This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Faces of America presents a tour of lives across the nation
AP photographer Horst Faas and Peter Arnett document Americans from Miss Angie Solari in Indian Gulch California to Lola Pepton in San Francisco Bay Alcatraz to Big Red in Los Angeles skid row and veterans in Montana. The piece portraits workers, migrants, police, farmers and former settlers tracing diverse lives and enduring themes of identity and aspiration.
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America
Peter Arnett
Horst Faas
Angie Solari
Indian Gulch
Mother Lode
California
Miss Solari
Castle Air Force Base
Lola Pepton
Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco Bay
Alcatraz
Lola
Joseph J. Kleinsasser
Wolf Creek
Mont
Midwest
Mountain States
Montana Hills
Red
Los Angeles
Skid Row
Big Red
Seattle
Indiana
Morin
Two Creek
Vietnam
Hong Kong
Bangkok
West Oakland
Stachula
al Capone
Lake Shore Drive