War Department besieged by job applicants. Washington, D.C., June 12. ...
Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Farm Security Administration (FSA) camp. Farmersville, California. Res...
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[Lee A. Iacocca, President of Ford Motor Company, head-and-shoulders p...
Title devised by Library staff from contact sheet folder caption. Date from contact sheet folder caption. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 23816, frame 11A. On sheet of pape... More
IVU w/ [i.e., interview with] Lt. Comdr. John S. McCain, Vietnam POW /...
Title from contact sheet folder caption. U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes.
Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about c. 1918 photo of...
Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.
Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about c. 1918 photo of...
Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.
Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about photo of Newberg...
Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.
Interview with Rosanne Wagner, Naples, Italy, December 2, 2001 (part 2...
Video Recording, Non-Music. Interviewee occupation: Engineer, United States Navy. Summary: Rosanne Wagner talks about the changes she expects to occur in America, her family, flying, the USS Cole bombing, Osama... More
Interview with Branden Montgomery, Naples, Italy, November 16, 2001
September 11 terrorist attacks, 9/11, documentary photographs. Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Interview with Mark Andrew Williams, Naples, Italy, November 10, 2001
Video Recording, Non-Music. Interviewee occupation: Petty Officer 1st Class, United States Navy. Summary: Andrew Mark Williams speaks about family, career, and his initial reaction to the attacks. He thinks the... More
Nick Saban, who is the Alabama team coach, gives interviews and watche...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... More
Harold Clausen interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-21
Interview with Harold "Pork" Clausen focuses on his experiences as an ironworker. His wife, Sharon, joins in at the end of the recording session. The audio interview is in two parts: file afc2011062_00168_sr01 ... More
Walter Ritch interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-20
Wally Ritch is a retired ironworker from Local 63, who also leads the retirees club for the Local. In the interview, we cover his background, his entrance in the trade, his career, changes in safety, and his vi... More
Gordie Keenan interview conducted by Anthony G. Potoczniak, 2012-08-29
Gordie Keenan was born in 1954, in Norfolk, Virginia. He was educated in Rochester, New York, and later attended the State University of New York Maritime College. He moved to Houston in 1991 and has worked for... More
Walter J. Cheney interview conducted by Margaret A. Glaser and Charlie...
Interview with Walter "Bimbo" Cheney, former cowboy, now surface miner with Newmont Mining Corporation in Elko, Nevada, one of the world's largest gold mining companies. He discussed his previous occupation as ... More
Patrick Wellington interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-10
Patrick Wellington is an established New York hairdresser from Jamaica. In this interview he discusses the importance of taking care of his body to meet the physical demands of the job; attending hair shows; th... More
Iku Kawashita, Steven Landry, Elizabeth Pierotti, Gretzel Stansbury, a...
Ozuki Salon is a Japanese salon in Washington D.C. The interview was conducted as a group interview with the Ozuki's owners and staff, and then short individual interviews were recorded afterwards. Ozuki offers... More
Mary Rawls interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Juliana M. ...
Mary Frazier Rawls, born in 1927, shared experiences of her life-long circus career. She began trouping with her parents at a young age and would go on to perform on the high wire for much of her career. Mary t... More
Freeman A. Hrabowski oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnie...
Freeman A. Hrabowski recalls growing up in Birmingham, Alabama, and attending the Sixth Avenue Baptist Church. He remembers being arrested for marching in the Birmingham Children's Crusade in 1963, and remember... More
William C. Tanneberg interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-...
Concerns Tanneberg's experiences as an ironworker and, subsequently, a blacksmith, with some brief information about his labor in the engine room of a Great Lakes freighter. Recorded at Bill Tanneberg's worksho... More
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
Richard Rowe interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-08
Richard Rowe, a business agent for Iron Workers Union (IWU) Local #63, discusses his background, his entrance into the iron working trade, his involvement in the IWU, labor history, and the current state of org... More
Everett J. Erstad interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...
Interview with ironworker Everett J. Erstad at his home in Oregon, Wisconsin. The audio is in 2 parts: Part 1 (sr01) includes the bulk of the interview with Everett Erstad and his experiences as an ironworker w... More
B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...
B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More
Interview with 65 year old white male, Mountain Rest, South Carolina ...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Pendleton District Historical and Recreation Commission. Pendleton, SC 65 year old white male, born in Oconee County, South Carolina near town of Walh... More
Conversation with 27 year old white female, West Virginia (Transcript)
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 27 year old white female. Happenings around the house. murder
Conversation with 27 year old white female, West Virginia (Transcript)
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 27 year old white female. Happenings around the house. murder
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
David Mercer Ackerman and Satoko Ito Ackerman oral history interview c...
David and Satoko Ackerman recall meeting at the Chicago Theological Seminary and remember their classmate Jesse Jackson urging students to attend the Selma to Montgomery March. They recall traveling to Selma, p... More
Wheeler Parker oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in C...
Wheeler Parker, Jr., discusses his visit to Mississippi with his cousin, Emmett Till. He recalls the incident at Bryant's store and the night that Till was kidnapped, and Till's funeral in Chicago. He remembers... More
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
James Oscar Jones oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier i...
James Oscar Jones remembers growing up on a farm in Arkansas, the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, and attending the Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical, and Normal College in Pine Bluff. He dis... More
Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Seat...
Summary: Basketball player Bill Russell remembers his childhood in Louisiana and Oakland, California, in the 1940s. After winning two Final Fours with the University of San Francisco, he won an Olympic gold med... More
Bill Russell oral history interview conducted by Taylor Branch in Seat...
Summary: Basketball player Bill Russell remembers his childhood in Louisiana and Oakland, California, in the 1940s. After winning two Final Fours with the University of San Francisco, he won an Olympic gold med... More
Evans Derrell Hopkins oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosni...
Evans Hopkins recalls growing up in Danville, Virginia, and participating in efforts to desegregate public schools and the library. He remembers joining the Black Panther Party in Winston-Salem, North Carolina,... More
Conversation with 41 year old black male, Detroit, Michigan (Transcrip...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Georgetown University. Washington, DC 49 year old black male. Discusses childhood games, school, and work.
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about photo of Newberg...
Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.
Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Anne Murphy about c. 1918 photo of...
Forms part of a group of images recorded on September 11, documenting retired towel factory worker Anne Murphy and her daughter Claire at their home in Totowa, New Jersey.
Fieldworker David Taylor interviews Florence DiStefano in the kitchen ...
Public domain photograph - historical image of Italy, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Interview with Jessica Horner, Naples, Italy, November 15, 2001
Interviewee occupation: Student. Video Recording, Non-Music. Summary: Jessica Horner talks about where she was during the attacks, her family, and future plans.
Interview with Andreia Callahan, Naples, Italy, November 16, 2001
Interviewee occupation: Student. Video Recording, Non-Music. Summary: Andreia Callighan was shocked at the sight of the World Trade Center under attack. She believes that the United States altered the situation... More
Nick Saban, who is the Alabama team coach, gives interviews and watche...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... More
Nick Saban, who is the Alabama team coach, gives interviews and watche...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... More
Nick Saban, who is the Alabama team coach, gives interviews and watche...
Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Photo shows the annual spring practice scrimmage game called A-Day. The Alabama Crimson Tide team began playing in 1892 and has claimed many... More
"Man-on-the-Street," Austin, Texas, December 9, 1941
The name of one interviewee is unknown. Part of a series of interviews made by John Henry Faulk, Austin, Texas, December 9, 1941. Contents: AFS 06370A, Interview with J.C. Brodie; AFS 06370B, Interview with J.C... More
Henry Arnold Martens interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011...
Two interviews were done with Henry "Bud" Martens. Both were recorded on July 26, 2011. Part 1 (38:39) is longer and more general and concerns his upbringing, early iron worker career, welding, the trade, and s... More
John Ryan interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011-07-27
John Ryan discusses his background, his entrance into the ironworkers trade, important sites he has worked on in Chicago, unions, strikes, the labor-management situation in Chicago, jokes and ritual. The audio ... More
Charles H. Baggett interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Jul...
Charles Baggett, born in 1941, talked about his father Herman, who owned car dealerships in Hugo, Oklahoma, and the relationship Herman developed with the circus community; in particular with D.R. Miller. Charl... More
William W. Kerwin interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-07-...
Interview focuses on Bill Kerwin's experiences as an ironworker with Local 383. Recorded at Bill Kerwin's home, Waunakee, Wisconsin, July 8, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Upper Midwest :... More
Doris Ortiz interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-09-07
Doris Ortiz runs iSALON in New York City. She's originally from Singapore. Initially, Doris had a job in Union Square at International Hair Cutting. She decided to open her own shop six years later. Her salon c... More
Walter J. Cheney interview conducted by Margaret A. Glaser and Charlie...
Interview with Walter "Bimbo" Cheney, former cowboy, now surface miner with Newmont Mining Corporation in Elko, Nevada, one of the world's largest gold mining companies. He discussed his previous occupation as ... More
B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...
B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More
Folosade Bey Al-Rasul and Nzinga Foreman-Bey interview conducted by Ca...
Nzinga and Folosade are sisters who work out of their family home in Philadelphia. They were trained by master braider Yvette Smalls. They specialize in traditional African hair styling and they have developed ... More
Shahzad Hafeez interview conducted by Candacy Taylor, 2012-08-09
Shahzad Hafeez is from Pakistan. He discusses being trained as an engineer and becoming a hairdresser in the United States. He talks about the difference of Indian hair compared to European hair and how Indian ... More
Henry Arnold Martens interview conducted by Clark Douglas Halker, 2011...
Two interviews were done with Henry "Bud" Martens. Both were recorded on July 26, 2011. Part 1 (38:39) is longer and more general and concerns his upbringing, early iron worker career, welding, the trade, and s... More
David F. Olby interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-10-29
Interview focuses on David Olby's experiences as an ironworker, including accounts of his dad, DeWain Olby, also an ironworker, with additional accounts of deer hunting, David's work in a sawmill and doing carp... More
Michael Fulton interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Juliana...
Mike Fulton, born in 1957, entered the circus industry at a young age and discussed how that came about. After high school graduation, the family moved to Hugo, Oklahoma. He held various jobs within the circus ... More
Augustine Peplinski interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-0...
Interview focuses on Gus Peplinski's experiences as an ironworker and member of Local 383 Recorded at Gus Peplinski's home, Custer, Wisconsin, July 12, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Uppe... More
D'Army Bailey oral history interview conducted by David P. Cline in Me...
D'Army Bailey describes growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, the influence of the Crump political machine in city politics, and his involvement with the Memphis NAACP at an early age. He talks about his participat... More
Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...
Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More
B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...
B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More
Charles H. Baggett interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Jul...
Charles Baggett, born in 1941, talked about his father Herman, who owned car dealerships in Hugo, Oklahoma, and the relationship Herman developed with the circus community; in particular with D.R. Miller. Charl... More
Charles H. Baggett interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Jul...
Charles Baggett, born in 1941, talked about his father Herman, who owned car dealerships in Hugo, Oklahoma, and the relationship Herman developed with the circus community; in particular with D.R. Miller. Charl... More
Robert L. Carter oral history interview conducted by Patricia Sullivan...
Robert L. Carter recalls growing up in Newark, New Jersey, and attending Lincoln University, Howard University Law School, and Columbia University. He discusses hearing Marian Anderson sing at the Lincoln Memor... More
Augustine Peplinski interview conducted by James Patrick Leary, 2011-0...
Interview focuses on Gus Peplinski's experiences as an ironworker and member of Local 383 Recorded at Gus Peplinski's home, Custer, Wisconsin, July 12, 2011. Cultural Traditions of Ironworkers in America's Uppe... More
B.K. Silverlake interview conducted by Tanya Ducker Finchum and Julian...
B.K. Silverlake was born in 1946 to Emma and Raymond Duke, a circus family. She outlined their history with various circuses and her life with Melvin Silverlake, who was also from a circus family. B.K. explaine... More
Sigmund Freud Papers: Family Papers, 1851-1978; Correspondence with Si...
Picryl description: Public domain manuscript page scan, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.
Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 15, Tennessee,...
Includes narratives by Andrew Moss, Andy Odell, Ann Matthews, Cecelia Chappel, Dan Thomas, Ellis Ken Kannon, Emma Grisham, Frances Batson, Frankie Goole, Jenny Greer, Joseph Leonidas Star, Julia Casey, Laura Ra... More
Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 10, Missouri, ...
Includes narratives by Alex Bufford, Alice Sewell, Ann Stokes, Ann Ulrich Evans, Annie Bridges, Betty Abernathy, Betty Brown, Charles Gabriel Anderson, Charlie Richardson, Clara McNeely Harrell, Clay Smith, Dav... More
Federal Writers' Project: Slave Narrative Project, Vol. 2, Arkansas, P...
Includes narratives by Abbie Lindsay, Absolom Jenkins, Adaline Johnson, Adreanna (Adrianna) W. Kerns, Alice Johnson, Allen Johnson, Angeline Jones, Anna King, Annie Johnson, Annie Love, Arey Lamar, Barney A. La... More
Conversation with 15 year old male, Virginia (Transcript)
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: Center for Applied Linguistics. Washington, DC 15 year old male, Vietnamese, 7 years in the U.S. Talks about life in Vietnam; holidays; school; Vietna... More
Conversation with 17 year old white male, White Pine, Tennessee (Trans...
For rights information contact the collector’s institution: University of South Carolina. Columbia, SC 17 year old white male. Talks about encountering Bigfoot; a typical day; animals; and school.
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Brown Girl in the Ring, 1997
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Eelsfoot, 1950s
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
John Elliott Churchville oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mo...
Summary: John Churchville recalls growing up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, his mother's career as a music teacher, moving to New York, and converting to Islam. He remembers joining the Student Nonviolent Coord... More
Candie Carawan and Guy Hughes Carawan oral history interview conducted...
Candie Carawan recalls attending Fisk University as an exchange student and meeting civil rights activists in Nashville, Tennessee. She discusses meeting Guy Carawan at the Highlander Folk School, the importanc... More
Carrie M. Young oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...
Summary: Carrie Young recalls growing up in on a farm, moving to West Helena, Arkansas, with her family, and meeting civil rights organizers from the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), including ... More
Emmett W. Bassett and Priscilla Tietjen Bassett oral history interview...
Priscilla Tietjen Bassett recalls growing up in Plainfield, New Jersey, and attending Smith College, and Emmett W. Bassett remembers growing up in Henry County, Virginia, serving in World War II, and attending ... More
Courtland Cox oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in Wa...
Courtland Cox recalls growing up in Trinidad and New York City, and attending Howard University. He remembers organizing student protests in Washington, D. C., with the Nonviolent Action Group, which later merg... More
Ruby Nell Sales oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosnier in ...
Ruby Sales discusses her father's military career, growing up in Columbus, Georgia, and attending the Tuskegee Institute. She recalls joining the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the Selma to M... More
William Lucy oral history interview conducted by Emilye Crosby in Wash...
Summary: William Lucy discusses his role in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) in the 1960s, especially how he and the union supported the 1968 sanitation workers' strike ... More
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962
Public domain scan of a document from Alan Lomax's performing arts and music history collection, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description
Dorothy Foreman Cotton oral history interview conducted by Joseph Mosn...
Dorothy Foreman Cotton discusses growing up in rural North Carolina, attending Shaw University and Virginia State College, working as a housekeeper for the president of these colleges, Dr. Robert Prentiss Danie... More
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, New York City, 1961-1962
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The safer choice / Keppler. - Political cartoon, public domain image
Illustration shows William Jennings Bryan and William H. Taft standing aboard a ship applying for the job of "First Mate" to "Captain" Uncle Sam. Bryan has a pocketful of "Promises", whereas Taft has "Records" ... More