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A video discussing what it was like for African Americans after the civil war.

Frederick Taylor is known as the Father of Scientific Management. He is also a graduate of Stevens Institute of Technology where is manuscript and book collection reside today.

Henry Ford became the first mass producer of automobiles during the early 1900's, using taylor's techniques.

Information on the 1895 National League Baseball Season

THis shows the working conditions born fomr Taylor's scientific managment. Chalie Chaplin stared in this film depicting the assembly line, pressures from managers to follow the method of time motion, and speed in which products should be produced.

Player and Manager of National League

This is an advertisement posted on railroad cars and around the city of Chicago to warn people of the affects of Marijuana.

Photo shows man wearing hat with card "Bread or revolution" at IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) rally in Union Square, New York City on April 11, 1914. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2010 and New York Times, April 12, 1914)

- Photo from original drawing of Mrs. Julia Bracken Wendt.
- This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
- Caption card tracings: Shelf.

- Title and other information from caption card.
- Transfer; United States. Office of War Information. Overseas Picture Division. Washington Division; 1944.
- More information about the FSA/OWI Collection is available at…

1 photographic print on stereo card : stereograph

Silent footage of members of Washington State College touring around before the 1916 Rose Bowl, as well as actual game footage. Washington State defeated Brown 14-0. This was digitized from 16mm film held at WSU's Manuscripts, Archives, and Special…

Between 1884 and 1886, Roosevelt sojourned on horseback to the mountains west of Dakota territory. Few naturalists had described the wildlife of this region, and with the trilogy of books he wrote about his experiences, Roosevelt became an authority.…

Theodore Roosevelt and Gifford Pinchot, on the steamer Mississippi, 1907

This document looks at some interesting stories that a journalist encountered during a trip to Staunton Virginia. The writer describes the many different individuals who use opium and its derivatives for medical or personal use.

This is a photo of a public burning of confiscated Opium pipes in San Francisco's chinatown in the year 1919.

This is an advertisement for the remedy Ka-Tar-No, promising a cure to Catarrh.

This letter from John Muir articulates in a clear and concise fashion his reasons for wanting to preserve the land around Yellowstone National Park. Being a primary source document, this letter expresses the weight of concern that John Muir had for…

This letter from President Theodore Roosevelt outlines his policy standpoint on cattle grazing privileges. John Muir sought out greater support and funding for grazing areas. However, President Roosevelt acknowledged that only a few people get to…

"Our Spirits Don't speak English: Indian Boarding School" is a Native American perspective on Indian Boarding Schools. This DVD produced by richheape.com uncovers the dark history of U.S. Government policy which took Indian children from thier homes,…

John Muir and President Theodore Roosevelt at Yosemite National Park