Primary Source Spotlight: Transportation

Primary source sets

• Transportation primary source set with teacher’s guide
• Transportation image set
• Transportation maps
• Films & webcasts related to transportation
• Oral histories related to transportation
• Life history mentioning transportation
• Historical texts related to transportation
• Historical newspaper coverage: modes of transportation

PSN curated primary source collections

• Air Balloons & Airships
• America’s Roadways
• B&O Railroad
• Bicycles
• Cable Cars
• C&O Canal
• Erie Canal
• First American Automobile Race
• Rails & Robbers
• Transcontinental Railroad Completed
• World Transportation Commission
• Charles Lindbergh
• Designer Raymond Loewy
• Nellie Bly Circles the Globe
• Wright Brothers First Flight

Free to Use & Reuse image sets

• Aircraft
• Bicycles
• Cars
• Horses
• Bridges