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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,…

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

Political Cartoon from 1921 showing disapproval of immigration to the United States.

Preliminary health screening at Ellis Island, 1920s.

Race 2012: A Conversation About Race and Politics in America, a PBS election special. Check local listings.

Claire Jean Kim, Assoc. Prof., Political Science, University of California, Irvine, explains that this act instituted the national origins…

Al Capone called over Chicago Cubs star Gabby Hartnett at a charity baseball game in 1931 asking for the catcher's autograph

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Al Capone died on January 25th, 1947 of a cardiac arrest, along with minor complications of syphilis and pneumonia.

Regarding Al Capone's incarceration, he was needed for classification among his peers in order to clarify the "star ranking" of the inmate.

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…

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)

The coroner's office provided the Federal Bureau of Investigation with Al Capone's fingerprints following his death.

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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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.

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…

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

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

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

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.

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.

One of a number of posters created by the Economic Cooperation Administration, an agency of the U.S. government, to sell the Marshall Plan in Europe. Includes versions of the flags of those Western European countries that received aid under the…

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

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

President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Universal Newsreel clip of his sixth Fireside Chat (September 30th, 1934).

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A picture of one of the many farm labor camps throughout the Pacific Northwest, that were initiated by the Farm Security Administration in the same region.