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  • Collection: United States History, 1914-1945

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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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Race 2012: A Conversation About Race and Politics in America, a PBS election special. Check local listings.

Claire Jean Kim, Assoc. Prof., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, explains that this act instituted the national origins…

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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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Preliminary health screening at Ellis Island, 1920s.

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Mexican migrant sugar beet workers, living in a one room house in the 1920s.

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Mexican immigrants being inspected for lice.

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Woman points to anti-Japanese rhetoric sign outside of her California home in the 1920s.

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Citrus workers at the Hewes ranch in Tustin in the 1920s. Click for larger version.

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El Paso, Texas, 1927. U.S. Immigration Service Border Patrol inspectors in formation in front of the Border Patrol's first training facility in Camp Chigas.

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

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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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Movie Poster

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Magazine cover

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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…

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Magazine Cover

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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 soldiers march down the streets of Shanghai, China after their Occupation victory and round up of 350 prisoners of war.

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television poster
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