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Mexican Immigrants line up at a Braceros Processing Depot, c. 1920s

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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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A Japanese soldier lies dead face down in the surf at the end of the Battle of Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands 1944

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1960 comic book warns young readers of the dangers ahead should Uncle Sam fail to steer clear of the "Red Iceberg."

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An issue of the newspaper "The American Issue" from January 16, 1919

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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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