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Aerial photograph, taken by a Japanese pilot, of the destruction of Pearl Harbor, Japanese bomber in lower right foregroundPhoto depicts a Japanese fighter plane descending upon Pearl Harbor amidst the surprise attack by the Japanese army upon Pearl Harbor during World War…
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 rightDepicts the USS California beginning to sink shortly after taking heavy fire from the surprise attack bombings in Pearl Harbor by Japan.
Save Brown vs. Board of Education build the new civil rights movement.Poster used in the April 1, 2003 Civil Rights March on Washington.
Manuscript re: segregation in schoolsA manuscript whose author is unknown that discusses the violation of the Fourteenth Amendment regarding racial segregation in school and the failure…
French periodical pillsAdvertisment by Dr. L. Monroe in the Boston daily times newspaper for "French periodical pills" for regulation of "the monthly turns of females."
Mrs. Margaret SangerShows Margaret Sanger with Fania Mindell inside Brownsville clinic.
Interior of Fort Sumter: during the bombardment, April 12th 1861Interior of Fort Sumter: during the bombardment, April 12th 1861
BacchaeA snippet of text from Euripides' Bacchae which shows a conversation between the god Dionysus and mortal Pentheus in which Pentheus changes into a…
DionysusThe 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…
Capt. James A. SaylesCapt. James A. Sayles letter to his sweetheart, Florence Lee