A double portrait of Dr. Kaku Sudo (1861–1963), the first Japanese American woman physician, and her colleague Dr. Hana Abe (1873–1922). The two Japanese women studied medicine at Laura Memorial College in Cincinnati in the mid-1890s. This photograph was used as the basis of an illustration in the Chicago Tribune.....

First Edition. An appeal to the federal government to attend to the military defense of Florida. The author, Charles Fenton Mercer, was a former member of Congress who left his post for financial reasons and took a job at a bank in Florida, where he was working when he wrote.....

The vintage gelatin silver prints of Jamaican migrant workers in Florida taken by a three-time Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer. The images show workers preparing to return home with large boxes of items purchased stateside and their personal belongings. One man, named Mervin McWon, carries two boom-box-style radios; another photograph depicts two.....