The longest battle
John Hooglandt, a veteran of the longest battle of the American Revolution, the Battle of Monmouth, was a private in the 1st New Jersey Regiment. He served nine...
Threatened eviction
In this photo by Jack Corn, Kentucky coal miner Jerry Rainey and his family pose in front of their four-room home. The family was threatened with eviction from...
Trumpeter and Partisan
John Peter Miller was a trumpeter in Amrand’s Partisan Corps from 1778 until 1782. Wounded in the hand and both legs, he received a pension of $120 per annum until...
Tsimishian family
Sir Henry Wellcome photographed this Tsimishian family at home in Metlakahtla, Alaska, around 1910. A small group of Tsimishian Indians, following Anglican missionary...
Uncompensated service
Noted fraktur artist Frederich Krebs created this record of Revolutionary War veteran Ebenezer Sumner’s birth and baptism. Sumner served one year as a private in...
United at Last
While many slave couples formed lasting bonds during their enslavement, slave marriages had no legal foundation or protection. The abolishment of slavery not only...
Vacationing at Yellowstone
North Dakota Senator Gerald P. Nye posed with his family at Camp Roosevelt in Yellowstone National Park in 1933