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First Electric Chair at Ohio State PenitentiaryA 1908 description of an execution states that 1750 volts were used in the electric chair for the first seven seconds and then 250 volts for the…
[Gold miners, El Dorado, California]Miners standing near a ditch with a log cabin in the background.
Aerial Photograph, Cuba Soviet Missile InstallationsAerial photograph of Cuban missile launch sites.
The Coming Man: Allee sammee Melican Man MonopoleeeeThis image is a political cartoon titled "The Coming Man," published in The Wasp magazine on May 20, 1881. It reflects the anti-Chinese sentiment…
Chinese railroad workers, ca. 1880Track maintenance workers, called "gandy dancers" in railroad slang, patrol the Oregon Pacific Railroad in a hand
Santa Anita (Calif.) Assembly Center -- youngsters carry flags in Americanization program"Photograph shows Japanese American young children carrying American flags in program to promote their assimilation into American society during…
U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis IslandEnglish: U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor
Coast Guardsmen at the Ellis Island Training Station.
Speech by Mikhail Gorbachev to the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, "Europe as a Common Home"Mikhail Gorbachev Delivers a Speech to the Council of Europe about the change of direction of the Soviet Union from that of the Brezhnev Doctrine
Record of Conversation between Mikhail Gorbachev and Margaret Thatcher March 30, 1987, MoscowMargaret Thatcher Talks to Mikhail Gorbachev