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The woman in the chair is Ruth Snyder, who was found guilty of murdering her husband and was the first woman to be sentenced for execution in the Sing Sing Prison.

Newspaper front page from the day of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

This is what the new immigration processing center looks like at Ellis Island. It shows the acceptance of the growing immigrant population. This building was not used for its intended purpose.

Jacqueline Hangenimana, a girl from Cellule Muremure, Munanira Sector of Commune Masango in Gitarama Prefecture, describes how killing in the 1994 Rwandan genocide mainly started in Kibuye prefecture and how many refugees from that prefecture had…

Both documents are excerpts from a larger work, Mary M. Kritz's U.S. IMMIGRATION AND REGUGEE POLICY, 1983. The first, "Current Status of U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy" by Charles B. Keely, documents why immigration policy is so slow to change.…

Scope and content: This petition was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary on January 20, 1873.

General notes: Exhibit History: "American Originals," June 1996 - June 1997, National Archives Rotunda, Washington, DC, Exhibit No. 624.0108.

Cover to the propaganda comic book "Is This Tomorrow"

Twelve member team of Chinese ""hose"" runners posed in uniform.

Soldiers lying in the sand, in the top portion of the image, while the crosses of the Iwo Jima cemetery are visible in the bottom half.