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Youth NAACP demonstrations in Charleston--outtakesThere are various scenes of young demonstrators on the streets of Charleston, South Carolina. A reporter then interviews a young man about the goals…
Early RocketsPhoto of the launch of Jupiter-C/Explorer 1, the first American satellite successfully launched
Sit-In, Feb 1, 1960, F.W. Woolworth, Greensboro, NC, 1957-1985 Clarence Lee Harris Scrapbook #1This 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.…
View of the Sobibor camp gateView of the Sobibor camp gate in the spring of 1943. Jews deported to the Sobibor killing center were driven through the gate into the camp on foot,…
The Liberation of Bergen-belsen Concentration Camp, April 1945The bodies of the dead lie awaiting burial in a mass grave at the camp.
Public Law 507 - 81st CongressDocument of the National Science Foundation Act of 1950, outlining the functions and logistics of the foundation.
Leaving AndersonvillePhotograph of drawing by James E. Taylor shows Union prisoners going through door in stockade wall as one prisoner collects a cake of bread.
Andersonville Prison, Ga., August 17, 1864. Issuing rations, view from main gate No. 8220.
- Title from item.
- Hand written on verso: "[Miller] Vol. VII, p. 131".
- Gift; Col. Godwin Ordway; 1948.
Smallpox cases reported worldwideVisualization of smallpox cases reported globally.
Reported paralytic polio cases and deaths, United States, 1910 to 2019Visualization of polio deaths and cases globally.