<em><strong><em>The Annexation of Texas to the Union</em><br /></strong></em>
<strong>The annexation of Texas in 1845</strong>
<strong>A celebration and ceremony to celebrate the annexation of Texas in 1845, to the Union</strong>
<strong>Donald M. Yena</strong>
<strong>Texas State Library and Archives Commission</strong>
<strong>1986</strong>
<strong>Oil Painting</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><em>The Nehemiah Letts Farm in the Late 1850's</em><br /></strong></em>
<strong>Lett's Farm, Iowa</strong>
<strong>Working proodection farm in America during the Industrial Revolution</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<p><strong>Descandants of William Lett's</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://www.brockwayfamily.com/journal/Letts/letts.htm</strong></p>
<strong>Late 1850s</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<strong>Engraving, dimensions unknown</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><span class="field-content">Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap</span></strong></em>
<strong>Westward expansion</strong>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">This is a popular American painting addressing the theme of westward expansion. Rich with symbolism, it helped establish the mythic status of Daniel Boone and legends of western settlement. <strong></strong></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content"><strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb </span></strong>Bingham drew from Christian and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion and the ideal of Manifest Destiny, or the providential mission of the American nation to settle the frontier. </span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">Referring to Boone's first journeys into Kentucky in the early 1770s, the group is pictured traveling from east to west, dramatically emerging from the sun-filled landscape in the background and crossing into the dark, foreboding landscape in the foreground, where the snarled trees help signify the dangerous power of nature.</span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="field-content">Portrayed with idealized features and poses, the intrepid Daniel Boone, a rifle resting on his shoulder, suggests the figure of Moses - an archetype for pioneer patriarchs - leading his people toward the Promised Land, while Rebecca Boone, atop the horse, suggests the Virgin Mary, symbolizing the courageous spirit of pioneer women.</span></strong></p>
<strong><span class="field-content"><strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb </span></strong>Bingham</span></strong>
<p><strong>Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum</strong></p>
<p><strong>Washington University in St. Louis</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/193</strong></p>
<p><strong><br /></strong></p>
<strong>1851-1852</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<div class="views-field-obj-material-s"><strong><span class="field-content">Oil on canvas</span></strong></div>
<div class="views-field-obj-crate-s"><strong><span class="field-content">36 1/2" x 50 1/4 "</span></strong></div>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><span class="field-content">Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap</span><br /></strong></em>
<strong>Westward Expansion, Manifest Destiny, Daniel Boone</strong>
<strong><span class="field-content">Missouri artist George Caleb Bingham's Daniel Boone Escorting Settlers through the Cumberland Gap is among the most popular American paintings addressing the theme of westward expansion. Rich with symbolism, it helped establish the mythic status of Daniel Boone and legends of western settlement. Like Charles Wimar in The Abduction of Daniel Boone's Daughter by the Indians (1853, WU 4355), Bingham drew from Christian and classical imagery to justify and heroicize westward expansion and the ideal of Manifest Destiny, or the providential mission of the American nation to settle the frontier. Referring to Boone's first journeys into Kentucky in the early 1770s, the group is pictured traveling from east to west, dramatically emerging from the sun-filled landscape in the background and crossing into the dark, foreboding landscape in the foreground, where the snarled trees help signify the dangerous power of nature. Portrayed with idealized features and poses, the intrepid Daniel Boone, a rifle resting on his shoulder, suggests the figure of Moses - an archetype for pioneer patriarchs - leading his people toward the Promised Land, while Rebecca Boone, atop the horse, suggests the Virgin Mary, symbolizing the courageous spirit of pioneer women.</span></strong>
<strong><span class="field-content">George Caleb Bingham</span></strong>
<p><strong>Mildred Lane Kemper Museum</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://www.kemperartmuseum.wustl.edu/collection/explore/artwork/19um</strong></p>
<strong>1851-1852</strong>
<strong><span class="field-content"><span class="field-content">Gift of Nathaniel Phillips, 1890</span></span></strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<div class="views-field-obj-material-s"><strong><span class="field-content">Oil on canvas</span></strong></div>
<div class="views-field-obj-crate-s"><strong><span class="field-content">36 1/2" x 50 1/4 "</span></strong></div>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><span class="fn">Coming of the White Man</span></strong></em>
<strong>First European contact with Native Americans</strong>
<strong>A group of Native Americans view a ship with its sails for the first time.</strong>
<strong>Joshua Shaw</strong>
<p><strong>The Elizabeth Waldo-Dentzel Collection</strong></p>
<p><strong>Elizabeth Waldo-Dentzel Studio<br /></strong></p>
<p><strong><span class="locality">Northridge, California</span></strong></p>
<strong>1850</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<p><strong>Oil on canvas</strong></p>
<p><strong>25.25 × 36.375 in (64.1 × 92.4 cm)</strong></p>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><span class="irc_su" style="text-align:left;">Western Expansion: Emigrants to the Western Country</span></strong></em>
<strong>Westward expansion, Manifest Destiny</strong>
<strong>Wagon train with settler traveling west in America</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>http://ushistoryimages.com/western-expansion.shtm</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<strong>Engraving, dimensions unknown</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong><strong>Slave sale poster, 1829</strong></strong></em>
<strong>Slavery</strong>
<strong>May 1829: A Sale Bill poster used to advertise a public auction of slaves in the West Indies.</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<p><strong>How slavery Led to Modern Capitalism</strong></p>
<p><strong><strong>http://communityjournal.net/how-slavery-led-to-modern-capitalism/</strong></strong></p>
<strong>May, 1829</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<strong>Poster, dimensions unknown</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Document</strong>
<em><strong>Amber Waves of Grain</strong></em>
<strong>American flag</strong>
<strong>American flag juxtaposed over prairie, symbolizing America "coast to coast."</strong>
<strong>James Bo Insogna</strong>
<p><strong>fineartamerica</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://fineartamerica.com/featured/amber-waves-of-grain-james-bo-insogna.html</strong></p>
<strong>January 8th, 2012</strong>
<strong>Super-imposed photograph, dimensions unknown</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong>American Flag and Ocean</strong></em>
<strong>American flag</strong>
<strong>American flag juxtaposed into ocean, symbolizing "sea to shining sea."</strong>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<p><strong>The Patterson Foundation</strong></p>
<p><strong>http://impact.blog.thepattersonfoundation.org/category/sarasota-national-cemetery/page/4/</strong></p>
<strong>Unknown</strong>
<strong>Photograph, dimensions unknown</strong>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>
<em><strong>American Progress</strong></em>
<strong>Weatward expansion, Manifest Destiny</strong>
<p><strong>This painting is an allegorical representation of the modernization of the new west. Here Columbia, a personification of the United States, leads civilization westward with American settlers, stringing telegraph wire as she sweeps west; she holds a school book as well. The different stages of economic activity of the pioneers are highlighted and, especially, the changing forms of transportation.</strong></p>
<p><strong>This painting has come to represent the ideal of Manifest Destiny.<br /></strong></p>
<strong>John Gast</strong>
<p>Museum of the American West</p>
<p>Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA</p>
<strong>1872</strong>
<strong>Public Domain</strong>
<p><strong>Oil painting</strong></p>
<p><strong>12 ¾” x 16 ¾”</strong></p>
<strong>English</strong>
<strong>Still Image</strong>