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Lange's Migrant Mother snapshots the grim gaze of Florence Owens Thompson, one of the many destitute farmers in California. In 1936, when this picture was captured, Thompson was a mother of seven children, and lived in Nipomo, California.

Post card from 1915 depicting a suffragette.

These unemployed men standing in line outside a soup kitchen in Chicago Illinois.

Black and white portrait of cartographer and publishing mogul John Murray I.

Black and white portrait of German cartographer Augustus Petermann.

Flyer advocating for support of the farm workers in the grape boycott of 1965.

Explosion during Attack on Pearl Harbor

T34 tanks line up in front of the a church as they prepare for the Battle of Moscow

On August 28, 1963 more than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. The John F. Kennedy administration was successfully pressured by the march to introduce a robust federal civil rights…