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Speech by President John F. Kennedy to the Kennedy Foundation Mental Retardation Group and given to Mary Hammerbacher (Manner) as a counselor at Camp Shriver, 1962.
Camp Shriver began in Eunice Shriver’s backyard at her Timberlawn estate in 1962.…

How To Bring New Hope to the Mentally Retarded is one of the pamphlets given to the camp counselors at Camp Shriver in 1965 and one of many developed in the 1960s as a heightened public awareness of the mentally disabled was occurring.
From its…

Map showing the path of Juan Buatista de Anza's 1775-1776 expidition of Alta California.

Two Italian fishing boats at Fisherman's Wharf on the water near the dock, San Francisco, CA,

A female code breaker operating a Naval Security Station cryptanalytic machine to help decode enemy communications during World War II.

Post card from 1915 depicting a suffragette.

A group of allied soldiers prepare to storm Normandy Beach, France on D-Day.

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"Left scene: two Russian men drinking at table and about to hit each other with bottles; lettering meaning in English "When the gentleman gets drunk, he will become aggressive".

Middle scene: A Russian…

Mugshot of Gee Jon, taken in Nevada State Prison. Gee Jon was the first person to be executed by lethal gas in the United States.

Governor Nelson Rockefeller recording (and possibly sending out a live radio broadcast) a message about "Operation Goodwill". Operation Goodwill was originally a Cold War operation that sent money and goods to foreign countries, as a form of global…