A Good Day's Sport
http://www.mcny.org/good.htm
Currier & Ives images of fishing, hunting, and horse racing in antebellum America.

America's First Look into the Camera: Daugerreotype Portraits and Views, 1842-1862
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/daghtml/daghome.html
600 photographs dating from 1842 to 1862, many of them portraits by Mathew Brady and his assistants.

American Notes, by Charles Dickens
http://wsrv.clas.virginia.edu/~jlg4p/dickens/titlepg.html
The novelist's observations of America in 1842.

Nathaniel Hawthorne
http://eldred.ne.mediaone.net/nh/hawthorne.html
Texts and criticism

Poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson
http://www.hti.umich.edu/bin/amv-idx.pl?type=header&id=EmersWork9

Votes for Women: Selections from the National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection, 1848-1921
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/naw/nawshom.html
Searchable books and pamphlets, primarily concerning women's suffarage but also touching on other reform movements.

Women's Studies: Manuscript Diaries
http://www.library.upenn.edu/etext/diaries/
Scanned images of American women's diaries from the 1850s to the 1940s.

Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1830-1930
http://womhist.binghamton.edu/
Site with many primary documents organized around questions from undergraduate and graduate school projects.