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Pikes Peak Hill Climb
John Rostek driving his Mercedes Benz 300SL ("Gullwing") around George's Corner past spectators. Car has sign for Buckley Bros. Denver.
Pace Car and Car #68, 1951
The pace car sits next to Carl Forberg's #68 Automobile Shippers Special in the pit area.
U.S. Reports: Brown v. Board of Education, 344 U.S. 141 (1952).
Description of the U.S. Reports Volume 344; October Term, 1952; Brown et al. v. Board of Education of Topeka et al.
Back to a Coast Guard assault transport comes this Marine after two days and nights of Hell on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands. His face is grimey with coral dust but the light of battle stays in his eyes.
Pvt Theodore James Miller (12 February 1925 – 24 March 1944) from Minnesota returns to attack transport USS Arthur Middleton (APA-25) at 14:00 after two days of combat on Engebi, the first of the Eniwetok Atoll to be invaded by American forces. Most…
Confederate Dead
Gardner's title for this image is "Confederate soldiers as they fell near the Burnside bridge."
Veterans pose with their catch on the Malibu Pier, 1946
In May of 1946, Paul Ellis sponsored a day of fishing on a charter boat off of Point Dume for disabled veterans housed at the Birmingham Veteran's Administration Hospital in nearby Van Nuys, California. Here the vets pose with their catch after…
African American picketers outside of the Atlanta Public Schools building in Atlanta, Georgia.
Signs read: "Letson [Board of Education superintendent John W. Letson] Must Go," "Atlanta Board of Education 1954 Segregation Segregated Segregate," and "Negro 61% in 71 Schools, White 39% in 74 schools Equality". Negative envelope: "Racial…
TitleTorched buildings, Los Angeles Riots
Alternative TitleLos Angeles Photographers Photo Collection;
Description900 block of S. Vermont Avenue in Koreatown, just north of San Marino Street, where police have blocked off the street so firemen can put out fires in several buildings torched by rioters. Photograph dated April 30, 1992.
[Bird's-eye view of landing craft, barrage balloons, and allied troops landing in Normandy, France on D-Day] / U.S. Maritime Commission photo.
World War, 1939-1945--Campaigns & battles--France--Normandy
- World War, 1939-1945--Amphibious operations--American--France--Normandy
- Landing craft--American--France--Normandy--1940-1950
- World War, 1939-1945--Amphibious operations--American--France--Normandy
- Landing craft--American--France--Normandy--1940-1950