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Archive: 2005 topics, keywords, and search returns
National History Day 2004–2005
Suggested History Topics, Keywords, and Search Returns
Labor Movement
Search for images using the keyword "labor" or "industry."
Images:
(Study for The History of Labor in America: Technology), 1975, Jack Beal, 1977.47.39
Early Mail Service and Construction of Railroads (mural study, Commerce, Georgia Post Office), 1938, Philip Guston, 1962.8.77
Paper Workers, 1934, Douglas Crockwell, 1964.1.152
Maritime
Search for images using the word "sea" or "lighthouse."
Images:
Waterfront at Night, 1964, Alexander A. Maldonado, 1991.96.3
Captain's House, 1929, Morris Kantor, 1976.146.9
Life Saving Patrol, about 1893, Edward Moran, 1925.12.3
Invention & Innovation
Search for images using the word "occupation" or "science."
Images:
Samuel F.B. Morse, 1831, Horatio Greenough, 1919.1.1
Hall of Science, Chicago Fair, 1933, Charles L. Morgan 1935.13.626>
Technology, 1991, Nam June Paik, 1994.29
Education
Search for images using the word "student" or "education."
Images:
Booker T. Washington Legend, about 1944–1945, William H. Johnson 1967.59.664
The Library, 1960, Jacob Lawrence, 1969.47.24
The Morning Bell, 1873, Winslow Homer, 1979.98.111
Politics and Political Movements
Search for images using the word "civic" or "allegory."
Images:
Boycott Grapes, Support the United Farm Workers Union, 1973, Xavier Viramontes, 1995.50.58
Wi-jun-jon, Pigeon's Egg Head (The Light) Going To and Returning From Washington, 1837–1839, George Catlin, 1985.66.474
Water Gate or Government Machine No. 3, 1974, Harold Garrison, 1986.65.248
War
Search for images using the word "war" or "battle."
Images:
Foot War Party in Council, Mandan, 1835–1837, George Catlin, 1985.66.458
Ruins of the Charleston Lighthouse, Morris Island, South Carolina, about 1863, J. R. Foster, 1994.91.52
The Armistice Letter (Mural Study, Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania Post Office), about 1940–1941, Eugene Higgins, 1965.18.101
Slavery
Search for images using the word "slave."
Images:
Slave Dance, Sac and Fox, 1835–1837, George Catlin, 1985.66.450
The Underground Railroad (mural study, Dolgeville, New York Post Office), about 1940, James Michael Newell, 1962.8.97
A Visit from the Old Mistress, 1876, Winslow Homer, 1909.7.28
Early America
Search for images using the words "United States" or "frontier."
Images:
The Land is Bought from the Indians (Study for mural, Blakely, Georgia post office), 1937, Daniel Putnam Brinley, 1974.28.305
Study for The History of Labor in America: Settlement, 1975, Jack Beal, 1977.47.37
Concord Minute Man of 1775, 1889, cast 1917, Daniel Chester French, 1991.193
The Great Depression
Search for images using the words "Depression era" or "New Deal."
Images:
Dismissal, 1940, Howard Taft Lorenz, 1971.447.62
Artists on WPA, 1935, Moses Soyer, 1968.61
Unemployed Rally, 1931, Harry Brodsky, 1982.78.2
Civil Rights
Search for images using the words "black history" or "injustice."
Images:
Untitled (Birmingham, Alabama), from the portfolio Ten Works x Ten Painters, 1964, Andy Warhol, 1965.37.1E
Death of Rubén Salazar, 1986, Frank Romero, 1993.19
Private Law and Order Leagues (study for medallion, Medals for Dishonor series), about 1938–1939, David Smith, 1988.60
Harlem Renaissance
Search for images using the words "African American" or "Harlem."
Images:
Harlem Dancers, 1937, Margaret Brassler Kane, 1993.2
Café, about 1939–1940, William H. Johnson, 1967.59.669
Lenox Avenue, about 1938, Sargent Johnson, 1967.72.124
Ethnicity
Search for images using the word "ethnicity."
Images:
Máh-to-tóh-pa, Four Bears, Second Chief, in Full Dress, 1832, George Catlin, 1985.66.128
That Is No Longer Our Smoke Sign, about 1950s, Justino Herrera, 1979.144.99
Placa/Rollcall, 1980, Charles "Chaz" Bojorquez, 1992.64.1
Urban Life
Search for images using the words "urban" or "cityscape."
Images:
In the Barber Shop, about 1934, Ilya Bolotowsky, 1964.1.79
Newspaper Boy, 1869, Edward Mitchell Bannister, 1983.95.85
42nd St. Nocturne, 1953, Xavier J. Barile, 1979.14.2
For a list of keywords that we use to index our collection, see the Subject Term Manual (PDF file, 148K).
Pictured: Stow Wengenroth, Old North Church, 1976, lithograph, 15 3/4 x 11 5/8 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Bequest of Frank McClure