American Collection (page 18)

The Allies meet at the closing of the Falaise Pocket, Fran
Photograph showing the meeting between American troops (on right with jeep) and Canadian troops (on left with half-track) to mark the closing of the Falaise Pocket on the road between Falaise

Tuscarora Indian village hut
Interior of a Tuscarora American Indian village hut. The Indian hut betrays nothing pertaining to native Indian culture, being bare apart from a perambulator and double bed. Date: 1876

Marlene Dietrich, c. 1950
Photographic portrait of Marlene Dietrich (1901-1992), the American film actress and cabaret performer, pictured c.1950

Warrior of the native American Indian Tribe, the Lipan, c. 18
Illustration showing a Lipan native American Indian brave on horseback, with head band and buckskin suit, carrying a rifle

Sitting Bulls Hat, 1897
Illustration of a hat depicting the life of Sitting Bull, the Native American Indian Chief. Tiny crescents denoted how many animals were captured by Sitting Bull

Bulldog / Rodney Stone /
RODNEY STONE English and American champion in 1907, this dog was bred by Mr Walter Jefferies by John of the Funnels (father) and Lucy Loo (mother)

Portrait of Ethel Le Neve
Ethel Le Neve, Dr Crippens mistress. Dr Crippen, an American citizen, lived at 39 Hilldrop Cresent, Camden, London. He was accused of murdering his wife when she disappeared under suspicious

Edmund Pendleton Gaines
EDMUND PENDLETON GAINES American military commander who served in the 1812 war, the Seminole war, the Mexican war, the Black Hawk war etc

J R POINSETT 1779-1851
JOEL ROBERTS POINSETT American politician and diplomat, first U.S. Minister to Mexico (1825-29), bringing back the flower named for him

Wt Sherman / Ritchie Eng
WILLIAM TECUMSEH SHERMAN American army commander

Election Returns, USA
A crowd gathers outside the office of the New York Herald newspaper to read the election returns; they have to be kept in order by police officers

SARAH JAY
SARAH VAN BRUGH JAY wife of American diplomat John Jay

Native American Blankets
Six blankets made by Navaho weavers using traditional techniques, from the collection in the Indian Building in Albuquerque, New Mexico

Ruth St Denis / Jugend 08
RUTH ST DENIS (Ruth Dennis) American vaudeville dancer and choreographer doing a serpent dance (Schlangentanz)

Daniel Boone
DANIEL BOONE American Pioneer

Ezra Pound / Morgan
EZRA LOOMIS POUND American poet, critic and editor

Benjamin Rush / Sully
BENJAMIN RUSH American medical practitioner, signatory to the Declaration of Independence

Native American Sioux village near Fort Laramie, USA
A Native American Sioux village near Fort Laramie, Wyoming, USA -- men, women and children go about their daily chores

Women trying to vote at New York polling station, 1871
Victoria Woodhull (1838-1927), noted American feminist, with her sister Jennie Claflin, try to vote in the New York election of 1871, but are turned away

Home, Resting Head
American spirit medium

Millionaire Throws Cash
An American millionaire, Mr Chanel, wins at the casino - then throws his winnings from the window to passers-by

Lola Montez / Jules Laure
MARIA DOLORES ELIZA ROSEANNA GILBERT, known as LOLA MONTEZ American dancer and adventuress, born in Ireland

Wild Bill Hickok / Postcd
WILD BILL HICKOK alias JAMES BUTLER American frontiersman, stage driver, scout, and US marshal; famous as a crack shot

Emma Goldman - 1
EMMA GOLDMAN Lithuanian-born American anarchist politician and agitator

JOSHUA BATES SAIL SHIP
American sailing packet

Orson Welles / Rko Radio
ORSON WELLES American film actor, producer and director

Gloria Swanson / Valentino
GLORIA SWANSON American film actress with Rudolph Valentino

Boris Karloff / Universal
BORIS KARLOFF British actor who appeared in American films, most notably as the monster in Frankenstein (1931)

G Washington / Wells Hist
GEORGE WASHINGTON First American President

Joseph & Louisa Rhine
Joseph Banks Rhine and his wife Louisa, prominent American parapsychologists; he is known for clinical experiments with ESP, she studied spontaneous cases

Vintage Cars - United States
" Some old crocks" taking part in a vintage car rally on the streets of a major US City

Menstrual Lodge
Menstrual lodge of Native American peoples, where women were confined while suffering their periods, when they were regarded as unclean and liable to affect hunting and so on

Broker and Ticker-Tape
An American stockbroker receives market information on ticker-tape by the electric telegraph

Drugstore / Circa 1950
The well-stocked interior of a drugstore in an East Coast town in America complete with soda bar

Holland Submarine 1900
Irish inventor Holland, funded by the Fenians, produces a succession of successful submarines in America; the Holland is shown at anchor in New York harbour

John Paul Jones, Pirate
JOHN PAUL JONES American naval commander, depicted as a pirate

Surtout Greatcoat 1907
An American surtout greatcoat: double-breasted with waist seam, full skirts, long lapels & a velvet collar. Worn with a bowler (Derby) hat & half- boots or town boots

Ts Eliot (Evans)
THOMAS STEARNS ELIOT American writer

Houdini in Handcuffs
showing his ability to escape from handcuffs, whether American, Russian or German

Gene Stratton-Porter
GENE (Geneva) STRATTON-PORTER (nee Stratton) American author of A girl of the limberlost and other writings mingling nature and sentiment

Tending Oyster Beds
American oystermen of New Jersey plant millions of young, unmarketable oysters at the end of the season, in April, to be harvested later in the year

Womens Hats 1916
What the well-dressed American female is wearing on her head in 1916 - from a mail order catalog by Bellas Hess

Major James H Perkins, Commissioner for France for the American Red Cross during World War One

Bushnells Submarine
BUSHNELLs TURTLE the first submersible craft to be used in action, attacking a British ship at New York on 7 September 1776; the one-man crew provided the power manually !

Hiawatha / Portrait
A portrait of Hiawatha

BOILERS
Babcock & Wilcox boilers at the Standard Oil Companys refinery at Greenpoint, Long Island, New York [USA]

Ts Eliot / Anon Photo
T.S.ELIOT American-born writer, photographed in his early twenties

Loie Fuller / Folies 1892
LOIE FULLER (Mary Louise Fuller) American dancer at the Folies Bergere, Paris

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