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Siphonophore Apolemia

Siphonophore Apolemia is suspected to be the longest organism on earth, outsizing both the blue whale and the giant squid. This particular sample is…

SIS women using Purple Analog

Two women at work at the U.S. Army during World War II. The woman on the right is inputting ciphertext into an analog of the Japanese Type B Cipher…

Sit-in demonstrators

Two sit-in demonstrators from the Congress of Racial Equality are seen being dragged from the Federal Building by deputy US marshals.

Sit-In, Feb 1, 1960, F.W. Woolworth, Greensboro, NC, 1957-1985 Clarence Lee Harris Scrapbook #1

This scrapbook is part of a set of scrapbooks compiled by Clarence Lee Harris during the 1980s to commemorate the sit-ins through his own perspective.…

Site of the Lucas Artists Programs

Site of the Lucas Artists Programs, which offers facilities and staff supportive of the creative process, state-of-the-art technology, and an…

Six months in the gold mines : from a journal of three years' residence in Upper and Lower California. 1847-8-9

Edward Gould Buffum writes a short passage about attacks of whites versus Indians.

Siyante, Potoyanti, Coconoon, Apangasse, Aplache, and Awallache land taken (ceded by California) on March 19, 1851

A dated list, plus maps, of areas detailed as "cessions"—Native American Land taken by the United States government across the United States between…

Sketch Map of Sikhim and the Nipalese Frontier to illustrate Dr. Hooker's paper

Constructed by Augustus Petermann, F.R.G.S.

Scale: 1/890,000 of Nature (14 miles to 1 inch.)

Note: This Map is based on the trigonometrical…

Sketch Map of the Glaciers of Kanchenjunga

Map inset from 'Round Kangchenjunga; a narrative of mountain travel and exploration (1903)' by Douglas William Freshfield. Following the 1883…