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Alexander Park Letter
Alexander Parker Crittenden letter to his wife, Clara
Capt. James A. Sayles
Capt. James A. Sayles letter to his sweetheart, Florence Lee
Dionysus
The god Dionysus stands holding a bunch of grapes in one hand and pinecone-like object in the other. He is crowned with a wreath of grapes and clothed in a knee-length robe, animal-hide vest and open-toed boots.
Bacchae
A snippet of text from Euripides' Bacchae which shows a conversation between the god Dionysus and mortal Pentheus in which Pentheus changes into a woman's clothes with the god's help.
Interior of Fort Sumter: during the bombardment, April 12th 1861
Interior of Fort Sumter: during the bombardment, April 12th 1861
Mrs. Margaret Sanger
Shows Margaret Sanger with Fania Mindell inside Brownsville clinic.
French periodical pills
Advertisment by Dr. L. Monroe in the Boston daily times newspaper for "French periodical pills" for regulation of "the monthly turns of females."
Manuscript re: segregation in schools
A manuscript whose author is unknown that discusses the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment regarding racial segregation in school and the failure of the States to assume the obligation offers no solution.
Save Brown vs. Board of Education build the new civil rights movement.
Poster used in the April 1, 2003 Civil Rights March on Washington.
Pearl Harbor bombing. California hit. Battered by aerial bombs and torpedoes, the USS California settles slowly into the mud and muck of Pearl Harbor. Clouds of black, oily smoke pouring up from the California and her stricken sister ships conceal all but the hull of the capsized USS Oklahoma at the extreme right
Depicts the USS California beginning to sink shortly after taking heavy fire from the surprise attack bombings in Pearl Harbor by Japan.