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Food Supply and Nutrition in the Netherlands during and Immediately after World War II

This source explains how food shortages and rationing affected the people in the Netherlands during World War II and immediately after. It is…

Land redistribution

Cartoon shows Brazilian president João Goulart under a rock slide which has just come down a mountain side. Overthrown by a military uprising after…

Captured Japanese Zero aircraft at Buna Airfield

A captured Japanese Zero aircraft at the airstrip in Buna, Papua. The aircraft shows bullet holes in the wing from being strafed by Allied fighters.…

Robert T. Smith and P-40 Warhawk in Kunming

Flight leader and fighter ace Robert "R.T." Smith standing next to a Curtiss P-40 fighter at Kunming, China. The image shows the "Flying Tiger"…

Kind of Assisted Emigrant we can not afford to admit

Anti-immigration cartoon showing the arrival of cholera in New York. Members of the New York Municipal Board of Health armed with carbolic acid fight…

Women vote in Wyoming, Colorado, Idaho, Utah, Washington

Unused postcard, undated. Supports a California state amendment which would grant women the right to vote.

"The only way to handle it"

[Illus. for article "an alien anti-dumping bill" in The Literary Digest, May 7, 1921, p. 13, reprinting a cartoon by Hallahan for Providence Evening…

Li Xiuying in hospital, Nanjing Massacre

Photograph of Li Xiuying receiving medical treatment at Drum Tower Hospital, taken by American missionary John Magee. Li Xiuying was a 19-year-old…