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54th Massachusetts Regiment - All African American regiment, part of the Union Army.In the American Civil War, almost 180,000 African Americans enlisted to fight for the Union Army. One of the most notorious African American regiments…
The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, weighing 9,700 pounds and 10 feet in length.
Atomic bomb preparations at Tinian Island, 1945The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, soon to be dropped on Japan
"Migrant Mother"Lange's Migrant Mother snapshots the grim gaze of Florence Owens Thompson, one of the many destitute farmers in California. In 1936, when this…
Women's Suffrage PostcardPost card from 1915 depicting a suffragette.
Soup KitchenThese unemployed men standing in line outside a soup kitchen in Chicago Illinois.
John MurrayBlack and white portrait of cartographer and publishing mogul John Murray I.
Augustus PetermannBlack and white portrait of German cartographer Augustus Petermann.
NAACP Flyer Calling for the Support of the Grape BoycottFlyer advocating for support of the farm workers in the grape boycott of 1965.