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A Christmas Eve Contrast

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

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Lake Washington Ship Canal, U.S. Government Locks, Seattle, Washington. Locks at Narrows of Salmon Bay, showing upstream side of lower service gate to small lock.

Record Group 77: Records of the Office of the Chief of EngineersSeries: Civil Works Project Photographs

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English ship Bulwark, sunk in three minutes’ time on November 25, 1914

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

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An Act of October 15, 1914, Public Law 63-212, 38 STAT 730, to Supplement Existing Laws Against Unlawful Restraints and Monopolies, and for Other Purposes

Record Group 11: General Records of the United States GovernmentSeries: Enrolled Acts and Resolutions of CongressFile Unit: Laws of the United States; 1913-14, 63rd Congress, 2nd Session, Part 2, Public Acts 151-222 and Public Resolutions

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Traffic During Tobacco Sale

Record Group 30: Records of the Bureau of Public RoadsSeries: Historical Photograph FilesFile Unit: Horse drawn - Wagon - Tobacco

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Tax Him

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

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County Lines Established and Marked

Record Group 30: Records of the Bureau of Public RoadsSeries: Historical Photograph FilesFile Unit: Maintenance - North Carolina

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Open for Business

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

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Letter from J. B. Densmore to the Secretary of State Regarding the Number of American Citizens Who Had Sailed for and Returned from Europe from August 1 to August 12, 1914

Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization ServiceSeries: Subject and Policy FilesFile Unit: European War - German Refugees - Deportation of Italians - Alien Deportations

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The Belligerent Peace Advocate

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Berryman Political Cartoon Collection

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Virginia - Thimble Shoal

Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast GuardSeries: LighthousesFile Unit: Virginia - Thimble Shoal

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Tug, with Sugar Barges, Passing Gold Hill, Northbound, May 19, 1914

Record Group 185: Records of the Panama CanalSeries: Photographs of the Construction of the Panama CanalFile Unit: Construction of the Panama Canal - Volume 22

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Deposition of Edward Wilding

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Admiralty Case FilesFile Unit: In the Matter of the Petition of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, for Limitation of its Liability as owner of the steamship TITANIC

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Evidence of the Right Honorable Montgomery Alexander Carlisle

Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United StatesSeries: Admiralty Case FilesFile Unit: In the Matter of the Petition of the Oceanic Steam Navigation Company, Limited, for Limitation of its Liability as owner of the steamship TITANIC

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“Opening of the Panama Canal SS Ancon Passing Cucaracha Slide Looking North,” 8/15/1914 “File Unit: Construction of the Panama Canal - Volume 9, 1887 - 1940. Series: Photographs of the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1887 - 1940. Record Group 185:...
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“Opening of the Panama Canal SS Ancon Passing Cucaracha Slide Looking North,” 8/15/1914   

File Unit: Construction of the Panama Canal - Volume 9, 1887 - 1940. Series: Photographs of the Construction of the Panama Canal, 1887 - 1940. Record Group 185: Records of the Panama Canal, 1848 - 1999.

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