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Construction of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Nicknamed the "Brickyard", the track was constructed using bricks manufactured by the Murphysboro Paving Brick Company.

Photograph by W. H. Jackson of Cyrus Thomas during the Hayden Geological Survey of the Territories, 1870.

View of a rocky cliff at Devils Kitchen Lake in Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge.

Diagram depicting the three longitudinal lobes of the trilobite: left pleural lobe; axial lobe; and right pleural lobe.

Diagram showing the location of artifacts excavated from Abby Miller's house in Miller Grove.

Reconstruction of life on a Permian forest floor. This is a public exhibit at Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

This strange-looking reptile is a terrestrial predatory pelycosaur called Dimetrodon, which only lived…

Reconstruction of life on an ancient seafloor in the Louisville, Kentucky area during the Devonian Period - the "Age of Fishes". This is a public exhibit at the Falls of the Ohio visitor center on the Indiana side of the Ohio River, across from…

Reconstruction of life on an ancient forest floor during the Late Paleozoic, probably intended to depict Pennsylvanian-aged terrestrial life forms. This is a public exhibit at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History in Cleveland, Ohio.

The Middle Cambrian-aged Burgess Shale is the most famous fossil deposit on Earth. It is located near the town of Field in Yoho National Park, southeastern British Columbia, western Canada. The deposit is famous for its spectacular soft-bodied…

Notes from Library of Congress:
- Caption from negative sleeve: Picket station of Colored troops near Dutch Gap Canal, Nov. 1864.
- Two plates form left (LC-B811-2553B) and right (LC-B811-2553A) halves of a stereograph pair.
- Corresponding…