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Image #1 – Goa fortissima India urbs in Christianorum potestatem anno salutis1509 deuenit
Digitization source: [ link ]
Original source: Braun and Hogenberg Civitates Orbis Terrarum I57
Date: 1572
Description: Source is an unidentified Portuguese manuscript
Copyright Note: Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library: “The scanned material is free and accessible. You are expected, however, to accredit the site and not to print or sell any material thereof.”
Image #2 – Map of Granada
Digitization source: Braun and Hogenberg , Civitates Orbis Terrarum, Vol. 13
Date: first Latin edition of volume V was published in 1598
Drawing: Joris Hoefnagel, 1565
Copyright Note: Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library: “The scanned material is free and accessible. You are expected, however, to accredit the site and not to print or sell any material thereof.”
Image #3 – Lutetia, vulgari nomine Paris, urbs Gallia maxima
Digitization source: [ link ]
Date: 1572
Description: attributed to Sebastian Munser First published in Munster's Cosmographia 1569 edition
Copyright Note: Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library: “The scanned material is free and accessible. You are expected, however, to accredit the site and not to print or sell any material thereof.”
Image #4 – The Indian Empire
Digitization source: http://dsal.uchicago.edu/maps/gazetteer/index.html
Original source: Imperial gazetteer of India. New edition, published under the authority of His Majesty's Secretary of State for India in Council. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1907-1909. All volumes, inside front cover.
Date: 1907-1909
Description: British India, colored red. Territories permanently administered by the Government of India, colored pink. Native States and Territories colored yellow or green
Copyright Note: Creative Commons license
Image #5 – Map of France
Digitization source: http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/gfun_frn.gif
Original source: ??
Date: 1869
Description: Humorous depiction of France in the shape of a “hook-nosed lady” (Yale library)
Copyright Note: Unclear – Yale seems to hold the copyright
Image #6 – Daughter of Negro sharecropper, Arkansas
Digitization source: [ link ]
Original source: Shahn, Ben, 1898-1969, photographer.
Date: 1935 Oct.
Description: Ozark Mountain area in Arkansas. The daughter of a Negro sharecropper in the doorway of her home
Copyright Note: Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection, [reproduction number, e.g., LC-USF35-1326]
Image #7 – Sergeant Major Wm. J. Jackson, 12th N. Y. vol's. at Stoneman's Switch, Va.
Digitization source: [ link ]
Date: Jan. 27, 1863
Description: Pencil sketch by Edwin Forbes.
Copyright Note: LOC LC-USZC4-4998
Image #8 – Landing of Columbus
Digitization source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g04188
Date: [between 1860 and 1880]
Description: Christopher Columbus and others showing objects to Native American men and women on shore
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #9 – The Confessions of Nat Turner, the Leader of the Late Insurrection in Southampton, Virginia
Digitization source: African American Odyssey
Original source: Richmond: Thomas R. Gray, 1832
Date: 1832
Description: Cover of book entitled: The Confessions of Nat Turner
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #10 – Russian Orthodox Church (Starinnaia dereviannaia tserkov' Il'i Proroka)
Digitization source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b17281
Original source: Forms part of: Sergei Mikhailovich Prokudin-Gorskii Collection (Library of Congress).
Date: [1909]
Description: Old wooden Church of the Prophet Elijah
Image #11 – Chinese market
Digitization source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsa.8e02340
Original source: U.S. Public Health Service, after Dr. L.L. Williams
Date: 1939 or 1940
Description: Public Health Service Investigation Commission to the China-Burma highway, Chefang, China. A market place
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #12 – Bodies of Confederate dead gathered for burial, Antietam, Md.
Digitization source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cwpb.01094
Original source: Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress, 1977. No. 0134
Date: 1862 September
Description: Photograph from the main eastern theater of the war, Battle of Antietam, September-October 1862
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #13 – Map of Mexico City
Digitization source: [ link ]
Original source: Braun and Hogenberg Civitates Orbis Terrarum (attributed to Antoine Du Pinet, 1564; after a plan in B.Bordone, Isolario, 1528)
Date: published in 1572
Copyright Note: Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library: “The scanned material is free and accessible. You are expected, however, to accredit the site and not to print or sell any material thereof.”
Image #14 – View of the City and Valley of Mexico, from Tacubaya
Digitization source: [ link ]
Original source: Drawn on the Spot by W. Bullock Jun.
Date: 1824
Copyright Note: Historic Cities Center of the Department of Geography, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Jewish National and University Library: “The scanned material is free and accessible. You are expected, however, to accredit the site and not to print or sell any material thereof.”
Image #15 – Map of Constantinople
Digitization source: [ link ]
Original source: Braun and Hogenberg Civitates Orbis Terrarum
Date: first Latin edition of volume I was published in 1572 (attributed to G.A.Vavassore, 1520 copied by Sebastian Munster, 1550)
Description: Byzantium, nunc Constantinopolis
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #16 – B-25 bomber
Digitization source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/fsac.1a35314
Original source: Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Collection
Date: 1942 Oct
Description: Part of the cowling for one of the motors for a B-25 bomber is assembled in the engine department of North American [Aviation, Inc.]'s Inglewood, Calif., plant
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #17 – Anti Suffrage
Digitization source: [ link ]
Date: [1911(?)]
Description: Men looking in the window of the National Anti-Suffrage Association headquarters
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #18 – Panorama of Johnstown
Digitization source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pan.6a09218
Original source: Copyright deposit; Charles Luther Morgan; March 19, 1904
Date: c1904
Description: Panoramic photograph of Johnstown, PA
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #20 – Smith's Plantation
Digitization source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsc.00057
Description: Five generations on Smith's Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #21 – Yokohama-e
Digitization source: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3g08538
Original source: Utagawa, Sadahide, 1807-1873, artist.
Date: Yamaguchiya T"bei, 1861
Description: Picture of Western traders at Yokohama transporting merchandise and westerners
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #22 – Independence Hall
Digitization source: [ link ]
Original source: Detail of [North elevation, measured drawing plotted by Bruce A. Harms, 1986; delineated by Marie A. Neubauer, 1986-87.]
Description: Independence Hall Complex, Independence Hall, Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, PA
Copyright Note: LOC
Image #23 – Lycoming County
Digitization source: Lycoming County Historical Society
Date: 1890
Description: Farm family c 1890, photo # 9666, Lycoming County Historical Society
Copyright Note: Rights secured
Image #24 – San Juan de Caborica, Sonora, Mexico
Copyright Note: Private photo
Image #25 – History 302 Students
Date: 2004
Description: History 302 Students Learn About Historic Construction Techniques, Fall 2004
Copyright Note: Private photo
Image #26 – Historic Rural Pennsylvania Field Workers
Description: Historic Rural Pennsylvania Field Workers in Bradford County Summer 2005
Copyright Note: Rights granted
Image #27 – Fort Zeller c 1742
Description: Fort Zeller, Newmanstown, PA c 1742, enhanced image by Ken LeVan
Copyright Note: Rights granted
Image #28 – Boalsburg, PA
Description: Boalsburg, PA birds eye view c 1910
Copyright Note: rights granted