Skylar Newton, a military dependant, age 17, sleds
Skylar Newton, a military dependant, age 17, sleds down a dune at White Sands National Park, N.M., March 30. (Photo By Staff Sgt. Jes L. Smith, 16th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment)
Spc. David Moore, a cavalry scout from Roanoke, Ala.,
Spc. David Moore, a cavalry scout from Roanoke, Ala., watches troop movements from the inside of a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected vehicle by using a Joint Battle Command-Platform system during Network Integrat... More
Sfc. Idaeth Behar, 368th Engineer Battalion, keeps
Sfc. Idaeth Behar, 368th Engineer Battalion, keeps up a jogging pace during the 26-mile Bataan Memorial Death March at Kandahar Air Field, Afghanistna, March 27. The original Bataan Death March took place durin... More
Sgt. Donald R. Tharp, a radiology technologist with
Sgt. Donald R. Tharp, a radiology technologist with Company C, 47th Brigade Support Battalion, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, looks at an X-ray taken at a forward operating base on Dona Ana Rang... More
U.S. Army Master Sgt. Michael Robledo, a native of
U.S. Army Master Sgt. Michael Robledo, a native of Austin, Texas, assigned to Headquarters and Headquarters Battery, 212 Fires Brigade, inspects the motorcycle belonging to Pfc. Richard Ward, an infantryman ass... More
Sgt. Anthony Fitzgerald, team leader, 1st Battalion,
Sgt. Anthony Fitzgerald, team leader, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade, 1st Armored Division, moves his team into position to cordon and search Palmiyah village while using Tactical Communicati... More
Three U.S. Army M109-A6 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers
Three U.S. Army M109-A6 Paladin Self-Propelled Howitzers operated by A Battery, 4th Battalion, 27th Field Artillery, Division Artillery (DIVARTY), 1st Armored Division, stand ready to fire at the Dona Ana firin... More
NIE pushes vehicles to breaking point, then fixes them up, sends them ...
Spc. Joesiff Rowan, an M1 Abrams tank system maintainer with Company E, 1st Battalion, 6th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division, uses hand gestures to guide the driver of an M8... More
Victor Prieto, a native of El Paso, Texas and weapons
Victor Prieto, a native of El Paso, Texas and weapons instructor at the troop school on Biggs Army Airfield instructs soldiers how to properly run a unit arms room. During the two-week unit armorer course, serv... More
Maj. Tam Dang, (center), officer in charge of the William
Maj. Tam Dang, (center), officer in charge of the William Beaumont Army Medical Centers' Warfighter Refractive Eye Surgery Center, Fort Bliss, Texas, uses an eximer laser to perform photorefractive keratectomy ... More
A Soldier playing the role of opposition forces watches
A Soldier playing the role of opposition forces watches from the roof of a building as Marines disembark from a U.S. Marine Corps Assault Amphibious Vehicle in a combat training engagement during Network Integr... More
This gourd was designed and carved with a burning tool
This gourd was designed and carved with a burning tool by local artist Karin Bradshaw, a native of Glen Burnie, Md., one of the many crafts persons visited by participants in Fort Bliss MWR's Tour De Cruces tri... More
Beaded Moccasins - GRPO 1563
Pair or pucker toe beaded leather moccasins with decorative floral design enclosed within white, blue, red, and yellow beaded border on vamps. Leather ankle wraps have scalloped or sawtooth edging.
Beaded Moccasins - GRPO 1565
Pair of pucker toe beaded leather moccasins with identical geometric design featuring white, yellow, maroon, and black beads on vamps and lower collars. Additional beadwork on vamps contains diagonal lines of t... More
Item 174; Road to New Mexico and Quivira, 1601.
Item 174; Road to New Mexico and Quivira, 1601.
Clasp Knife Blade - GRPO 17785
Clasp knife blade with hinge element, rivet pin, and marked with three characters, "- (V) (I)". This knife bears the registered mark of William Parker, a Sheffield knife maker, active from 1739 to circa 1784. ... More
Folding Knife - GRPO 17585
Folding knife probably British, late 18th century.
Hawk Bell - GRPO 14419
Hawk bells were originally used as part of falconry equipment Europe before being utilized as fur trade goods when they were introduced to North America in the 16th century. This 18th century example is made of... More
Case Knife - GRPO 17802
Case knife French or British, 18th century.
Case Knife Blade - GRPO 13653
A case knife blade with vertical maker's mark that resembles a four-lobed crown over a robust numeral "2" is broken through the first rivet hole of its drooping tang. Many cutler marks incorporating crowns appe... More
Ice Chisel - GRPO 17766
Chisels like the one featured here were essential tools in the late 18th century fur trade. Ice chisels were often attached to long wooden handles and used to penetrate through the ice to create holes for fishi... More
Pocket Watch - GRPO 1425
Hollow shaft key used for winding watch; late 18th century
Hand Forged Iron Hammer - GRPO 8228
This hand-forged hammer may have been used by the North West Company blacksmith at the Grand Portage depot in the late 18th century. The tool is bent to form an eye for accommodating a handle and measures 11.1 ... More
Cast White Metal Button - GRPO 14887
Late 18th century cast white metal button with concentric circle design; eye molded to back face; diameter 1.7 cm.
Bear and Raccoon Please the Crowd
The 18th century puppet show is popular with participants and visitors.
Rectangular Shoe Buckle Frame - GRPO 12697
Late 18th century brass and white metal rectangular shoe buckle frame with incised lines along perimeter
Pistol-Grip Handle - GRPO 15375
One half of a hollow, pistol-grip style utensil handle, cast of white metal. This example measures 8.9 cm long and 1.9 cm wide. Pistol grip handles, introduced in the early 18th century, were commonly made of b... More
Item 135; Northern Mexico to New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi River, 18t...
Item 135; Northern Mexico to New Mexico, Texas, Mississippi River, 18th century.
Cast White Metal Button with radial design - GRPO 14889
Late 18th century cast white metal button with radial design; crudely-shaped eye molded to back; 1.7 cm diameter
Round Cupreous Cufflinks - GRPO 14404
This pair of cupreous cufflinks, known as sleeve buttons in the 18th century, features a nautical design with a face diameter of 1.6 cm
Folding Knife - GRPO 17587
One of the most popular knives in the second half of the 18th century, this example features a slightly tapered handle with rounded end. Four iron pins are present on back edge of the handle. This knife, recove... More
Case Knife - GRPO 17800
Case knife probably French or British, 18th century.
Ramon Garcia Jurado
"On the 25th of the month of June, of this year of 1709, passed by here on the way to Zuni, Ramon Garcia Jurado."
Jurado inscription, 1709
Jurado inscription, 1709
Travajo personal que en la inspesion de esta corta obra tubo el Ro. Pe...
Relief shown pictorially. Includes text and legend. Covers the territory from Santa Fé west to the Colorado River and south to the Chihuaha. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster i... More
Clasp Knife - GRPO 16921
Clasp knife blade, probably French, 1730-1750.
Clasp Knife - GRPO 16589
Knife blade possibly of cutler Jean Tivet French 1730-1750.
Pedro Romero
"By here passed Pedro Romero on the 2nd of August, year of 1751."
Brass Pendant with Glass Insets - GRPO 14710
A cast, soft brass, tri-lobed pendant frame with four blue-green (Munsell 10BG 6/8) faceted, faux gem glass insets. Round insets in outer lobes, and square inset at center. Sets are bracketed by relief floral p... More
Razor - GRPO 14959
Razor blade stamped ACIER-FOND (“steel edge”) over the cutting edge near the spine. The tang is stamped, G.SMITH, the mark of Georgius Smith, a Sheffield razor-maker active in the mid-1770s. The brass pivot pin... More
Silver Bracelet - GRPO 4831
Silver bracelet etched with lines and perforated at ends for cord attachment bearing the stamp “RC” for Robert Cruickshank. Born in England, Cruickshank immigrated first to Boston in 1767 and then moved to Mont... More
Derrotero hecho por Antonia Vélez y Escalante, misionero para mejor co...
Covers sections of Colorado, Utah, Arizona and New Mexico. Relief shown pictorially. Pen-and-ink and watercolor. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault
Case Knife - GRPO 16968
Case knife w/Cross & L stamp, British, 1780-1830.
Comanche pictograph map of the Battle of Sierra Blanca, 1787
Shows battle between two warring Plains Indian tribes, the Comanche and Apache. Title supplied by cataloger. Pen-and-ink with fold lines. Map pasted on larger sheet of paper which includes key to map signed by ... More
Silver Moon - GRPO 16948
Moon, concave engraved silver disk with maker's mark "NR" and two buttons on either side near the top center of the disk. The buttons have eye holes on the back to attach to a chain or fastener. The disk has an... More
Mesilla Plaza, Mesilla, New Mexico
La Mesilla includes a historic plaza and surrounding buildings that have been restored to their 19th-centuryappearance. During the 1800s, the area served as a camping and foraging spot for both Spaniards and Me... More
Wool Assomption Sash - GRPO 525
Arrow and lightning pattern fingerwoven sash (mid-19th century) consisting of 515 threads woven in 1,089 rows. There are 19 color zones present. The woven length of the wool sash is 227.3 cm, the length of th... More
Harmonica Plate - GRPO 12707
Copper alloy harmonica plate with ten rectangular reed slots, and an equal number of corresponding reed attachment holes arranged in a straight line along one greater margin. This example recovered during arche... More
White Cedar Paddle Fragment - GRPO 16122
White cedar paddle blade, Ottertail-style with rounded tip, part of lower shaft, and dihedral cross-section. This is the most complete and best preserved paddle blade in Grand Portage National Monument's collec... More
Copper Fishtail Kettle Lug - GRPO 8082
Decorative copper fishtail-design kettle lug measuring 6.8 cm long, 5.2 cm wide, and 0.3 cm thick. This style of kettle ear dates to approximately 1800 for English kettles, just near the end of the North West C... More
Brass Trade Ring - GRPO 14703
Plain band with crude markings scratched on inner surface. The ring diameter measures 1.9 cm. Similar bands with interior markings are reported at the 1792-1800 NWC site of Fort George in Alberta and the circa ... More
A chart of the internal part of Louisiana : including all the hitherto...
Scale ca. 1:2,450,000. Relief shown pictorially and by hachures. "Plate II." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Includes notes. AACR2: 100; 651/1; 651/2
Cholla, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Cholla is a common cactus found at Gran Quivira
Trail View, Salinas Pueblo Missions National Monument
Beautiful scenery along Gran Quivira's loop trail
Horse, Fort Stanton, New Mexico
Peter Moran (American (born England), Bolton, Lancashire 1841–1914 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) Made in New York, United States
Chihuahua from "A Campaign in New Mexico with Colonel Doniphan"
This image has been taken from scan 000023 from "A Campaign in New Mexico with Colonel Doniphan". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by users of the British Library... More
