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North Korean prisoners of warSinchon, Korea. North Korean prisoners were captured just south of Uijeongbu.
Marshall Plan in GermanyTwo workmen looking over a chart. Behind them is a large sign which reads "Berlin/Bautauf, ERP, ...Mit Hilfe Des Marshall-Plans."
ARRIVING IN NEW YORKA group of German and Austrian Jewish refugee children arrives in New York on board the SS President Harding. New York, United States
ARRIVING AT THE FORT ONTARIO REFUGEE SHELTERJewish refugees from Europe arrive at the emergency refugee shelter at Fort Ontario, in the United States. A father, holding his daughter, checks his…
A German woman and a bare-footed young girl from Nammering are forced to walk among the corpses of prisoners exhumed from a mass grave near the town.On April 19, 1945, a freight train with nearly 4,500 prisoners from Buchenwald pulled onto the railroad siding at Nammering. The train had been…
Atomic bomb preparations at Tinian Island, 1945The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, soon to be dropped on Japan
Photograph from LBJ Meeting with Civil Rights leaders
Barbara Jordan, first African American woman elected to Congress from Texas, is remembered for her commitment to the U.S. Constitution. Her speech…
Two SPARS pause on the ladder of the dry-land ship `U.S.S. Neversail' during their `boot' training at the U.S. Coast Guard Training Station
Susan B. Anthony's Indictment for Illegal VotingSusan B. Anthony devoted more than fifty years of her life to the cause of woman suffrage. After casting her ballot in the 1872 Presidential election…
Anti-Slavery Petition from the Women of Philadelphia
To make their voices heard on the important social issues of their day, women organized themselves and used petitions to influence Congress.
In…