U.S. History Images - Sources

Primary Source Material

Below you will find a list of the primary sources used for the U.S. History Images available on this site. I have, to the best of my ability, used the original captions and descriptions found in these books to label the pictures.

It might also be useful to note that the books and periodicals shown below are not listed in strict alphabetical order. Since I am always adding books as I go along, it is much easier to give books with identical author or title names a number to distinguish them, rather than to go back and rename the source captions under each picture.

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  • Abbot, Willis J. Battle-Fields of '61. New York: Dodd, Mead, and Company, 1889.

  • Abbott (1), John, et. al. True Stories of the Favorite Sons and Daughters of America for Young People. Philadelphia: World Bible House, 1899.

  • Abbott (2), John, et. al. True Stories of Famous Men and Women of America for Young People. Philadelphia, PA: The Bell Publishing Compnay, 1898.

  • Adams, Davenport W. H. The Land of the Incas and the City of the Sun. Boston: Dana Estes and Company, ca 1885.

  • Andrews, Benjamin E. History of the United States. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1903.

  • Avery, Elroy McKendree. A History of the United States and its People. Cleveland: The Burrows Brothers Company, 1904.

  • Bagley, William and Charles Beard. The History of the American People. Sacramento: California State Printing Department, 1920.

  • Baldwin, James. Balwidn Reader: Fourth and Fifth Years Combined. New York: American Book Company, 1897.

  • Baldwin, James and Ida Bender. Baldwin and Bender's Third Reader. New York: American Book Company, 1911.

  • Bancroft, George. History of the Colonization of the United States. New York: Julius Hart and Company, 1886.

  • Baker, LaFayette C. The United States Secret Service in the Late War. Rockford, IL: Rockford Publishing Co., 1889.

  • Barber, John W. A. A History of the Amistad Captives. New Haven, CT: E. L. and J. W. Barber, 1840.

  • Barnes, A.S. A Brief History of the United States. New York: American Book Company, 1885.

  • Barrett, Joseph H. and Charles Walter Brown. The Life of Abraham Lincoln. Chicago: Vosbrink Mercantile Compnay, 1902.

  • Bassett, John Spencer. The Life of Andrew Jackson. New York: MacMillan and Company, 1916.

  • Beadle, J.H. Western Wilds and the Men Who Redeem Them. Washington, D.C.: Clark E. Ridpath, 1917.

  • Beyer, W. F. and O. F. Keydel, eds. Deeds of Valor. Detroit: Perrien-Keydel Company, 1907.

  • Bishop, William W., Ed. Mormonism Unveiled. St. Louis: Moffat Publishing Company, 1881.

  • Bowles, Samuel. Our New West. New York: Hartford Publishing Company, 1869.

  • Boyd, James P. Wonders of the Heavens, Earth, and Ocean. Cincinnati: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1879.

  • Boys and Girls Bookshelf, Volume XI: Wonders of Invention. New York: The University Society, 1920.

  • Bright, Marshall H. True Stories of American History for Our Young People.1898.

  • Brownell, Charles de Wolf. The Indian Races of North and South America. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1873.

  • Bryant, William Cullen and Sydney Howard Gay. A Popular History of the United States. New York: Charles Scribners' Sons, 1881.

  • Buel (1), J. W. Around the World with Great Voyages. Philadelphia: The Columbia Syndicate, 1892.

  • Buel (2), J. W. Heroes of the Plains. St. Louis, MO: Historical Publishing Company, 1881.

  • Burton, Alma. Builders of Our Nation. Chicago: Eaton and Company, 1914.

  • Butterworth (1), Hezekia, ed. Young Folks History of America. Boston: Estes and Lauriate, 1881.

  • Butterworth (2), Hezekia. The Story of America. New York: The Werner Company, 1898.

  • Century Monthly Illustrated Magazine (1). Volume XXXVII. New York: The Century Company, April 1889.

  • Century Monthly Illustrated Magazine (2). Volume XXXIII. New York: The Century Company, November 1886 - April 1887.

  • Century Monthly Illustrated Magazine (3). Volume XXX. New York: The Century Company, May 1885 - Octover 1885.

  • Century Monthly Illustrated Magazine (4). Volume XXIX. New York: The Century Company, November 1884 - April 1885.

  • Century Monthly Illustrated Magazine (5). Volume XXXI. New York: The Century Company, November 1885 - April 1886.

  • Clampitt, John W. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains. Chicago: Bedford, Clark and Company, 1889.

  • "The Cliff Dwellers." Scribner's Monthly. Dec 1878: 266-276.

  • Cody (1), W. F. Story of the Wild West and Camp-fire Chats. Philadelphia: Historical Publishing Company, 1888.

  • Cody (2), W. F. An Autobiography of Buffalo Bill. New York: Cosmopolitan Book Corporation, 1920.

  • Cody (3), Willam F. True Tales of the Plains. New York: Cupples and Lion, 1908.

  • Coffin (1), Charles Carleton. The Boys of '61, or Four Years of Fighting. Boston: Estes and Lauriat, 1881.

  • Coffin (2), Charles Carleton. Old Times in the Colonies. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1881.

  • Cromwell, John W. The Negro in American History. Washington: The American Negro Academy, 1914.

  • Cyr (1), Ellen. The Children's Third Reader. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1899.

  • Cyr (2), Ellen. The Children's Second Reader. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1904.

  • Davy Crockett. New York: MacMillan Company, 1915.

  • Dodge, Richard Irving. Our Wild Indians: Thirty-Three Years Personal Experience Among Red Men of the Great West. Hartford: A. D. Worthington and Company, 1883.

  • Donaldson, Thomas. "The George Catlin Indian Gallery in the U.S. National Museum." The Smithsonian Report - Part II. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1886.

  • Douglass (1), Frederick. The Life and Times of Frederick Douglass. Hartford, CT: Park Publishing, 1881.

  • Douglass (2), Frederick. My Bondage and My Freedom. New York: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan, 1855.

  • Drake, Francis. Indian History for Young Folks. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1912.

  • Dunbar, Seymour. A History of Travel in America. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1915.

  • Edmonds, S. Emma E. Nurse and Spy in the Union Army. Hartford, CT: W. S. Williams and Company, 1865.

  • Edwards, Clayton. The Story of Hiawatha. New York: Hampton Publishing Comapny, 1910.

  • Eggleston, Edward. A First Book in American History. New York: American Book Company, 1889.

  • Ellis (1), Edward S. The History of Our Country: From the Discovery of America to the Present Time. Cincinnati: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1910.

  • Ellis (2), Edward S. The Youth's History of the United States. New York: The Cassell Publishing Comapny, 1887.

  • Ellis, Edward S. and Charles F. Horne. The Story of the Greatest Nations. New York: Francis Niglutsch, 1906.

  • Elson (1), William H. Elson Primary School Reader - Book Four. Chicago: Scott, Foresman, and Company, 1913.

  • Elson (2), Henry W. The Civil War through the Camera. New York: McKinlay, Stone, and Mackenzie, 1912.

  • Encyclopedia Britannica, Eleventh Edition. New York: University Press, 1911.

  • Fewkes, Walter. "Fire Worship of the Hopi Indians." Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institute. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1920.

  • Fewkes, Walter. "Ancestor Worship of the Hopi Indians." Annual Report of the Smithsonian Institute. Washington DC: Government Printing Office, 1921.

  • Field, Walter and Ella Young. The Young and Field Literary Readers Book Four. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1914.

  • Francescan Sisters of the Perpetual Adoration. A History of the United States for Catholic Schools. Chicago: Scott, Foresman and Company, 1914.

  • Foster, Andrew, and C. Edwards Lester. The Life and Voyages of Americus Vespucius. New Haven: Horace Mansfield, 1853.

  • Fowler, William F. Woman on the American Frontier. Hartford: S.S. Scranton, 1878.

  • Frost (1), John. Pictorial History of the United States. Connecticut: Case, Tiffany and Company, 1846.

  • Frost (2), John. Frost's Pictorial History of Indian Wars and Captivities. New York: Wells Publishing Company, 1873.

  • Frost, John (3). Pictorial Life of Andrew Jackson. Hartford, PA: Belknap, Hamersly, Bomberger, 1848.

  • Frost (4), John. Pictorial History of Mexico and the Mexican War. Richmond, VA: Harold and Murry, 1848.

  • Frost (5), John. Pioneer Mothers of the West. Boston: Lee and Shepard, 1869.

  • Garner, James Wilford and Henry Cabot Lodge. The History of the United States. Philadelphia: John D. Morris and Company, 1906.

  • Gass, Patrick. Journal of the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Chicago: McClurg, 1904.

  • Gibbs, Mifflin Wistar. Shadow and Light: An Autobiography. Washington, D. C., 1902.

  • Gibson, J. W. and Prof. W. H. Crogman. The Colored American from Slavery to Honorable Citizenship. Atlanta, GA: Hertel, Jenkins, and Comapny, 1905.

  • Godey's Lady's Book (1). Volume LXVI. Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1864.

  • Godey's Lady's Book (2). Volume LXVIII. Philadelphia: Louis A. Godey, 1864.

  • Green, N. W. Mormonism: Its Rise, Progress and Present Concerns. Hartford, CT: Belknap and Bliss, 1870.

  • Goodrich (1), S. G. A Pictorial History of the United States. Philadelphia: E. H. Butler and Company, 1883.

  • Goodrich (2), S. G. A Pictorial History of America. Hartford: House of Brown, 1852.

  • Greeley, Horace. The Great American Conflict: A History of the Great Rebellion. Hartford, CT: O. D. Case and Comapny, 1864.

  • Hale, Susan. The Story of Mexico. New York: G. P. Putnam's & Sons, 1889.

  • Hall, Jennie. Our Ancestors in Europe: An Introduction to American History. Boston: Silver, Burdett, and Company, 1916.

  • Halleck, Reuben Post. History of American Literature. New York: American Book Company, 1911.

  • Hanaford, Phebe. Daughters of America. Augusta, ME: True and Company, 1883.

  • Harper's New Monthyly Magazine (1). Volume 32. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1866.

  • Harper's New Monthyly Magazine (2). Volume 65. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1882.

  • Harper's New Monthyly Magazine (3). Volume 28. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1868.

  • Harper's New Monthyly Magazine (4). Volume 50. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1875.

  • Harper's New Monthyly Magazine (5). Volume 67. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1883.

  • Harper's New Monthyly Magazine (6). Volume 36. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1868.

  • Harper's New Monthyly Magazine (7). Volume 23. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1861.

  • Harper's New Monthyly Magazine (8). Volume 22. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1861.

  • Harper's Weekly - A Journal of Civilization(9) New York: Harper's Magazine Company, 1865.

  • Harris, Amanda B. American Authors for Young Folks. Boston: D. Lothrop and Company, 1887.

  • Hart, Albert Bushnell. Slavery and Abolition, 1831 - 1841. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906.

  • Hartwell, James. Heroes of the United States Navy. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1899.

  • Henderson, Carrie.The Lewis and Clark Expedition. Chicago: McClug, 1904.

  • The Heroic Life of Abraham Lincoln. Boston: DeWolfe, Fiske and Company, 1902.

  • Higgenson, Thomas Wentworth. "The Visit of the Vikings." Harper's New Monthly Magazine. June - November, 1882:515-527.

  • Holbrook, Florence. The Hiawatha Primer. Boston: Houghton, MIfflin and Company, 1898.

  • Holley, O. L. The Life of Benjamin Franklin. New York: G. F. Cooledge and Brother, 1848.

  • Holton, Martha and Charles Curry. Holton-Curry Readers: The Sixth Reader. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1914.

  • Holton, Martha and Charles Curry. Holton-Curry Readers: The Fifth Reader. Chicago: Rand McNally and Company, 1914.

  • Hubert, Philip G. Men of Achievement: Inventors. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1893.

  • Humfreville, J. Lee. Twenty Years Among Our Savage Indians. Hartford: The Hartford Publishing Company, 1897.

  • Hutchinson, Frederick W. The Men Who Found America. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1909.

  • Hutchinson, H. N. ed. The Living Races of Mankind. London: Hutchinson & Co., ca 1910.

  • Iles, George. Leading American Inventors. New York: H. Holt and Company, 1912.


  • Johnson, W. Fletcher. The LIfe of Sitting Bull and History of the Indian War of 1890 - 91. Edgewood Publishing Company, 1891.

  • Johnston, J. E. et al. Reports of the Secretary of War with Reconnaissances of Routes from San Antonion to El Paso. Washington: Union Office, 1850.

  • Jones, J. R. American History for Young Folks: The Story of Our Great Country. 1898.

  • Jones, J. Wm. The Davis Memorial Volume; or Our Dead President, Jefferson Davis and the World's Tribute to his Memory. Richmond, VA: B. F. Johnson and Company, 1890.

  • Kane, Kent Elisha. Arctice Explorations. Philadelphia: Childs and Peterson, 1856.

  • Keim, Randolph. Keim's Illustrated Hand-book of Washington and is Environs. Philadelphia: The Columbia Syndicate, 1892.

  • Kelsey (1), D. M. The The New World Heroes of Discovery and Conquest. 1904.

  • Kelsey (2), D. M. History of Our Wild West and Stories of Pioneer Life. Chicago: Thomas & Thomas, 1902.

  • Kingsley, Nellie F. The Story of Captain Meriwether Lewis and Captain William Clark. New York: Werner School Book Company, 1900.

  • Kirkland, Frazar. The Pictorial Book of Anecdotes and Incidents of the War of the Rebellion. Hartford, CT: Hartford Publishing Comapny, 1867.

  • Lamb, M. T. The Mormons and their Bible. Philadelphia: The Griffith and Rowand Press, 1901.

  • Laut, Agnes C. "The Indian's Idea of Fine Art." The Outing Magazine. April - September 1905: 354-363.

  • Lewis, Meriwether. History of the Expedition Under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark. New York: New Amsterdam Book Company, 1902.

  • Library of Congress. Most of the images used from the Library of Congress are available as high-resolution TIF files. For copyright information, please read this.

  • Livermore, Mary A. My Story of the War: A Woman's Narrative. Hartford, CT: A. D. Worthington and Comapny, 1889.

  • Life of Davy Crockett. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1867.

  • Lossing (1), Benson J. Our Country. New York: Johnson and Bailey, 1895.

  • Lossing (2), Benson J. Harper's Encyclopedia of United States HIstory. New York: Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1912.

  • Lossing (3), Benson J. The History of the Civil War. New York: The War Memorial Association, 1912.

  • Lummis, Charles F. "The Land of Poco Tiempo." Scribners. Dec. 1891: 760-771.

  • Mabie (1), Hamilton Wright. Our Country in Peace and War. W.M.E. Scull, 1899.

  • Mabie (2), Hamilton Wright, et. al. Heroes and Patriots. New York: The University Society, 1921.

  • Mace, William H. A School History of the United States. Chicago: Rand, McNally and Company, 1904.

  • Mackay, Charles. The Mormons, or Latter-Day Saints. London, 1852.

  • Markham, Richard. Colonial Days: Being Stories and Ballads for Young Patriots. New York: Dodd, Mead, & Company, 1881.

  • Mason, Lynch Augustus. The Romance and Tragedy of Pioneer Life. Cincinnati, OH: Jones Brothers and Company, 1884.

  • Matthews, Brander. An Introduction to the Study of American Literature. New York: American Book Company, 1896.

  • McBrien, Jasper. America First. New York: American Book Company, 1916.

  • McCabe, James D. The Pictorial History of the United States. Philadelphia: The National Publishing Company, 1877.

  • McClellan, Elisabeth. Historic Dress in America 1607 - 1800. Philadelphia: Geroge W. Jacobs and Company, 1904.

  • McConnel, J. L. Western Characters. New York: Redfield, 1853.

  • McGlashan, C. F. History of the Donner Party. Sacramento: H. S. Crocker Company, 1907.

  • McMaster, John Bach. A School History of the United States. New York: American Book Company, 1897.

  • McNeil, Everett. In Texas with Davy Crockett. New York: E. P. Dutton, 1905.

  • Montgomery, D. H. The Beginner's American History. Boston: Ginn and Company, 1902.

  • Moore, Frank. The Civil War in Song and Story. P. F. Collier, 1889.

  • Morris, Charles. Pictorial History of the United States. Philadelphia: John Winston Company, 1907.

  • Mottlelay, Paul F. and T. Campbell-Copeland, eds. The Soldier in Our Civil War. New York: Stanley Bradley Publishing Company, 1885.

  • Nichols, Clifton M. LIfe of Abraham LIncoln. Springfield, Ohio: The Crowell and Kirkpatrick Company, 1899.

  • Northrop (1), Henry Davenport. American History for Young Folks: The Story of Our Great Country. 1898.

  • Northrop (2), Henry Davenport. Thrilling Tales of American Pioneers. 1909.

  • NYPL - New York Public Library. For information about NYPL's terms and conditions, please read this.

  • One Hundred Years' Progress of the United States. Hartford, CT: L. Stebbins, 1871.

  • Our Wonder World, Volume 2: Invention and Industry. Chicago: George L. Shuman and Comapny, 1918.

  • Our Wonder World, Volume 8: Story and History. Chicago: George L. Shuman and Comapny, 1918.

  • Parton, James, et. al. Eminent Women of the Age. Hartford, CT.: James Betts and Company, 1877.

  • Pollard, Josephine. The Life of George Washington. New York: McLoughlin Brothers, ca. 1910.

  • Pinckney, Gustavs M. LIfe of John Calhoun. Charleston, SC: Waler Evans and Cogswell Company, 1903.

  • Post, C. C. Ten Years a Cowboy. Chicago: Rhodes and McClure Publishing Company, 1910.

  • Powell, J. W. Twenty-Second Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology - Part 2. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1904.

  • Pollard, Josephine. The History of the United States. New York: McCloughlan Brothers, 1884.

  • Pratt, Mara L. American's Story for America's Children: The Early Colonies. Boston: D.C. Heath & Company, 1901.

  • Richardson (1), Abby Sage. The HIstory of Our Country. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1883.

  • Richardson (2), Albert, D. Beyond the Mississippi. Hartford, CT: American Publishing Company, 1867.

  • Ridpath (1), John Clarke. With the Worlds' People. Washington, D.C.: Clark E. Ridpath, 1917.

  • Ridpath (2), John Clarke. History of the World. Cincinnati: The Jones Brothers Publishing Company, 1919.

  • Sabin, Edward. Opening the West with Lewis and Clark. Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott Company, 1917.

  • Sears, Robert, ed. Pictorial History of the American Revolution. Philadelphia: Robert Sears, 1847.

  • Scott, David B. A School History of the United States. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1883.

  • Short, John T. The North Americans of Antiquity. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1879.

  • Siebert, Wilbur H. The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom. New York: The MacMillan Company, 1898.

  • SIRIS - Smithsonian Institution Research Information System. For information about the Smithsonian's terms of use, please read this.

  • Spencer, J. A. History of the United States. New York: Johnson, Fry, and Company, 1858.

  • Stenhouse, T. B. H. The Rocky Mountains Saints. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1873.

  • Stephens (1), Alex H. A Comprehensive and Popular History of the United States. Chattanooga: Hickman and Fowler, 1882.

  • Stephens (2), Ann S. Pictorial History of the War for the Union. New York: Benjamin W. Hitchcock, 1866.

  • Still, William. The Underground Railroad. Philadelphia: Porter and Coates, 1872.

  • Stoddard, John. John Stoddard's Lectures - Volume Ten. Chicago: George L. Shuman & Company, 1911.

  • Stowe, Charles Edward. Life of Harriet Beecher Stowe. Boston: Houghton, Mifflin, and Company, 1891.

  • Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. London: Trischlen and Company, 1891.

  • Stratton, Ella Hines. The American Indian and his Daring Deeds. 1902.

  • Tappan, Eva March. American Hero Stories. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1920.

  • Thayer, William M. Marvels of the New West. Norwich: Henry Bill Publishing, 1890.

  • Upham, Charles Wentworth. Life, Explorations, and Public Services of John Charles Fremont. Boston: Ticknor and Fields, 1856.

  • Victor, Orville J. History of American Conspiracies. New York: James D. Torrey, 1863.

  • Visscher, William Lightfoot. Buffalo Bill's Own Story of his Life and Deeds. Chicago: Homewood Press, 1917.

  • Wallace, Susan E. The Land of the Pueblos. New York: John B. Alden, 1888.

  • Watson, Virginia. The Princess Pocahontas. Philadelphia: Penn Publishing Company, 1890.

  • Whipple, Wayne. The Story of Young Abraham Lincoln. Philadelphia: Henry Altemus Company, 1915.

  • Wikimedia - Wikimedia Commons.

  • Wood, Norman B. The Lives of Famous Indian Chiefs. Aurora: American Indian Historical Publishing Company, 1906.

  • Woodson, Carter G. The Negro in Our History. Washington, D.C.: Associated Publishers, 1922.

  • The World: Its Cities and People. London: Cassell & Company, Limited, ca 1880.


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Hatzigeorgiou, Karen J. U.S. History Images. 2011. Online. Internet. <http://ushistoryimages.com>.




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