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The Ohio whiskey war - the ladies of Logan singing hymns in front of barrooms in aid of the temperance movement

The Ohio whiskey war - the ladies of Logan singing hymns in front of b...

After a sketch by S.B. Morton. Illus. in: Frank Leslie's illustrated newspaper, 1874 Feb. 21, p. 392.

Group. Inter church movement - Public domain portrait photograph

Group. Inter church movement - Public domain portrait photograph

A group of men standing next to each other. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Barn plant. General view of layout of precutting plant, showing movement of material from left to right. Southeast Missouri Farms Project

Barn plant. General view of layout of precutting plant, showing moveme...

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Young girl, daughter of small pear farmer tends her calf. She belongs to the 4-H Club, the largest movement among rural youth in America. Oregon. Jackson County, near Medford

Young girl, daughter of small pear farmer tends her calf. She belongs ...

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Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can get behind his government's efforts to conserve fuel whether he heats his home with oil or coal, and both are strategically important. Fuel savings can be effected by keeping temperatures at reasonable levels, closing off unused rooms, and insulating in various ways. Windows can be weather stripped. Conservation of fuel will help release railroad and other transportation facilities for the movement of fighting materials

Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a worker, labor, factory, plant, manufacture, industrial facility, 1930s, mid-20th-century industrial photo, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Sheep Movement. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Sheep Movement. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

People in photograph: Miller, Emily Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project... More

'Head shop' on Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Francisco, California, where the hippie movement was headquartered in the 1960s

'Head shop' on Haight Street in the Haight-Ashbury section of San Fran...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Exact spot on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama, where Rosa Parks waited for the bus on that fateful day that turned the Civil Rights Movement into a raging human rights war

Exact spot on Dexter Avenue in Montgomery, Alabama, where Rosa Parks w...

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Movement order, Kantara military railway (pass for John D. Whiting, British Intelligence, from Beirut to Jerusalem)

Movement order, Kantara military railway (pass for John D. Whiting, Br...

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Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Mrs. Cobden Sanderson will speak on Militant Suffrage Movement, Cooper Union, under auspices of the League of Self-Supporting Women and Collegiate Suffrage League

Mrs. Cobden Sanderson will speak on Militant Suffrage Movement, Cooper...

Inside: Advertisement for suffrage novel, The Convert, by Elizabeth Robins with review by Carrie Chapman Catt; handwritten across the top: "Our price $1.25. Discount goes to the College League. Order copies of ... More

[Illustrated Civil War "Union Envelopes"]: A Secession Movement

[Illustrated Civil War "Union Envelopes"]: A Secession Movement

Riding jackass backwards. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card, with subsequent revisions. Caption card tracings: The South; Patriotism; Devils & Demons (Cart. themes); Cotton industry; C... More

The old general ready for a "movement"

The old general ready for a "movement"

Confident Union propaganda from the summer of 1861, claiming dominance over Confederate troops led by generals P. G. T. Beauregard and Gideon Pillow. Union commander Winfield Scott sits on a mound in the cente... More

It sustained him--and it supported the war-time agencies that helped him! Victory Fund Campaign--The new era movement of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. / / M. Leone Bracker 1919 ; American Lithographic Co., N.Y.

It sustained him--and it supported the war-time agencies that helped h...

Poster showing a soldier in a battlefield, gazing up at a cross glowing in the sky.

Washington youngsters surprise Mrs. Coolidge with May Day basket of flowers. [...] the First Lady of the land opened the door of [...] morning she found a May Basket of flowers ha[...] nob. The basket, filled with daisies, was pu[...] little Washington children to tell Mrs Coolidge [...] is Child Health Day." The daisies represen[...] "Better Health for Children" movement. The [...]ph are Nan Norton, Elizabeth Ann Taylor and [...] Cooley

Washington youngsters surprise Mrs. Coolidge with May Day basket of fl...

A black and white photo of three little girls. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

President confers with congressional floor leaders on proposed special session. Washington, D.C. Aug. 24. Indications that the administration is supporting the movement for a proposed extra session of Congress were seen today following a conference between House majority leader Sam Rayburn, (left) and Senator Majority leader Alben W. Barkley. They are shown leaving the White House. 8/24/37

President confers with congressional floor leaders on proposed special...

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FIRST LADY PLANTS TREE FOR GIRL SCOUTS. WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT PLANTING A TREE IN THE MEMORY GARDEN OF THE NATIONAL GIRL SCOUT LITTLE HOUSE TODAY TO MARK THE PARTICIPATION OF THE GIRL SCOUTS IN THE BETTER HOMES IN AMERICA CAMPAIGN. THE TREE, A CAMELIA JAPONICA BUSH, WAS BROUGHT TO WASHINGTON FROM THE SAVANNAH, GA. HOME OF MRS. JULIETTE LOW, WHO FOUNDED THE GIRL SCOUT MOVEMENT IN THE UNITED STATES. JEAN ONLY, OF ARLINGTON, Virginia, IS HOLDING THE TREE FOR THE FIRST LADY

FIRST LADY PLANTS TREE FOR GIRL SCOUTS. WASHINGTON, D.C. MRS. FRANKLIN...

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Robins Field, Warner Robins, Georgia. Convoy of trucks belonging to the Air Service Command practicing movement during a blackout

Robins Field, Warner Robins, Georgia. Convoy of trucks belonging to th...

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The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postmodern architecture movement, is located in the suburban neighborhood of Chestnut Hill in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

The Vanna Venturi House, one of the first prominent works of the postm...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. It was designed by architect Robert Venturi for his mot... More

"The Woman Suffrage Movement." Address at the Bethel Literary and Historical Society, Washington, D. C. - Folder 1 of 3

"The Woman Suffrage Movement." Address at the Bethel Literary and Hist...

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

Madame J. C. De Veyra, wife of the Philippino Commissioner to the United States and president of the Woman's Club of Manila which has led in the suffrage movement for women of the Philippines.

Madame J. C. De Veyra, wife of the Philippino Commissioner to the Unit...

Title and information transcribed from item. Summary: Head-and-shoulders portrait of Madame J. C. DeVeyra, wearing fur hat and fur coat. Explanatory (typed) caption included with image, headlined: "WORLD PROMIN... More

New York, New York. A follower of the late Marcus Garvey who started the "Back to Africa" movement

New York, New York. A follower of the late Marcus Garvey who started t...

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[Marchers with SCLC sign for the Savannah Freedom Now Movement, during the March on Washington, 1963]

[Marchers with SCLC sign for the Savannah Freedom Now Movement, during...

U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 10346, frame 19.

Wasteland, a shop on San Francisco, California's Haight Street, once the center of the "hippie movement," selling vintage clothing and eclectic party supplies

Wasteland, a shop on San Francisco, California's Haight Street, once t...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Oil painting "Justice of the Pains: The Movement Westward" on south wall, fifth floor, Department of Justice, Washington, D.C.

Oil painting "Justice of the Pains: The Movement Westward" on south wa...

Artist: John Steuart Curry, 1936. Dimensions: 7' 6" x 20'. Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided by the photographer. ... More

Art "Movement Z" and "Delayed Energy" located in the lobby of the Claude Pepper Federal Building, Miami, Florida

Art "Movement Z" and "Delayed Energy" located in the lobby of the Clau...

Artist: Terry McGehee, ca. 1980, mixed material, graphic; each 29 5/8" X 41.5". Photographed as part of an assignment for the General Services Administration. Title information, date, and subject note provided ... More

Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights movement, Selma, Alabama

Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights moveme...

Brown Chapel was organized by freed men after the Civil War and is noted for its exterior Byzantine design. A monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was dedicated in front of Brown Chapel in 1979. Title, date... More

The North Anna and movement from Spottsylvania [sic], May 21-26, 1864 between Lee, 50,000 and Grant, 100,000 /

The North Anna and movement from Spottsylvania [sic], May 21-26, 1864 ...

"Lee's famous "hog-snout" line." "Read numerically." Maps 1 to 4 are dated 1933. Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil with blank leaves at end. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War M... More

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Negro Folk Songs and the Freedom Movement

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Negro Folk Songs and the Freedom M...

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A down-hill movement / C.J. Taylor.

A down-hill movement / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows a wagon labeled "Free Silver" filled with a group of "free silver" supporters identified as "Tillman, Boies, Sheehan, Bland, Blackburn, Bryan, Sewall, Pattison, Sibley, Jones, Geo. Fred Williams, Pe... More

At Senate Civil Liberties Investigation. Washington D.C. Appearing before the Senate Civil Librerties Committee today, Philip E. Ziegler, Secretary-Treasurer of the Brotherhood of Railway Clerks, charged that Samuel X. Brady, Chief of the Cincinnati Office of the Pinkerton Detective Agency, had tempted to employ members of the brotherhood to act as labor spies and undercover men. In making contacts with the members, Brady posed as repre[...] "philanthropic movement", Ziegler further told the committee

At Senate Civil Liberties Investigation. Washington D.C. Appearing bef...

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Interurban Woman Suffrage Council. Meeting notice Anne Cobden Sanderson speaking on Movement of English Suffragettes, Brooklyn, NY
Shall chaos triumph? Victory Fund Campaign--The new era movement of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. / / M. Leone Bracker 1919 ; American Lithographic Co., N.Y.

Shall chaos triumph? Victory Fund Campaign--The new era movement of th...

Poster showing a Christ-like figure in a battlefield, gazing up at the sky.

A black and white photo of a farm yard, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a farm yard, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

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Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly a beauty shop operator, blonde Marjorie Karwaske finds that the dear dead days of bobby pins and curler clamps have left her with skillful, speedy fingers and a natural tendency to eliminate wasteful hand movement. These are invaluable aids to her job at a Midwest vacuum cleaner plant which has been converted to the production of gas masks. Those skillful fingers fasten eye pieces to the bodies of gas masks. Eureka Vacuum, Detroit, Michigan

Women in industry. Gas mask production. Formerly a beauty shop operato...

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ODT system of port control. Operator Jack Keefe, in the International Businees Machine (IBM) room of the ODT (Office of Defense Transportation), feeds the coded punched cards into the machine which records and tabulates by channel, section, zone and individual railroad the movement of all freight traffic

ODT system of port control. Operator Jack Keefe, in the International ...

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Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Joseph Hooker to Abraham Lincoln, Friday, June 05, 1863  (Telegram concerning movement of the Confederate Army)
Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Negro Folk Songs and the Freedom Movement

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Negro Folk Songs and the Freedom M...

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A narrative of the leading incidents of the organization of the first popular movement in Virginia in 1865 to re-establish peaceful relations between the northern and southern states, and the subsequent efforts of the "Committee of nine," in 1869, to secure the restoration of Virginia to the Union,

A narrative of the leading incidents of the organization of the first ...

Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web site and on the Internet Archive Web site.

"The Woman Suffrage Movement." Address at the Bethel Literary and Historical Society, Washington, D. C. - Folder 1 of 3

"The Woman Suffrage Movement." Address at the Bethel Literary and Hist...

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

[A volvelle showing the movement of the moon throughout the calendar year]

[A volvelle showing the movement of the moon throughout the calendar y...

Illus. in: 1st ed. of Regiomontanus' Calendarium, Nuremburg, 1474. See: QJ, Jan. 1965. Reference copy may be in LOT 7007. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: Cale... More

Map illustrating the siege of Atlanta, Ga., by the U.S. forces under command of Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, from the passage of Peach Tree Creek, July 19th 1864, to the commencement of the movement upon the enemy's lines of communication south of Atlanta, August 26, 1864 /

Map illustrating the siege of Atlanta, Ga., by the U.S. forces under c...

Partial cadastral map showing selected buildings and householders' names beyond city limits. Covers area extending from Mt. Gilead Church in west to Decatur in east and from Buckhead in north to East Point in s... More

[Group of men holding bones, probably connected to "Bone dry" support of prohibition; William D. Upshaw, proponent of temperance movement, at right. U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.]

[Group of men holding bones, probably connected to "Bone dry" support ...

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Speaker Garner greets William Gibbs McAdoo. William Gibbs McAdoo, former Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson, received a warm greeting form Speaker of the House John N. Garner at the Capitol today. McAdoo, who arrived in Washington by plane today, is leader of the Garner-for-President movement in California. 3/23/32

Speaker Garner greets William Gibbs McAdoo. William Gibbs McAdoo, form...

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Discuss America's foreign policy. Washington, D.C., April 15. In an effort to give impetus to the movement for revision of the Neutrality Act, an emergency conference of one hundred today assembled in Washington for a two-day discussion of American Foreign Policy. The meeting is being held under the auspices of the American Union for Concerted Pace Efforts. In the picture, left to right. James T. Shotwell, President, League of Nations Association - Reverend Roy M. Houghton, Congregational Church of New Haven, Conn., and Ernest Wilkins, President of Oberlin College, 4-15-39

Discuss America's foreign policy. Washington, D.C., April 15. In an ef...

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Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, 19th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Picryl description: Public domain image of fire insurance plan / map, ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a fire insurance map, fire insurance plan, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights movement, Selma, Alabama

Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights moveme...

Brown Chapel was organized by freed men after the Civil War and is noted for its exterior Byzantine design. A monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was dedicated in front of Brown Chapel in 1979. Title, date... More

The woman-suffrage movement in New York City society leaders securing signatures to petitions to be presented to the constitutional convention - scene at Sherry's / / Clinedinst.

The woman-suffrage movement in New York City society leaders securing ...

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Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

[Woman Suffrage Movement] - Public domain document scan

[Woman Suffrage Movement] - Public domain document scan

You are about to apply A document from LOC collection of correspondence between Frederick Douglass and his peers. Frederick Douglass was an African American social reformer, abolitionist, orator, writer, and st... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window with abstract swirl (after Hokusai?), "a spiral movement suggesting galactic forces creating worlds, blue, the predominating color representing infinity;" with text "Power"]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with abstract swirl (after Ho...

Public domain image of watercolor painting from British-related collections, free to use, no copyright restrictions - Picryl description

Gaelic Symphony (first  page of the fourth movement).

Gaelic Symphony (first page of the fourth movement).

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Before Senate Wire Tapping committee. Washington, D.C., June 12. During an appearance before the Senate Wire Tapping Committee today, Joseph N. Pew, Jr., Pennsylvania Republican and official of the Sun Oil Co., flatly denied that he had engaged a private detective organization to 'watch' Democratic officials. However, he admitted that he hired Frank B. Bielaski, New York private detective, to 'watch stock transactions' in connection with a 'movement to rehabilitate' the Cramp Shipyards in Philadelphia. These shipyards, he said, were commercially unsound and could not be operated profitably

Before Senate Wire Tapping committee. Washington, D.C., June 12. Durin...

A man in a suit sitting at a table with a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Blasts New Deal, Washington, D.C., August 7. Photo shows one of the chief speakers of the old Huey Long movement as he addressed the members of the press at the pre club in Washington. He blasted the "New Deal" in no uncertain terms. Photo shows the Reverend Gerald L.K. Smith in action front of the news

Blasts New Deal, Washington, D.C., August 7. Photo shows one of the ch...

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War transportation. Military traffic comes first. One reason why shipments of gasoline and other civilian materials are delayed is because the movement of such army equipment as those half-trac scout cars must have priority over other transportation

War transportation. Military traffic comes first. One reason why shipm...

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Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a switch engine are ready to shunt cars loaded with fiberglass materials onto the main line for movement to vital war industries

Fiberglass manufacture, Owens-Corning, Toledo, Ohio. The wheels of a s...

Public domain photograph of a steam locomotive, train car, railroad, railway, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Cattle Movement. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Cattle Movement. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

On Bureau of Land Management grazing land Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife P... More

Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights movement, Selma, Alabama

Brown Chapel, headquarters for meetings during the Civil Rights moveme...

Brown Chapel was organized by freed men after the Civil War and is noted for its exterior Byzantine design. A monument to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was dedicated in front of Brown Chapel in 1979. Title, date... More

The "secession movement", Confederate States of America.

The "secession movement", Confederate States of America.

The movement of several Southern states toward secession in early 1861 is portrayed as a doomed enterprise. The artist shows Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana, all represented by men riding donkeys, ... More

[Hunter shooting at birds in flight with lines indicating how the calculus method makes analysis of movement possible, mathematicians conversing at left, and title page]

[Hunter shooting at birds in flight with lines indicating how the calc...

Frontispiece and title page in: The method of fluxions and infinite series / Isaac Newton. London : Printed by H. Woodfall, and sold by J. Nourse, 1736. Published in: The tradition of science / Leonard C. Bruno... More

Manufacturers group asks removal of taxes to stimulate recovery of business. Washington, D.C., June 3. Noel Sargent of New York, representing the National Association of Manufacturers, presented an 8 point program of tax revision to the House Ways and Means Committee today. The association asked the removal of the undistributed profits, capital stock, and excess profits taxes to put private enterprise into a movement to stimulate recovery. He presented the program as the association's answer to Treasury Secretary Morgenthau's statement that 'the basic need today is to foster the full application of the driving force of private capital.' Left to right: John Hanes, Undersecretary of the Treasury, who attended the committee meeting, and Sargent

Manufacturers group asks removal of taxes to stimulate recovery of bus...

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Mrs. Harris Masterson is a member of the National Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage.  She is President of the Y.W.C.A. of Houston and takes a prominent part in the nation Y.W.C.A. movement.

Mrs. Harris Masterson is a member of the National Advisory Council of ...

Summary: Portrait of Mrs. Harris Masterson, half-length, in coat with fur pom-poms, fur muff, and broad-brimmed hat. Photograph edited by cut and paste, pasted to black background. Title and information transcr... More

Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can get behind his government's efforts to conserve fuel whether he heats his home with oil or coal, and both are strategically important. Fuel savings can be effected by keeping temperatures at reasonable levels, closing off unused rooms, and insulating in various ways. Windows can be weather stripped. Conservation of fuel will help release railroad and other transportation facilities for the movement of fighting materials

Fuel conservation. Home insulation conserves fuel. Every homeowner can...

Picryl description: Public domain image of workers, labor, 1940s, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Holding a poster against racial bias in Mississippi are four of the most active leaders in the NAACP movement, from left: Henry L. Moon, director of public relations; Roy Wilkins, executive secretary; Herbert Hill, labor secretary, and Thurgood Marshall, special counsel / World Telegram & Sun photo by Al. Ravenna.

Holding a poster against racial bias in Mississippi are four of the mo...

NYWT&S staff photo by Al. Ravenna. New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Sculpture dedicated to the Foot Soldiers of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement. Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Sculpture dedicated to the Foot Soldiers of the Birmingham Civil Right...

Kelly Ingram Park (formerly West Park) was a staging ground for civil rights demonstrations in the 1960s. It is located adjacent to the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute and the 16th Street Baptist Church. Titl... More

[Farmers driving tractors at night on Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of an American Agriculture Movement rally, Capitol dome in background, Washington, D.C.]

[Farmers driving tractors at night on Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of ...

Sign on one tractor says: "Farmers strike." Contact sheet folder caption: "Farmers begin strike at Midnite, Dec. 14th by driving their tractors up Penn. Ave., TOH, 12/14/77." U.S. News & World Report Magazine ... More

[Farmers driving tractors at night on Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of an American Agriculture Movement rally, Capitol dome in background, Washington, D.C.]

[Farmers driving tractors at night on Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of ...

Contact sheet folder caption: "Farmers begin strike at Midnite, Dec. 14th by driving their tractors up Penn. Ave., TOH, 12/14/77." U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection. Contact sheet availab... More

Magnolia Mobil Gas station, a gathering place during the Civil Right Movement across the street from Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas

Magnolia Mobil Gas station, a gathering place during the Civil Right M...

Digital image produced by Carol M. Highsmith to represent her original film transparency; some details may differ between the film and the digital images. Title, date, and keywords provided by the photographer.... More

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) and Grant (120,000) including the approach and the movement toward Spottsylvania [sic] Courthouse /

Battle of the Wilderness, May 5 - 6 and 7, 1864, between Lee (60,000) ...

"Read numerically." Annotated in pen-and-ink, crayon and pencil. Confederate troop positions are colored red. LC Civil War Maps (2nd ed.), 667 LeGear. Atlases of the United States, 10660 Call no. cited in LC Ci... More

Alice Paul, leader of the feminist movement in America and vice president of the Woman's Party with Mildred Bryan, youngest Colorado feminist in the Garden of the Gods at Colorado Springs where the Party will present its Equal Rights Pageant on September 23rd, launching its western campaign for an amendment to the federal Constitution giving Equal Rights to women.

Alice Paul, leader of the feminist movement in America and vice presid...

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DENIES GENERAL PENSION PLAN. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 15. M.A. ARLAN OF THE DISABLED AMERICAN VETERANS, STANDING, TELLS PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT THAT THERE IS NO MOVEMENT WITHIN HIS ORGANIZATION FOR GENERAL PENSIONS

DENIES GENERAL PENSION PLAN. WASHINGTON, D.C. APRIL 15. M.A. ARLAN OF ...

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In spotlight at CIO-A.F. of L. peace meeting. Washington, D.C., Oct. 26. Leaving the CIO-AF of L peace meeting at the Willard Hotel today these three CIO leaders told newsmen that proposals of the Committee for Industrial Organization caused a sensation when offered at the confab. Under the terms the CIO offered to return to the American Federation of Labor as an independent, a situation that which would probably result in the CIO becoming the dominant wing of the American Labor Movement. Left to right: Charles Howard, President of the International Typographical Union and Secretary of the CIO; Philip Murray, Chairman of the CIO Delegation [...] meeting; and Joseph Curran, President of the National Maritime Union. 10/26/37

In spotlight at CIO-A.F. of L. peace meeting. Washington, D.C., Oct. 2...

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U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. Negro members of an American Army engineer's unit, on a transport bound for Liberia, Africa, take their daily setting up exercises on deck. The men are wearing a new light type of life preserver which allows freer movement than the older bulkier type formerly used

U.S. Negro troops on way to Liberia. Negro members of an American Army...

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Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Most of the work at the coal docks of the Milwaukee Western Fuel Company is mechanized. This control board is located on top of the processing plant. From here the men control the flow of coal into the hoppers, the speed of the sizing machines, the movement of the belts in the tunnel, and all the chutes in the plant

Milwaukee Western Fuel Company, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Most of the work...

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Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroads breaking all-time traffic records, they are still able to give valuable service in hauling the tank cars of the oil companies from Gulf Coast and Texas fields. But only a fraction of the required tank cars are available. Railroads are hauling 500,000 barrels daily, hope for 800,000 as more cars can be made available for movement to the East. But this still would be only half of the normal civilian requirement

Tank cars, vital link in wartime domestic oil transport; with railroad...

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Cattle Movement. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Cattle Movement. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Moving cattle to the home ranch Public domain photograph - historical image of Nevada, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description The Paradise Valley Folklife Project was... More

Sculpture dedicated to the Foot Soldiers of the Birmingham Civil Rights Movement. Kelly Ingram Park, Birmingham, Alabama

Sculpture dedicated to the Foot Soldiers of the Birmingham Civil Right...

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Hand painted mural on Center Street on "Dynamite Hill" (known for bombing during the Civil Rights Movement), Birmingham, Alabama

Hand painted mural on Center Street on "Dynamite Hill" (known for bomb...

Title, date, subject note, and keywords provided by the photographer. Mural artist: name not given. Credit line: The George F. Landegger Collection of Alabama Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America, Librar... More

[Design drawing for stained glass window with abstract swirl (after Hokusai?), "a spiral movement suggesting galactic forces creating worlds, blue, the predominating color representing infinity;" with text "Power"]

[Design drawing for stained glass window with abstract swirl (after Ho...

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Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Negro Folk Songs and the Freedom Movement

Alan Lomax Collection, Manuscripts, Negro Folk Songs and the Freedom M...

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Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs of Chicago and Washington, D.C., is one of the prominent members of the Advisory Council of the Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage. Mrs. Stubbs' brilliant work in Illinois and New York is a part of the history of the national suffrage movement. She is well known and beloved throughout the country for her speaking and organizing ability and for the loyal service she has given to suffrage. She was formerly National Press Chairman of the Congressional Union.

Mrs. Jessie Hardy Stubbs of Chicago and Washington, D.C., is one of th...

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"Bum blockade." All heading north. South of King City, California. Difficult to get a record of this movement because these men wouldn't be photographed as a result of Los Angeles police activity

"Bum blockade." All heading north. South of King City, California. Dif...

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A black and white photo of a construction site, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of a construction site, Great Depression. FSA/...

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ODT system of port control. Mrs. Elsie Maddox, automatic key punch and tabulator operator in the ODT (Office of Defense Transportation), feeds the punched tape through the machine that marks the cards on traffic movement

ODT system of port control. Mrs. Elsie Maddox, automatic key punch and...

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San Augustine, Texas. Troop movement through the main street

San Augustine, Texas. Troop movement through the main street

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New York, New York. A follower of the late Marcus Garvey who started the "Back to Africa" movement

New York, New York. A follower of the late Marcus Garvey who started t...

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Crosscountry Movement of Heifers. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Collection

Crosscountry Movement of Heifers. Paradise Valley, Nevada Folklife Col...

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Charles Brodie Patterson, Leader of new thought movement to speak in Geneva

Charles Brodie Patterson, Leader of new thought movement to speak in G...

Charles Brodie Patterson biographical information and photometrical print; Man on the Corner critical comments continue on p.157

Food pledge movement beginning - Public domain demonstration photograph

Food pledge movement beginning - Public domain demonstration photograp...

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Portrait photo of [Niagara Movement founders], Ontario, Canada

Portrait photo of [Niagara Movement founders], Ontario, Canada

Photograph shows a group of founding members of the Niagara Movement superimposed over an image showing Niagara Falls in the background; (l. to r.) front row, Henry L. Baily of Washington, D.C., Clement G. Morg... More

The Society for Ethical Culture Meeting on International Peace Movement

The Society for Ethical Culture Meeting on International Peace Movemen...

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League of self-supporting women meeting notice, Anne Cobden Sanderson speaking on Militant Suffrage Movement at Cooper Union

League of self-supporting women meeting notice, Anne Cobden Sanderson ...

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Receives National Geographic Society award. Washington, D.C., April 27. Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, senior scientist and second in command of the Byrd Antarctic expedition of 1933-35, was awarded a special cold medal of the National Geographic Society at a ceremony today at the society's headquarters in Washington. On the Byrd expedition, Dr. Poulter's scientific work included geophysical investigations, studies of ice conditions and movement, the making of magnetic soundings, and observations of meteors and auroral phenomena. In the photograph, left to right: Dr. John Oliver La Gorce, vice president of the National Geographic Society, Dr. Golbert Grosvenor, president of the society who presented the award, Dr. Thomas C. Poulter, and Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd

Receives National Geographic Society award. Washington, D.C., April 27...

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A group of men standing around a truck, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A group of men standing around a truck, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Phot...

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A black and white photo of two men working on a construction site, Great Depression. FSA/OWI Photograph

A black and white photo of two men working on a construction site, Gre...

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