Black and white photographic print depicting an aerial view of Willow Run, facing east. In the background is the airport. In the foreground is worker housing and a house along the water.
Caption reads: Ford's Willow Run bomber factory, shown here as…
Photograph of two small children sitting on a bench in the hospital garden at Manzanar incarceration camp.
The collection was donated by Ralph "Pete" Merritt, Jr. and Patricia Merritt. It is comprised of photographs from an album created by L.…
One sepia-toned reproduction photograph of Henry Ford touring the Willow Run Bomber Plant, Ypsilanti, Michigan, on July 24, 1943. The four persons at the center include (left to right): Major James Kendrick, escort to Henry Ford; Henry Ford; Mead L.…
Following her arrest, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. organized a boycott of the Montgomery bus system. On Nov. 13, 1956, the Supreme Court struck down Alabama state and Montgomery city bus segregation laws as being in violation of the equal protection…
Refugees from Nazi Germany on board the St. Louis en route to Cuba. The passengers were denied entry into Cuba and the US and were forced to return to Europe.
Photograph of Fr. Leo Steinbach, MM, and Maryknoll Sisters Bernadette and Susanna with a group of children. They stand in front of a tar paper building. There are three small trees behind them.