Historical Social Movements

Images depicting significant historical events and social movements, including wartime efforts and civil rights protests, from the late 1930s to 1960s.

Empty seats of the Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the credentials of the all-White and anti-civil rights delegation. Aug. 24, 1964.
Empty seats of the Mississippi delegation at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Led by Fannie Lou Hamer, the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party challenged the credentials of the all-White and anti-civil rights delegation. Aug. 24, 1964.
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Sign posted in Negro section of Belle Glade, Florida 1937. still image. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Information office radio broadcaster Dutch Guinea. Elections Guinea Council Hollandia. Native Dutch candidate board plate polling station. February 1961. Guinea
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Temporary sign for Department of Labor and Secretary of Labor taped to an office door ca. 1913.
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Communist Party Headquarters in New York City. Police at the Daily Worker and Communist Party building after an explosion which shattered its windows and caused considerable damage on nearby buildings. The explosion occurred in the first floor offices of the Daily Worker newspaper. Sept 4, 1966.
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Dutch postman teaches the mailbox, ca. 1930, exact place unknown, Netherlands
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Newspaper seller announcing the death of the coalition government and the subsequent resignation of the Prime Minister, David Lloyd George in 1922. Date: 01/10/1922
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Carruthers has trial weight - in at Liverpool St this morning McConnell checks the weight. April 23, 1964.
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Newspaper Layout for LI. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Anefo photo collection. Command Coverage Woman Leaf NRC. January 26, 1955
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Eisler 'Demonstration' In Bow Street -- Poster parade in Bow Street, London, to-day (Monday) as a protest against the appearance in the magistrates' court there of Gerhard Eisler German-born Communist. Eisler, who was taken by police from the polish liner 'Batory' in Cowes Roads, was ordered by Southampton magistrates to be taken to Bow Street to show cause why he should not be surrendered to the American authorities. The demonstration coincided with the Bow Street hearing. Eisler, who had boarded the 'Batory' at New York, was removed from the ship under the British Extradition Act of 1870. May 16, 1949. (Photo by Reuterphoto).
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Drive to build large hotel, Lancaster, Ohio. 1938. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Sign reading 'waiting room for colored only, by order Police Dept.' Ca. 1940s or 1950s.
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Anefo photo collection. Trommelestijn in the Amsterdam stock exchange. September 30, 1962
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Elsevier photo collection. Offer Prime Minister Drees Budget Memorandum House Representatives, i.v.m. absence Finance Minister Lieftinck. September 18, 1951. Hague, South Holland
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While the welcomes at Lyneham and London were going on, Bill's windowed mother was making final preparations for the "Welcome Home" when Bill gets to Altrincham today. January 30, 1952. (Photo by Daily Mirror).
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Sack Lake City - America. September 20, 1951.
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The Simplify the difficulties of the motorist boldly printed traffic signals are all ready for the roads that lead to Ascot. July 30, 1934.
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Office of U.S. Treasurer. National Bank redemption Agency. First step in destruction of National Bank Notes lower corner of each end being cut off. Photographs of Treasury Department Personnel, Facilities and Activities. Department of the Treasury
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Dewey Foregoes Reading To Greet Followers -- After announcing that he would forego the usual rear train platform appearances, but will devote his time during his tour to reading, studying, and writing, Gov. Thomas E. Dewey made this exception when his train stopped at Niles, Mich., during its run through his home state. Throngs turned out to greet him, waving high banners proclaiming their presidential choice. September 12, 1944. (Photo by ACME).
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Tenants protest with a collection of signatures, here in the city of Duesseldorf in 1966, against rent profiteering and the White Circle, Germany, Europe
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Labor Inspectorate Photo Collection. 9x12 safety plate reproduction warning unsafe unsecured axes belts. undated. shafts
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Woman Suffrage Banners - Woman Suffrage Movement circa 1917.
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Vintage photograph. Hands placing a letter in US mail box
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1952 Republican National Convention. Ohio delegation with signs in support of Senator Robert Taft. The early front-running Taft lost the nomination to Dwight Eisenhower. July 8, 1952.
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American People (File 2) - For American Indians (See - Red Indians) - People. July 12, 1943.;American People (File 2) - For American Indians (See - Red Indians) - People.
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Layout for Robert Sivard. Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Japanese-American merchant posts a sale sign on his San Francisco store in preparation for internment. Internees were given little notice and forced to abandon or sell their businesses at heavy losses.
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New Idea For City Corners -- Name-Plates like these will be placed at 500 City intersections it test plates, shown here receiving final touches today, are a success at the corner of Bourke and Swanston Streets. Street names and numbers are embossed in aluminium on a black background. June 27, 1938.
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undefined. 1931 - 1963. NARA's Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Fish and Wildlife Service. Minneapolis Regional Office. 1940-1970. Annual Reports
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Anefo photo collection. Exhibition "Curiosities" in The Hague. August 4, 1961. The Hague, South Holland
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Enrollee Percy Halsey, Lettering and Painting. Central Plains Region (Kansas City, MO). Photographic Print. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Standing Rock Agency. 9/17/1947-. Photographs
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Great Britain women's movement suffragettes announcement of a demonstration at Essex Hall London 24.1.1908,
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Restaurant with Sign "We Cater to White Trade Only", Lancaster Ohio, USA, Ben Shahn, Farm Security Administration, August 1938
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Nos. taken for series sent to K. Douty). Photographs of Marshall Plan Programs, Exhibits, and Personnel
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Anefo photo collection. Tickets for Ajax against Benfica in Paris can be picked up at Amsterdam at Ajax city card. 27 February 1969. Amsterdam, Noord-Holland
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Anefo photo collection. Manufacture of plates with inscription "forest fire hazard". July 29, 1959
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Woman Suffrage Movement - Woman suffragette Lucy Branham circa 1919.
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Free Milk for France Parade in Washington D.C. circa 1918.
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Alderman A. Thompson. March 29, 1950.
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Woman Suffrage victory sign North Dakota and Ohio circa 1917.
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Signs in shop window , Stores & shops, Window displays, Signs Notices. Edmund L. Mitchell Collection
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Woman Suffrage Banners - Woman Suffrage Movement - Woman suffrage picketers for Alice Paul circa 1917.
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Anefo photo collection. ADM. Center of Letterenfaculty of GU occupied. 19 May 1978
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Housewives Assoc. December 01, 1947.
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Newspaper headlines world wide tell of President Lyndon Johnson's decision not seek re-election. The US President's Vietnam policy change included a pause in the bombing of North Vietnam. April 1, 1968.
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Woman Suffrage Movement - Woman Suffrage banners - freedom for Alice Paul circa 1917.
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War Loan Appeals - War File. October 16, 1946.
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Signboard in Amite City, Louisiana. 1935. Photographs. The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Photography Collection
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Freddie Dawson jokingly chaffs telephone operators as he waits half-an-hour to get a call through from Melbourne to Sydney after his about with Norm Gent. In Sydney recently he made a call to the US in a few minutes. July 10, 1950.
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Anefo photo collection. Filmrepros "that foolish Mr. Jones". July 26, 1949
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Militant suffragist of the National Women's Party, Virginia Arnold, scandalized many by comparing President Wilson with the German ruler during the First World War. 1917.
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San Francisco, California. Exclusion Order posted at First and Front Streets directing removal of persons of Japanese ancestry from the first San Francisco section to be effected by the evacuation 4/11/1942.
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Woman Suffrage Banners- Kaiser Wilson circa 1917.
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Watertown Arsenal, the best safety device is a careful workman , Signs Notices, Safety, Watertown Arsenal Mass.. Records of U.S. Army Operational