La Guardia and Wagner Archives:
Two poses of Senator Blanche K. Bruce of Mississippi, the first African American elected to a full term as U.S. senator.
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World War II poster.
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Yiddish poster from the Federal Art Project advertising free classes in English.
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Frederick Douglass.
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"President's Levee, or all Creation going to the White House," by Robert Cruikshank, 1841.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton, left, and Susan B. Anthony.
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George Washington.
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'Emigrants Crossing the Plains," 1869.
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower talks to paratroopers on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
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Women's suffrage tent tour at Suffolk County Fair, Long Island, NY, 1914.
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Gordon Parks parody of Grant Wood painting titled "American Gothic," Washington, DC, 1942.
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African American janitors in a Kansas City factory line up in V-formation (or perhaps a butterfly) at the start of the morning, 1942.
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Comic book, circa 1951, about Jackie Robinson's breaking of the color barrier in 1947.
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Mitsuye Endo challenged the constitutionality of the forced removals of Japanese Americans from their homes in World War II and eventually won the case.
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Comic book showing the threat of communism, published by the Catholic Church, 1961.
La Guardia and Wagner Archives:
Woody Guthrie during World War II. The sticker reads 'This Machine Kills Fascists.'
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Judy Moody in the office of the Environment Teach-In, Inc., in Washington, DC, 1970.
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Dr. Hugo Morales established the Bronx Mental Health Center in 1965.
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Christine Quinn, first female and lesbian speaker of the New York City Council.
La Guardia and Wagner Archives:
Nydia Velazquez, the first Puerto Rican woman elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.
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Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Part of the Declaration of Independence, July 4, 1776.
La Guardia and Wagner Archives:
Benjamin Franklin reads a draft of the Declaration of Independence with John Adams (seated) and Thomas Jefferson.
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Recruitment poster for African Americans to join the Union Army, 1863.
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President Abraham Lincoln.
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Philadelphia's Old State House Bell was renamed the Liberty Bell in the 1830s by abolitionists.
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March on Washington, August 28, 1963.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. leads the march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, March 21, 1965.
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Rev. Jesse Jackson at a demonstration in favor of the Hawkins-Humphrey bill for full employment, 1975.
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Nassau County Police Officer Mary Farrell at the Belmont Stakes parade, 1991.
