Eye Spy Math in American Memory

Image and Document Lists

Starter Image List:

-   16^th^ and Broadway, Denver. View of Broadway from 16^th^ avenue;
    circular pedestrian [median]{.mark} with decorative streetlight on
    pedestal, several men on median
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00071260))>

-   Aerial View of the White House grounds, [ellipse]{.mark} and
    monument grounds, looking South.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hh:@field(DOCID+@lit(DC0798))>

-   Big 4 tractor hitched to seven empty grain wagons in
    [circle]{.mark}.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfapaza+044))>

-   Burleigh Tunnel Depot, Silver Plume, Colorado (the clock has [roman
    numerals]{.mark}; time reads 4:08)
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+10002228>))

-   Canyon, creek and tracks. View of unidentified mountain canyon;
    train track runs [parallel]{.mark} to creek; a fenced road or
    pathway runs parallel to the track across the creek...
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+00115337))>

-   Colville men on horseback ride around inside [circle]{.mark} of
    tipis on July 4^th^, Nespelem, Colville Indian Reservation,
    Washington.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/aipn:@field(DOCID+@lit(p1528))>

-   The corner is [squared]{.mark} and reinforcement nailed over joints.
    Screen door construction demonstration. Charles County, La Plata,
    Maryland.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8c31277))>

-   Detroit, Michigan (vicinity). Old style candle light reflectors made
    out of pieces of mirror arranged to form a [parabola]{.mark}.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8c28569))>

-   Directions for our [Square]{.mark} Folding Bath Cabinet
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa:@field(DOCID+@lit(A0484))>

-   Folger Library copy work. Shakespeare portrait in [octagonal]{.mark}
    frame.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/horyd:@field(NUMBER+@band(thc+5a49803))>

-   Giant wheels ten feet in [diameter]{.mark}, once used for carrying
    logs to sawmill. Michigan.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8a20939))>

-   [Horsepower]{.mark}, threshing, Buffalo County, Nebraska
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/psbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p12884))>

-   If you can't go -- buy war bonds: Our bonds are their security!!
    This hotel pledges a [100%]{.mark} payroll allotment
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/wpapos:@field(NUMBER+@band(cph+3f05625))>

-   International Nickel Co., at the National Institute of Health. Four
    men near [cylinders]{.mark}, National Institute of Health.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/horyd:@field(NUMBER+@band(thc+5a39379))>

-   The [largest]{.mark} cottonwood tree in Colorado. View of large
    cottonwood tree called "the Old Monarch" in the middle of the block
    between....
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+10010839))>

-   A Minneapolis 1 smoke stack steam threshing engine: it is 20-25
    [horsepower]{.mark}, dated 1904.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ngp:@field(NUMBER+@band(ndfahult+b290))>

-   The New Simplified Rules for Self-[Measurement]{.mark}
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/eaa:@field(DOCID+@lit(A0190))>

-   New York, New York. Chinaman counting on an [abacus]{.mark} in a
    Chinese grocery store in Chinatown.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8d21958))>

-   One of the rebels. Geo. Washington \[Pictorial envelope\]
    [Oval]{.mark} portrait of George Washington. Cream envelope with
    black ink. Image on left side.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cwnyhs:@field(DOCID+@lit(aj33003))>

-   Prison band. Members of the prisoner's band at the State
    Penitentiary in Canon City, Colorado, pose with drums, trombones,
    cornets and trumpets. Their uniforms are white with
    [rectangles]{.mark} across the fronts, and they wear conductor's
    hats. Stone Prison buildings with extruded joints and arched, barred
    windows are behind them.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+10017729))>

-   Residential streets, [intersection]{.mark}
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/alad:@field(DOCID+@lit(h119064))>

-   Row of automobiles parked [perpendicular]{.mark} to two other rows
    of automobiles on a rooftop parking lot
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/cdn:@field(NUMBER+@band(ichicdn+n086372))>

-   [Spiral]{.mark} fire escape, St. Louis, Missouri.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8a06318))>

-   [Tesselated]{.mark} Wood Floors
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/ncpsbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(ABS1821-0009-377_bib))>

-   Three men seated at table with [checkerboards]{.mark}, spectators
    looking on
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/toddbib:@field(DOCID+@lit(p019))>

-   Transformer manufacture. These huge aluminum [spheres]{.mark} are
    used to test each power transformer which is ready to be shipped
    from a large Eastern electrical plant.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8b02126))>

-   U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland. Two midshipmen working with
    a [sextant]{.mark}.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8d21405))>

-   Wallace Brothers Circus. Black men, women and girls pose on a
    platform at the Wallace Brothers Circus in front of painted canvas
    backdrops, writing reads "Georgia Minstrel...Party" Shows a large
    [triangle]{.mark} (instrument), white people look on.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hawp:@field(NUMBER+@band(codhawp+10021972))>

-   War Department. [Pentagon]{.mark}, aerial view I
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/horyd:@field(NUMBER+@band(thc+5a45397))>

-   Washington, D.C. [Algebra]{.mark} class at Woodrow Wilson High
    School
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fsaall:@field(NUMBER+@band(fsa+8d41419))>

-   We've a [million]{.mark} in the field; 1,000,000
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/dukesm:@field(DOCID+@lit(ncdhasm.b2093))>

-   World Series of 1933, Washington, D.C. View of [diamond]{.mark},
    Giants up.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/horyd:@field(NUMBER+@band(thc+5a47423))>

-   World's Fair views. Perisphere [bisected]{.mark} by ramp.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gottscho:@field(NUMBER+@band(gsc+5a18664))>

-   Yellow Owl -- Mandan...Description by Edward S. Curtis: A face
    approaching the type of pure Mandan. The neck ornament consists of
    beads and [cylindrical]{.mark} bones, and from the eagle-feather
    war-bonnet hang numerous weasel-tails.
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/curt:@field(DOCID+@lit(cp05001))>

# Starter document list for developing word problems:

-   America, historical, statistic, and descriptive. By J.S.Buckingham
    [(1841 travel narrative)]{.mark}
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/lhbtnbib:@field(NUMBER+@band(lhbtn+6750c))>

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-   Bicycles (1914 Sears Roebuck catalog)
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/ephemera/@Generic__BookTextView/3544>
    [(bicycle ad)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A00/A0055/A0055-05-72dpi.jpeg>

-   Distribution of each dollar in taxes based on levy of 1917. Payable
    in 1918. Minneapolis, Minnesota [(1917 broadside)]{.mark}
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+08403300))>

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-   E. Kuhn & Sons, Exporters and Dealers in Raw Furs, Skins and Ginseng
    [(1900 Baltimore, MD advertising card)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/ephemera/@Generic__BookTextView/27276>
    (price list)
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A03/A0350/A0350-02-150dpi.jpeg>

-   A List of John P. Broun\'s Negroes [(1859 slave price list)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/broadsides/@Generic__BookTextView/28962>

-   Make a Hit! [(Tailored Clothes advertising card w/baseball
    scorecard)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/ephemera/@Generic__BookTextView/49556>

-   National Washington Monument [(1849 drawing of monument signed by
    members of Congress)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/broadsides/@Generic__BookTextView/14418>

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-   Photo Button Manufacturing Company [(undated booklet)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/ephemera/@Generic__BookTextView/39341>
    [(campaign buttons)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A04/A0498/A0498-08-150dpi.jpeg>
    [(round photo buttons)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A04/A0498/A0498-03-72dpi.jpeg>

-   Presidential Campaign of 1860 (broadside listing titles of speeches
    made by Republican Committee and their prices)
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/broadsides/@Generic__BookTextView/29036>

-   Public Sale! [(1858 land auction notice -- Baltimore)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/broadsides/@Generic__BookTextView/11081>

-   Rates of Way - Freight and Passage [(1873 price list)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/broadsides/@Generic__BookTextView/12778>

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-   Southern Beauty Line of Vehicles [(1909 carriage pamphlet)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/ephemera/@Generic__BookTextView/12621>
    (page 2)
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A01/A0168/A0168-02-150dpi.jpeg>

-   Statistical map of the United States of America Prepared by James S.
    Cowdon and James D. Holman, Special Statisticians...[(1888
    map)]{.mark}
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/gmd:@field(NUMBER+@band(g3701s+cw0062600))>

-   Stick To The Mail Lines! New Mail Arrangement, For The South! [(1842
    travel broadside]{.mark})
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/broadsides/@Generic__BookTextView/29819>

-   Two galley proofs for four returns each of statistics from military
    units of the United Colonies and of the United States (New York and
    Pennsylvania) in September and October, 1776 [(1776
    broadsides)]{.mark}
    <http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/rbpebib:@field(NUMBER+@band(rbpe+1440290a))>

-   US Secret Service [(1889 price list and advertisement for
    book)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/broadsides/@Generic__BookTextView/2731>
    (page 4)
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/broadsides/B03/B0307/B0307-04-150dpi.jpeg>

-   Wm. H. Brereton, Solicitor and Attorney for Patents [(c.1884
    Washington, DC advertising card)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/dynaweb/eaa/databases/ephemera/@Generic__BookTextView/561>
    [(price list)]{.mark}
    <http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A00/A0010/A0010-02-150dpi.jpeg>