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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Land Through a Lens

For Students 9th - 10th
"The Land Through a Lens: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum," features 84 photographs from the early years of photography in the 1850s through the 20th century. Included in the collection are works by early, modern, and...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Treasures to Go: Young America

For Students 9th - 10th
A survey of fifty-seven landscapes and portraits that reveal visions of early America and its birth as a new nation as rendered by early American artists.
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Other

Mississippi Museum of Art: Homepage

For Students 9th - 10th
The Mississippi Museum of Art in Jackson is the largest museum in the state, and has the largest collection of art by and about Mississippians. The collection is also notably strong in 19th and 20th century American landscape paintings,...
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Lure of the West

For Students 9th - 10th
An exhibit from the Smithsonian includes 70 paintings and sculptures by famous American Western artists such as Catlin, Baker, Bierstadt, and Remington.
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Smithsonian Institution

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Young America in Art

For Students 9th - 10th
An historical site from the Smithsonian American Art Museum that shows the growth of America through art work by over 45 artists. This site by the Smithsonian Institute has fascinating images showing American artists depicting the...
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Other

Post Road Gallery: American Paintings

For Students 9th - 10th
Landscape paintings are included in this collection of American art. Biographical information accompanies the images.
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Huntington Library

Huntington L Ibrary: American Art: Federic Edwin Church: Chimborazo (1864)

For Students 9th - 10th
The painting, Chimborazo, by Frederic E. Church depicts the natural beauty of Ecuador, one of the places this artist traveled to. As explained in this article, it provides an example of landscape art of the 19th century.
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Library of Congress

Loc: American Memory: Conservation and Environment

For Students 9th - 10th
A collection of maps of historical significance which show changes in the landscape due to many factors. Included are maps showing specific conservation projects. Maps are printable.
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Library of Congress

Loc: Cultural Landscapes

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection includes unique maps, such as topographic maps and those used in land surveys. Includes maps created by George Washington.
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University of California

University of California: Bampfa: Yosemite Winter Scene by Albert Bierstadt

For Students 3rd - 8th
Learn about different qualities of landscapes, such as degree of realism versus exaggeration, from this activity that pushes viewers to think about different aspects of Bierstadt's seasonal landscape titled Yosemite Winter Scene.
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Martin Lawrence Galleries

Martin Lawrence Galleries: Kerry Hallam

For Students 9th - 10th
Hallam is a landscape painter who has traveled around the world portraying scenes with vivid and bold colors. However, most of his work is done in the United States. He is heavily inspired by the post-impressionists and it shows in his...
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University of Minnesota

Catalog Raisonne of the American Landscape Painter Gilbert Munger

For Students 9th - 10th
View a painting of the Truckee River in the Sierra Nevada Mountains
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Library of Congress

Loc: Map Collections 1500 2002

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection provides maps dating back to 1500 up to the present. The collection includes: cities, towns, discovery and exploration, conservation and environment, military battles, cultural landscapes, transportation, communication,...
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University of California

Hearst Museum of Anthropology: The World in a Frame

For Students 9th - 10th
View representative works from the early decades of photography, 1865 to 1915, during one of the world's periods of extended travel. Discover how the invention of photography opened eyes to Native American, Japanese, and Middle Eastern...
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Curated OER

Nice Colombian Landscape

For Students 9th - 10th
This charming site serves to remind us about all the good things that come from the South American country of Columbia. Many important and/or famous people are from Columbia along with such exports as coffee, emeralds, bananas, coal, and...
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Curated OER

American Radio Works: The Legacy of Agent Orange

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the how the herbicide Agent Orange has impacted, and still is impacting, the lives of people of Vietnam as well as the landscape of Vietnam.
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Curated OER

American Radio Works: The Legacy of Agent Orange

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the how the herbicide Agent Orange has impacted, and still is impacting, the lives of people of Vietnam as well as the landscape of Vietnam.
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Curated OER

American Radio Works: The Legacy of Agent Orange

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the how the herbicide Agent Orange has impacted, and still is impacting, the lives of people of Vietnam as well as the landscape of Vietnam.
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Curated OER

American Radio Works: The Legacy of Agent Orange

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the how the herbicide Agent Orange has impacted, and still is impacting, the lives of people of Vietnam as well as the landscape of Vietnam.
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Curated OER

American Radio Works: The Legacy of Agent Orange

For Students 9th - 10th
An overview of the how the herbicide Agent Orange has impacted, and still is impacting, the lives of people of Vietnam as well as the landscape of Vietnam.
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Other

Ecuador Pictures

For Students 9th - 10th
A pictorial photo gallery of Ecuador that demonstrates the beauty of this small South American country. View animals, landscapes, towns, monuments, parks, the Rainforest, waterfalls, and so much more.
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National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: America, 1870 1912: Visions of the West

For Students 9th - 10th
The National Humanities Center presents collections of primary resources compatible with the Common Core State Standards, historical documents, literary texts, and works of art, thematically organized with notes and discussion questions....
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Curated OER

Albert Bierstadt, Storm in the Mountains

For Students 9th - 10th
Four nineteenth-century landscape paintings that suggest the meaning of the West in American life.