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A historical digital archive containing contextualized images of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan on August 6, 1945 at 8:16am.

the effects of WWII on the west coast

The Coast Guard caption identifies the unit as Company E, 16th Infantry, 1st Infantry Division. This photo captures what it felt like to be a soldier arriving at the beaches of Omaha on D-Day.

The Santa Clara Mission in 1872, documented by Edward Vischer

This image is of a woman suffragette in 1917 in America who is protesting outside the White House and asking President Woodrow Wilson to let women vote.

Mission Santa Clara was the eighth one built in California. It was founded on January 12, 1777, by Father Thomas de la Pena.

This is a wood engraving showing the "insurgents" at Harpers Ferry in 1859 interrupted by railroad workers.
- Illus. in: The life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie," ... New York : R.M. DeWitt,…

Photograph of soldiers of Latvian Legion fight to prevent Soviet re-occupation in 1943. This is from On Latvia, a website that provides all the information about Latvia, its sights, and its culture.

Migrant Mother is a photograph taken in 1936 in Nipomo, California, USA by American photographer Dorothea Lange during her spell at the Resettlement Administration