- James Madison (1751–1836), Letter to Robert Livingston, January 16, 1804.
- John Reich (1768-1833), Indian Peace Medal, 1810.
- Robert Fulton (1765–1815), Letter to Nicholas Roosevelt, June 24, 1810.
- James Glennie, “The Particulars of & Sketches,” 1810–1811.
- Livingston family, Document box, ca. 1815.
- Anicartha Miller, Friendship album, ca. 1827.
- [Santa Fé City Council], Lista de los Ciudadanos (Santa Fé, 1834).
- Henry Walton, View of Ithaca, Tompkins County N.Y. Taken from West Hill (1839).
- John James Audubon (1785–1851), “Striped Ground Squirrel,” 1841.
- Brigham Young (1801–1877), Letter to Harriet Cook Young, June 23, 1846.
- Daniel Gano (1794–1873), Gold Rush scrapbook, 1849–1850.
- William Endicott (1816–1851) & Co., after H. F. Cox, Post Office, San Francisco, California (ca. 1850).
- Luzern Humphrey, Oregon Trail notebooks, 1852-1853.
- Carleton Watkins (1829–1916), Lake Ah-Wi-Yah, Yosemite Valley, California, 1861.
- Photographs of North American Indians, 1847–1865.