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HERB | Boston Herald, 1899

From 1898 to 1902, the United States waged a bloody war in the Philippines. Filipinos wanted independence from centuries of Spanish colonial rule. U.S. leaders, however, saw the opportunity to control the Philippines and gain access to markets in Asia.

Collectors Weekly | QueerMusicHeritage.us

Bentley with bandleader Willie Bryant in 1936.

Common Dreams | M Abramson/LIFE Images Collection/Getty

At the intersection of Fifth Avenue and 53nd Street, a large group of women hold a banner that reads ‘Women of the World’ at the Women Strike for Equality demonstration, New York, New York, August 26, 1970. Tens of thousands of women (and men) marched along Fifth Avenue towards Bryant Park to demand equal opportuntity in employment and social equality.

Phillips Collection

HERB

“The Most Recently Discovered Wild Beast,” wood engraving, Judy: Or, The London Serio-Comic Journal, 3 August 1881.

Dissent | Library of Congress

Ellen S. Woodward, Assistant WPA Administrator in charge of the Government Creative Work Program, testifies to the House about the value of federal subsidies for creative work, 1938

Light Stalking | ©Ella Murtha

Youth Unemployment (1981)

LoC | Historic American Buildings Survey

The structure originally housed retail shops, medical and dental offices, the headquarters for the Atlanta Urban League, the Atlanta School of Social Work, and a 34-room hotel.

HERB

C.J. Taylor, “The Mortar of Assimilation–And the One Element that Won’t Mix,” chromolithograph, Puck, 26 June 1889, available from Michigan State University Museum, Immigration and Caricature: Ethnic Images from the Appel Collection

LoC | National Photo Company Collection

Madam Taka Takanashi, one of the delegates to the International Congress of Working Women, from Japan.

Manuscript Division. Library of Congress (35)

Freud’s translation of Charcot’s lectures into German (1886).

LoC | Harris & Ewing Collection

In 1917, in an effort to improve the planning and provision of social services, civic leader Belle Sherwin initiated the merger of the Federation with the Welfare Council, an organization formed three years earlier to assist the city welfare department and serve as a clearinghouse for surveys and other social service activities. The new Welfare Federation of Cleveland and its role in, and capacity for, health and social planning became an example to communities across the country.

Table of the Seven Deadly Sins (H Bosch, 1505-1510)

SNCC Digital | crmvet.org

A&T students at Woolworth’s lunch counter in Greensboro, 1960

A late edition of Ambrogio Calepino’s Dictionarium (Lyon, 1663).