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Registration of Enemy Aliens

Date: 05 23 1917
Description: Unnaturalized Germans registering as enemy aliens at the New York Federal Building. Registration was necessary for them to be able to travel within the va...
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Treasure and Trinket Fund

Date: 01 1918
Description: Mrs. William Bartlett of the Aviation Committee of the National Special Aid Society, examines metal objects donated by members to be sold to benefit Americ...
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MacArthur Returns

Date: 05 20 1951
Description: General Douglas MacArthur rides in an open car during the ticker tape parade in his honor. MacArthur had just returned to the United States, having been re...
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Anti-Vietnam War Protest

Date: 07 1966
Description: A couple with three children walking on the sidewalk on their way to or from a peace march.
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Brian Willson Gives the Peace Sign

Date: 1988
Description: Brian Willson, Vietnam veteran who lost both legs during a demonstration in 1987, holds up his arm to give the peace sign to audience at a New York peace c...
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International Truck with U.S. Coast Guard Seamen

Date: 1943
Description: Three men of the United States Coast Guard ride in the back of an International truck. The photograph was probably taken in front of Camp Chelsea. The orig...
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International Tractor with Parade Float

Date: 1945
Description: An International tractor pulls a parade float down a commercial street lined with spectators. The float celebrates International Harvester's war production...
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Iraq War Protest

Date: 02 15 2003
Description: Veterans of various wars marching during a protest against the war in Iraq. New York and New Jersey leaders of the Vietnam Veterans Against the War played ...
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Veterans Day Parade

Date: 1991
Description: Members of the Clarence Fitch Chapter of Vietnam Veterans Against the War, marching in a Veterans' Day event, probably in New York City.
Print

The War for the Union, New York City

Date: 1860
Description: A white sailor and a Native American man are sitting on the ground near the water, with ships in the distance. The colonist is holding a sextant in his lef...
Photograph

Obey and Young, Overwhelmed

Date: 09 2001
Description: Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey (right) looking at the World Trade Center site shortly after the 9/11 attacks. With Obey is Florida Congressman Bill Yo...
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Obey at Ground Zero

Date: 09 2001
Description: Florida Congressman Bill Young (left) and Wisconsin Congressman David R. Obey at the intersection of Vesey Street and the West Side Highway, ground zero fo...
Map or Atlas

A Topographical Map of the North Part of New York Island, Exhibiting the Plan of Fort Washington, now Fort Knyphausen

Date: 03 1777
Description: Map showing the British and Hessian attack on Fort Washington in November of 1776. The movements and fortifications of the British and Hessian troops appea...
Map or Atlas

A Plan of the City and Environs of New York in North America

Date: 1776
Description: Fairly detailed map of New York City and parts of Long Island. It shows streets, roads, wharves, ferries, ship yards, Fort George and the battery, public b...

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