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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.

Photograph shows an aerial view of the "proposed route of the civil rights 'March on Washington', which is scheduled for August 28." Indicated on the map are an "Assembly Area" at the "Washington Monument", the "Line of March" down "Constitution…

World War II Patriotic Poster

An article highlighting the celebrity appearance of Jerry Mathers from ABC Television show "Leave It To Beaver" at the Happy Hollow Park Opening.

"In 1900 the Office of the Superintendent of Immigration, which had been established in the Department of the Treasury in 1891, became the chief agency responsible for implementing Federal regulations mandated by the Chinese exclusion laws. Both the…

This is a newspaper clipping from the June 20, 1962 Santa Clara Journal, which talks about the end of "The Ship" on the Santa Clara campus, and how the end of their physical place on campus, left the theatre community essentially "homeless," for the…

A celebratory article for Happy Hollow's 30 anniversary that provides a brief history of the park's creation.

Poster of a US Army plane with the American flag in the background. The bottom of the poster has a description asking for soldiers and pilots to join the war effort.