The Lily Clara Collection - Extended Learning

Ancient Hopi village of Walpi, built into the red rock cliffs of First Mesa. Courtesy of National Archives and Records. For thousa...

Depiction of Molly Maguire meeting to plan a coal mine strike. Harper’s Weekly (January 31, 1874). In the coal mines of nineteenth-...

Image of Utah women feeding silk worms and harvesting silk from cocoons as part of the nineteenth-century homegrown silk industry. Courtesy of...

Bryce Amphitheater in Bryce Canyon National Park, 2011. Courtesy of Wikimedia Commons. Hoodoos and Hoodlums Bryce Canyon: Stunni...

This mural, on display in the Utah State Capitol Building, depicts Seraph Young casting her historic first vote in 1870. Seraph made history a...

Ruins of Frisco’s charcoal kilns. Photo courtesy of Library of Congress Frisco, Utah: From Boom Town to Bust The ruins of five b...

Wedding of the Rails In the wake of the American Civil War, the completion of the first Transcontinental Railroad connected a fractured nation....

Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Do you believe in love at first sight? What about love without even seeing each other first...

Pinkerton’s business card, courtesy of Library of Congress. Pinkerton’s Private Eyes: Pinkerton’s National Detective Agency is the w...

 Mike McDonald ruled Chicago with unprecedented power for more than two decades as the head of the city’s first political machine and its first org...