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William Henry Seward

WILLIAM HENRY STEWARD PATRIOT AND STATESMAN AS GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES SENATOR AND SECRETARY OF STATE GAVE TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY A LONG AND USEFUL LIFE CULMINATING IN HIS...

WILLIAM HENRY STEWARD PATRIOT AND STATESMAN AS GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK UNITED STATES SENATOR AND SECRETARY OF STATE GAVE TO THE PEOPLE OF THIS COUNTRY A LONG AND USEFUL LIFE CULMINATING IN...

  • seattle
  • seward
  • washington
  • alaska

This Machine is a replicate of the machine that "Lucy" worked on "The I Love Lucy Show"

In the Cerreta Candy Company. Submitted by IUeaststudent

In the Cerreta Candy Company. Submitted by IUeaststudent

  • cerreta cand...
  • lucy
  • i love lucy

Here Stood Old Fort Dearborn 1803 - 1812

Submitted by @CitizenWald

Submitted by @CitizenWald

  • chicago
  • illinois
  • fort dearborn
  • 1803

Meredith W. Morgan

IN TRIBUTE TO MEREDITH W. MORGAN DEAN, 1960 - 1973 SCHOLAR, TEACHER, STALWART OF THE SCHOOL and OF THE PROFESSION  OCTOBER 19, 1984 SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY MINOR HALL Submitted by @quitasarah

IN TRIBUTE TO MEREDITH W. MORGAN DEAN, 1960 - 1973 SCHOLAR, TEACHER, STALWART OF THE SCHOOL and OF THE PROFESSION  OCTOBER 19, 1984 SCHOOL OF OPTOMETRY MINOR HALL Submitted by @quitasarah

  • berkeley
  • california
  • bay area
  • cal
  • optometry
  • stalwart

The Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine

LANDMARKS OF NEW YORK THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE  THIS EDIFICE SERVES THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AS THE CATHEDRAL OF THE BISHOP OF NEW YORK. THE CORNERSTONE WAS LAID ON DECEMBER 27,...

LANDMARKS OF NEW YORK THE CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF ST. JOHN THE DIVINE  THIS EDIFICE SERVES THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH AS THE CATHEDRAL OF THE BISHOP OF NEW YORK. THE CORNERSTONE WAS LAID ON DECEMBER...

  • new york
  • st. john
  • 1892
  • gothic

Provincial Cenotaph

NEW BRUNSWICK PROVINCIAL CENOTAPH  FOR THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY LEST WE FORGET   Submitted by @bthubbard

NEW BRUNSWICK PROVINCIAL CENOTAPH  FOR THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY LEST WE FORGET   Submitted by @bthubbard

  • fredericton
  • new brunswick
  • cenotaph

Mark Trevor Perry

MARK TREVOR PERRY AUGUST 1973 - OCTOBER 2009 MARATHON MAN ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS. NEVER FORGOTTEN. Submitted by @caddickbrown

MARK TREVOR PERRY AUGUST 1973 - OCTOBER 2009 MARATHON MAN ALWAYS IN OUR HEARTS. NEVER FORGOTTEN. Submitted by @caddickbrown

  • birmingham
  • england

Somerset Farm

SITE OF SOMERSET FARM HOME OF  JOHN CALVIN SHERER FROM 1882 TO 1949 AN EARLY SETTLER AND A FOUNDER OF  GLENDALE CALIFORNIA GLENDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY GLENDALE ODD FELLOWS LODGE   Submitted by: Jon G.

SITE OF SOMERSET FARM HOME OF  JOHN CALVIN SHERER FROM 1882 TO 1949 AN EARLY SETTLER AND A FOUNDER OF  GLENDALE CALIFORNIA GLENDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY GLENDALE ODD FELLOWS LODGE   Submitted by: Jon G.

  • somerset farm
  • sherer
  • 1882
  • glendale
  • california

Anchor of the Rydal Hall

ANCHOR OF THE RYDAL HALL ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 17, 1876 THE SQUARE RIGGER RYDAL HALL, EN ROUTE FROM CARDIFF, WALES TO SAN FRANCISCO WITH A CARGO OF COAL, RAN ON THE ROCKS IN A HEAVY FOG OFF...

ANCHOR OF THE RYDAL HALL ON THE NIGHT OF OCTOBER 17, 1876 THE SQUARE RIGGER RYDAL HALL, EN ROUTE FROM CARDIFF, WALES TO SAN FRANCISCO WITH A CARGO OF COAL, RAN ON THE ROCKS IN A HEAVY FOG...

  • half moon bay
  • california
  • ship
  • anchor
  • heavy fog
  • coal
  • crash
  • sink

Watchtower at Glasnevin Cemetery

  In the 1840s, nightwatchmen on this tower successfully guarded the Cemetery against "Resurrectionists" who supplied the medical profession with corpses for anatomy students. Submitted by Mark Jenkins    

  In the 1840s, nightwatchmen on this tower successfully guarded the Cemetery against "Resurrectionists" who supplied the medical profession with corpses for anatomy students. Submitted by Mark Jenkins  

    Log Cabin Pioneers of Dallas County

    Most colonists first settled in this "Three Forks" area of the Trinity River as members of the Peters Colony after 1841. Immigrants from such states as Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and...

    Most colonists first settled in this "Three Forks" area of the Trinity River as members of the Peters Colony after 1841. Immigrants from such states as Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri,...

    • log cabin
    • pioneers
    • dallas
    • 1841
    • peters colony
    • texas

    Margaret Mitchell House

    Margaret Mitchell House   Completed in 1899 by Cornelius J. I. Sheehan, the Margaret Mitchell house was originally a single-family, Tudor Revival residence. In 1913, the house was relocated to the...

    Margaret Mitchell House   Completed in 1899 by Cornelius J. I. Sheehan, the Margaret Mitchell house was originally a single-family, Tudor Revival residence. In 1913, the house was relocated to the...

    • 1889
    • gone with the wind
    • mitchell
    • atlanta
    • georgia

    Santa Barbara Courthouse

    Santa Barbara County Courthouse has been designated a National Historic Landmark.   This courthouse complex possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of...

    Santa Barbara County Courthouse has been designated a National Historic Landmark.   This courthouse complex possesses national significance in commemorating the history of the United States of...

    • santa barbara
    • california
    • courthouse

    The Lathams

    • virginia city
    • nevada
    • oakland
    • california
    • education
    • public schools
    • radio
    • kind deeds club
    • kpix

    Sloat Redwood

    THIS REDWOOD TREE PLANTED JULY 4, 1966, BY MONTEREY HISTORY & ART ASSOCIATION IN COMMEMORATION OF THE LANDING OF COMMODORE JOHN DRAKE SLOAT AT MONTEREY ON JULY 7, 1846, AND RAIDING THE AMERICAN...

    THIS REDWOOD TREE PLANTED JULY 4, 1966, BY MONTEREY HISTORY & ART ASSOCIATION IN COMMEMORATION OF THE LANDING OF COMMODORE JOHN DRAKE SLOAT AT MONTEREY ON JULY 7, 1846, AND RAIDING THE AMERICAN...

    • monterey
    • california
    • 1966
    • 1846
    • sloat
    • custom house

    Interfecti August 1 1966

    INTERFECTI AUGUST 1, 1966 THOMAS AQUINAS ASHTON DR. ROBERT H. BOYER THOMAS FREDERICK ECKMAN MARK JEROME GABOUR KAREN JOAN GRIFFITH DAVID H. GUNBY THOMAS RAY KARR MARGUERITE GABOUR LAMPORT CLAUDIA...

    INTERFECTI AUGUST 1, 1966 THOMAS AQUINAS ASHTON DR. ROBERT H. BOYER THOMAS FREDERICK ECKMAN MARK JEROME GABOUR KAREN JOAN GRIFFITH DAVID H. GUNBY THOMAS RAY KARR MARGUERITE GABOUR LAMPORT CLAUDIA...

    • shooting
    • austin
    • 1966
    • texas
    • tower

    Floyd and Jane Wray, Founders - Pioneers, 1926

    Submitted by Gilda Spitz

    Submitted by Gilda Spitz

    • davie
    • florida
    • flamingos

    Kennedy Space Center

    To all of the individuals whose years of dedicated service turned the dream  of the Space Shuttle program into a reality  Dedicated June 2013   Submitted by Gilda Spitz

    To all of the individuals whose years of dedicated service turned the dream  of the Space Shuttle program into a reality  Dedicated June 2013   Submitted by Gilda Spitz

    • nasa
    • space
    • space shuttle
    • shuttle
    • florida
    • kennedy

    First High-Tension Power Line

    FIRST HIGH-TENSION POWER LINE  THE WORLD'S FIRST LONG DISTANCE HIGH-TENSION POWER LINE BEGAN OPERATION BETWEEN PORTLAND AND WILLAMETTE FALLS BY THE WILLAMETTE FALLS ELECTRIC COMPANY ON JUNE 3,...

    FIRST HIGH-TENSION POWER LINE  THE WORLD'S FIRST LONG DISTANCE HIGH-TENSION POWER LINE BEGAN OPERATION BETWEEN PORTLAND AND WILLAMETTE FALLS BY THE WILLAMETTE FALLS ELECTRIC COMPANY ON JUNE...

      History Marches On

      As General Sherman led Union troops through Georgia in September of 1864, Confederate authorities in the small central Georgia town of Andersonville became nervous that Federal troops would launch...

      As General Sherman led Union troops through Georgia in September of 1864, Confederate authorities in the small central Georgia town of Andersonville became nervous that Federal troops would launch...

      • lat34