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Pacific Indemnity Building at the corner of Wilshire Boulevard and Vermont Avenue The Texaco Building can be seen further down the street, heading west. On the left side of the street is See's Candy and Magic Mirror Beauty Salon, while on the right…

Aerial view of Koreatown facing north over Mid-Wilshire District (Koreatown), The Travelers Insurance Building, Sheraton Wilshire Hotel.
Streetscape. Oblique aerial photography.

An image of the Stonewall Inn in 1969

Troy Female Seminary, subsequently called Emma Willard School, American educational institution, established in 1821 by Emma Hart Willard in Troy, New York, the first in the country founded to provide young women with an education comparable to that…

This image depicts little Italy in New York and the immigrants that live there. the image shows the overcrowding and tenement buildings. This give us some insight to what life was like back then.

War uniform image of Civil War, Confederate Captain Henry Wirz.

In 1943, Minnie Spotted Wolf was the first Native American woman enlisted in the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve. Spotted Wolf served for four years in the Marines as a heavy equipment operator as well as a driver.