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A Black man in an all-black suit, paired with a top hat just off center in the foreground of the image, pushes a loaded cart down what seems to be an alley. The cart sports two miniature American flags at the end, and the three-wheeled wagon’s path…

While others had previously submitted patents for harvesting machine, this one designed by Obed Hussey in 1833 is considered the first workable farm implement of its kind. Two horses and two workers could harvest grains at a much faster rate than…

Map of areas impacted by the June 1972 Hurricane

Map of areas impacted by the June 1972 Hurricane

Composite image created from two U.S. Army Engineer maps of 1972 hurricane

Roadway leading to migrant camp run by Elijah Hunter on behalf of Marquart Farms. At least four large buildings--each of which had a shared kitchen and dormitory-style beds--suggests that the farm employed a large number of migrant farmworkers.…

Number 19 on the Burleigh map, this firm dated back to Scottish immigrant Colin Campbell, who founded it in 1843 and later took on his nephew Hugh (1855-1920) as a partner. Their quality of work on saddles, harnesses, and collars was known throughout…

Shanties built ca. 1884 for Italian immigrant employees of Retsof Mine. It was demolished in 1923 because the houses had become dilapidated and a new, larger mine was under construction.

This scene at the edge of a forest is drawn using remarkably sparse details, for example a few brushstrokes evoking a vegetable garden, a house, or a hill. Much of Nakagawa’s attention has been devoted to dense and multicolored foliage at left and…

Magazine cover dates to a period when women’s suffrage and socialism were commingling in productive new ways. Here, women's oppression within the home by husbands is linked to "man-made law" enacted without enfranchisement. As with other Braverman…