City Sites

 

Boston

Mapping Boston
http://www.mappingboston.com/

Cleveland

Encyclopedia of Cleveland History
http://ech.cwru.edu/

 

Denver

Denver Public Library, Western History Photos
http://gowest.coalliance.org/

 

Pittsburgh

Historic Pittsburgh
http://digital.library.pitt.edu
/pittsburgh/

 

San Francisco

San Francisco History
http://www.sfgenealogy.com/sf/history/sindex.htm


Looking down Seventeenth Street from Laramie Street, Denver Colorado, 1884
Courtesy of The Denver Public Library, Western History Department

Washington DC

Political Cartoons of Thomas Nast Includes cartoons & history of Tweed Ring.
http://www.boondocksnet.com/gallery/nast_intro.html

MLKing Memorial Library Washingtoniana Division Collections
http://dclibrary.org/washingtoniana/collections-dc.html

American University Library, Washington, D.C.: History and Culture Videos (Check) American Memory Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/
Photographs from Detroit Publishing Company, 1880-1920
Fine collection of photographs of U.S., many of cities (search on name of city).

 

Various

World Expositions. Introductory site sponsored by major computer companies with history and images of expositions and world fairs in Amsterdam (1883, 1887, 1895), Chicago (1893), London (1850 Crystal Palace), New York (1939), Paris (1889), and Philadelphia (1876).
http://park.org/Pavilions/WorldExpositions/