional book trade built by independent presses. The earliest item is a 1978 Gay Liberation Information Service printing of Psychiatry.....
Brewer, William M., and W. Augustus Low, editors. The Journal of Negro History from 1969 to 1973, carrying Carter G. Woodson’s scholarly program into the period when Black Studies was expanding within American universities and historians were reconsidering Reconstruction, slavery and resistance, racial violence, Black political participation, and the legal.....
José Mallorquí’s El Coyote paperback archive from 1968 to 1971, documenting the continued circulation of a Spanish Western series that recast nineteenth century California through the adventures of the masked Californio César de Echagüe. Mallorquí developed El Coyote during the 1940s around conflicts arising from the transfer of California from.....
Dunker, Thomas W., and Robert M. Dunker. Horseshit: The Offensive Review, three issues from the four issue run, 1965 to 1968, documenting an independent California magazine in which two former servicemen directed graphic satire, obscenity, sexual humor, and anti authoritarian writing against military culture, organized religion, political institutions, and conventional.....
Large photo archive documenting recreational and civic life in Pinellas County, Florida, during the 1950s, when rapid postwar migration was transforming communities along Florida’s Gulf Coast. The photographs record the substantial postwar expansion of organized competitive sport in the United States, particularly at the youth, school, amateur, and spectator levels.....
Chinese migrant hospital certificate from Havana in 1869, documenting the admission and death of a man identified in manuscript as a native of China within the Real Hospital de Caridad de San Felipe y Santiago. Issued while Chinese contract labor supplied Cuba with a large migrant workforce under a system.....
British colonial garrison photo archive depicting the 20th Fortress Company Royal Engineers at Aden, Arabia, 1931 to 1932, during Britain’s reorganization of colonial defense around air power, locally recruited forces, and a reduced permanent British ground establishment. Aden occupied a strategic position between the Red Sea and Indian Ocean and.....
Large photo archive documenting the businesses, utilities, and construction trades within Pinellas County, Florida, during the region’s extraordinary population expansion in the 1950s. Clearwater Historical Society's notable photographer George Fulmer’s assignments record the businesses within this economic moment as it rapidly aimed to accommodate the postwar migration to the Sunbelt.....
Choctaw and Chickasaw allotment and Oklahoma mortgage group, 1903 to 1909, documenting the federal division of jointly held tribal land into individually patented parcels while nearby Oklahoma Territory property entered private credit markets. The central pair grants William R. Fox, identified as “Choctaw by intermarriage,” Roll No. 58, separate homestead.....
Choctaw and Chickasaw railroad land and mineral acquisition archive documenting the movement of tribal property into corporate railroad control through right of way compensation, land company administration, and federally supervised purchases. The papers connect the Choctaw, Oklahoma & Gulf Railroad Company and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway Company.....
Corporate credit and Five Tribes land title archive, 1895 to 1913, documenting how mortgages, title investigation, deeds, and pipeline easements attached private capital to land within the Chickasaw and Cherokee Nations before and after Oklahoma statehood. A 1906 farm loan letter seeks Dawes Commission evidence of the Grayson family’s “blood”.....
George Fulmer photo archive documenting Clearwater, Florida, during the early 1950s Sunbelt expansion, when rapid population growth required the city to enlarge the physical and institutional machinery of municipal life. The photographs record a city building schools, roads, communications facilities, libraries, parks, and administrative capacity for a population that more.....
"The MArijuana Consumer's and Dealer's Guide," a cannabis and psychedelic drug manual group from 1968 to 1969, documenting the translation of countercultural drug knowledge into inexpensive practical guides for cultivation, processing, testing, and home chemistry immediately before the federal Controlled Substances Act of 1970. Issued through Stone Kingdom Syndicate and.....
American drag performance ephemera from circa 1945 to the 1970s, documenting two distinct theatrical settings in which male performers adopted female stage identities before paying audiences: Finocchio’s nightclub at 506 Broadway in San Francisco and Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo during the company’s first years of national touring. Finocchio’s.....
Machemeje missionary photo archive depicting African Christian community life in Portuguese East Africa, circa 1929 to 1930s, during the establishment of a new Protestant mission station associated with Mozambican missionary and educator Kamba Simango. A contemporary 1929 missionary report identifies Machemeje as a new station established on 2,500 acres with.....
Octavio I. Romano and Quinto Sol Publications periodical archive from 1967 to 1974, documenting the development of El Grito from an interdisciplinary journal of Mexican American intellectual and literary work into a publishing program explicitly organized around Chicano poetry, drama, history, social science, and cultural criticism. Beginning with Volume I......
Pineapple plantation photo archive, circa 1910s, documenting cultivation, harvest, and transport on an unidentified tropical plantation during the expansion of commercial pineapple production for export markets, and black sharecropping labor. The photographs concentrate on the agricultural cycle rather than plantation buildings or domestic life, moving from densely planted acreage and.....
Spanish American War glass lantern slide set, circa 1898 to 1905, depicting the conflict through a numbered sequence of military portraits, United States warships, naval engagements, troop movements, artillery, and fighting on land. Produced during the period when the war became a major subject of projected entertainment and illustrated lectures.....
