Local history

Long after the gold rush had faded into history, San Francisco was still earning its title as the capital of the Wild, Wild West.

The borough of Queens has been many thingsa playground for wealthy Manhattanites, a recreation area for pleasure seekers, a highly industrialized pocket of New York City, and one of the most beautiful and residential sections of which the city can boast.

In many ways, Puget Sound looks today as it did in the eighteenth century, when its first explorers probed into the bays and inlets.

From our earliest history, Americans have had an uneasy affection for our outlaws, especially those from the romantic period of the Old West.

Known for its natural beauty, Oregon has a unique and remarkable history.

Its place directly opposite San Francisco Bay from one of the worlds most visited cities has left Oakland to struggle against comparison from the start.

This book, with 200 fascinating images from the past, covers more than a hundred years of New York State history.

New Orleans jazz thrilled the world in the twenties and traveled around the world in the thirties.

One of the thirteen original colonies, the state of New Jersey is a study in contrasts.

In a nation reinventing itself following victory in World War II, Nashvilles self-portrait blended old with new.

Montana is a land known for soaring vistas, towering peaks, and a rich heritage.

Imagine a ride with the Mississippi mockingbird as it soars through the Mississippi skies.

Minnesotas past is defined by its remarkable natural resources, and shaped by its native peoples and early settlers.

Papier-mch tigers, riots on the field, Chinese bandits, tailgating before a trip to the stadium nicknamed Death Valleyall these things and more describe the events, places, and people associated with over 100 years of football at Louisiana State University.

The largest island in the continental United States, Long Island comprises Brooklyn, Queens, Nassau, and Suffolk counties.

I thought it must be the fairest picture the whole earth affords, wrote Mark Twain of Lake Tahoe.

The vast lingering remnant of an ice age that came to a close more than 10,000 years ago, Lake Michigan has shaped the history of the settlements along its surrounding shores for centuries.

Positioned in the geographic center of the contiguous 48 states, Kansas has played a vital role in the nations development.

This is the land of Hoosiers.

Founded in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1636, Harvard University ranks as the oldest and arguably the nations most prestigious institution of higher learning.

What began as a fur-trading post grew into the second-largest city in Michigan, a center for industry and the arts.

Unlike the movie ghost towns of the Old West, the ghost towns in Florida dont have tumbleweeds rolling on deserted dirt roads, abandoned wooden saloons, and lone drifters on horseback.

In 1950 Detroit was the fifth most populous city in the United States with 1.

In the decades after World War II, the Mile High City traded its cowtown image for the glitter of skyscrapers, big-league sports teams, Interstate highways, and urbanity.

Colorado Springs has always held a special fascination for visitors.

In 1859, 100,000 folks started the journey to the Pikes Peak goldfields, but only 50,000 completed the trip.

Nestled in a valley beside the Tennessee River and surrounded by the southern Appalachian mountains, Chattanooga is truly Tennessees most scenic city.

Between 1950 and 1979, Birmingham, Alabama, experienced some of the most dramatic growth and change in its history.

With a selection of fine historic images from his best-selling book, Historic Photos of the Chicago World's Fair, Russell Lewis provides a valuable and revealing historical retrospective on the Chicago World's Fair.

Nestled among the slopes of Central Texas Hill Country, Austin has grown from its frontier beginning to earn nationwide renown as a leader in arts, business, and government.

Nantucket Island, off coastal New England, has always been a cherished vacation destination.

Philadelphia began, nearly a century before the American Revolution, as the colony of Englishman and Quaker convert William Penn.

More than 250 years passed from the founding of the first English colony in the New World at Jamestown in Virginia until the beginning of the American Civil War, and nearly a century and a half more has passed since the Civil War ended.

The name Tucson originates from a Spanish word meaning Black Base, a reference to the mostly volcanic mountains on the west side of the city.

The Battle of Petersburg began as an unsuccessful Union assault against the city of Petersburg, Virginia, June 9, 1864, during the American Civil War.

Called The Mother Church of Country Music, the Ryman Auditorium saw a historic chapter come to a close in 1974 when it closed its doors on 5th Avenue to move into new quarters at Opryland USA.

The history of law enforcement in the Lone Star State goes back well before photography, dating to Texass days as part of the Spanish empire.

Historic Photos of Tampa follows the evolving culture of the Cigar Capital of the World through one of the finest archives in the city, Burgert Brothers archive from the Tampa Hillsborough County Public Library.

Founded in the late nineteenth century as a railroad town, St.

In 1854, Saint Paul incorporated as a city and, in 1858 Minnesota was admitted to the union with Saint Paul becoming the 32nd state capital.

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By the late nineteenth century, the city of Seattle was a vibrant cultural center of the West.

The 1950s, 60s, and 70s were defining moments in our nation's history, and San Francisco was at the forefront of the avant-garde artistic, intellectual, and cultural movements of the time.

San Antonio was named for the Portuguese Saint Anthony of Padua when a Spanish expedition stopped in the area in 1691.

From White Hots to the Garbage Plate, Wegman's to Bill Gray's, Historic Photos of Rochester is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives.

Reno was first known as a mid-nineteenth century mining town, owing to Nevadas ample supply of silver and gold.

Founded on a triangle of land bounded by two mighty rivers, Pittsburgh has a long and storied chapter in American history.

Historic Photos of Philadelphia captures the City of Brotherly Love"e;"e; past through photographs from the city's finest archives.

Pensacola is a city of firsts, from the first documented European settlement in North America to the first Naval Aviation training station.

Palm Beach is known all over the world as a place synonymous with the Good Life.