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Rio Vista Bracero Reception Center, Selection Building, 901 North Rio Vista Road, Socorro, El Paso County, TX

Significance: In order to meet the needs of the Rio Vista Bracero Reception Center that had originally been erected as the El Paso County Poor Farm in…

Italian family, Ellis Island

Collection [of] Eastman House, Rochester, New York.

Remember Pearl Harbor - Crush Them!

Poster created by a New York based publishing company intended to be propaganda promoting the vengeance that they believed needed to be exacted…

'Head shop' on Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, California, where the hippie movement was headquartered in the 1960s

This image showcases Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco, a cultural epicenter for the hippie movement in the 1960s. Renowned for its psychedelic designs…

Antietam Road statues at Antietam National Battlefield, Maryland.

- Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital…

Mural in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, San Francisco, California

This mural commemorates two early San Francisco leaders: Pioneer and exchange banker Henry Haight and Munroe Ashbury. The district is noted for its…

A sign of satire posted outside a restaurant

A satirical sign posted outside the Crawdad Hole restaurant in Flowood, Mississippi. Hippies, demonstrative members of a disaffected youth subculture,…

Communal disturbances

Report on developing partition situation by British High Commisioner

A photo of a farm owner supervising braceros as they harvest sugar beets and toss them in the back of the truck, 1942

The original description from photographer Hal Higgins reads: “President Robert Barr of the Central California Beet Growers' Assoc. And his crew of…