Meeting of Frontiers: Siberia, Alaska and the American West

1) The Frontier and National Identity: Tourism - http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfnid/nidtour.html

Has explanatory texts and images of Yellowstone, Russian Postcards

2) Alaska: Tourism and Transportation - http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfak/mfaktour.html

Some explanatory text and images. Travel books as images. Pictures of glaciers.

3) Mutual Perceptions: Travel Accounts - http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfpercep/perceptrvacc.html

Eleanor Prey (images and explanatory text)

John Ledyard (has timeline) – Thomas Jefferson – see transcripts of letters

4) AUDIO (.wav) - Russian Promyshlenniki's song by John Panamarkoff, a descendant of the early Russian settlers. The song relates the story of the first Russian colonists, or promyshlenniki, in Alaska.

http://international.loc.gov/intldl/mtfhtml/mfdigcol/mfdcothr.html#b

EXHIBITIONS - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/ check out the top exhibits

Rivers, Edens, and Empires http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/

Prologue - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/lewisandclark/lewis-prologue.html

Second section is about Waldsemueller map. America in bottom left-hand corner.

Earth as Art; A Landsat Perspective - http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/earthasart/

From Garden City, Kansas to Kilimanjaro

AMERICAN MEMORY - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/

Around the World in the 1890s: Photographs from the World’s Transportation Commission, 1894-1896 - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/

Select a Country Index - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/wtc/wtcitin.html

The images of photographer William Henry Jackson in this archive document the around-the-world tour of 1894-1896 of the World's Transportation Commission. One purpose of the tour was to collect information about various transportation systems -- particularly railroads -- for the Field Columbian Museum in Chicago. For this reason, the majority of Jackson's photographs focus on railroads and other forms of transportation. The Commission's second objective was to investigate the prospects of opening up new markets abroad for American goods and services. Images of people going about their everyday lives, various forms of economic activity, scenic views, and popular tourist sites record the Americans' impressions of the countries visited.

Panoramic Photographs - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pnhtml/pnhome.html

Miles Glacier, Alaska, Childs Glacier, Alaska c191

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/pan:@field(NUMBER+@band(pan+6a16892))

IF TIME: Postcards: Touring Turn-of-the-Century America - http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/detroit/dethome.html

Places in the News

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/gmdhtml/plnews.html

Panoramic Maps, 1847-1929

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/pmhtml/

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Audio:

California Gold

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/afccchtml/

Text:

American Notes: Travels in America, 1750-1920

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/lhtnhtml/

search term: holiday

Westward by Sea: A Maritime Perspective on American Expansion, 1830-1890 http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/award99/mymhihtml/

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