[African American][New Deal][Labor] Black Civilian Conservation Corps member photograph archives, showing an all-Black CCC unit in Pennsylvania, ca. 1937. These photographs document the experiences of Black participants in the Civilian Conservation Corps, one of the central employment and public works initiatives created under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. Established.....

[WWI][National Guard][WWII] Primary-source archive documenting U.S. Army transportation command operations supporting Allied logistics following the Normandy landings, centered on the development of Cherbourg as a critical supply hub. Assembled from the career of Lieutenant Colonel George C. Sullivan, the collection spans World War I mobilization through World War II and.....

[Japanese American] [California] Japanese American family photograph archive, 1950s, documenting everyday life in Southern California during the decade following the forced wartime incarceration of Japanese Americans under Executive Order 9066. The photographs record domestic routines, family celebrations, and recreational outings among a Nisei and Sansei generation rebuilding community life after.....

Internment camp copy of Flowering Plants and Ferns of Arizona from the Gila River Project School Libraries, preserving the school library apparatus of a War Relocation Authority camp for Japanese Americans incarcerated in Arizona during World War II. The stamp “Property of Gila River Project School Libraries / War Relocation.....

Tyndall, John. Autograph Letter Signed, 19 July 1872, written in the year he published major work on atmospheric heat absorption that established the physical basis of what is now termed the greenhouse effect. Addressed to poet Matthew Arnold, the letter situates Tyndall within the intellectual networks of Victorian Britain at.....

7th Avenue Original Subway construction album documenting cut and cover excavation, timber bracing, and utility rerouting in Greenwich Village, New York City, in 1914, a ground-level record of the Dual Contracts expansion that extended the IRT south along Seventh Avenue Extension and Varick Street to meet rising transit demand on.....

New York Public Service Commission investigator F.G. Daniell documenting the infrastructural failures behind the October 21, 1913 double boiler explosion at the Richmond Light & Railroad Company plant at Livingston, Staten Island, which killed fireman Daniel Sullivan, engineer Francis Hannan, and another worker, completely cutting electric service and trolley operation.....

Steve Rose's photographic coverage of demonstrations, strike activity, broadcast spaces, and police control in New York City and Washington, D.C., circa 1969–1971, with dissent moving through street assembly, underground and movement media, institutional protest, and municipal enforcement. Rose, active in New York documentary photography during the early 1970s, photographed activists.....

African American coal mining photo archive depicting Black industrial labor from the turn of the century through the postwar era, documenting the changing conditions of mine work while revealing the continuity of Black employment in one of America's most dangerous industries. Spanning approximately fifty years, from an early albumen photograph.....

[Cuban Refugees] [Caravan of Sorrow] Miami Herald press photograph archive, 1960 to 1966, documents Cuban exile political organizing, refugee displacement, and United States federal response in South Florida across the critical period between the Cuban Revolution and the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966. The archive follows a defined sequence of.....

Large photographic archive documenting major public works and industrial construction projects undertaken by the Fletcher Construction Company Preload Division across New Zealand during the postwar expansion of the 1950s. Founded in 1915, Fletcher Construction became one of the country’s dominant engineering and construction firms during the decades when New Zealand.....

Civilian Conservation Corps and Wisconsin Conservation Department photograph archive, circa 1930s, documenting the expansion of New Deal work relief into park construction, forestry, public recreation, and state-administered conservation at Devil’s Lake State Park. The photographs record the federal labor and state supervision that gave the park much of its modern.....

African American working men and women appear throughout this photograph archive documenting occupational identity and labor roles during the first half of the twentieth century. The images record Black workers in uniforms associated with municipal service, transportation, agriculture, and service industries during the era of racial segregation in the United.....