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Mugshot of Gee Jon, taken in Nevada State Prison. Gee Jon was the first person to be executed by lethal gas in the United States.

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"Left scene: two Russian men drinking at table and about to hit each other with bottles; lettering meaning in English "When the gentleman gets drunk, he will become aggressive".

Middle scene: A Russian…

A group of allied soldiers prepare to storm Normandy Beach, France on D-Day.

Post card from 1915 depicting a suffragette.

A female code breaker operating a Naval Security Station cryptanalytic machine to help decode enemy communications during World War II.

Two Italian fishing boats at Fisherman's Wharf on the water near the dock, San Francisco, CA,

Map showing the path of Juan Buatista de Anza's 1775-1776 expidition of Alta California.

How To Bring New Hope to the Mentally Retarded is one of the pamphlets given to the camp counselors at Camp Shriver in 1965 and one of many developed in the 1960s as a heightened public awareness of the mentally disabled was occurring.
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Speech by President John F. Kennedy to the Kennedy Foundation Mental Retardation Group and given to Mary Hammerbacher (Manner) as a counselor at Camp Shriver, 1962.
Camp Shriver began in Eunice Shriver’s backyard at her Timberlawn estate in 1962.…