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"Exploring the Multifaceted Identity of Americans

Background imageAmericans Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, alongside the road, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal homesteads. One hundred occupied homes, each with nearly an acre. Average yearly income eight hundred dollars. California

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys, aged one to fourteen. Father is conductor (streetcar), one hundred dollars monthly

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence Homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads Four-bedroom house. Eight in family, six boys ages one to fourteen, California. Father is streetcar conductor, one hundred dollars a month

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Four in family. Three-room house, seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase. Father's occupation: carpenter

Background imageAmericans Collection: Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers...Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers...Mississippi, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled at Hill House, Mississippi

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Three-room house seventy dollars and seventy cents monthly. Rent to apply on purchase. Four in family. Father, carpenter, earns seventy dollars monthly

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence homesteads, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence homesteads. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent to apply on purchase of three-room house. California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project, New Mexico, 1935

Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project, New Mexico, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettled farm child from Taos Junction to Bosque Farms project. New Mexico

Background imageAmericans Collection: Escalante people, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Escalante people, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Escalante people. Utah

Background imageAmericans Collection: On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California, 1935

On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
On location of Resettlement Administration film near Bakersfield, California. Three brothers, drought refugees from Texas (note water barrel)

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Memorial Day services at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Ester Naite, an office worker from Los Angeles, is shown operating an electric iron in her quarters at Manzanar, California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Maye Noma, behind the plate, and Tomi Nagao, at bat, in a practice game between members of the Chick-a-dee softball team

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. A view of the quarters at Manzanar, California, a War Relocation Authority Center where evacuees of Japanese ancestry will spend the duration

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Newcomers at Santa Anita Park Assembly Center in Arcadia, California, receive vaccination against smallpox and typhoid fever. Under direction of Dr

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. Baggage belonging to evacuees of Japanese ancestry at an assembly center in Salinas, California, prior to a War Relocation Authority center

Background imageAmericans Collection: Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Japanese relocation, California, 1942. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Japanese relocation, California. All baggage is inspected before newcomers enter the Santa Anita Park Assembly Center at Arcadia, California, for evacuees of Japanese ancestry

Background imageAmericans Collection: Sketch of a Copperplate Print of the City of Washington (Amerika shu no uchi washintonfu... 1861)

Sketch of a Copperplate Print of the City of Washington (Amerika shu no uchi washintonfu... 1861. Creator: Yoshikazu)
Sketch of a Copperplate Print of the City of Washington (Amerika shu no uchi washintonfu no kei doban no utsushi), 1861. [Americans seen through Japanese eyes]

Background imageAmericans Collection: Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Migrant family from Oklahoma in Texas. A family of six alongside the road. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies

Background imageAmericans Collection: Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma migrant, Texas. 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma migrant, Texas. An example of how they fall between the relief agencies. The father, aged thirty-five, is an intelligent fellow, a painter by trade

Background imageAmericans Collection: The key figure in the 1936 presidential campaign, the American farmer, Oklahoma, 1936

The key figure in the 1936 presidential campaign, the American farmer, Oklahoma, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The key figure in the 1936 presidential campaign, the American farmer. Oklahoma

Background imageAmericans Collection: Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled

Family of one of the evicted sharecroppers from Arkansas who has been resettled at Hill House, Mississippi

Background imageAmericans Collection: Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project - Jewish-American, 1936

Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project - Jewish-American, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Accepted applicant for resettlement on the Hightstown project. Jewish-American. This man is already employed on the project as carpenter

Background imageAmericans Collection: Widtsoe land use adjustment project, Garfield County, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Widtsoe land use adjustment project, Garfield County, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Excavating new spillway of Tropic Dam

Background imageAmericans Collection: Widtsoe land use adjustment project, Garfield County, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Widtsoe land use adjustment project, Garfield County, Utah, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Widtsoe land use adjustment project. Garfield County, Utah. Loading boulder on stone boat, while excavating new spillway of Tropic Dam

Background imageAmericans Collection: Child welfare program, Resettlement Administration Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935

Child welfare program, Resettlement Administration Marysville camp for migrants, California, 1935
Marysville camp for migrants. Supervised play for the children is part of the child welfare program at the Resettlement Administration camp. California

Background imageAmericans Collection: This family...about to be returned to Oklahoma...Neideffer Camp, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937

This family...about to be returned to Oklahoma...Neideffer Camp, Imperial Valley, CA, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
This family without food and work about to be returned to Oklahoma by the Relief Administration. They have lost a baby as a result of exposure during the winter

Background imageAmericans Collection: Resettled at Bosque Farms project - family of four from Taos Junction, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Resettled at Bosque Farms project - family of four from Taos Junction, 1935. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Resettled at Bosque Farms project. Family of four from Taos Junction shows temporary dwelling

Background imageAmericans Collection: Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Texas family looking for work in the carrot harvest. California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California, Imperial Vallery

Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California, Imperial Vallery
Oklahomans now working or looking for work in the pea harvests of California. Outskirts of Calipatria. Imperial Valley

Background imageAmericans Collection: The Great Reaping Day - Oklahoma potato pickers, Kern County, California, 1937

The Great Reaping Day - Oklahoma potato pickers, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had been "saved" the week before. Oklahoma potato pickers. Kern County, California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on the desert with his wife and four children

Background imageAmericans Collection: Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Oklahoma sharecropper entering California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Oklahoma sharecropper entering California stalled on desert with his wife and four children

Background imageAmericans Collection: El Monte federal subsistence housing, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange

El Monte federal subsistence housing, California, 1936. Creator: Dorothea Lange
El Monte federal subsistence housing. Three-room house. Seventeen dollars and seventy cents rent applied on purchase. Father: carpenter. California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Coachella Valley, California. Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. "We come from all states, and we can't make a dollar a day in this field noways

Background imageAmericans Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri and Mexico. Coachella Valley, California. "We come from all states and we can't make a dollar a day in this field noways

Background imageAmericans Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937

Carrot pullers from Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri, Arkansas and Mexico in Coachella Valley, CA, 1937
Some of the carrot pullers in the Coachella Valley. There are one hundred people in this field coming from Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Missouri. California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Street View in San Francisco, from a sketch by a correspondent, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Street View in San Francisco, from a sketch by a correspondent, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Street View in San Francisco, from a sketch by a correspondent, 1850. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of "forty-niners" to San Francisco

Background imageAmericans Collection: The Great Reaping Day - Oklahoma potato pickers, Kern County, California, 1937

The Great Reaping Day - Oklahoma potato pickers, Kern County, California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
The Great Reaping Day. Hymn singing, Sunday afternoon. The woman had been "saved" the week before. Oklahoma potato pickers. Kern County, California

Background imageAmericans Collection: Carrot pullers from Texas in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange

Carrot pullers from Texas in California, 1937. Creator: Dorothea Lange
Carrot pullers from Texas. Texas farmer on edge of carrot field. In California for two weeks, migrating after three years of crop failures

Background imageAmericans Collection: Grand Dinner in the Masonic Hall, at Montreal, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Grand Dinner in the Masonic Hall, at Montreal, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Grand Dinner in the Masonic Hall, at Montreal, 1850....the citizens of Montreal [in Canada, decided on] the necessity of preparing a suitable display of Canadian industry

Background imageAmericans Collection: Reception of Hungarian Exiles in Philadelphia, 1850. Creator: Unknown

Reception of Hungarian Exiles in Philadelphia, 1850. Creator: Unknown
Reception of Hungarian Exiles in Philadelphia, [USA], 1850. Hungarian revolutionary leader Laszlo Uhjazi'...with his lady and family, arrived...from New York

Background imageAmericans Collection: VE-Day in New York, 8 May, 1945. From The War in Pictures, Sixth Year.

VE-Day in New York, 8 May, 1945. From The War in Pictures, Sixth Year.

Background imageAmericans Collection: EDITORIAL One of the last photographs of President Roosevelt, right

EDITORIAL One of the last photographs of President Roosevelt, right, and his successor vice-president Truman, 1945. Harry S. Truman, 1884 - 1972. 33rd president of the United States

Background imageAmericans Collection: Map showing the extent of the German's attack against the Americans in the Ardennes

Map showing the extent of the German's attack against the Americans in the Ardennes and their drive into Belgium, 1944, during WWII. From The War in Pictures, Sixth Year.

Background imageAmericans Collection: Ute Chief Sevara and his family. The state of Utah is named after the Ute people

Ute Chief Sevara and his family. The state of Utah is named after the Ute people. After a photo-chromolithograph by photographer Charles Nast

Background imageAmericans Collection: Cartoon, Honourable Ratio

Cartoon, Honourable Ratio
Honourable Ratio: or, Naval Conversationsin London. Ratio 5:5:3, between Great Britain, United States of America and Japan. Date: 1934




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"Exploring the Multifaceted Identity of Americans: From Rivera's Art to Native American Legends" From Diego Rivera's captivating murals depicting the Totonaca Civilization to Geronimo, a revered figure in Native American history, they have a rich tapestry of cultural influences. Tango, originating in Argentina but embraced by Americans since 1912, showcases their love for diverse dance forms. The Codex Borgia offers insights into ritual and divinatory practices of Mesoamerican civilizations that continue to shape American spirituality. Meanwhile, Rocky Marciano's postcard symbolizes the indomitable spirit and resilience often associated with Americans. Tupac Amaru II's portrait serves as a reminder of America's struggle for independence and equality throughout its history. Mrs Kennedy and her deb daughters epitomize elegance and grace within high society circles. Lawrence Tibbett at Cap D Antibes highlights America's contribution to the world of opera while showcasing their global reach. In Diego Rivera's artwork on the Totonaca Civilization, we witness how ancient cultures influence modern-day perceptions. However, not all aspects are admirable; "Robbing and Scalping" represents dark chapters in American history that cannot be overlooked or forgotten. The image of an American society wedding taking place in London reflects the far-reaching impact of American culture beyond its borders. Lastly, a postcard from 1913 featuring a woman riding a bull captures both strength and audacity—an embodiment of the pioneering spirit often attributed to Americans. These hints offer glimpses into various facets—artistic expressions, historical figures, societal norms—that contribute to shaping what it means to be an American today: complex yet vibrant amalgamation rooted in diversity and perseverance.