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Picture of author and educator Dorothy Bryant

Taken on the front porch of the family homestead in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan B. Anthony, the "Dowager Empress" of the early woman's rights movement, is seated at the center. Around her:
Laura Clay, daughter of famed anti-slavery activist Cassius…

The exterior of the San Francisco office of L'Italia

Many of the baptismal manuscripts make a distinction between solemn baptisms and private baptisms. Solemn (now known as public) baptisms were likely regular baptisms where the Thamien individual willingly accepted the rite. Private baptisms were…

The first issue and first publication of the Sacramento paper the Placer Times

Sub-section from the Truckee Republican, 1933: A.P. Giannini Commends The Weekly Papers. Stanley Bavier, Managing Editor/Owner of the Truckee Republican receives a letter from Mr. A.P. Giannini.

Image of Luisa Giulianetti

This rarely seen U.S. Navy film BATTLE FATIGUE DEALING WITH FEAR was produced during or just after WWII, and attempts to explain the condition known as "Battle Fatigue" or what we now describe as PTSD or Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. It was…

Actual size of negative is C (approximately 4 x 5 inches).
- Title and other information from print in lot and lot catalog card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More…

Nazareth Allen, of Bibb County, Georgia, was one of the several Andersonville guards who spoke during the trial of Henry Wirz in fall 1865. Allen testified, "I was on duty at the stockade as a sentry. I had the means of observing the condition of…