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Firefighters amidst the rubble of the World Trade Center, New York City

Aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) deck crew guides a fighter jet,

Gusty Chocknok, skipper of the salmon gillnetter F/V Helen Marg, operating in Bristol Bay, Alaska

Museum on Main Street: The Way We Worked Exhibit

Herbert "Sleepy" Reaves - from the collection of Paul Stewart

Payne - from the collection of Paul Stewart

Robert Mitchell - from the collection of Paul Stewart

Veterans of the Past - African American Soldiers

African-American men, women, and children, members of the American Woodmen's Association and Shriners, many in costume or uniform, pose with banners and pennants near the Association's office at 2100 Downing Street in the Five Points neighborhood of Denver, Colorado.

David and Virgina Mallard with man in front of Mallard's Grocery & Confectionery.

Interior of Rhythm Records and Sporting Goods store

Five Points and Welton Street

The Story of the Smith Family

A Black man and women pose with mandolins and a guitar on the porch of a house in Denver, Colorado. A chicken and outhouse are near the two story wood frame house.

Miners pose with a pack train of burros near a lake or pond in the Red Mountain Mining District in Ouray or San Juan County, Colorado. Two of the men are African American. The men wear hats, and two smoke pipes. The burros carry split wooden logs. Shows a wooden post in a cairn.

A Black Corporal, (Buffalo Soldier) in the Ninth Cavalry, poses on his horse on the Native American (Lakota Sioux) Pine Ridge Agency, South Dakota. He wears a military uniform and has a gun in a holster on his belt. Snows covers the ground and frame agency buildings show in background.

Earliest Arrival of Africans in America

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