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The untanking tower at the Chehalis Substation of the Bonneville Power Administration, Napavine, WA.

Section of the Seattle Daily Times, Do Women Work Only for Pin Money? March 13, 1932

The Seattle Times warns of shortages in this headlined article of May 10, 1934, shortly after the strike began

This image shows an article published in a paper after the Dred Scot Decision in 1857. It is cropped where the newspaper title itself is not visible.

North facing exterior of B-Reactor at Hanford Nuclear Reservation.

On October 18, 1931, Capone was convicted after trial and on November 24, was sentenced to eleven years in federal prison, fined $50,000 and charged $7,692 for court costs, in addition to $215,000 plus interest due on back taxes. The six-month…

Newspaper article headline reads, 'Immigration Bill is Signed by President; Japanese Ban Becomes Effective on July 1.

Boeing B-17Es under construction. This is the first released wartime production photograph of Flying Fortress heavy bombers at one of the Boeing plants, at Seattle, Wash.

In September 1945, many participants returned to the Trinity Test site for news crews. Here Oppenheimer and Groves examine the remains of one the bases of the steel test tower.

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.

The bomb used on the Us at the end of the war

Photograph of the 1946 colloquium on the Super at Los Alamos. Front row left to right: Norris Bradbury, John Manley, Enrico Fermi and J.M.B. Kellogg. Second row left to right: Colonel Oliver G. Haywood, unknown, Robert Oppenheimer, Richard Feynman,…

Farming was extremely labor-intensive and still relied heavily on human and horse-power. An organized harvesting/threshing team in the 1920's required 120 men and 320 mules and horses. Teams moved from farm to farm as the crops ripened. Few farmers…

Chairman of the House Naval Affairs Committee, December 1931 to January 1947, then chairman of the Armed Services Committee.

May 5, 1938, Pierce County officials signed a deed passing the title of Tacoma Field, 900 acres of land with buildings, to the War Department to be used as part of a giant airbase to defend the Pacific Northwest.

'The political hostility between the United States of America and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1990 not only perpetuated enemy propaganda in both countries, but was also a power battle between both nations to sell their respective ideologies to the…

In russia its states that "Comrade Lenin will clean up the earth

With hangar 3 in the background, a new USAAF Boeing B-17B Flying Fortress starts its engines before flying in McChord Fields dedication Army Air Corps air demonstration. Forty RAF aircrew from No. 90 Squadron were trained at McChord Field from…

Petition for japanese relocation

Cartoon shows the world as a globe being squeezed in a vise made up of two bombs, one labeled "Russia's Bombs" and the other "U.S.' Bombs." Reflects the fear of a world-wide atomic war that developed after the revelation in September 1949 that the…

America's first Mafia family, the Morellos, usher in a level of brutality and violence never seen before in New York City.

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Male work crew posed inside warehouse. Asians (probably Japanese), one Sikh in turban. Probably strawberry packing house.

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New York City Deputy Police Commissioner John A. Leach, right, watching agents pour liquor into sewer following a raid during the height of prohibition

Timber crew from the Clemons Logging Company, on the Chehalis River east of Aberdeen. By 1935, Washington's timber workers went on strike for better conditions and the legal recognition of their union. The timber workers' strike faced an often…

A Hanford Site worker wearing ionization chambers and a film badge during Manhattan Project plutonium production.

A security checkpoint on the border of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

Japanese Americans, escorted by armed soldiers, walk down the Eagledale ferry dock on Bainbridge Island, WA at the beginning of their forced removal to the Manzanar Assembly Center in the California desert.

View of barracks that housed Japanese internee's at the Puyallup Assembly Center (Camp Harmony).