Paintings

Greensboro sit-ins, 1960

The Little Rock Nine

Brown vs. Board of Education (1954) Thugood Marshall

Lynching of Charles Mitchell

"A Nauseating Job, But It Must be Done" Roosevelt in Meat factory

Henry Ford: Graduation: Melting Pot ceremony

Ellie Island Photography, Lewis Hine

Jim Crow Figure

George Crossing the Delaware River by Emanuel Leutze 1851

Promontory Point, Utah, 1869 Transcontinental Railroad

The able doctor, America swallowing a bitter draught, Prime minister pours tea down a native woman‘s throat

The Boss don't care, Lewis Hine

Pocahontas saving John Smith, Alonzo Chappel

„The Landing of Columbus“ Albert Bierstad

Radkarte, T and O Map, Isidore de Seville

Ms. Magazine, Gloria Steinem, 1971

Little Rock Nine (1957)

Norman Rockwell: The four freedoms, Freedom of speech

Norman Rockwell: The four freedoms, Freedom of Worship

Norman Rockwell: The four freedoms, Freedom from Want

Norman Rockwell: The four freedoms, Freedom from Fear

Rosie the Riveter, We can do it! Norman Rockwell

ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

„The problem well all live with“ Normal Rockwell, 1963 Ruby Bridges

„Raising the flag on Iwo Jima" Joe Rosenthal

documents US flag atop mount Suribachi, 1945 during battle of Iwo Jima. symbolizes resiliance of US marines.

Margaret Bourke-White, 1937

AA outside of food bank in Kentucky.

„Migrant Mother" Dorothea Lang

The Grapes of Wrath (Novel, 1939) John Steinbeck

American Gothic, Grant Wood

Nighthawks- Hopper (1942)

Lighthouse Hill, Edward Hopper

Lewis Hine and Child Labor

Workers who helped build Empire State Building

Welcome to all, J. Keppler

Uncle Sam in the American Arch welcoming immigrants

Looking backward - They would close to the newcomer the bridge that carried their fathers over, J. Keppler

„The Mortar of assimilation - And one Element that won't mix" C.J. Taylor

in magazine „the puck" irish

In How the Other Half Lives, Jacob Riis

journalist & photographer, social documentary photography

Pennsylvania station excavation, George Wesley Bellows, 1907-1908

dark fascination with the building industry and technology - gilded age, fast transformation in NY

„Westward the course of empire takes its way" Frances Flora Bond Palmer, 1868

ideas of Manifest destiny

The last spike, 1881, Thomas Hill

Pierre Charles L'Enfant is well known for: 1941, architect: George Borglum

George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Rosevelt, Abraham Lincoln

„Washington giving laws to America" 1800

GW seated holding stona tablet „The American Constitution"

surrounded by Britannia, Athena, Hermes,...

The Declaration of Independence, John Trumbull, 1819

depicts June 28, when draft was presented to 2nd continental congress

Legend of the first flag, Betsy Ross

Benjamin Franklin, South Carolina, Virgina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Nee Jersey, NY, New England

„The Bloody Massacre on King's Street"

„The Scarlet Letter" Hugues Merle, 1861, Hester Prynne, Arthur Dimmesdale and Roger Chillingworth in background

Signing of the Mayflower Compact, Jean Leon Ferris, 1899

Pilgrims

„The Armada Portrait" Queen Elizabeth hand over New World

The New World, Sebastian Münster, 1546

Mercator Map, 1569, Gerardus Mercator

„Universalis Cosmographia", Martin Waldseemüller, 1507

Christpher Columbus in service of Catholic Monarchs Ferdinand and Isabella

„American Progress" John Gast, 1872

Manifest desitiny, carrying school book and phone line

Christpher Columbus biding farewell to Queen Isabella

America, 1580, Theodore Galle, Amerigo Vespucci discovering America

Congress Voting Independence, Robert Edge Pine