Chicagos Worlds Columbian Exposition, popularly called the Chicago Worlds Fair, or the White City, was the largest and most spectacular worlds fair ever built.
On January 10, 1901, near Beaumont, Texas, an unremarkable knoll of earth the world would soon call Spindletop shot a geyser of oil a hundred feet into the air, confirming the belief of Pattillo Higgins that black gold lay buried there.
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.
Oklahoma has an excellent photographic record, largely because the twin territories developed along the same general timeline as modern photography itself.
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.
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.
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.
When Ernest Hemingway won the 1954 Nobel Prize for Literature, presenters called him one of this epochs great molders of style, praising his vivid dialogue and journalistic eye for robust details to accumulate and take on momentous significance.
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.
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 images in this book,Historic Photos of University of Michigan Football,depict 100 years of gridiron action and the players and coaches who competed on three historic fields.
From a city that boasts itself as the Crossroads of America, has the nation's third largest rail hub, 15th busiest air cargo hub, and one of the busiest ports in the Great Lakes, Historic Photos of Toledo is a photographic history collected from the areas top archives.
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.
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.
From the old capitol to the new capitol, the Battle of Natural Bridge to the battles at Doak Campbell Stadium,Historic Photos of Tallahasseeis a photographic history collected from the area's top archives.
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.
The popularity of great Americans frequently simmers before it boils, but the nations 40th President heard the kettle whistling from early in his administration.
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.
From the home of the City of Oaks in Raleigh and the state's capitol, to the Bull City in Durham,Historic Photos of Raleigh-Durhamis a photographic history collected from the area's top archives.