Activists & Reformers Cesar Chavez
Born: March 31, 1927 Died: April 23, 1993
Cesar Chavez was a Mexican American labor activist and leader of the United Farm Workers. During the 20th century he was a Grapes of leading voice for migrant Wrath
farm workers (people who move from place to place in Life in the Mexican American labor leader order to find work). His Cesar Chavez Fields tireless leadership focused
national attention on these
laborers' terrible working conditions, which eventually led to improvements.
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TITLE: Palestine & "Israel" subjects of 1953. Eastern Mediterranean
CALL NUMBER: LC-M33- 13589[P&P]
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-DIG-matpc-12995 (digital file from original photo)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
MEDIUM: 1 negative : safety film ; 4 x 5 in.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1953.
CREATOR:
Matson Photo Service, photographer.
NOTES:
Gift; Episcopal Home; 1978.
Title and date from: photographer's logbook: Matson Registers, v. 2, [1940-1946].
FORMAT:
Safety film negatives.
PART OF: G. Eric and Edith Matson Photograph Collection
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (digital file from original photo) matpc 12995 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/matpc.12995
CONTROL #: mpc2005009427/PP
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[Dwight D. Eisenhower taking oath of office in a private ceremony in the East Room of the White House : Left to right are: Sen. William Knowland, Chief Justice Earl Warren, Frank San[...], Mrs. Patricia Nixon, Mamie Eisenhower, President Eisenhower, and Richard Nixon].
CREATED/PUBLISHED [1957 Jan. 20]
NOTES United Press photo.
No. WAP 012404.
SUBJECTS Eisenhower, Dwight D.--(Dwight David),--1890-1969--Inauguration, 1957. Knowland, William F.--(William Fife),--1908-1974--Public appearances. Warren, Earl,--1891-1974--Public appearances. Presidential inaugurations--Washington (D.C.)--1950-1960. Oaths--Washington (D.C.)--1950-1960. Portrait photographs--1950-1960. Group portraits--1950-1960. Photographic prints--1950-1960.
MEDIUM 1 photographic print.
CALL NUMBER PRES FILE - Eisenhower, Dwight D.--Inauguration, 1957
REPRODUCTION NUMBER LC-USZ62-114910 DLC (b&w film copy neg.)
DIGITAL ID (original) ppmsc 02885 (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3c14910
Architecture and Interior Design
Item Title
Hilda Kassell, E. 53rd St., New York City. Father reading newspaper, two children viewing television.
Gottscho-Schleisner, Inc., photographer.
Created/Published
1950 July 12.
Subjects
Advertising. United States--New York (State)--New York. Acetate negatives.
Medium
1 negative : safety ; 4x5 in.
Call Number
LC-G613- 57609
REPRODUCTION NUMBER
LC-G613-T01-57609 DLC (b&w film dup. neg.)
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"And now some more official information on the accident at Chernobyl"
The disastrous nuclear power plant accident on April 25-26, 1986, at Chernobyl in the Ukraine area of the Soviet Union, cost lives and released masses of polluted air that endangered the health of thousands and contaminated millions of acres of land. In this cartoon, Herb Block drew a family of skeletons, representing the Published in The Washington Post, May 6, 1986. unverified numbers of people who Ink, graphite, and opaque white with paste-on died immediately, or soon afterward, over blue pencil underdrawing accompanied by graphite sketch. of radiation sickness. Block included a Herbert L. Block Collection portrait of President Mikhail Prints and Photographs Division (1) Gorbachev and a television set to Digital ID # ppmsca-11965 allude to the failure of the government Rough Sketch Digital ID # ppmsca-12398 and media to communicate timely information to their own people and the world.
During the 1960s, extensive news coverage of the Vietnam War contributed to growing antiwar sentiment in the United States. The strength of that sentiment divided the nation and the Democratic Party and convinced President Lyndon Baines Johnson to withdraw from the 1968 election campaign. The tensions of the period are reflected in two-time Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Szep's unforgettable image of LBJ haunted by the ghosts of dead American soldiers. To create the drawing Szep used the scratchboard technique, in which the artist scrapes away black ink from a white surface, simulating the strong contrasts of a wood engraving with a fraction of the time, effort, and expense.
Paul Szep, [Vietnam Specters], India ink with scraping out on scratchboard, 1967. Published in The Boston Globe, 1967 Caroline and Erwin Swann Collection of Caricature and Cartoon Prints and Photographs Division (4)
Mrs. Rosa Parks being fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama, 1956. Gelatin silver print. New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, Prints and Photographs Division (119)
Mrs. Rosa Parks Fingerprinted in Montgomery, Alabama
On December 1, 1955, Rosa Parks, forty-three, was arrested for disorderly conducted for refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger. Her arrest and fourteen dollar fine for violating city ordinance, led African American bus riders and others to boycott the Montgomery city buses. It also helped to establish the Montgomery Improvement Association led by a then unknown young minister from the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, Martin Luther King, Jr. The boycott lasted for one year and brought the Civil Rights Movement and Dr. Martin King to the attention of the world.
Baseball and Jackie Robinson
Item Title
[Back cover of Jackie Robinson comic book].
Created/Published
c1951.
Summary
Half-length portrait of Jackie Robinson in Brooklyn Dodgers uniform, posed, holding baseball bat.
Notes
Restricted access: Material extremely fragile Serial and Government Publications Division. Illus. in: Jackie Robinson. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, c1951, v. 1, no. 5, back cover.
Subjects
Robinson, Jackie,--1919-1972--Associated objects. Brooklyn Dodgers (Baseball team)--1950-1960. Magazine covers--1950-1960. Comic books--1950-1960. Halftone photomechanical prints--Color--1950-1960.
Medium
1 photomechanical print : halftone, color.
Call Number
Comics box 166a
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Words and Deeds in American History: Selected Documents Celebrating the Manuscript Division's First 100 Years
Letter, Franklin D. Roosevelt to J. Robert Oppenheimer thanking the physicist and his colleagues for their ongoing secret atomic research, 29 June 1943. (J. Robert Oppenheimer Papers)
In the midst of World War II when the United States was engaged abroad in a major conflict with Germany and Japan, it was also working furiously at home toward the completion of the Manhattan Project. This huge research and development project was begun in June 1942 to develop a superexplosive weapon based on the nuclear fission process. It was hoped that such a superweapon would end the war. Two years before such an experimental atomic bomb was detonated successfully near Alamogordo, New Mexico, President Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882- 1945) wrote to J. Robert Oppenheimer (1904-1967), the scientist in charge of its development. In this otherwise oblique note of confidence and appreciation, Roosevelt's understanding of the project's significance is made perfectly clear, and he ends his letter with an upbeat morale- booster, suggesting that American science is up to anything the enemy can offer. His confidence was proven justified, as the United States followed its experimental detonation of 16 July 1945 by dropping atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima (6 August 1945) and Nagasaki (9 August 1945), resulting shortly thereafter in Japan's surrender.
Leonard C. Bruno, Manuscript Division
Nixon hanging between the tapes
Even more damning than President Richard Nixon's profiting from public office were the disclosures of his corruption and attempts at corruption of the government itself including the CIA, the FBI, the Pentagon and even the Secret Service. A taping system that had recorded most of President Nixon's conversations in the Oval Office provided the "smoking gun" that spoke of crime and corruption. Nixon refused to release the tapes until the Supreme Court ordered him to do so.
[Nixon hanging between the tapes], May 24, 1974 Reproduction of original drawing Published in the Washington Post (79)
Nixon, with sign, "I am not a crook"
On November 17, 1973, President Richard Nixon told 400 Associated Press managing editors that he had not profited from public service. "I have earned every cent. And in all of my years in public life I have never obstructed justice. People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook," he declared. On April 3, 1974, the White House announced that Nixon would pay $432,787.13 in back taxes plus interest after an investigation by the Internal Revenue Service and a congressional committee. Among Nixon's benefits to himself were improvements in his properties, supposedly necessary for his protection. These included a security ice maker, a security swimming pool heater, security club chairs and table lamps, security sofa and security pillows.
[Nixon, with a money-bag for a face, carries a sign, "I am not a crook"], April 4, 1974 Ink, graphite, and opaque white over graphite underdrawing on paper Published in the Washington Post (78) LC-USZ62-126921
Leaders & Statesmen George C. Marshall
Marshall and McCarthyism Two of Marshall's harshest critics were U.S. Senators Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and William Jenner of Indiana. Both men fed the anti- communist hysteria of the era that became known as "McCarthyism." In one Senate speech Jenner said "General George C. Marshall is a living lie" and asserted that "he is eager to play the role of a front man for traitors." An even more vicious assault came from McCarthy, who published two books attacking Marshall's entire career and Senator Joseph McCarthy delivered a 60,000-word Senate speech that displaying a document, 1950. accused Marshall of being part of "a conspiracy on
a scale so immense as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man."
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Leaders & Statesmen George C. Marshall
George Marshall and the Marshall Plan After World War II, George Marshall thought his service to his country was over. He was wrong. The day after his retirement in 1945, President Harry S. Truman asked Marshall to go to China for a diplomatic mission, and in January 1947, the Truman appointed Marshall as secretary of state. In this new job, Marshall toured war-torn Europe that winter and was shocked by what he discovered. What do you think he saw?
President Harry S. Truman and General George C. Marshall. page 1 of 3
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TITLE: [Douglas MacArthur at the front lines above Suwon, Korea, accompanied by Courtney Whtney, Matthew B. Ridgway, William B. Kean, and others]
CALL NUMBER: LOT 8755 [item] [P&P] Check for an online group record (may link to related items)
REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-70920 (b&w film copy neg.)
RIGHTS INFORMATION: No known restrictions on publication.
MEDIUM: 1 photographic print.
CREATED/PUBLISHED: 1951 Jan. 28.
NOTES:
Photoprint by USASC.
No. SC356736.
This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.
Caption card tracings: Korean War; B.I. (4).
REPOSITORY: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA
DIGITAL ID: (b&w film copy neg.) cph 3b18310 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3b18310
CONTROL #: 2003655442
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An American Time Capsule: Three Centuries of Broadsides and Other Printed Ephemera
Nixon sends GIs into Cambodia. Nixon declares all-out war on Southeast Asia. The people must act now. Mass meeting at the White House at noon on Saturday, May 9. [Washington, 1970].
New Mobilization Committee to end the War in Vietnam.
CREATED/PUBLISHED Washington, 1970.
NOTES GB5/19/70.; On verso: Presented to L.C. by J. Harty, May 6, 1970.
Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 208, Folder 87.
SUBJECTS Broadsides--District of Columbia--Washington United States--District of Columbia--Washington.
MEDIUM 22 x 28 cm.
CALL NUMBER Portfolio 208, Folder 87
PART OF Broadsides, leaflets, and pamphlets from America and Europe
DIGITAL ID rbpe 20808700 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.20808700
The Meeting
Elvis Presley arrived at the northwest gate of the White House at 11:45 for his meeting with President Nixon. Nixon Aide Egil Krogh met Presley and his bodyguards and led them to the Oval Office reception area. At 12:30 Krogh and Presley joined the President in his office. Krogh was present throughout the meeting and made detailed notes of what was said.
Photograph Citations ARC Item Description Identifier All Photos There are 28 Elvis-Nixon photos, shot by Nixon's chief photographer, 1178 Ollie Atkins, on December 21, 1970. They are identified as Roll 5364, frames 02 through 23, and Roll 5369, frames 12a through 17a.
• Roll 5364 photos depict Nixon, Elvis, and Nixon staffer Egil Krogh. • Roll 5369 photos depict Nixon, Elvis and Elvis' bodyguards. • The famous photograph is item number 5364-18.
Roll 5364 Richard M. Nixon Meeting with Elvis Presley, 12/21/1970 194703 Roll 5369 President Richard M. Nixon Meeting Elvis Presley And Two of His 194704 Associates, Jerry Schilling And Sonny West, 12/21/1970
Map of Site of Shootings at Kent State University, 05/04/1970 - 05/04/1970 Email ARC Identifier 596837 / MLR Number 37160 J, 37160 R Print Item from Record Group 220: Records of Temporary Committees, Commissions, and Boards, 1893 - 1999 Details | Scope & Content | Archived Copies | Digital Copies | Hierarchy | Creator(s): President (1969-1974 : Nixon). President's Commission on Campus Unrest. (06/13/1970 - ca. 12/1970) Type(s) of Archival Textual Records Materials: Contact(s): Archives II Reference Section (Civilian), Textual Archives Services Division (NWCT2R[C]), National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD, 20740-6001. PHONE: 301-837-3510; FAX: 301-837-1752; EMAIL: [email protected].
Coverage Dates: 05/04/1970 - 05/04/1970 Part Of: Series: Records of the Kent State University Investigative Team, compiled 1970 - 1970
MLR Number: 37160 J, 37160 R Access Unrestricted Restriction(s): Use Restriction(s): Unrestricted
Variant Control Other Identifier: 08780 Number(s): This is the NARA Internal Exhibit Tracking Number for the Public Vaults exhibit.