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Unesco: Israel: White City of Tel Aviv the Modern Movement
Tel Aviv was founded in 1909 and developed as a metropolitan city under the British Mandate in Palestine. The White City was constructed from the early 1930s until the 1950s, based on the urban plan by Sir Patrick Geddes, reflecting...
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Unesco: Morocco: Rabat, Modern Capital and Historic City: A Shared Heritage
Located on the Atlantic coast in the north-west of Morocco, the site is the product of a fertile exchange between the Arabo-Muslim past and Western modernism. The inscribed city encompasses the new town conceived and built under the...
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British Archeologist Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod (1892 1968)
Unidentified man; British archeologist Dorothy Annie Elizabeth ("Daisy") Garrod (1892-1968); and unidentified man. Garrod was the first woman to do research on Paleolithic humans, first woman to hold a professorship at Cambridge...
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Frederica Annis Lopez De Leo De Laguna (1906 2004), Kaj Birket Smith (1893 1977)
Frederica Annis Lopez de Leo de Laguna (1904-2004) (at left) was an anthropologist associated in 1937 with the University of Pennsylvania Museum; she had studied at Columbia during the late 1920s and had done groundbreaking research in...
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Unidentified Man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912 2003)
Unidentified man and Marion Schmidt Escallon (1912-2003), Sinclair Oil Company paleontologist, at a U.S. Geological Survey meeting, December 1937. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of University of Michigan, she was first woman employed as a...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Florence Barbara Seibert (1897 1991)
Biochemist Florence Barbara Seibert (1897-1991) developed the skin test for tuberculosis. After graduating from Goucher College, she worked as a chemist during World War I and then went to Yale University, where she earned a Ph.D. and...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Ruth Murray Underhill (1883 1984)
Ruth Murray Underhill (1883-1984) was among the first female anthropologists hired by the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs during the mid-1930s and was greatly involved with Navaho education projects
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Nora Mae (Mrs. Clifton D.) Lowe
This photograph of Nora Mae (Mrs. Clifton D.) Lowe was distributed when she chaired the ladies entertainment committee for the 77th annual convention of American Veterinary Association, in Washington, D.C., October 28, 1940. The wife of...
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Smithsonian Institution Archives: Maud Slye (1879 1954)
Maud Slye (1879-1954) was a pathologist and noted cancer researcher at the University of Chicago. A descendant of John Alden of the Plymouth Colony, Slye had attended the University of Chicago in 1896 with little money but, as her New...
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Wikipedia: National Historic Landmarks in New Jersey: Hinchliffe Stadium
A 1930s-era baseball stadium used to play Negro league baseball during the Jim Crow era.
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Wikipedia: Natl Historic Landmarks in Mn: Charles A. Lindbergh House and Park
The Charles A. Lindbergh House and Park was once the farm of Congressman Charles August Lindbergh and his son Charles Lindbergh, the famous aviator. Their restored 1906 house and two other farm buildings are within the park boundaries....
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Photograph Showing Concentration Camp Prisoners in Their Hut
A nice survey of the major events of the Holocaust from its origins in Nazi Germany during the 1930s to the death camps and what happened afterward.
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Young Louis Armstrong
This is the first of a two-part profile of Louis Armstrong, renowned jazz trumpet player and singer. This biography covers his life through the 1930's. Read his biography, listen to he NPR profile, and click to hear some of his songs.
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Louis Armstrong
In the second part of an NPR Jazz Profile, you can read about Louis Armstrong's later career from the mid 1930's until his death in 1971. Listen to the profile and click to hear some of his music.
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Mexicans Emigrate the United States in El Paso, Texas
Mexicans coming to the United States through an El Paso, Texas immigration station. Photograph by Dorothea Lange, 1938.
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U.s. Holocaust Memorial Museum: Jehovah's Witnesses: Persecution 1870 1936
A brief history of the Jehovah's Witnesses, especially in Germany, and the persecution they faced in Germany from the Nazis.
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Lincoln City Libraries: Nebraska's Federal Writers Project
Rudolph Umland's writing, correspondence, and scrapbooks offer revealing portraits of life in Depression era Nebraska, and a uniquely well-documented insider's view of the local literary community and the Nebraska Federal Writers' Project.
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