Official Resolution Proclaiming Equal Rights for Japanese Americans, Los Angeles County
by Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
1984. [Japanese American] [WWII] Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Resolution Proclaiming Equal Rights for Japanese Americans. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County, May 1, 1984. One page printed resolution on official county letterhead with printed signatures by Supervisors of the 1st-5th district. Measures 11" x 19.5". Adopted forty-two years after the signing of Executive Order 9066, this resolution formally acknowledges the "grave injustice" committed against persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II. It opens by referencing the... Read More
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Official Resolution Proclaiming Equal Rights for Japanese Americans
by Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors
1984. [Japanese American] [WWII] Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Resolution Proclaiming Equal Rights for Japanese Americans. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County, May 1, 1984. One page printed resolution on official county letterhead with printed signatures by Supervisors of the 1st-5th district. Measures 11" x 19.5". Adopted forty-two years after the signing of Executive Order 9066, this resolution formally acknowledges the "grave injustice" committed against persons of Japanese ancestry during World War II. It opens by referencing the... Read More
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Counterculture Drug Literature and Cannabis Cultivation Guides in Late 1960s California Underground Press
by Mary Jane Superweed
1960. Mary Jane Superweed. The Marijuana Consumer's and Dealer's Guide; The Complete Cannabis Cultivator; Drug Manufacturing for Fun and Profit. These late 1960s to early 1970s underground publications document illicit drug knowledge dissemination networks within the American counterculture, specifically the informal systems through which cannabis use, cultivation, and psychedelic drug production were taught, circulated, and normalized outside institutional authority. Produced during the early escalation of the War on Drugs, the material demonstrates how underground presses functioned as alternative educational... Read More
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Foundational Medical Volume on Transsexualism, Intersex Conditions, and Gender Assignment
by Clinics in Plastic Surgery
1974. [Transgender] [Intersex Studies] Clinics in Plastic Surgery: Intersex and Gender Identity Disorders, April 1974. An early medical volume exploring sex and gender as separate, complex concepts rather than biologically self-evident, bringing intersex variation into direct conversation with psychiatry, pediatrics, and reconstructive surgery. Many contributors associated with Johns Hopkins' groundbreaking gender identity clinic, the first of its kind in the country. The clinic closed in 1979 due to internal political pressure and institutional controversy and remained closed for nearly... Read More
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Woman Surgeon and Medical Team Perform Operation circa 1920
by Woman Surgeon
1920. [Women History] [Medicine] Early woman surgeon and hospital staff perform an operation. 6 doctors and nurses operate on a patient; notably, five of the staff members are women. c. 1920. Original silver gelatin print. 6.5 x 8.5 in., mounted on 8 x 10" board. Two surgeons were masks and appear to be mid-operation on a patient's abdomen; various tools such as forceps, clamps, and medical scissors can be seen on the operating bed and supply cart. Other medical... Read More
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Japanese Surrender Original 1945 Newspaper
by Japanese Surrender
1945. COMPLETE ORIGINAL newspaper , the Topeka State Journal (KS) dated Aug 13, 1945. Banner headline announces that the dropping of the Atom Bombs on Japan has aided their decision to surrender to the Allies " Bombs Helping Japs to Decide", other headlines include "Delay in Message Claimed by Tokyo". This is the only banner headline I have ever seen from 1945 that says that fact plainly and at the time that it was happening. In excellent condition. ... Read More
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Chicago Sun Headline: "IT'S ALL OVER! JAPS TO ACCEPT
by Japanese Surrender
1945. [ATOM BOMB] [World War II] Original Newspaper. The Chicago Sun, Extra Edition dated Tuesday, August 14. 1945, the day Japanese Emperor Hirohito accepts the terms of the Potsdam Declaration and the day before V-J Day, the day his official surrender was broadcast over the radio which signaled the end of WWII in the Pacific. 12 pages recto verso with the front page story: "EXTRA, San Francisco, Aug. 13-(UP)-Tokyo radio said today (Tuesday, Aug. 14, Tokyo time) that an... Read More
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World War II Pacific Theater Third Fleet Landing Force Memorandum to Correspondents, Occupation of Japan, circa August 1945
by Japan's surrender
1945. Clement, William T. "Memorandum to Correspondents - Third Fleet Landing Force," circa August 1945, establishes direct evidence of how United States Marine Corps command structured press activity, security protocol, and narrative control at the moment of Japan's surrender and the beginning of Allied occupation. Issued to accredited correspondents attached to the Third Fleet Landing Force, including Reuters journalist David Brown, the document situates embedded war reporting within formal military governance as Allied forces prepared to enter Tokyo and... Read More
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Cold War Aerospace Engineering First Edition of George P. Sutton Rocket Propulsion Elements Foundational American Text on Rocket and Missile Propulsion, 1949
by George P. Sutton
1949. Rocket Propulsion Elements: An Introduction to the Engineering of Rockets by George P. Sutton, published in 1949, presented one of the earliest comprehensive American engineering texts explaining the scientific principles governing rocket propulsion systems. Appearing in the years immediately following World War II, the book addressed the rapid expansion of rocket and missile research in the United States as military planners and aerospace engineers sought to develop advanced propulsion technologies during the opening phase of the Cold War.... Read More
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Glendon Swarthout's The Shootist First Edition Marks the End of the American Western
by Glendon Swarthout
1975. [Western Americana] Glendon Swarthout, The Shootist. First edition. Doubleday and Company: New York, 1975. Measures 5.75" x 8" inches. 186 pages. A classic western, The Shootist follows celebrated gunfighter JB Brooks as he confronts his own mortality, a metaphor for the Western genre also showing its age. The book was adapted into the 1976 film starring John Wayne in his last role. After dominating American film for decades, the western began to decline in the late 1960s and... Read More
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American Revolutionary War Memory Samuel Swett History of Bunker Hill Battle with Plan 1826
by Samuel Swett
1826. Swett, Samuel. History of Bunker Hill Battle with a Plan, 1826, an early nineteenth century reconstruction of the June 17, 1775 Battle of Bunker Hill that consolidates veteran testimony into printed form at a decisive moment in the formation of Revolutionary memory. Published immediately following the fiftieth anniversary commemorations and the laying of the Bunker Hill Monument cornerstone, the work incorporates "new information derived from the surviving soldiers present at the celebration on the 17th June last, and... Read More
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Middle Eastern and Islamic Cultural History: Circa 1875 Albumen Prints of Armed Arab and Bedouin Camel Riders
by Warriors With Spear and Sword
1875. Set of two original albumen prints depicting armed Arab and Bedouin camel riders, published circa 1875, represents late nineteenth-century photographic engagement with tribal identity, martial imagery, and desert life in the Arab world. Produced during a period when European photographers and publishers circulated ethnographic and Orientalist imagery to Western audiences, these photographs document the visual construction of the "Arab warrior" as both cultural type and romanticized emblem of desert autonomy. The images support research in Middle Eastern social... Read More
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LGBTQ Lesbian Pulp Fiction by Women Authors Stonebraker Sydney Creal and Herbert Paperback Collection 1959-1968
by Anne Herbert; Gale Sydney
1959. Herbert, Anne; Creal, Margaret; Sydney, Gale; Stonebraker, Florence. Lesbian pulp fiction collection, 1959-1968, documenting the development of lesbian representation within mid-twentieth-century American mass market publishing through works authored by women, including several openly lesbian writers. These novels situate same-sex desire within popular literary forms at a time when such themes were often mediated through male authorship and constrained by censorship. The collection provides insight into how female authors engaged with questions of identity, desire, and social constraint, contributing... Read More
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Six 19th century stereoview photographs of DAMASCUS and BEIRUT
by Syria
1900. Six original 19th century stereoviews of Arabian city-scapes, warriors, and locals circa 1900-1910, Published by Keystone view Company. Each has a long printed caption on the back. Photographs depict [1] "Land of Euphrates", a photograph taken in the Mesopotamian Valley which claims to be the location of the Garden of Eden, with two young boys looking from rooftops toward an arid land beyond a fertile river, [2] an Arab sheikh with his horse and his bodyguard who carries... Read More
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Greater Boston Subway System and Trolley Cars Large Archive of Over 40 Photos Showing the Expanding Public Rail System in the 1930s
by Boston Subway System
1935. [Public Transit][Massachusetts] Trolley and railway car photograph archive documenting electric transit circulation across Boston and the Greater Boston Area, including Lynn, Haverhill, Lawrence, Saugus, Marblehead, Watertown in the 1930s. The archive records cars, trolley routes, terminals, and yards on the streets of Boston and surrounding cities during the long transition from privately run trolley networks to publicly managed metropolitan transit. Most images show the Boston Elevated Railway and Eastern Massachusetts Street Railway orbit, with additional views tied to... Read More
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Streetcar Modernization and Boston Area Terminal Operations, 25 Color Photographs with identifying captions, 1970-1972
by Boston Area Transit System
1970. Urban transit photo archive depicting MBTA trolley, PCC, and commuter rail operations across Greater Boston during the agency's first decade of system consolidation and modernization, 1970-1972, shortly after the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority absorbed many aging lines and inherited rolling stock from earlier private and municipal systems. Several captions identify ex Dallas Transit PCC cars operating at Mattapan Station, documenting the nationwide postwar transfer of surplus streetcars into Boston service as American transit agencies abandoned street railway systems... Read More
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Building the Warehouse System: Archive of 60 photographs, Documenting Steel Storage Rack Manufacturing and Factory Labor in Pontiac, Illinois
by Interlake steel Warehouse System
1970. Interlake Inc. manufacturing plant archive documenting the production of roll-formed steel storage rack systems in Pontiac, Illinois, during the 1970s, when American warehousing, distribution centers, and high-bay industrial storage increasingly depended on standardized pallet rack, cantilever rack, and modular steel handling equipment. The plant appears to have produced industrial storage components as captions identify frame assembly, frame welding fixtures, roll form lines, coil storage, electro-deposition paint line treatment, product handling, and storage of columns produced off a roll... Read More
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Cold War Missile Defense Systems U.S. Army Nike Hercules Nike Zeus and Spartan Anti-Ballistic Missile Development Photo Archive, 1957-1970
by Nike and Spartan Missile Systems
1957. [Cold War] [Rocketry] U.S. Army missile defense and interceptor testing photographs, 1957-1970, document the United States military's earliest sustained effort to design weapons capable of destroying incoming nuclear warheads during the Cold War confrontation with the Soviet Union. Created during the period when American defense planners sought technological defenses against intercontinental ballistic missiles, the photographs record the development and deployment of successive interceptor systems including Nike-Hercules, Nike-Zeus, and the Spartan anti ballistic missile. Together they document the emergence... Read More
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African American Education and Segregated School Systems in Post-Reconstruction North Carolina, 1888-1892
by Segregated School Systems
1888. Rowan County Board of Education, teacher pay vouchers, 1888 and 1892, documenting African American education within the segregated public school system of post-Reconstruction North Carolina. The vouchers record segregated public education and its funding mechanisms through payments to Black teachers approved at the county level. These documents show how African American educators were paid through formally structured systems requiring countersignature by the county superintendent and approval by district committee members. Two manuscript teacher salary vouchers, each approximately... Read More
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Satellite Systems Timing Formats 1961
by Satellite Systems
1961. Lockheed Aircraft Corporation. Satellite Systems Timing Formats. Report No. LMSD 918768. Sunnyvale, CA: Lockheed Missiles and Space Division, 19 June 1961. First edition. Approximately 20 pages. Comb-bound in original two-tone green printed covers with graphic icons representing clocks, timing pulses, and telemetry. Internal pages mimeographed or offset-printed with detailed binary diagrams, timing tables, and correction notices. Includes an errata page stapled to title page. An internally circulated technical manual from the early years of Cold War aerospace... Read More
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Cold War Military Technology US Army Antitank Guided Missile Manuals SS 10 ENTAC and M47 Dragon Systems 1961 to 1979
by Simulation Systems
1961. United States Army. Antitank guided missile manuals archive. 1961-1979. This archive documents the development and training of antitank guided missile systems in the U.S. Army during the Cold War, recording how infantry units were instructed to deploy, maintain, and operate increasingly complex weapons designed to counter armored vehicles. The manuals provide primary evidence of evolving military doctrine, from early adoption of wire-guided European systems to later domestically developed infrared-guided weapons, and establish the integration of simulation training, targeting... Read More
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Roman Imperial Governance and Early Christian Persecution Tacitus Annals French Latin Edition 1693
by Annals of Tacitus
1693. Tacitus, Publius Cornelius. Les Annales de Tacite, 1693, documents the system of Roman imperial governance and its mechanisms of political control, repression, and public narrative formation. The work provides a sustained account of how authority functioned under emperors from Tiberius through Nero, demonstrating the processes by which power was consolidated, dissent managed, and populations governed. Of particular significance, the text records the treatment of early Christians under Nero, offering one of the earliest extant non-Christian accounts of their... Read More
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World War I Red Cross Leadership William Howard Taft 1918 Letter Introducing Mabel Boardman to U.S. Ambassador in France
by Howard Taft
1918. Taft, William Howard. Typed letter signed, March 11, 1918, documenting the leadership and international coordination of the American Red Cross during World War I, written to United States Ambassador to France William G. Sharp. Composed while Taft served as Chairman of the American Red Cross following his presidency, the letter records efforts to expand American humanitarian operations abroad during the first year of U.S. involvement in the war. The correspondence highlights the role of Mabel Boardman in shaping... Read More
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Vintage Photograph of Women Seamstresses and Tailors 1890
by Seamstresses and Tailors
1890. [Women Employment] Original vintage photograph of a large group of women seamstresses and tailors at their sewing machines in a factory setting. circa 1890. Sepia. Approximately 5" x 8" with back photographer mat. Rows and rows of women sitting in front of sewing machines gaze into the camera. While single women faced barriers to employment, wives and mothers confronted prejudice that put their jobs at risk after marriage and childbirth. As women took advantage of expanded access to... Read More
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The First Black Hero in Marvel Publishing History "Waku: Prince of the Bantu" in Atlas Comics, Including First Ever Appearance, 1954-55
by Marvel Comics; Jungle Tales
1954. [African American Comics] The first Black hero in Marvel Comics publishing history in Jungle Tales nos. 1, 5, and 7. These issues date from a 1954-1955 run in which Atlas Comics, the label that developed into Marvel Comics, featuring one of the earliest Black lead features in American mainstream comics, Waku: Prince of the Bantu. Marvel has identified Waku as the first regular Black lead character in its publishing history, and these issues give the character cover billing... Read More
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