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Book or Pamphlet

America's Shameful Trade with the Enemy!

Date: 1970
Description: Pamphlet distributed by Young Americans for Freedom criticizing trade with China. Text at bottom, along with the hammer and sickle symbol, reads: "'When th...
Photograph

Adolpe Menjou at Edgwater Hotel

Date: 09 12 1958
Description: Movie and TV actor, Adolphe Menjou, right, with William Doudna, journalist for the Wisconsin State Journal. In 1947, Menjou was a witness in the Hou...
Photograph

Anti-Castro Protest

Date: 04 21 1961
Description: Several sign-carrying U.W. students protest a rally by the Wisconsin Socialist Club, hosts of an event at the Wisconsin Union Theater supporting Fidel Cast...
Newspaper Article/Clipping

"Neue Rheinische Zeitung" Page One

Date: 05 19 1849
Description: Page one of the "Neue Rheinische Zeitung," a German newspaper published by Karl Marx in Cologne.
Photograph

Governor Heil at Desk

Date: 05 15 1941
Description: Governor Julius P. Heil sits at his desk signing a piece of paper. Behind him stand senators and assemblymen. A vase of flowers sits on the left corner of ...
Photograph

President Ford in China

Date: 12 01 1975
Description: President Gerald Ford being officially greeted at the airport by Deng Xiao Ping. Mrs. Ford stands on the President's right; on the far left are Secretary o...
Photograph

Ramon Magsaysay

Date: 1950
Description: Ramon Magsaysay (in the wide-brimmed hat), then secretary of defense and later the President of the Philippines, during the campaign against the communist ...
Photograph

CP Meeting Room

Date: 1967
Description: Men in the Communist Party meeting room in the Hanoi hotel where American journalist David Schoenbrun was staying.
Photograph

People's Book Store Shelves

Date: 1943
Description: Inside of the People's Bookstore. Bookshelves, counters and cabinets of leftist books. Some titles are visible including Battle for Asia, Women i...
Photograph

Cold War Boundary

Date: 09 1951
Description: A hill in the countryside near Hong Kong, showing the fence that marked the border with Communist China. Two children are on a path on the side of the hill...
Photograph

Hong Kong Police

Date: 1951
Description: Hong Kong police with jeep who followed journalist Cecil Brown as he traveled along the border with Communist China.
Photograph

President Sukarno and Nikita Khruschev

Date: 1960
Description: President Sukarno of Indonesia (under the umbrella) escorts Nikita Khruschev (in the white suit), visiting Soviet premier, to inspect some new construction...
Photograph

Khruschev Speaks

Date: 1960
Description: Nikita Khruschev of the Soviet Union speaks to a crowd at the airport in Indonesia. President Sukarno stands at his side, while Indonesian troops stand at ...
Photograph

Farewell to Belfrage

Date: 1955
Description: Farewell party for Cedric Belfrage of the "National Guardian" at the newspaper's office. Identified in the crowd is Paul Robeson, a longtime supporter of t...
Photograph

Sophie Rosenberg and her Grandsons

Date: 1954
Description: After their parents' arrest, Robert (left) and Michael Rosenberg had no settled home. They were eventually placed with Abel and Anne Meeropol under the pro...
Photograph

Belfrage Deportation

Date: 05 1953
Description: Cedric Belfrage (facing the camera and wearing a tie) talks to the staff of the "National Guardian" about his appearance before the McCarthy Committee at w...
Photograph

Alger Hiss

Date: 
Description: Head and shoulders portrait of Alger Hiss. His perjury conviction on charges of spying for the Communists greatly enhanced the careers of Richard Nixon, an...
Photograph

Louis E. Burnham

Date: 
Description: Louis E. Burnham, radical black writer.
Historical Object

Communist League of America: Banner

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Description: A silk banner for the Communist League of America's New York Branch. The Communist League of America was founded in 1928 as a section of Leon Trotsky's Int...
Photograph

"Revolution," East Village

Date: 1968
Description: Close-up of a graffiti painted wall that reads, "Pill" and "Only Revolution Ends War!" framed by hammer and sickles.

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