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North Atlantic air ferry routes to England, 1945

Diorama recreation of a human dissection experiment room at Harbin's 731 Museum. The recreation includes a mural of open doors leading into a hallway. Ahead, a man in a white coat wheels a stretcher, his back facing the viewer. In front of the mural,…

Taken on the front porch of the family homestead in Adams, Massachusetts. Susan B. Anthony, the "Dowager Empress" of the early woman's rights movement, is seated at the center. Around her:
Laura Clay, daughter of famed anti-slavery activist Cassius…

The woman in the chair is Ruth Snyder, who was found guilty of murdering her husband and was the first woman to be sentenced for execution in the Sing Sing Prison.

Newspaper front page from the day of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

This is what the new immigration processing center looks like at Ellis Island. It shows the acceptance of the growing immigrant population. This building was not used for its intended purpose.

Jacqueline Hangenimana, a girl from Cellule Muremure, Munanira Sector of Commune Masango in Gitarama Prefecture, describes how killing in the 1994 Rwandan genocide mainly started in Kibuye prefecture and how many refugees from that prefecture had…

Both documents are excerpts from a larger work, Mary M. Kritz's U.S. IMMIGRATION AND REGUGEE POLICY, 1983. The first, "Current Status of U.S. Immigration and Refugee Policy" by Charles B. Keely, documents why immigration policy is so slow to change.…

Scope and content: This petition was referred to the Committee on the Judiciary on January 20, 1873.

General notes: Exhibit History: "American Originals," June 1996 - June 1997, National Archives Rotunda, Washington, DC, Exhibit No. 624.0108.