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President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam (near Berlin). The meeting was originally called the "Berlin Conference," the name was later changed to the "Potsdam…

Enrico Fermi standing in front of nuclear energy technology he helped develop.

Political cartoon of a Chinese man seated outside Golden Gate of Liberty.

Newspaper article headline reads, 'Immigration Bill is Signed by President; Japanese Ban Becomes Effective on July 1.

Portrait photograph of Major General Leslie Groves in full dress uniform after he was promoted to Major General in March of 1944.

Photograph of the 1946 colloquium on the Super at Los Alamos. Front row left to right: Norris Bradbury, John Manley, Enrico Fermi and J.M.B. Kellogg. Second row left to right: Colonel Oliver G. Haywood, unknown, Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman,…

Political Cartoon from 1921 showing disapproval of immigration to the United States.

In September 1945, many participants returned to the Trinity Test site for news crews. Here Oppenheimer and Groves examine the remains of one the bases of the steel test tower.

Helen Gladys (Emery) Aoki and Gunjiro Aoki, March 1909.

Japanese Americans made every effort to lead normal lives in the Puyallup Assembly Center. They cultivated gardens, engaged in different types of activities, and played games such as ping-pong.

A photograph of a young David Bohm during the late 1930's.

Houses and city roads in rubble

Map that show the route of Japanese territory I Asia 1942

An Italian immigrant family arrives at Ellis Island at the height of immigration in the United States

A Mexican mother is photographed with her children.

Virginia Hill

Ma Barker-Barker Gang

An aerial shot of the Grand Coulee Dam from June 14, 1941.

The untanking tower at the Chehalis Substation of the Bonneville Power Administration, Napavine, WA.

Al Capone's criminal record in 1932. Despite a litany of charges, he ended up being nabbed for tax evasion. (FBI/U.S. Bureau of Prisons)

Regarding Al Capone's incarceration, he was needed for classification among his peers in order to clarify the "star ranking" of the inmate.

A pamphlet questioning the democratic legitimacy of legislation modeled after that which created the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), c. 1950.

The Seattle Times warns of shortages in this headlined article of May 10, 1934, shortly after the strike began

Marshall Plan

An Ohio liquor store runs a sale before going out of business the day before the prohibition took effect in the state.

President Harry S. Truman addressing a joint session of Congress asking for $400 million in aid to Greece and Turkey. This speech became known as the "Truman Doctrine" speech.

Stephanie St. Clair, mobster in Harlem

Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, December 1931 to January 1947, then chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

May 5, 1938, Pierce County officials signed a deed passing the title of Tacoma Field, 900 acres of land with buildings, to the War Department to be used as part of a giant airbase to defend the Pacific Northwest.