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Image Credits


Featured image for Heading West:
John Melish
Detail from: Map of the United States with the Contiguious British & Spanish Possessions
Philadelphia, 1816
NYPL, Humanities and Social Sciences Library, Map Division

Featured image for Touring West:
Detail from: "The circus is coming"
From: Harper's Weekly, October 4, 1873
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, Billy Rose Theatre Collection

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