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Children take a hearing test given by Works Progress Administration instructors in Holyoke, MA, 5/12/1937.
Come for the New Deal, stay for the creepy fairy tale about playing in water!
Series: WPA Information Division Photographic Index, ca. 1936 - ca. 1942
Record Group 69: Records of the Work Projects Administration, 1922 - 1944
Image description: A class of white, elementary-aged children sit at desks in a school room. Each child is wearing headphones and is writing on a piece of paper. A blackboard in the background is covered in cursive writing.
Transcription of blackboard:
The First Fountain
Once there was a little girl who loved to play in the water. One day she came to a little stream. She jumped up and down in it. At last she heard a voice from the grounds. She tried to run away but her feet were held fast. Her hair became streams of water. A fairy had turned her into a fountain.
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“John Burnham of the Said district has deposited in this Office The title of a book the Right Whereof he claims as proprietor in the Words following to Wit The Essays of Philanthropos on Peace & War”, 5/11/1827
Series: Copyright Record Books, 7/15/1791 - 5/11/1827
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
Transcription:
[handwritten]
District of Newhampshire to Wit
District Clerks Office
Be it remembered that on the Eleventh day of May AD 1827 in the fifty first year of the Independence of the United States of America John Burnham of the Said district has deposited in this Office The title of a book the Right Whereof he claims as proprietor in the Words following to Wit
The Essays of Philanthropos on Peace & War Which first appeared in the Christian Mirror printed at Portland Maine Revised and corrected by the authors Second Edition
on Earth Peace, and Good will to men
In conformity to the act of the Congress of the United States Entitled, An act for the Encouragement of Learning, by securing the Copies of Maps Charts and Books to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned and also to an act Entitled An act supplementary to an act for the Encouragement of Learning by Securing the Copies of Maps Charts and Books to the authors and proprietors of such Copies during the times therein mentioned and Extending the benefits thereof to the
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Survey of Ga gi ga bi tung (Jack Doud) and his wife, of the Lac du Flambeau Tribe, 5/10/1922.
(G.A.R. = Grand Army of the Republic = Organization for veterans of Union forces during the U.S. Civil War.)
Series: Surveys of Indian Industry, 1920 - 1922
Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999
Image description: Portion of photo showing two women and a man standing outside a tall house made of wood. They are wearing Western style clothing, but one woman and the man are also wearing (possibly traditional?) headdresses or hats.
Transcription:
Lac du Flambeau Agency, Wisconsin.
Ga gi ga bi tung (Jack Doud) G.A.R. Veteran/
Photo
Allotment No. 682
Age 78
Degree Full
Status Comp.
Family Wife
Flambeau Lake…. 2 room house..5 windows, 2 doors.
Log barn 20'x14’, small shed, summer tepee.
Bob sleigh, light bob, canoe.
5 acres cleared. Large garden, 2 apple trees.
1844 Husband Is active for his age. Cuts wood.
1887 Wife Is always busy and dirty. Makes snowshoes, reed mats, braided rag rugs, plants garden and cultivates it. Waits on her husband - is devoted to him.
Squalid home but very happy. Receive a Civil War pension. Wife had a fatty tumor removed and made a good recovery.
Reimbursable Funds…..
Date of Survey….. May 10, 1922.
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USAF Technical Sergeant Darnell Howell, Air Traffic Controller, Montana Air National Guard, relays information from the control tower to aircraft landing at Bagram Airfield, Afghanistan, 5/9/2002
Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007
Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008
Image description: Technical Sergeant Howell talks into a telephone or radio receiver. He is seated in a yellow plastic chair and is writing something on a piece of paper, held on top of a large binder in his lap.
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Happy Mother’s Day!
Image description: Political cartoon showing a man in Colonial dress and wig looking at a portrait of a woman, also in Colonial dress. A tag on the portrait reads “MOTHER”.
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“This Country is in a shocking situation. Its Royal Family its administration and its opposition, are all such, as will never Seduce an American Mind from his Duty.” - John Adams, London, 5/8/1787.
File Unit: Letters from John Adams, 1777 - 1788
Transcription:
473
Grosvenor Square, London May 8 1787
Dr Sir
I am honoured with your Letter of April 2d, and am happy to receive the Resolutions of Congress, inclosed [sic] in it, especially those of the twenty first of March 1787. The Convention of Phyladelphia [sic], is to consist of Members, of such ability, weight, and experience, that their Result must be beneficial to the United States.
The Settlement of so many great Controversies such as those between the Massachusetts and New York Pensilvania [sic] and Connecticut, New York and Vermont &c show that the Union has great weight in the minds of the People. It is indeed an object of such magnitude, that great sacrifices ought to be made to its Preservation. The Consequences of a Division of the Continent cannot be foreseen fully, perhaps by any Man: but the most short sighted must perceive such mannifest [sic] danger both from foreign Powers, and from one another as cannot be looked upon with out terror. The Navigation of the Mississippi, in the South and the Fisheries in the North have ever appeared to me, objects without which the Union cannot be preserved. And therefore whether the free [u] use [/u] of them be obstructed for a time or not, it has ever appeared a dangerous Policy, to cede the [u] right [/u] even for a moment.
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inclosed is a letter from our unfortunate Country men in Captivity at Algiers, which must be sent in the original as there is not time to transcribe it.
I hope Sir, eer long to receive your orders in Consequence of the Resolutions of Congress preparatory to my Return home in the next Spring. The conduct of this Court is so imprudent by as well as uncivilly, neglecting to send a Minister to America, renders it impossible to Congress, consistently with their own Dignity to renew my Commission. When the American Minister shall leave the Country, they will begin to think it necessary to send one of their own to New York. They may, for what I [know?] with, in this way to get rid of one, whom they have not been able to mould to their views, in hopes of obtaining another of a more ductile temper. Let them try the Experiment. I dare say they will be disappointed. For if Congress appoints another, he will not be found more to their Taste. This Country is in a shocking situation. Its Royal Family its administration and its opposition, are all such, as will never Seduce an American Mind from his Duty. He will only be Shocked at the Sight, and confirmed in his natural Principles and native Feelings. With great Respect etc John Adams
His Excellencey John Jay
Secretary Etc
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Albert C. Meyn Improvement in Glove for Husking Corn, patented 5/7/1872.
Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: A mitten with spiked metal plates on the palm side of the fingers and thumb, and a strong metal wire serving as a spring to either open or close the grip (it’s not clear which).
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Land Allotment for Timber Woman, a member of the Cheyenne or Arapaho tribes, 5/6/1892
File Unit: T-83 Timber Woman, 1902 - 1981
Series: Individual Indian Money (IIM) Account Files, 1902 - 1981
Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999
Transcription:
4 – 457 a.
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The United States of America,
To all to who these Presents shall come, GREETING ;
Whereas, There has been deposited in the General Land Office of the United States a
schedule of allotments of land, dated March 30, 1892, from the Commissioner
of Indian Affairs, approved by the Secretary of the Interior June 1, 1892,
whereby it appears that under the provisions of the Act of Congress approved February 8, 1887,
(24 Stats., 388,) as amended by the Act of Congress of March 3, 1891, (26 Slal 989)
Timber Woman, an Indian of
the Cheyenne or Arapahoe tribe or band, has been allotted the
following described land, viz:
The South East quarter or section twenty eight in Township sixteen North of Range eight West of Indian Meridian, Oklahoma Territory, Containing one hundred and sixty acres
Now, Know Ye, That the United States of America, in consideration of the premises and in accordance with the provisions or the fifth section of said Act of Congress of the 8th February, 1887, HEREBY DECLARES that it does and will hold the land thus allotted (subject to all the restrictions and conditions contained in said fifth section) for the period of twenty-five years, in trust for the sole use and benefit of the said Timber Woman, or in case of her decease, for the sole use of her heirs, according to the laws of the State or Territory where such land is located, and that at the expiration of said period the United States will convey the same by patent to said Indian, or her heirs, as aforesaid, in fee, discharged of said trust and free of all charge or incumbrance whatsoever: Provided, That the President of the United States may, in his discretion, extend the said period.
In Testimony Whereof, I, Benjamin Harrison, President of the United States of America, have caused these letters to be made Patent and the seal of the General Land Office to be hereunto affixed.
[circular red seal]
Given under my hand at the City of Washington, this sixth day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and Ninety-two, and of the Independence of the United States the one hundred and sixteenth
By the President: Benjamin Harrison
By M.McKean, Secretary.
I.R.Conwell
Recorder of the General Land Office.
ad interim
Recorded Vol 13, p. 182
(17293–20 M.) 6–400
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“Today I’m going to ride with a group of friends on a mountain bike,” said the President in his remarks about May being Physical Fitness Month. “[ … ] find time in your schedule to walk, run, swim, bike, to take care of yourselves.” 5/5/2007
Series: Photographs Related to the George W. Bush Administration, 1/20/2001 - 1/20/2009
Image description: President George W. Bush stands with a group of people outdoors. Some are wearing bike helmets, cycling shoes, or other athletic gear.
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Resolution Adopted by the Student Body of Flemington High School, 5/4/1917
Series: Petitions and Memorials, 1813 - 1968
Record Group 233: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, 1789 - 2015
Transcription:
Resolutions Adopted by the Student Body of Flemington High School.
Present in Mass Meeting
May Fourth Nineteen Seventeen
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Whereas-Our beloved Nation is confronted with the serious situation of War with a foreign nation that challenges our united and entire support; and
Whereas-We are moved with a laudable pride to see Our Nation bring the issue of this war to a praiseworthy success. Be it therefore
Resolved-That we, the Students of Flemington High School, Flemington, New Jersey, do, hereby pledge our unresolved support to the government of the
United States of America in the preparation for and in the execution of our present conflict; and be it further
Resolved-That we most respectfully urge the “immediate prohibition of the liquor traffic for the conservation of food supplies, for the increased efficiency of
army, navy, shop and farm for the protection of health and character of our soldiers and sailors, and for the release for national service of the plants and
army of workers now engaged in the manufacture and sale of liquors”; and be it further
Resolved-That we most respectively petition our Representatives in Congress to give their support to the Lever Bill now before the House of
Representatives. Be it finally
Resolved-That these resolutions be sent immediately to the Honorable Woodrow Wilson, President; to the Honorable Williams Hughes and the Honorable
Joseph S. Frelinghuysen, United States Senators; and to the Honorable Elijah C. Hutchinson, Congressman of our District.
Respectfully Submitted,
[handwritten] Lina Markert
Mollie Katcher
Charles Icats
John Corcoran
Gerarda Schenk [/handwritten]
Committee.
[handwritten] John Lolsel [/handwritten]
Pres. of Student Body
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Philippine American Cultural Arts Society dancers perform a traditional courtship dance during an Asian Pacific American Heritage Month program presented at Andrews Air Force Base, 5/2/2002
Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007
Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008
Image description: Two women in bright dresses dance with painted fans.
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Eid Mubarak!
President Obama greets a family at an Eid Al-Fitr reception in 2016.
Series: Presidential Photographs, 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017
Collection: Records of the White House Photo Office (Obama Administration), 1/20/2009 - 1/20/2017
Image description: President Obama smells a rose given to him by a toddler who is held in her mother’s arms at the front of a group of people.
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A White House chef serves up a cheerful spring dessert, 5/1/1967.
Series: Johnson White House Photographs, 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969
Collection: White House Photo Office Collection, 11/22/1963 - 1/20/1969
Image description: A chef stands in a large kitchen, holding a silver tray with two desserts: small flowerpots with a swirl of toasted meringue on top, and real flowers poking through.
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Protest on Homelessness Outside HUD Headquarters, 4/30/2002
File Unit: 207-DP-8420 - Protest on Homelessness Outside HUD Headquarters, 2001 - 2014
Record Group 207: General Records of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, 1931 - 2003
Image description: People stand outside the Weaver Building, a Brutalist 10-story building. They hold signs that say “Housing for All,” “Housing Justice,” Housing Now to End Homelessness,” etc.
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Executive Order 3669, in which President Warren G. Harding establishes benefits for veterans after WWI, 4/29/1922
Series: Executive Orders, 1862 - 2016
Record Group 11: General Records of the United States Government, 1778 - 2006
Transcription:
[hand stamp, upper left corner of document] DEPT OF STATE APR 22 1922 DIVISION OF PUBLICATIONS
[hand stamp, upper right corner of document] CHIEF CLERK APR 29 1922 DEPARTMENT OF STATE
EXECUTIVE ORDER
WHEREAS, Section 9 of the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to Establish a Veterans’ Bureau and to improve the facilities and service of such Bureau, and further to amend and modify the War Risk Insurance Act”, approved August 9, 1921, provides that -
“Section 9. The director, subject to the general directions of the President, shall be responsible for the proper examination, medical care, treatment, hospitalization, dispensary and convalescent care, necessary and reasonable after care, welfare of, nursing, vocational training, and such other services as may be necessary in the carrying out of the provisions of this Act, and for that purpose is hereby authorized to utilize the now existing or future facilities of the United States Public Health Service, the War Department, the Navy Department, the Interior Department, the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and such other governmental facilities as may be made available for the purposes set forth in this Act; and such governmental agencies are hereby authorized and directed to furnish such facilities, including personnel, equipment, medical, surgical, and hospital services and supplies as the director or may deem necessary and advisable in carrying out the provisions of this Act, in addition to such governmental facilities as are hereby made available *******”
AND WHEREAS said Section 9 further provides that:
“In the event that there is not sufficient Government Hospital and other facilities for the proper medical care and treatment of beneficiaries under this Act, and the director deems it necessary and advisable to secure additional Government facilities, he may, within the limits of appropriations made for carrying out the provisions of this paragraph, and with the approval of the President, improve or extend existing governmental facilities or acquire additional facilities by purchase or otherwise. Such new property and structures as may be so improved, extended, or acquired shall become part of the permanent equipment of the Veterans’ Bureau or of some one of the now existing agencies of the Government, including the War Department, Navy Department, Interior Department, Treasury Department, the National Homes for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, in such a way as will best serve the present emergency, taking into consideration the future services to be rendered the veterans of the World War, including the beneficiaries under this Act.”
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Product label for Lifter Carbonated and Lithiated Beverage, copyrighted 4/28/1937.
The FDA no longer allows the addition of lithium to soft drinks.
Series: Case Files for Registered Product Labels , 1874 - 1940
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Transcription:
[cartoon image of man drinking from a glass]
LIFTER
COPYRIGHT 1937 P.A.CO
[cartoon image of man holding glass and winking]
Carbonated and Lithiated
Heads up! Get a Lift with LIFTER. Counteracts
Excess Acidity. Settles the Stomach. Tones You Up.
It’s Doubly Good … as a Drink … or a Mixer.
Contents FULL QUART (32 Fl.oz.) Peacock Co., Chicago, ILL.
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In U.S. District Court, a judge found that “ … any Selective Service Board determination that Petitioner Muhammad Ali is not entitled to ministerial exemption cannot be, and will not be, disturbed by this Court.” [p.1,7,8] 4/28/1967.
Series: Civil Case Files, 1938 - 1997
Record Group 21: Records of District Courts of the United States, 1685 - 2009
Transcription:
Filed 28th of April, 1967 (illegible) By (illegible), Deputy
IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF TEXAS HOUSTON DIVISION
MUHAMMED ALI, ET AL, VS. JOHN B CONNOLLY, Governor of Texas, et al Civil Action No. 67-H-333
Hayden C. Covington, of New York, New York and Quinnan H. Hodges, of Houston, Texas for Plaintiffs.
Fred Drogula, Assistant Attorney General, of Washington, D.C.
Martin L. Susman, United States Attorney of Houston, Texas
Carl Walker, Jr. Assistant United States Attorney of Houston, Texas, for all Federal Defendants
Honorable Crawford Martin, Attorney General of Texas and Hawthorne Phillips, Assistant Attorney General of Texas, of Austin, Texas, for all Defendants other than Federal.
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April 28, 1967
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Memorandum and order of Dismissal (underscore)
In connection with the Plaintiff’s Petition for Injunctive Relief against the defendants in this case, it is fundamental that the Selective Service Act Title 50, Section 451 et. seq. is and has
been adjudicated constitutional and finds its basis in the emergency and war powers of Congress. It is also axiomatic as demonstrated by numerous Supreme Court decisions on the subject, that
the scope of the Act does not provide for judicial review in the ordinary sense. The Orders of the Selective Service Board, after having run the gamut of statutorily authorized examination and re-
examination, must be deemed final although they may be erroneous. The Act does not provide for or
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The inconsistency in Petitioner’s claims and/or basis for exemption is self-evident.
3. Great care was taken by the Court in examining Petitioner concerning his present claim for ministerial exemption and the entire religious and ministerial question was thoroughly examined.
VI.
As pointed out by the United States Supreme Court in Witmer v. U.S., supra, and reiterated by the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in Wood v. U.S. , supra (page 7, slip opinion) United States District Courts such as this Court should not purport to and cannot sit as:
“… . super draft boards, substituting (our) judgments on the weight of the evidence for those of the designated agencies.”
The test which this Court has jurisdiction to apply, presupposing now reviewable Board action, is clearly stated in Wood v. U.S., supra, (slip opinion, page 5):
“Where the local Board has denied the claimed exemption, this Court has construed these cases to require that there be ‘some proof that is
incompatible with the registrants proof of exemption’”. Citing Wiggins v. U.S., 5 Cir., 261 F.2d 113, 115.
VII.
From the foregoing it follows, as a finding of fact and as a conclusion of law, that any Selective Service Board determination that Petitioner Muhammad Alis is not entitled to ministerial exemption cannot be, and will not be, disturbed by this Court.
7.
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For the reasons aforestated in this opinion, the Respondents' Motion to Dismiss is granted and Petitioners’ prayer for injunctive relief is denied. This case is hereby dismissed with prejudice and Petitioners’ to pay costs.
The foregoing constitutes Findings of Fact and Conclusions of Law. This is and constitutes a final judgment.
The Clerk will notify counsel.
(Signature) Allen B. Hannay
United States District Judge
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George and Michiko Uchida were married, 4/27/1942.
Two days later, they were taken to an incarceration camp for people of Japanese ancestry.
About two-thirds of the Japanese Americans incarcerated during WWII were American citizens.
Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945
Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989
Image description: George and Michiko Uchida stand in front of a flower arrangement, holding hands. He is wearing a suit with a carnation in the lapel buttonhole; she is wearing a medium-dark dress with white collar and cuffs, and a large corsage of lilacs.
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Inventor and dressmaker Sarah Boone’s ironing board was patented on 4/26/1892. She was the second African American woman to receive a patent.
Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: Drawings of a long, narrow piece of wood, curved in the shape of a woman’s tight long sleeve.
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