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Category Archives: Photographs
Classes, Teachers, Workbooks – School in the CCC
The Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) was established by Congress in early 1933 as part of Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal. As the country faced the Great Depression and the Dust Bowl in the 1930’s, several government initiatives were developed to … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Materials, Photographs
Tagged 1930s, art, Artists, CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps, Classes, Drawings, Education, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, great depression, Math, National Park Service, New Deal, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Reading, School, Workbooks, Works Progress Administration
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Spotlight: Construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway
This week’s post highlights photographs from RG 30, Records of the Bureau of Public Roads (BPR). These images come from series 30-RW and depict the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway from the clearing of land to paving. The series … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Ridge Parkway, construction, findyourpark, National Park Service
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Spotlight: Race Horses
This week’s images are from RG 17-HD. They are mounted prints depicting beautiful race horses from the early 1900’s! Accompanying metadata is limited to the captions, which are included with the images below. These captions, affixed to the mounts and … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Materials, Photo of the Week, Photographs
Tagged horse races, horse racing, horses, Race Horses, Spanish, Spotlight, Translating
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Hidden Women: The Art of WWI Camouflage (Photos)
If you’ve ever read a Highlights magazine, you’ve likely played the hidden picture game–the one where children are asked to find out-of-place objects like pencils hidden in trees and candy canes hidden in striped dresses. As I came across photographs from the … Continue reading
Posted in Digitization, Photographs, Uncategorized
Tagged Camouflage, Women, women's history, World War I, World War I Art and Artists, WWI
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Historic Maps and Photos of the National Zoo
This post was written in collaboration with Carla Simms The National Zoo in Washington D.C. is one of the capital’s most celebrated landmarks. The zoo was created by an act of congress in 1889, and officially made a bureau of … Continue reading
Posted in Digitization, Maps, Photographs
Tagged animals, Richard Nixon, Smokey Bear, Washington DC, zoo
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Sally Ride and the Women of NASA
As a girl growing up in the 1980s, Sally Ride was my hero. At that young age, I didn’t yet understand all of the battles women had fought for equality, but if I declared that I was going to be … Continue reading
Posted in Films, Motion Pictures, Photographs, Video Recordings
Tagged 1960s, 1980s, Angelita Castro-Kelly, Anna Lee Fisher, astronauts, Brenda Willis, Challenger, EEOC, Eileen Collins, EO 11375, EO 11478, Federal Women's Program, Film, Goddard Space Flight Center, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Kathryn D. Sullivan, Langley Research Center, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Mae Jemison, Marjorie Townsend, Mercury 13, Motion Pictures, NASA, National Archives, Nimbus, Patricia S. Cowings, Ricardo Montalban, Sally Ride, Sharon Orkansky, Shirley Chevalier, Space Shuttle, STEM, Still Pictures, STS-7, Susan Norman, TIROS-1, Trudy Phillips, William Greaves, women in space
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Happy Mother’s Day from the National Archives!
To the women who play with us: Teach us: Keep us well and well-fed: Who work: Multi-task: And to mamas of pets: Happy Mother’s Day
Posted in Photo of the Week, Photographs
Tagged African American, board games, child care, childcare, children, Cooking, dinner, farming, Food, grocery, Home Economics, homemaking, kids, lawyers, moms, mother's day, mothers, music, piano, sheep, Still Pictures, turkey, Women, women's history
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Aftermath of Disaster: RMS Lusitania in Photographs
In the early afternoon of May 7, 1915, the RMS Lusitania made her way towards Liverpool, England. Six days earlier she’d left New York City on her 202nd transatlantic voyage, carrying 1,265 passengers and 694 crew members from all over … Continue reading
Dr. Paul Owen: The First PHS Optometrist
Paul Owen grew up in Jacksonville, Florida in the mid-20th century. He attended Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, where he earned his Bachelor of Science (B.S.) and then his Doctorate in Optometry (O.D.). In 1966, Dr. Owen became the … Continue reading
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Tagged African American, black history, Doctors, genealogy, Medical, Native Americans, Optometry, Still Pictures
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