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Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2019Visualization of polio deaths and cases globally.
Namasté America : Indian Immigrants in an American MetropolisAt some point during the 1990s the size of the Asian Indian population in the United States surpassed the one million mark. Today’s Indians in America…
Junior NAACP DemonstrationA sit-in by Junior NAACP activists at a segregated movie theater in Farmville, Virginia. The item was donated by Phyllis Padow-Sederbaum, a volunteer…
Growing up Desi: America vs. IndiaHave you noticed similarities and differences between Desi Americans and Desi immigrants? We’re excited to present a podswap with Pallavi Janiani from…
Parris Island, South Carolina. Student ready for flight in glider plane1 negative : nitrate ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 inches or smaller. Notes: Photographed by Alfred Palmer or Pat Terry. File print misnumbered LC-USW3-2534-E;…
Scholarships to help double minority students at Santa Clara UniversityA xerox of a news clipping from the Palo Alto Times outlining how SCU has increased its efforts to enroll more minority students and increase…
Renuka PaltanwaleRenuka Paltanwale was born in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1998. Her father had moved to California in 1994 to work for Microsoft, and she and her…
Obsidian ArrowheadsSmall projectile points made from obsidian (volcanic glass)
Tea cup from early 1900s Italian American household in Santa Clara, CADuring the mid 19th and early 20th century, Americans were very concerned with having the proper ceramic serving wares, and tea cups were an essential…
Map of Mission locationsMap of current day Santa Clara Mission with overlapping labels of missions sites