Photographs

Rationed tires during WWII

American soldiers fight in fresh snow during Battle of the Bulge

Americans soldiers on the march in Belgium

US infantrymen fire on Germans near Bastogne in Belgium

US troops take German prisoners in December 1944

German snipers fire on celebrating Parisians

US soldiers in front of Eiffel Tower

Navajo code talkers in Saipan

Americans on guard during Ardennes Offensive

WWI trench and abandoned guns

Corner of Zuni pueblo

Terraced houses of the Zuni

Zuni gardens

Zuni Pueblo

Contraband School in Arlington Virginia during Civil War

Scene at Union hospital during Civil War

19th-century medicines on display

Asian immigrant undergoes tests at Angel Island in California

Asian immigrants arrive at Angel Island in California

Angel Island immigration officials disinfect clothing of immigrants

Theodore Dreiser

Moat view of the Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida

Aerial view of the Castillo de San Marcos, St. Augustine, Florida

Blast of fission-based nuclear weapon test on November 15, 1952

Blast from test of fission-based nuclear weapon, November 15, 1952

Crater made by test of first atomic bomb, Trinity in 1945

Fireball from atomic device Trinity in 1945

Fireball from first atomic bomb, Trinity in 1945

Detonation of first atomic bomb, Trinity in 1945

Personnel observe blast from Buster-Jangle atomic tests in 1951

Mushroom cloud from test of first hydrogen bomb

Mushroom cloud from test of first hydrogen bomb

Mushroom cloud from test of first hydrogen bomb

Mushroom cloud from test of first hydrogen bomb

Mushroom cloud from test of first hydrogen bomb

CDC staffer examines specimens of 1918 influenza virus

Western cottonmouth snake

CDC staffer inoculates chicken eggs with influenza virus in 1968