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English: U.S. inspectors examining eyes of immigrants, Ellis Island, New York Harbor

A Consolidated B-24 Liberator from Maxwell Field, Alabama, four engine pilot school, glistens in the sun as it makes a turn at high altitude in the clouds.

The B-24 is B-24D-7-CO 41-23828, which was later assigned to the 90th Bomb Group, Fifth Air…

Building on the site of the Harbin bioweapon facility of Unit 731. Color photograph, old, abandoned-looking building. No people in sight.

Shiro Ishii at a reunion party of Unit 731 members after the war. Faded photograph in black and white. Subject smiles at the camera.

"Photograph shows Japanese American young children carrying American flags in program to promote their assimilation into American society during forced removal to the temporary concentration camp during World War II."

Track maintenance workers, called "gandy dancers" in railroad slang, patrol the Oregon Pacific Railroad in a hand

This image is a political cartoon titled "The Coming Man," published in The Wasp magazine on May 20, 1881. It reflects the anti-Chinese sentiment prevalent in the U.S. during the late 19th century, particularly around the time of the Chinese…

A silver-plated wooden paperweight calendar given to First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy from President John F. Kennedy to mark the Cuban Missile Crisis.

Aerial photograph of Cuban missile launch sites.