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Three People on Raft

Date: 1910
Description: Three people on a raft, all wearing blue shirts. Two of the people are standing and holding shields and spears, while the third person is sitting in the mi...
Photograph

Classroom Cave People

Date: 02 27 1984
Description: A sixth grade class dresses up as cave people to experience the likeness of living in pre-historic times.
Photograph

Renaissance Faire

Date: 1909
Description: A group of people dressed up in medieval-style clothing.
Poster

Anti El Salvador War Poster

Date: 
Description: Poster opposing military aid to the government of El Salvador featuring an illustration of silhouetted helicopters spraying red gas towards two people in s...
Postcard

Service Flag Dedication

Date: 11 01 1918
Description: Text on front reads: "Service Flag Dedication, Schleisingerville, Wis." The people of the town and uniformed nurses are watching as the soldiers are standi...
Magazine or Periodical

Arrival of a Federal Column at a Planter's House in Dixie

Date: 04 04 1863
Description: Illustration depicting a large group of people gathered in the yard of a house. Three woman stand on the porch steps, and men, women and children are gathe...
Photograph

Woolworth's Protest

Date: 1964
Description: A protest of Woolworth's department store during Freedom Summer. A line of people are standing on the sidewalk in front of Woolworth's show windows while a...
Photograph

View towards Group of Unidentified People

Date: 
Description: View towards a group of people in front of a small two-story wooden house. Three women are standing on the porch, and a man is leaning against the fence. A...
Photograph

Knights of Old

Date: 05 30 1989
Description: Two people in armor battling with practice swords. Caption reads: "KNIGHTS OF OLD — Eric Chance (left) and Scott Hall engaged in battle as they fought to b...
Photograph

Frame 21: Police Grabbing Girl by Arm - She is Not Intimidated

Date: 07 16 1964
Description: Police drag away 15-year-old Annie Lee Turner. Officers are wearing helmets and holding batons. A couple of men with cameras are walking towards the person...
Poster

Palais de Glace — Paris Y.M.C.A. Canteen and Theatre

Date: 1918
Description: Poster with an illustration of a snowy field with bare trees and snow-covered artillery. People are walking toward a lit theater in the background. Text re...
Photograph

Soldiers Home with Cannon

Date: 
Description: Exterior view of the Soldiers Home with a cannon in the foreground.
Photograph

Soldiers Home with Cannon and Wagon

Date: 
Description: Soldiers Home with cannon and wagon in the foreground.
Poster

Por El Cumplimiento De La Tabla Salarial

Date: 
Description: A man, standing with a sack on a scale, and a woman, also holding a sack, are each holding one fist up in the air. The woman's sack reads: "Queremos pan ti...
Photograph

Cannon at Soldiers Home

Date: 07 30 1898
Description: A cannon at Soldiers Home adorned with American flags near a sign reading "Keep off the grass."
Poster

No Chemical Weapons!

Date: 01 16 1984
Description: Russian with Cyrillic characters. Poster depicts a person with a "USA" hard hat and dollar signs on his goggles pouring a chemical into a beaker with a CS ...
Photograph

Laurence Olivier and Terence Morgan

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Description: Elevated view of actors Laurence Olivier and Terence Morgan filming the duel scene from the 1949 film "Hamlet." Both men are using daggers and rappers. A m...
Photograph

Face-off between Police and NAACP Members

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Description: The Milwaukee police approach a line of NAACP Youth Council members in an attempt to break up a demonstration.
Photograph

Arm Quiver

Date: 02 18 1955
Description: A man posing indoors with a drawn bow. He has a quiver with additional arrows affixed to his arm. Caption reads: "ACCLAIMED BY ARCHERS is this arm q...
Poster

La "Grosse Bertha"!

Date: 1918
Description: Poster depicting an image of a personified Big Bertha bomb. The bomb is wearing a German helmet and appears to have paws with large claws. It is being lit ...

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