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| Date: | 05 24 1954 |
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| Description: | During the Army-McCarthy Hearings, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy replies to a Presidential statement that the executive responsibility cannot be usurped by an... |
| Date: | 1946 |
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| Description: | Richard M. Nixon, probably as a congressional candidate in 1946 when he first demonstrated his ability to use Communism as a way to electoral victory, in t... |
| Date: | 03 03 1954 |
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| Description: | During the first months of his administration, President Dwight Eisenhower handled Joseph R. McCarthy by publicly ignoring him. However, after the abuse t... |
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| Description: | Charleston civil rights mass meeting, Myles Horton speaking. Joe Brown is sitting to the left of the podium, who later joined the South Carolina legislatur... |
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| Description: | Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee poster of an African American man in a straw hat and overalls seated in front of a weathered building. Text in th... |
| Date: | 08 14 1935 |
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| Description: | President Franklin D. Roosevelt about to sign the Social Security Act of 1935. |
| Date: | 09 22 1964 |
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| Description: | Three young men displaying some campaign materials outside their own GOP headquarters in a garage at 8608 W. Meinecke Avenue in Wauwatosa. They are, from l... |
| Date: | 1986 |
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| Description: | Cartoon depicting a very old Uncle Sam signing the Genocide Treaty while a man behind him says, "Better 37 years late than never, I suppose!". |
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| Description: | Ronald Reagan shakes hands with workers in front of a Manitowoc crane. |
| Date: | 11 21 1950 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the annual convention of the Congress of Industrial Organizations at the Palmer House hotel. |
| Date: | 05 05 1949 |
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| Description: | Several days before the Berlin Blockade was to be lifted, Russian authorities permitted this West Berlin couple to purchase potatoes in the eastern sector.... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | One of the Hollywood Ten, Alvah Bessie (second from left, holding a cigarette) and others at a luncheon. |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Eight members of the Hollywood Ten at an unidentified event concerning their defense. From left to right are Herbert Biberman, Alvah Bessie, Dalton Trumbo,... |
| Date: | 1947 |
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| Description: | Some members of the Hollywood Ten at an airport. The bald man on the far left is Alvah Bessie. Near the center with his hand gesturing is Herbert Biberman.... |
| Date: | 10 28 1947 |
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| Description: | Several members of the screenwriters and directors known as the Hollywood Ten, together with members of their families at a demonstration before their impr... |
| Date: | 09 18 1947 |
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| Description: | Subpoena for Alvah Bessie to appear before the U.S. House of Representative's Committee on Un-American Activities on October 23, 1947. |
| Date: | 1920 |
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| Description: | On the set of "The Road to Divorce" (Universal, 1920). Original caption: "Mr. Harry Nuttall, of England, member of the British Parliament from Manchest... |
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| Description: | Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, laughing for the camera, displays a newspaper advertisement that proclaims: "McCarthyism is Treason to America." |
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| Description: | President Harry Truman meets a packed room full of reporters. Merriman Smith, the "dean of the White House correspondents and the donor of this image," can... |
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| Description: | Painting of a county fair, depicting a grandstand, harnass racing, a ferris wheel and merry-go-round typical of the event. The fair gave farmers an opportu... |
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