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Cornhusker Ordnance Plant Photos: "Lunch at the Cornhusker Ordnance Plant"

Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration, NRE-156-COP(PHO)-86

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A-bomb mushroom cloud over Hiroshima, August 6th, 1945, about one hour after the bombing; Photo taken from a U.S. airplane over the Seto Inland Sea about 80 kilometers from the hypocenter

Courtesy Hiroshima Peace Culture Foundation, U.S. Army Air Forces photo

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Strikers (photo 1 of 4) at the Burlington Railroad Shop Yards Plattsmouth, Nebraska, 1922. The brotherhood of Railroad Car men and the International Association of Machinists.

Courtesy National Records & Archives Administration, 283732

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Additional strikers (photo 2 of 4). Note the frustration in the faces of white strikers against the Burlington Northern Railroad in nearby Plattsmouth in 1922.

Courtesy National Records & Archives Administration, 283736

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Enola Gay at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center; Photo by Carolyn Russo

Courtesy Smithsonian Institution National Air and Space Museum,(SI Neg. No. 95-4625)

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Two Dakota women on the Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota; Photo by C. G. Morledge, 1891

Courtesy Denver Public Library Western History, Genealogy Department

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Pawnee Scouts; Photo by William Henry Jackson, circa 1868-1871

Courtesy Smithsonian Institution, National Anthropological Archives

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Solomon Butcher in front of his dugout. He wrote on the photo, "My first house in Neb. 1880. Built from ‘Neb. Brick’."

Courtesy History Nebraska, RG2608-1265

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Victor Rosewater (1871-1940), publisher of the "Omaha Bee" after his father’s death in 1906 and a founder of the American Jewish Committee; Photo taken in 1903

Courtesy The Independent, Volume 55, Public Domain

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While he was visiting 3 relocation camps (Heart Mountain in Wyoming, Minidoka in Idaho, & Topaz, Utah), Ben Kuroki became a celebrity among the younger Nisei internees, who were as captivated by Air Corps flyers as the rest of America

Some of the older Nisei and immigrant Japanese had far different feelings. War Relocation Authority photo. Courtesy Ben Kuroki & National Archives & ... Read more

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James McCrea with rifle, Mrs. McCrea, grandson George McCrea, Mr. Juker on the reaper. South of the Middle Loup River, near Berwyn, Custer County, Nebraska, 1888

Photo by Solomon Butcher; Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society, RG2608-1377

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"Modern Dance Costume — Pawnee" -- Photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1927

Courtesy Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian, 2003

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It was customary for a war party to ride in circles about the tipi of their chief before starting on a raid into the country of the enemy

Photo by Edward S. Curtis, 1907. Courtesy Northwestern University Library, Edward S. Curtis’ The North American Indian, 2003, cp03018r

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Japanese Americans arriving at Santa Anita by train from San Pedro California April 5, 1942. In his book, "Impounded", Gary Okihiro notes standard procedure was for photographers not to show certain scenes, such as soldiers with bayonets on their guns.

This photo, while censored, does not reveal any bayonets. Courtesy National Archives & Records Administration

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The Harvey Andrews family posed at the grave of son Willie Andrews, Custer County, New Helena vicinity, 1887; Standing at the graveside from left to right: Mary Andrews, Charles Henry Andrews, Harvey Andrews, Jennie Andrews holding daughter Lillian Andrew

Photo by Solomon Butcher; Courtesy Nebraska State Historical Society, RG2608-2360-a

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Photo faked for newspaper article of the time: "Settlers taking the law in their own hands, cutting 15 miles of the Brighton Ranch fence in 1885"

Courtesy History Nebraska, RG2608-1265

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During the war, Ben Kuroki speaks at an event at the Heart Mountain, Wyoming relocation center. Coming from Nebraska as a poor dirt farmer, Kuroki thought he was not cut out for public speaking. Reports of his excellent speaking skills proved otherwise.

War Relocation Authority photo. Courtesy Ben Kuroki & National Archives & Records Administration

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This photo was taken from one of the B-29 Superfortresses used in the attack on Nagasaki on August 9, 1945. The cloud of smoke rose almost 11 and a half miles (about 60,000 feet) into the air.

Courtesy National Archives and Records Administration

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