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George Custer, [Report on the Battle of Washita], December 22, 1868 (Gilder Lehr

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Indian Wars: The Battle of Washita, 1868

The Battle of Washita on November 27, 1868, pitted US Army...

Joining of the rails at Promontory Point, photograph by Andrew J. Russell, May 1

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Official photograph from the “Golden Spike” Ceremony, 1869

This iconic photograph records the celebration marking...

William T. Sherman to David Douty Colton, September 26, 1878 (Gilder Lehrman Col

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William T. Sherman on the western railroads, 1878

After Ulysses S. Grant’s election as president, William Tecumseh Sherman...

Ulysses S. Grant to Tiffany and Co., January 1884. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Statue of Liberty, 1884

First conceived of in 1865, the Statue of...

[Freedmen’s contract between Isham G. Bailey and freedmen Cooper Hughs and Charl

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Sharecropper contract, 1867

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Hooverville in Portland, Oregon, photograph by Arthur Rothstein, July 1936. (Lib

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Photograph of a “Hooverville,” 1936

“Hoovervilles” were temporary communities that America’s homeless...

Abandoned farm in the Dust Bowl, Coldwater District, near Dalhart Texas, photogr

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Photograph of an abandoned farm in the Dust Bowl, 1938

Enlistment poster for the Arizona Civilian Conservation Corps., September 24, 19

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Civilian Conservation Corps poster, 1938

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Japanese internment broadside, May 3, 1942. (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

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Japanese internment, 1942

Joseph Rumshinsky, “Mamenu” or “The Triangle Victims” (in Yiddish), 1911. (Gilde

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Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, 1911

On March 25, 1911,...