wagon trains

Map of the United States - Public domain vintage map

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Life, travels, and adventures in California, [Front cover]

Public domain reproduction of illuminated book page, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Emigrant party on the road to California

Wagon train of women, men, and children, moving through the mountains. Illus. in: California: its past history; its present position; its future prospects. London : The proprietors, 1850, frontispiece. Publishe... More

An emigrant train attacked by hostile Indians on the prairie / Champne...

Illustration shows an emigrant wagon train being attacked by Natives while traveling across the Great Plains. Illus. in: Ballou's pictorial drawing-room companion, v. 13, no. 7 (1857 August 15), pp. 104-105. A... More

Route of troops and wagon trains from Warrenton Jnct. to Kettle Run

Shows the area of Fauquier County, Va., between Greenwich and Bristoe to the north and Warrenton Junction to the south on the eve of 2nd Bull Run. The location of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad is also indicated.

Route of troops and wagon trains from Warrenton Jnct. to Kettle Run

Shows the area of Fauquier County, Va., between Greenwich and Bristoe to the north and Warrenton Junction to the south on the eve of 2nd Bull Run. The location of the Orange and Alexandria Railroad is also indi... More

View of Cumberland Gap, from the south

Print shows abandoned tents scattered across the landscape, as the army passes through the Gap; long columns of troops and wagon trains are departing, some building are being burned. Possibly represents the sud... More

Winslow Homer - Campaign sketches. The coffee call / H.W. [i.e. W.H.]

Print shows Army of the Potomac soldiers waiting for coffee at a campfire in an encampment. Purchase; William Reese Company; 2013; (DLC/PP-2013:089.01).

Winslow Homer - Campaign sketches. The baggage train / Homer.

Print shows two African American drovers, one with a pipe and the other with a whip, sitting on the back of a covered wagon, which is part of a baggage train for the Army of the Potomac. Purchase; William Rees... More

Halt of a wagon train. Wood engraving periodical illustration

Public domain photograph related to Boston, Massachusetts, New England history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Swift's Station, Carson and Lake Bigler Road - eastern summit of Sierr...

Gems of California Scenery, no. 690. The Library holds only one photo from a pair published as a stereographic view.

Pilgrims on the plains / sketched by Theo. R. Davis.

Print shows horses being driven into a corral formed by the covered wagons of a wagon train; on the left, in the foreground, is a family gathered at the rear of two wagons. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 13, n... More

[Wagon Trains, Colorado]. Albumen print, Getty Museum. Public domain p...

Public domain photograph of a mountain pass, mountains, nature, mountain range, view, landscape, rocks, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Karta raĭonov Pinskago, Volynskikh ri︠e︡k i guzhevago dvizhenīi︠a︡ za ...

Map of grain production regions and of wagon and river routes for large-scale grain shipment in Volhynia and the Desna River region of what is now northern Ukraine. In old-orthography Russian. LC copy imperfect... More

Pilgrims of the plains / A.R. Waud ; A. Bobbett sc. N.Y.

Print shows a group of men seated around a campfire, one man plays the fiddle; there are several covered wagons nearby and several more approaching in the background. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, v. 15, no. 782... More

On the way to new diggings - halt in a roug[h] [p]ass of the Rocky Mou...

Miners stopped on rough pass of the Rocky Mountains. Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1875 May 1, pp. 360-361.

The newly-discovered mines in the Rocky Mountains

Two illustrations: Prospectors and emigrants crossing the parks among the mountains, en route to Leadville, with dead horses along the road; surveyors starting on an expedition to fix the boundaries of claims. ... More

20 mule Borax team, Mojave, Cal. Valley line

Photograph shows teams of eighteen mules and two horses attached to large wagons in the desert; two pale horses, positioned closest to the wagon, wear coverings over faces. No. 6.

Winter life on the plains wood engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. in: Harper's weekly, 1882 Feb. 11, p. 89.

Arbuckle Bros. - Victorian era public domain image

: tradecards,4235 ( tradecards,4235 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Historical events; Cabins; Log cabins; Massacres; Explorers; Pioneers; Wagon trains; Statehood;

Arbuckle Bros. - Victorian era public domain image

: tradecards,3860 ( tradecards,3860 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Statehood; Historical events; Massacres; Wagon trains; Pioneers;

Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co - Public domain vintage map

: tradecards,4220 ( tradecards,4220 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Pioneers; Wagon trains; Carts & wagons; Covered wagons; Plains; Maps;

Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Company - Public domain old map

: tradecards,4007 ( tradecards,4007 ) .. Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Maps; Covered wagons; Pioneers; Animal teams; Wagon trains;

Nevada. Fallon, mule train street scene

Photograph shows man standing with eight team mule train attached to large wagon in the center of town in front of businesses. No. 554.

Freight team - Drawing. Public domain image.

Photograph shows teams of eight mules and two white horses attached to three wagons on dirt road; man sitting on back of mule of last team. No. 323.

Wagon train, Sarita, Tex - stereoscopic view, public domain photorpaph

Copyright, 1909, by Stereo-Travel Co. No. 65. Public domain photograph of stereoscopic card, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Mormon pioneers about to enter Salt Lake Valley, July 24, 1847

Reenactment of Mormons traveling by wagon train. J175413 U.S. Copyright Office.

The Mormon pioneers advanced company coming over Little Mountain, July...

Reenactment of Mormons traveling by wagon train. J175419 U.S. Copyright Office.

Nevada, wagon train - A group of horses pulling a covered wagon down a...

Photograph shows teams of six mules and one horse attached to three wagons on dirt road; man sitting atop lead wagon. Copyright 1927 by I. W. Walker, Nevada. Shadow of photographer and camera can be seen on gro... More

Glen Canyon Lees Ferry - Public Domain image, National Parks Gallery

Old Road Bed at Lees Ferry The road bed can be seen across the river at the site of Lees Ferry. Around 1873, the site for the ferry crossing was agreed upon, opting for a location above the Paria River approved... More

Emigrant Train, Strawberry Valley, going east. [no. 625].

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tea in transit to wharf, Ceylon.

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

A Pike's Peaker Crossing the Plains ; Crossing the Platte

Illustrations show scenes relating to the Colorado gold rush including two men, next to a wagon train, on their way to Pike's Peak; a covered wagon with "Pikes Peak" on it; and a wagon train crossing the Platte... More

Atlanta, Ga. Wagon train on Marietta Street

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

Cedar Level, Virginia Commissary depot with supply train wagons

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Petersburg, Virginia The first Federal wagon train entering the town

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Stereo filed in LOT 4175. Corresponding print is in LOT 4175. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D... More

Richmond, Virginia Wagon train of Military Telegraph Corps

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

A Pike's Peaker Crossing the Plains ; Crossing the Platte

Illustrations show scenes relating to the Colorado gold rush including two men, next to a wagon train, on their way to Pike's Peak; a covered wagon with "Pikes Peak" on it; and a wagon train crossing the Platte... More

Cedar Level, Virginia Commissary depot with supply train wagons

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Libra... More

Atlanta, Ga. Wagon train on Marietta Street

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

Petersburg, Virginia The first Federal wagon train entering the town

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Stereo filed in LOT 4175. Corresponding print is in LOT 4175. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D... More

Richmond, Virginia Wagon train of Military Telegraph Corps

Photograph from the main eastern theater of war, fallen Richmond, April-June 1865. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D. Milhollen and Donald H. Mugridge, Washington, D.C. : Library of Congres... More

A Pike's Peaker Crossing the Plains ; Crossing the Platte

Illustrations show scenes relating to the Colorado gold rush including two men, next to a wagon train, on their way to Pike's Peak; a covered wagon with "Pikes Peak" on it; and a wagon train crossing the Platte... More

Atlanta, Ga. Wagon train on Marietta Street

Photograph of the War in the West. These photographs are of Sherman in Atlanta, September-November, 1864. After three and a half months of incessant maneuvering and much hard fighting, Sherman forced Hood to ab... More

Petersburg, Virginia The first Federal wagon train entering the town

Photograph of the main eastern theater of war, the siege of Petersburg, June 1864-April 1865. Stereo filed in LOT 4175. Corresponding print is in LOT 4175. Civil War photographs, 1861-1865 / compiled by Hirst D... More

A Pike's Peaker Crossing the Plains ; Crossing the Platte

Illustrations show scenes relating to the Colorado gold rush including two men, next to a wagon train, on their way to Pike's Peak; a covered wagon with "Pikes Peak" on it; and a wagon train crossing the Platte... More

Camp at White Bear Den, D.T. - stereoscopic view, public domain photor...

North Dakota stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who... More

Teaming from the Central Pacific Railroad at Cisco, Placer County.

Picryl description: Public domain image of railroad tracks, train car, railway, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Emigrant Train, Strawberry Valley, going east. [no. 625].

Picryl description: Public domain vintage artistic photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Teaming from the Central Pacific Railroad at Cisco, Placer County.

California Stereoscopic card. Robert Dennis's stereographs collection includes more than 72,000 stereoscopic views organized primarily by geography. The collection bears the name of the native New Yorker who a... More

Image049h - Public domain book illustration

A 26th Division Wagon Train moving toward Chasseurs wood—1918 Mule and Prairie Schooner in a country made desert by war

"Indian teams hauling 60 miles to market the 1100 bushels of wheat rai...

Scope and content: Seger Colony, Okla. Terr., ca. 1900 Public domain photograph related to 1930s farming, farms, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

"Mormon emigrants." - NARA - 533790

Scope and content: Photograph of covered wagon caravan by C. W. Carter ca. 1879

Column of cavalry, artillery, and wagons, commanded by Gen. George A. ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a rural landscape, horses, horse riding, farm animals, farmers, livestock, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Crossing the Great Salt Lake Desert From Simpson's Spring to Short Cut...

Scope and content: This sketch shows a wagon train moving across the desert. This sketch is Plate I in Lt. J.H. Simpson's 1859 Journal of Explorations in Utah.

Landing and wagon train, James River, Va - NARA - 525063

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Wagon train - NARA - 524828. American Civil War photograph by Mathew B...

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Wagon train after supplies, James River, Va - NARA - 529334

Public domain historical photo, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

'Quartermaster supply train, six mule-drawn wagons, Fort Spokane area'...

Black and white photograph of a line of six wagons pulled by mules in wide bare valley 'Quartermaster supply train, six mule-drawn wagons, Fort Spokane area' Undated. Keywords: Fort Spokane; Supply train; Wago... More

Five Team of Wagon, San Joaquim Valley, Calif (NYPL b12647398-68980)

Postcard series number: 10994 First appearance of 'Phostint' tradename. Public domain scan of the vintage California postcard, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Alfred Jacob Miller - Breaking up Camp at Sunrise - Walters 371940142

Alfred Jacob Miller (American, 1810-1874). 'Breaking up Camp at Sunrise,' 1858-1860. watercolor on paper. Walters Art Museum (37.1940.142): Commissioned by William T. Walters, 1858-1860.

Tea in transit to wharf, Ceylon (NYPL Hades-2359850-4044615)

* "Published by the Photochrom Co., Ltd., London and Detroit, U.S.A. Printed in England."--printed on verso. "Lipton series"--printed on image.

Tea in transit to wharf, Ceylon (NYPL Hades-2359850-4044615)

"Published by the Photochrom Co., Ltd., London and Detroit, U.S.A. Printed in England."--printed on verso. "Lipton series"--printed on image.

Baldwin Wagon Train under Attack from Knott's Ghost Town by Henry Cros...

Baldwin Wagon Train under Attack from Knott's Ghost Town by Henry Herman Cross, 1898

Ohio State Exhibit - A Century of Progress International Exposition br...

Rail Transportation, one of a set of fifteen murals by William Mark Young, shown and described in a brochure published to accompany the Ohio State Exhibit at the 1933 A Century of Progress International Exhibi... More

First Wagon Train Entering Petersburg. (19980257961)

Title: First Wagon Train Entering Petersburg. Creator: Reekie, John Contributers: Taylor & Huntington (publisher) Date: ca. 1865 Part Of: civ/searchterm/Ag1982.0145/ Place: Petersburg, Virginia Physical Des... More

Maryland, Antietam Bridge - NARA - 533293

General notes: Use War and Conflict Number 173 when ordering a reproduction or requesting information about this image.

I Was There with the Yanks on the Western Front, 049h

A 26th Division Wagon Train moving toward Chasseurs wood—1918 Mule and Prairie Schooner in a country made desert by war

Arbuckle Bros. (3092993935) - Victorian era public domain image

Coffee industry; Historical events; Cabins; Log cabins; Massacres; Explorers; Pioneers; Wagon trains; Statehood;

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art (cropped)

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art Poster image is based on the 1872 painting, American Progress by John Gast

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art

Chase & Bachelder's American Museum of Art Poster image is based on the 1872 painting, American Progress by John Gast

Humboldt River Papa 2 - Public domain scan / drawing

"Drawing shows several tents and covered wagons encamped on the banks of the Humboldt River in western Nevada. Both women and men prepare food over open fires, haul water, and prepare bedding. In the foreground... More

American Progress - illustration extracted from Crofutt's Trans-Contin...

American Progress - illustration extracted from Crofutt's Trans-Continental Tourist

Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Co (3092993005)

4220 Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Pioneers; Wagon trains; Carts & wagons; Covered wagons; Plains; Maps; Message: Keywords

Arbuckle Bros. (3093813284)

3860 Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Statehood; Historical events; Massacres; Wagon trains; Pioneers; Message: Keywords

Arbuckle Bros. Coffee Company (3093821604)

4007 Subject (TGM): Coffee industry; Maps; Covered wagons; Pioneers; Animal teams; Wagon trains; Message: Keywords

A Red Cross Train Going to the Front (1904)

a Red Cross wagon train crossing the ice at "Petrovsk, near the end of Lake Baikal", heading for the battle lines in the Russo-Japanese War.

Indians Attacking a Wagon Train by Emanuel Leutze, 1863FXD

Indians Attacking a Wagon Train by Emanuel Leutze, 1863, oil on canvas, Dover Free Public Library, photographed while on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Main St. - Petersburg (Wagon train on street, church steeple... (31100...

Digital ID: 1150212. Main St. : Petersburg [Wagon train on street, church steeple in distance.]. United States Sanitary Commission -- Creator. c. 1865 Source: United States Sanitary Commission records, 1861-187... More

The Photographic History of The Civil War Volume 04 Page 197

Crossing the Mississippi on the Ice by C.C.A. Christensen

Picryl description: Public domain photo of landscape art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

C.C.A. Christensen - Leaving Missouri (c.1878)

Picryl description: Public domain photo of landscape art painting, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Entering the Great Salt Lake Valley by C.C.A. Christensen

"Entering the Great Salt Lake Valley" by C.C.A. Christensen

Indians Attacking a Wagon Train by Emanuel Leutze, 1863

Indians Attacking a Wagon Train by Emanuel Leutze, 1863, oil on canvas, Dover Free Public Library, photographed while on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Pioneers Crossing the Plains of Nebraska by C.C.A. Christensen

"Pioneers Crossing the Plains of Nebraska" by C.C.A. Christensen

Wooded Landscape with a Wagon Train - Jan Brueghel

Wooded Landscape with a Wagon Train

Humboldt River2

"Drawing shows several tents and covered wagons encamped on the banks of the Humboldt River in western Nevada. Both women and men prepare food over open fires, haul water, and prepare bedding. In the foreground... More

Humboldt River

"Drawing shows several tents and covered wagons encamped on the banks of the Humboldt River in western Nevada. Both women and men prepare food over open fires, haul water, and prepare bedding. In the foreground... More

Humboldt River Papa

"Drawing shows several tents and covered wagons encamped on the banks of the Humboldt River in western Nevada. Both women and men prepare food over open fires, haul water, and prepare bedding. In the foreground... More

Humboldt River2

"Drawing shows several tents and covered wagons encamped on the banks of the Humboldt River in western Nevada. Both women and men prepare food over open fires, haul water, and prepare bedding. In the foreground... More

Humboldt River1

"Drawing shows several tents and covered wagons encamped on the banks of the Humboldt River in western Nevada. Both women and men prepare food over open fires, haul water, and prepare bedding. In the foreground... More

The Photographic History of The Civil War Volume 01 Page 062

Corral of Wagons BHoU-p255

Corral of Wagons.

The How and Why Library 009

This is an image or page from The How and Why Library, a book first published in the United States in 1909. Location: Pioneer Days and Ways, between pages 34 and 35

Wagon Train on the Argentinian Pampas in the 1860s

Wagon Train on the Argentinian Pampas in the 1860s, engraved by Alfred Louis Sargent

Zion's Camp by C.C.A. Christensen

"Zion's Camp" by C.C.A. Christensen

Halt of a wagon train (Boston Public Library)

  File name: 10_09_000071 Title: Halt of a wagon train Creator/Contributor: Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910 (artist) Date issued: 1864-02-06 Physical description: 1 print : wood engraving Genre: Wood engravings; Pe... More

Emigrants crossing the Plains 1859

Settlers crossing the Great Plains on their way to California in 1859

Fording the Platte at High Water

Emigrants crossing the Platte River on their way to California in the late 1850s

Safe march of the caravan

Traders on the Santa Fe Trail, from Josiah Gregg, Commerce of the Prairies, 1844