Images from The Beginner's American History
This is a list of the images that were published in the 1904 edition of David H. Montgomery's The Beginner's American History. The images are listed in order of appearance.
Frontispiece
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The National Capitol
Page 1
Columbus as a Boy
(From the statue in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.)
Page 5
Columbus begging at the Convent
Page 7
Columbus refuses to turn back
Page 10
Landing of Columbus
Page 16
Cabot taking Possession for England
Page 20
De Soto's First View of the Mississippi
Page 21
Old Spanish Gateway at St. Augustine
(Called the "City Gate.")
Page 22
Sir Walter Raleigh
Page 24
The First Pipe of Tobacco
(Raleigh's servant thought his master was on fire.)
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Liberty enlightening the World
(A statue in the harbor of New York City, given to the American people by the people of France.)
Page 73
Indian Attack on a Settlement
(The building on the right is a block-house, or fort made of hewn logs. These block-houses were built as places of refuge for the settlers, in case of an attack on the town by the Indians.)
Facing page 102
“Yankee Doodle” or The Spirit of '76
Facing page 114
Paul Revere's Ride
Facing page 194
Battle of New Orleans
(By Act of Congress of 1794 the number of stars and stripes on the national flag was fixed at fifteen, to correspond with the whole number of states then in the Union; the flag remained unchanged until 1818, when the present arrangement was adopted, namely, thirteen stripes, and a star for every state.)
Page 241
The Meeting of the Engines from the East and the West after the Last Spike was driven on the Completion of the First Railroad to the Pacific in 1869
Page 242
How they used to shoot Buffalo in the Far West
Page 243
Indians attacking a Stage-Coach in the Far West Forty Years ago, before the First Pacific Railroad was built
Facing page 244
Map of the World showing all the Possessions of the United States, including Islands
Page 246
Battle of Manila
Page 251
Charge up San Juan Hill
Page 252
"The Red Cross"
Page 255
William McKinley
Page 256
Theodore Roosevelt
Page 257
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