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Typing class at Minidoka Relocation Center
Photograph of several students at a typing class at Minidoka Relocation Center, Idaho. Each student is typing from a text resting next to the typewriter.
U.P.R.R. map showing line of branches from U.P.R.R. to Portland Oregon, Puget Sound Wash, Terr, to Montana : to accompany report of G. M. Dodge Chief Eng., (1886)
1 map : 69 x 78 cm. Some lines hand colored. This map is from a report by the Chief Engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad, General Grenville Dodge, to the U.P. Board of Directors, advocating the building of a branch line from Salt Lake…
U.S Voted Dry
An issue of the newspaper "The American Issue" from January 16, 1919
U.S. Coast Survey Reconnaissance of the Western Coast of the United States from Gray's Harbor to the Entrance of Admiralty Inlet (1853)
1 map; 37 x 44 cm. "Scale 1 / 600,000"Relief shown by hachures. Depths shown by soundings (in fathoms) At head of title: "U.S. Coast Survey A.D. Bache Superintendent." "Verified H. W. Benham ... " …
U.S.S. Arizona postcard
This postcard features the battleship USS Arizona at sea prior to its sinking at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The image is a 3.5 "x 5.5" black and white photograph.
U.S.S. Constitution postcard
This postcard features the sailing ship USS Constitution at sea. The image is a 4" x 5" black and white photograph.
U.S.S. Enterprise postcard
This postcard features a black and white pre- World War 2 photograph of the USS Enterprise, which would go on to become the most decorated ship in the United States Navy.
U.S.S. Houston waterline model
This black, 1/1200 scale waterline model is of the United States cruiser USS Houston. It took part in the early Pacific Theater actions before being sunk by the Japanese at the Battle of Sunda Strait.
U.S.S. Maine postcard
This postcard features a cyanotype photograph of the USS Maine, famous for being sunk to start hostilities of the Spanish American War.
U.S.S. Nevada waterline model
This painted, 1/1200 scale waterline model is of the United States battleship USS Nevada. It was present during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and was the only battleship to get underway. It survived and served until the end of the war.
U.S.S. Olympia postcard
This postcard features a black and white photograph of the USS Olympia, a protected cruiser of the US Navy currently preserved and notable for its role as the flagship during the Spanish-American War.
U.S.S. Texas postcard
This postcard features a black and white photograph of the USS Texas at sea, currently a museum ship and the only surviving example of a dreadnought-type battleship.
Umatilla (1908)<br>Washington 1:125,000 topographic quadrangles
1 map : col. ; 45 x 31 cm. or smallerRelief shown by contours and spot heightsTitle supplied by catalogerSet includes various editions"Surveyed in 1907""Contour interval 50 feet. Datum is mean sea level.""Edition of 1908"Scale 1:125,000 (W 119°30--W…
Umatilla Project - East Branch - Oregon. General Map. (1908)
1 map: col., 22 x 19 cm.Scale: 1.1 in = 10000 ft.Area of third unit colored in red.Blue lines indicate main distributing canals; dashed blue lines indicate pipe lines; hachures indicate United Sates reservesMap No. 9967Modified from original map…
UNCLE TOM’S CABIN, OR, LIFE AMONG THE LOWLY
The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 was oil on the fires of the anti-slavery movement. On June 5, 1851, the first installment of Uncle Tom’s Cabin appeared in the Washington anti-slavery paper, The National Era. At first there appeared to be little…