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This is a wood engraving showing the "insurgents" at Harpers Ferry in 1859 interrupted by railroad workers.
- Illus. in: The life, trial, and execution of Captain John Brown, known as "Old Brown of Ossawatomie," ... New York : R.M. DeWitt,…

The image shows 4 children being openly auctioned by their mother. She looks away from the camera as her children sit in happy confusion.

An image of a classical Thamien hut characteristic of the time when they were still residing in the land where Santa Clara University still stands.

Soviet soldiers hang up the Soviet Union

Allied soldiers discuss strategy with Polish military leaders.

Black and white portrait of cartographer and publishing mogul John Murray I.

Black and white portrait of German cartographer Augustus Petermann.

T34 tanks line up in front of the a church as they prepare for the Battle of Moscow

On August 28, 1963 more than 200,000 people participated in the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom in the nation's capital. The John F. Kennedy administration was successfully pressured by the march to introduce a robust federal civil rights…