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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.
From its…

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.…

This document outlines the Boston branch of the NAACP's list of seven goals for its youth program.

This is a poster from WWI encouraging women to plan victory gardens to help the war effort.

The Act enforced the constitutional right to vote, conferred jurisdiction upon the district courts of the United States, provided injunctive relief against discrimination in public accommodations, authorized the Attorney General to institute suits to…

This speech was given by Secretary of State George C. Marshall at Harvard University when he received an honorary degree on June 5, 1947. It describes the plan for European recovery after the second world war, a massive economic aid program later…