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1 photograph : gelatin silver print ; sheet 14 x 9 cm (postcard format) | Photograph shows an American soldier posing with World War I souvenirs including American and French flags, German rifles, a French Chauchat rifle, artillery shells, ammunition, bayonets, hobnailed boots, gas masks, gas alarm bell, helmets, ration cans, canteens, and a Cole Motor Car name badge. Next to him is a pup tent painted with the slogans "Home Sweet Home," "In No Man's Land," "The Long Last Mile," and "Heaven, Hell, or Hoboken by Christmas."

Histoire de la nation métisse dans l'Ouest canadien (History of the Métis nation in western Canada) presents the history of a people, born out of a unique cultural mix and a fierce fight for survival. Canada's Métis people developed as the mixed-race descendants of Native American women and European colonists who traveled to Canada from France, and later from Britain, to explore and to trade. The Europeans were eager to tap into the wealth of the great Canadian West, and much of the work focuses on the tensions caused by the frantic expansion of the whites to the west and the int...

This pamphlet, published anonymously in Amsterdam in October 1662, concerns the establishment of a settlement on the South River (as the Dutch called the Delaware River) in New Netherland by the Dutch Mennonite and social reformer Pieter Cornelis Plockhoy. The pamphlet consisted of proposals sent to the magistrates of the city of Amsterdam to gain their support for the settlement, which Plockhoy intended to be for poor and needy families and based on reformist principles. The pamphlet was partly intended to reassure investors that the settlement would also be a profitable enterprise. A number ...

This lithograph of the Fairmount Waterworks, on the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia, shows one of America's earliest municipal water-treatment systems. Powered consecutively by steam engines, waterwheels, and pumps that lifted water to reservoirs on a hill (Faire Mount), the waterworks and its beautiful setting were a tourist attraction from the beginning. The plant was designed by Frederick Graff, and the result was an innovative engineering success and beautiful buildings reflecting the contemporary fashion for Greek Revival architecture. This print is by John Caspar Wild (circa 1804-46...

This circa 1840 print shows the view looking east down the inclined plane cut into Belmont Hill (Fairmount Park) for hauling railroad cars from the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia to Columbia on the Philadelphia and Columbia Railroad. Two men watch the cars being hauled by cables from within the plane. The covered Columbia Railroad Bridge over the Schuylkill, completed in 1834, is visible in the background. In the foreground is a heavily wooded landscape, with the cityscape in the distance. The plane connecting the river with the rail line was part of a system of railroads and canals built ac...