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

Explosion during Attack on Pearl Harbor

Flyer advocating for support of the farm workers in the grape boycott of 1965.

Black and white portrait of German cartographer Augustus Petermann.

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

These unemployed men standing in line outside a soup kitchen in Chicago Illinois.

Post card from 1915 depicting a suffragette.

Lange's Migrant Mother snapshots the grim gaze of Florence Owens Thompson, one of the many destitute farmers in California. In 1936, when this picture was captured, Thompson was a mother of seven children, and lived in Nipomo, California.

The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, soon to be dropped on Japan

The construction of the atomic bomb, Little Boy, weighing 9,700 pounds and 10 feet in length.