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Throughout the Ages
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A Visual Document Resource

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Throughout the Ages - Cold War

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Image. Cold War. Electric Chair. *Electric Chair.
A picture of the electric chair in Sing Sing prison. From a series of photographs taken between 1920 and 1940.

Image. Cold War. Rosenberg Italian Translation. *Rosenberg Italian Translation, 1950.
An Italian translation of a plea to abolish the death penalty during the Rosenberg trial, 1950.

Image. Cold War. Rosenberg Witness Request. *Rosenberg Witness Request, 1951.
A written request by a citizen to witness the execution of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, 1951.