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The Demon Cat was reported to start out the size of a common tabby, similar to the cat seen in this 19th century glass negative by Washington, D.C., portrait photographer Charles Milton Bell. But some believers claimed the feline grew into a massive beast before their very eyes.

A neon sign from the 1930s advertises the Mountaineer Inn in Asheville, North Carolina.

The American Sign Museum in Cincinnati holds hundreds of artifacts including a large cache of neon clocks and placards.

On March 3rd, 1913, thousands of women marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, D.C., to demand voting rights. But as visible in this photograph, a much larger and hostile crowd surrounded them, cutting off the parade route and threatening the women with violence. It would be seven more years until the 19th Amendment was passed.

Civil rights activist, feminist, and educator Nannie Helen Burroughs holds a banner for the Woman's Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, which she helped found. This group of women, photographed circa 1910, were active in campaigning for women's right to vote.

In 1991, hundreds of graves of free and enslaved Africans were unearthed during the construction of an office building in New York’s financial district. Today, a monument marks the site where the remains of 419 men, women, and children were reinterred.

New York's World Trade Centre, as it was before the September 11th, 2001 attacks. When completed in 1973, at 417 metres and 415 metres, the towers were the tallest buildings in the world.

Civil rights activist, feminist, and educator Nannie Helen Burroughs holds a banner for the Woman's Auxiliary to the National Baptist Convention, which she helped found. This group of women, photographed circa 1910, were active in campaigning for women's right to vote.

Union leader Gordon Granger told the 250,000 enslaved people of Texas that they were free.

This aerial view of Sullivan Roadhouse between Valdez and Fairbanks, Alaska, was taken during a 1982 survey. Today, the structure holds a museum of frontier life.