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Al Capone's criminal record in 1932. Despite a litany of charges, he ended up being nabbed for tax evasion. (FBI/U.S. Bureau of Prisons)

An aerial shot of the Grand Coulee Dam from June 14, 1941.

A Mexican mother is photographed with her children.

An Italian immigrant family arrives at Ellis Island at the height of immigration in the United States

Map that show the route of Japanese territory I Asia 1942

Houses and city roads in rubble

A photograph of a young David Bohm during the late 1930's.

Japanese Americans made every effort to lead normal lives in the Puyallup Assembly Center. They cultivated gardens, engaged in different types of activities, and played games such as ping-pong.

Helen Gladys (Emery) Aoki and Gunjiro Aoki, March 1909.

Political cartoon of a Chinese man seated outside Golden Gate of Liberty.

Enrico Fermi standing in front of nuclear energy technology he helped develop.

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President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam (near Berlin). The meeting was originally called the "Berlin Conference," the name was later changed to the "Potsdam…

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

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.

A security checkpoint on the border of the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

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

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…

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

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

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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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…

Petition for japanese relocation

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…

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

'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…

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.

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