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  • Collection: United States History, 1914-1945

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a propagranda poster from the US, published during the time of the cold war.

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'The political hostility between the United States of America and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1990 not only perpetuated enemy propaganda in both countries, but was also a power battle between both nations to sell their respective ideologies to the…

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

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

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Farming was extremely labor-intensive and still relied heavily on human and horse-power. An organized harvesting/threshing team in the 1920's required 120 men and 320 mules and horses. Teams moved from farm to farm as the crops ripened. Few farmers…

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

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A security checkpoint on the border of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

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A Hanford Site worker wearing ionization chambers and a film badge during Manhattan Project plutonium production.

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"Cartoon shows two pairs of hands grasping for an Atom Bomb, one with a sleeve bearing a star and a cufflink reading "US," the other with a hammer and sickle. Probably drawn after President Truman announced in September 1949 that the Soviet Union had…

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In which John Green teaches you about the massive immigration to the United States during the late 19th and early 20th century. Immigrants flocked to the US from all over the world in this time period. Millions of Europeans moved to the US where they…

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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.

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

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A picture of one of the many farm labor camps throughout the Pacific Northwest, that were initiated by the Farm Security Administration in the same region.

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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Universal Newsreel clip of his sixth Fireside Chat (September 30th, 1934).

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The bomb used on the Us at the end of the war

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

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One of a number of posters created by the Economic Cooperation Administration, an agency of the U.S. government, to sell the Marshall Plan in Europe. Includes versions of the flags of those Western European countries that received aid under the…

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This image shows an article published in a paper after the Dred Scot Decision in 1857. It is cropped where the newspaper title itself is not visible.

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Japanese Americans, escorted by armed soldiers, walk down the Eagledale ferry dock on Bainbridge Island, WA at the beginning of their forced removal to the Manzanar Assembly Center in the California desert.

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

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View of barracks that housed Japanese internee's at the Puyallup Assembly Center (Camp Harmony).

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North facing exterior of B-Reactor at Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

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With hangar 3 in the background, a new USAAF Boeing B-17B Flying Fortress starts its engines before flying in McChord Fields dedication Army Air Corps air demonstration. Forty RAF aircrew from No. 90 Squadron were trained at McChord Field from…

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Boeing B-17Es under construction. This is the first released wartime production photograph of Flying Fortress heavy bombers at one of the Boeing plants, at Seattle, Wash.

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America's first Mafia family, the Morellos, usher in a level of brutality and violence never seen before in New York City.

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The coroner's office provided the Federal Bureau of Investigation with Al Capone's fingerprints following his death.
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