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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower shortage, which threatened the United States' summer cotton crops, Mexican workers were recently asked to assist farmers near Corpus Christi, Texas, during the cotton harvest season

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of farming, farmer, agriculture, 20th-century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swelling the ranks of the armed forces, women must step into many new occupations in both urban and rural life. These women harvest hands in Rochelle, Illinois, are helping the national welfare by picking the summer asparagus crop

Women in war. Agricultural workers. With the nation's manpower swellin...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a farm, farmer, agriculture, early 20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C., March 7, 1942. Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board meets with the nation's leaders to discuss plans for the production drive. Left to right: William Green, President of the AFL (American Federation of Labor); Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Production Board; Phillip Murray, President of the CIO (Congress of Industrial Organizations)

Washington, D.C., March 7, 1942. Donald Nelson, Chairman of the War Pr...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, was designed for the vulcanizing of giant tires used on earth-moving machinery; is now helping out the war program by vulcanizing self-sealing gas tanks for the nation's war planes. The mold containing the tank has been lowered into the vulcanizing unit and the huge cover is being lowered into position before the heat is turned on

Conversion. Tire plant. This vulcanizing unit, largest in the world, w...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an aircraft, assembly line, industrial facility, 1930s aviation, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Conductor Ray Tutle, veteran conductor, instructing women trainmen, a group of the first women employed by the Long Island Railroad to replace trainmen now serving in the nation's armed forces

Conductor Ray Tutle, veteran conductor, instructing women trainmen, a ...

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Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation tribal park whose red-sandstone formations on the Colorado Plateau lie mostly in Arizona but also into Utah

Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation tribal park whose red-sandstone forma...

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

Taliesin, the "natural house" of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and one of the nation's most famous homes, Spring Green, Wisconsin

Taliesin, the "natural house" of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and one ...

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

Seneca Nation to George Washington, December 1, 1790, with Copies

Seneca Nation to George Washington, December 1, 1790, with Copies

with Copies Public domain scan of Thomas Jefferson correspondence, American history, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description.

The nation mourns! April 15, 1865. [Envelope]

The nation mourns! April 15, 1865. [Envelope]

Face of envelope has black border with portrait of Lincoln and caption at the top.

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) cha...

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Cong... More

Elliot & Sherman Film Corp. ... present D.W. Griffith's 8th wonder of the world The Birth of a Nation ...

Elliot & Sherman Film Corp. ... present D.W. Griffith's 8th wonder of ...

Motion picture poster for "The birth of a nation" shows title of film inside large red circle.

Federal Theatre presents "... one-third of a nation" A living newspaper about housing / / made by WPA Federal Art Project, N.Y.C.

Federal Theatre presents "... one-third of a nation" A living newspape...

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "...one-third of a nation" at the Adelphi Theatre, showing drawing of urban row houses. Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster ... More

Federal Theatre presents "... one-third of a nation" A living newspaper about housing / / made by WPA Federal Art Project, N.Y.C.

Federal Theatre presents "... one-third of a nation" A living newspape...

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "...one-third of a nation" at the Adelphi Theatre, showing drawing of urban row houses. Date stamped on verso: Jan 5 1939. Work Projects Administration Poster ... More

The nation's choice for the 12th President of the U.S. Genl. Z. Taylor and his battles

The nation's choice for the 12th President of the U.S. Genl. Z. Taylor...

A campaign print for Whig presidential nominee Zachary Taylor. A bust-length portrait of the Mexican War hero is set in an oval frame of oak leaves and acorns, surrounded by various martial attributes. Cannon, ... More

[I hurl the everlasting curse of a nation]

[I hurl the everlasting curse of a nation]

No accession number. Forms part of: Cabinet of American illustration (Library of Congress). Published in: The Clansman / Thomas Dixon. New York : Doubleday Page, & Co., 1914, p. 172.

Map of the former territorial limits of the Cherokee "Nation of" Indians ; Map showing the territory originally assigned Cherokee "Nation of" Indians.

Map of the former territorial limits of the Cherokee "Nation of" India...

"Fifth annual report, plate VIII and plate IX." Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouer land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts ... the first conteining the personall trauels of the English vnto Iudea, Syria, Arabia ... the second comprehending the worthy discoueries of the English towards the north and northeast by sea as of Lapland ... the third and last including the English valiant attempts in searching almost all the corners of the vaste and new world of America ... : whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the Earth /

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English na...

Some contents are translations accompanied by original texts. Mandeville's travels (p. 24-79) in Latin only. "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea ...": [12] p. inserted between p. 643 and... More

Thomas Jefferson to Chickasaw Nation, March 7, 1805

Thomas Jefferson to Chickasaw Nation, March 7, 1805

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Dixie's field of the cloth of gold. The nation's billion dollar crop

Dixie's field of the cloth of gold. The nation's billion dollar crop

J260227 U.S. Copyright Office Copyright deposit; J. C. Coovert; February 6, 1915. Printed on image: "Cirkut Photo by Coovert, Memphis, Tenn., U.S.A., copyright 1914".

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.

Vive le roi, vive la nation J'savois ben qu'jaurions not tour.

Print shows a well-dressed peasant woman nursing an infant, riding on the back of a noblewoman who is holding onto the shoulders of a nun, representing the clergy. This cartoon presents a realingment of the Est... More

[Civil War envelope showing eagle atop shield with messages "Union!" and "Emblem of our nation's liberty"]

[Civil War envelope showing eagle atop shield with messages "Union!" a...

Addressed to Miss Paulina Hurst, Brea [i.e. Berea?] P.O., Cuyhoga [i.e. Cuyahoga] Co., Ohio; bears 3 cent stamp; postmarked Kanawha C.H., Va., Dec. 14, 1862. Annotation on recto: Soldier's letter, L. S. Elliot... More

A Proclamation by James Y. Smith, Governor of the State of Rhode Island. Let the nation mourn!

A Proclamation by James Y. Smith, Governor of the State of Rhode Islan...

Surrounded by a black mourning border. Printed on page [1] of a single-folded sheet.

The nation mourns a father slain! We loved him living. We revere him dead.

The nation mourns a father slain! We loved him living. We revere him d...

Picryl description: Public domain image related to death, mourning, grave, funeral, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

The nation's glory - Print, Library of Congress collection

The nation's glory - Print, Library of Congress collection

G5820 U.S. Copyright Office. This record contains unverified data from PGA shelflist card. Associated name on shelflist card: Mayer, Ferd.

We are not a nation of swindlers! / C.J. Taylor.

We are not a nation of swindlers! / C.J. Taylor.

Print shows the statue of George Washington, full-length, standing with right arm raised, with fasces, at Federal Hall on Wall Street, New York City, N.Y., and a large crowd of men standing on steps, among them... More

C.I.O. to organize city and state employees. Washington D.C., July 13. A nation wide campaign to organize state, county and city employees was announced by John L. Lewis, chief of the C.I.O., the campaign will be under the direction of Abram Flaxer, of New York City, former President and General Manager of the New York Local Union of Municipal Employees, which was affiliated with the American of Labor [...]

C.I.O. to organize city and state employees. Washington D.C., July 13....

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

Huge crowd at Townsend rally. Washington, D.C. Jan. 16. This is the group that attended the rally of Dr. Townsends' at the Capitol today. There were more newspapermen than anything else. Approximately fifteen representatives were present while reports there were to be about one [hundred] of the nation's legislators

Huge crowd at Townsend rally. Washington, D.C. Jan. 16. This is the gr...

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Carrie Nation - Public domain portrait photograph

Carrie Nation - Public domain portrait photograph

A black and white photo of a man holding a book. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Kar Nation [i.e., Car-Nation vehicle]

Kar Nation [i.e., Car-Nation vehicle]

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War loan. Lend your savings to the nation to-day / printed by Sir Joseph Causton & Sons, Limited, London.

War loan. Lend your savings to the nation to-day / printed by Sir Jose...

Poster showing an open purse, with coins and paper money. Poster no. 22.

Corn - the food of the nation Serve some way every meal - appetizing, nourishing, economical / / Lloyd Harrison ; Harrison-Landauer Inc. Baltimore.

Corn - the food of the nation Serve some way every meal - appetizing, ...

Poster showing a woman serving muffins, pancakes, and grits, with cannisters on the table labeled corn meal, grits, and hominy. United States Food Administration.

A new nation born of war during World War I

A new nation born of war during World War I

Image shows a group portrait of Czechoslovak men, women, and children in traditional dress at a fair at Camp Borglum, a recruitment camp for Czechoslovaks, in Stamford, Connecticut. Photomechanical reproduction... More

[Dr. Francis E.] Townsend thanks president for pardon. Washington, D.C., April 21. Scheduled for only a five-minute appointment, Dr. Francis E. Townsend, pardoned old-age pension planner, spent over half an hour with President Roosevelt at the White House today. He thanked the president for the pardon from a 30-day jail sentence and then discussed economic conditions in the nation with the chief executive

[Dr. Francis E.] Townsend thanks president for pardon. Washington, D.C...

A black and white photo of a man in a suit and hat. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Who's going to pitch? Washington, D.C., April 21. Like old line fans that they are, the nation's no.1 baseball fans look over the program first thing upon taking their seats. Senators Charles L. McNary of Oregon, and Carter Glass of Virginia, look over the line-up with Vice President John Garner before the beginning of today's game between the Washington Senators and the New York Yankees

Who's going to pitch? Washington, D.C., April 21. Like old line fans t...

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Dun & Bradstreet head says small businesses are stabilizers in the national economy. Washington, D.C., May 25. Arthur Whitside, President of Dun & Bradstreet of New York City, told the Monopoly Committee today that small businesses were the 'stabilizers' in the nation's economy because they could readily change their financial structure to meet conditions. 'Sound economy,' he said, 'is utterly impossible unless a man can go into business with a little money.' He defined 'small business' as one being worth from $25,000 to $75,000

Dun & Bradstreet head says small businesses are stabilizers in the nat...

A black and white photo of a man speaking into a microphone. Public domain portrait photograph, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Five persons lose lives in plane crash at Nation's Capital. Scene at Bolling Field, Washington, today shortly after a huge Army plane crashed from a 300-foot altitude claiming the lives of five people, including that of a congressman, his secretary, and a famous Army pilot. The dead are: Rep. William A. Kaylor, of Massachusetts; Arthur A. McGill, Scarsdale, N.Y., Capt. Harry A. Dinger, Pilot; Private Vladimir Kuzma, Mechanic; and Stanley B. Lowe, Secretary to Rep. Kaylor

Five persons lose lives in plane crash at Nation's Capital. Scene at B...

Public domain photograph of Washington DC, 1910s-1920s America, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Ohio's hope for presidency pays tribute to war dead at Memorial Day rites. Washington, D.C., May 30. With Washington leading the nation in observance of Memorial Day, and Arlington National Cemetery where the body of the unknown soldier lies being the center of activity today, Sen. Robert Taft, republican of Ohio, was principal speaker at services at the amphitheater there

Ohio's hope for presidency pays tribute to war dead at Memorial Day ri...

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PRESIDENT LAUDS POLISH HERO. WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 11. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LED THE NATION'S POLISH-AMERICAN CITIZENS AND OTHERS THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY IN CELEBRATING PULASKI DAY WHEN HE SPOKE OVER THE RADIO FROM THE WHITE HOUSE TO LAUD THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR EXPLOITS OF THE POLISH CAVALRY HERO, GEN. CASIMIR PULASKI

PRESIDENT LAUDS POLISH HERO. WASHINGTON, D.C. OCTOBER 11. PRESIDENT RO...

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Car belonging to "white spot" enthusiast: "Nebraska the white spot of the nation, no luxury tax, no bonded debt, highways all paid for," etc.

Car belonging to "white spot" enthusiast: "Nebraska the white spot of ...

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Soil erosion serious cause for impoverishment senate committee told. Washington, D.C., March 9. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, H.H. Bennett, Chief of the U.S. Soil Conservation Service, declared that soil erosion is a serious cause of impoverishment. "To the Nation as a whole" Bennett said, "uncontrolled erosion has brought a gradual and continuing reduction of productive agricultural land," 3/9/38

Soil erosion serious cause for impoverishment senate committee told. W...

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FIRST LADY CUTS PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CAKE. WASHINGTON, D.C. AS A CLIMAX TO HER ATTENDANCE AT MANY OF THE PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY BALLS IN THE CAPITAL TONIGHT, MRS. ROOSEVELT CUTS THE OFFICIAL PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CAKE AT THE WARDMAN PARK HOTEL. THIS WAS THE LAST CELEBRATION THE FIRST LADY ATTENDED BEFORE RETURNING TO THE WHITE HOUSE TO LISTEN TO THE PRESIDENT THANK THE NATION OVER THE AIR FOR THEIR INTEREST IN THE FIGHT AGAINST INFANTILE PARALYSIS

FIRST LADY CUTS PRESIDENT'S BIRTHDAY CAKE. WASHINGTON, D.C. AS A CLIMA...

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It was workers such as these Chinese peasants who finally seem to have convinced the Janpaese that aerial bombing alone will never halt traffic over the Bruma Road. As soon as a bomb falls, or as soon as a cloudburst washes out a section of this miraculous road, hundreds of Chinese peasants are somehow immediately on hand to repair the damage and keep the vital supplies moving on to the Chinese armies and guerrilla forces, which have been bearing the weight of the fight against fascism for years longer than any European nation

It was workers such as these Chinese peasants who finally seem to have...

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Finnish Lagation deluged with donations to aid fight with Soviet. Washington, D.C., March 7. Mail from all parts of the nation and from all classes is deluging the Finnish Legation to the extent that its staff has jumped from 3 to 30, and a new building has been rented to handle contributions to aid Finland's fight with Soviet Russia. Money, comes in in letters addressed to Minister Procope, The Finnish Government, The Finnish Government in care of Uncle Sam, etc., and contain contributions ranging from five cents to thousands of dollars. Here, Eero Lappalainen, attache at the legation, is shown packing a box with contributions of goods to be sent to Helsinki, 3-7-40

Finnish Lagation deluged with donations to aid fight with Soviet. Wash...

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Every minute counts. A three-color (red, white and blue) poster designed and produced by the Division of Information, Office of War Information (OWI), for display in war plants throughout the nation

Every minute counts. A three-color (red, white and blue) poster design...

Picryl description: Public domain historical photo of Washington DC during the First World War, free to use, no copyright restrictions image.

Old gates turned in for scrap. Inspecting the gates of the old McLean Mansion, now government property, which are to be torn down for scrap. Left to right: Lessing J. Rosenwald, director, War Production Board (WPB) Conservation Division; Robert C. Waldie, project manager, Defense Homes Corporation; Clifton E. Mack, director, Procurement Division, Treasury Department. The old gates and the iron fence in front of the property will add 40,000 pounds to the nation's scrap pile

Old gates turned in for scrap. Inspecting the gates of the old McLean ...

Public domain photograph related to Great Depression, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this tire storeroom are playing important part in the nation's war effort. Tires like these are used on huge trucks and military prime movers. Goodyear, Akron, Ohio

Military tire manufacture. Huge truck tire like those shown in this ti...

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To meet the tremendous demand for graduate registered nurses for total national defense, a call has been issued for 50,000 well qualified young women to enroll in the nation's schools of nursing this year. Shown above is an attractive student nurse, typical of the thousands of young women who yearly receive the finest nurse training in the world through American schools of nursing

To meet the tremendous demand for graduate registered nurses for total...

Public domain photograph of the United States in the 1930s, portraits, people, events, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

Clouds. No clouds of war these, but peaceful carriers of rains that help broad acres of Kentucky farmland to bear life-giving crops for the nation's needs

Clouds. No clouds of war these, but peaceful carriers of rains that he...

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Production. Submarines. Men of America's army of production. The nation's underwater craft are being launched in record time because of men like these two who work on a construction crew at the Navy's shipyard in Manitowoc, Wisconsin

Production. Submarines. Men of America's army of production. The natio...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of workers, war production, aircraft, airfield, the 1930s -1940s, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Tin can alley leads to victory. Precious tin cans, collected in a municipal drive, pass through a shredding machine in one of the nation's detinning plants. This is part of the process which recovers vital tin from the cans

Tin can alley leads to victory. Precious tin cans, collected in a muni...

Picryl description: Public domain image of an industrial building, factory, workshop, workers, 19th-20th century, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Judy takes a shot at the Axis. Judy Canova, star of stage and screen, opens her personal salvage drive for scrap rubber by aiming a well-placed shot at the Axis. She's donating her trusty slingshot to the drive. The scarcity of crude rubber is serious, and reclaimed rubber made from scrap must take up part of the slack. All Americans are being urged to continue to donate used or worn out rubber articles to the nation's scrap piles

Judy takes a shot at the Axis. Judy Canova, star of stage and screen, ...

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. Old Glory floats proudly over the nation's oldest air base at Langley Field, Virginia. Among the Air Force groups stationed at this important point are bombardment squadrons equipped with mighty YB-17 bombers

Langley Field, Virginia. YB-17 bombardment squadron. Old Glory floats ...

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Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Women are contributing their skills to the nation's needs by keeping our country's planes in top-notch fighting condition. Wife of a disabled World War II veteran, Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) worked as a cowler at the naval air base in Corpus Christi, Texas. Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the assembly and repairs department

Naval air base, Corpus Christi, Texas. Women are contributing their sk...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Hollywood enlists its typewriters for war. Hollywood studios have answered the nation's call for typewriters for the armed services. Picture shows a load of machines released by 20th Century Fox studies to two Uncle Sam's Waves. The schools and private owners to sell one out of every four machines to obtain 600,000 typewriters urgently needed by the armed services. New production ceased October 31. Typewriter manufacturers are now producing war materials

Hollywood enlists its typewriters for war. Hollywood studios have answ...

Picryl description: Public domain image of a political campaign, politician, meeting, 1930s, mid-20th-century United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Australia in the war. Australian troops of an armored division enjoy a short rest period during training maneuvers. These American tanks, furnished under lend-lease, are playing an important role in the development of United Nation's mechanized forces

Australia in the war. Australian troops of an armored division enjoy a...

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Drying and canning foods. Food processing, drying and canning is just as important a part of the U.S. Crop Corps work as food raising. This worker sits comfortably as she operates a machine which cores and slices apples in preparation for drying them for the nation's number two favorite dessert, apple pie. Only ice cream rates higher in America's affections

Drying and canning foods. Food processing, drying and canning is just ...

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Tourist Attraction - Pray for Our Nation

Tourist Attraction - Pray for Our Nation

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Artwork on the grounds of the French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas, where the Empire of France kept a mission for two years during the period when Texas was an independent nation from 1836 to 1846. As the name suggests, it is now a historical house museum

Artwork on the grounds of the French Legation Museum, in Austin, Texas...

Title, date, and keywords based on information provided by the photographer. Credit line: The Lyda Hill Texas Collection of Photographs in Carol M. Highsmith's America Project, Library of Congress, Prints and P... More

The Federal Theatre's "One third of a nation" / Leon Carlin.

The Federal Theatre's "One third of a nation" / Leon Carlin.

Poster for Federal Theatre Project presentation of "One Third of a Nation" at the Walnut St. Theatre, showing decaying houses in the shadow of tall buildings.

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) charts describing the coasts, capes, headlands, sands, shoals, rocks and dangers, the bays, roads, harbours, rivers, and ports in most of the known parts of the world : with the true course and distances from one place to anot., gathered from the latest discoveries that hath been made, by divers[e], able and experienced navigators of our English nation, accommodated with an hidrographical (sic) description of the whole world &c. /

Atlas maritimus or, the sea-atlas : being a book of maratime (sic) cha...

Relief shown pictorially on some maps. Depths shown by soundings on some maps. Engraved title page. Phillips, 3455 Includes "Mapp of the world" on engraved title page. Available also through the Library of Cong... More

The Nation needs coolness more than clarion calls; intelligence more than charisma; a sense of history more than a sense of histrionics

The Nation needs coolness more than clarion calls; intelligence more t...

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The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouer land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts ... the first conteining the personall trauels of the English vnto Iudea, Syria, Arabia ... the second comprehending the worthy discoueries of the English towards the north and northeast by sea as of Lapland ... the third and last including the English valiant attempts in searching almost all the corners of the vaste and new world of America ... : whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the Earth /

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English na...

Some contents are translations accompanied by original texts. Mandeville's travels (p. 24-79) in Latin only. "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea ...": [12] p. inserted between p. 643 and... More

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English nation : made by sea or ouer land to the most remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres : deuided into three seuerall parts ... the first conteining the personall trauels of the English vnto Iudea, Syria, Arabia ... the second comprehending the worthy discoueries of the English towards the north and northeast by sea as of Lapland ... the third and last including the English valiant attempts in searching almost all the corners of the vaste and new world of America ... : whereunto is added the last most renowmed English nauigation, round about the whole globe of the Earth /

The principall nauigations, voiages, and discoueries of the English na...

Some contents are translations accompanied by original texts. Mandeville's travels (p. 24-79) in Latin only. "The famous voyage of Sir Francis Drake into the South Sea ...": [12] p. inserted between p. 643 and... More

Many peoples - one nation Let us unite to Americanize America.

Many peoples - one nation Let us unite to Americanize America.

Poster showing the American flag waving among clouds. Reproduced by the New Columbus Lithograph Co. Signed with chop and dated in plate. Includes text "The Flag Speaks" by Franklin K. Lane. Issued by National ... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the English nation, made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1500 yeeres, deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. This first volume containing the woorthy discoueries, &c. of the English toward the north and norteast by sea ... together with many notable monuments and testimonies of the ancient forren trades, and of the warrelike and other shipping of this realme of England in former ages. Whereunto is annexed also a briefe commentarie of the true state of Island, and of the orthern seas and lands situate that way. And lastly, the memorable defeate of the Spanish huge Armada, anno 1588, and the famous victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz, 1596, are described.

The principal navigations, voiages, traffiqves and discoueries of the ...

This title was cancelled and in a later issue a new t.p. with various alterations and with date 1599 was substituted for it. On the new t.p. no mention is made of the "victorie atchieued at the citie of Cadiz,... More

[Civil War envelope showing American flag with message "Our nation's pride. A terror to traitors"]

[Civil War envelope showing American flag with message "Our nation's p...

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Monopoly Committee begins study of steel industry. Washington, D.C., Nov. 1. Leaders of the nation's steel business were on hand at the Capitol today as the National Monopoly Committee began a study of the $4,000,000,000 industry. Here we see, left to right: Senator William H. King, a member of the committee, Edward R. Stettinius, Chairman of the Board, U.S. Steel Corporation, Senator Joseph C. O'Mahoney, co-chairman of the committee, Nathan L. Miller, General Counsel for U.S. Steel Corp., and Benjamin F. Fairless, President of U.S. Steel Corp.

Monopoly Committee begins study of steel industry. Washington, D.C., N...

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The Nation's chief and the head of the Navy Dept., Naval Review, Oyster Bay

The Nation's chief and the head of the Navy Dept., Naval Review, Oyste...

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The landing of the Japanese army--Welcomed by every nation at Vladivostok

The landing of the Japanese army--Welcomed by every nation at Vladivos...

Captioned in Japanese and English. Forms part of: The Illustration of the Siberian War, no. 1.

PRESIDENT ACCEPTS STATUE OF W.J. BRYAN. TO A GREAT MAN: PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT OFFICIALLY ACCEPTS FOR THE NATION THE STATUE OF WILLIAM JENNINGS BRYAN. HE IS SHOWN ADDRESSING MORE THAN 1,000 RAIN SOAKED NOTABLES WHO GATHERED AT THE UNVEILING. THE PRESIDENT SPOKE FEELINGLY OF BRYAN'S RECORD WHICH HE DECLARED WAS MARKED BY HIS SINCERITY OF PURPOSE AND HIGH INTEGRITY

PRESIDENT ACCEPTS STATUE OF W.J. BRYAN. TO A GREAT MAN: PRESIDENT ROOS...

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Texas senator sponsors son before U.S. Supreme Court. Washington, D.C., May 24. Ben Connally, son of the United States Senator from Texas, was today admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court. Ben is shown leaving the court with his father, who introduced the youngster to member of the nation's highest tribunal, 5/24/37

Texas senator sponsors son before U.S. Supreme Court. Washington, D.C....

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Urges strong U.S. Navy. Washington, D.C., Feb. 26. Assistant Secretary of the Navy Charles Edison today told the House Naval Affairs Committee that the future peace of the United States is "directly dependent" on maintaining a navy so strong that no nation will risk war with this country. He is testifying on President Roosevelt's billion dollar Naval Expansion program, 2/26/38

Urges strong U.S. Navy. Washington, D.C., Feb. 26. Assistant Secretary...

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American Legion Head testifies before Un-American committee. Washington, D.C., Aug. 18. "Sinister forces are expending greater effort than ever before to wreck this nation" Homer L. Chaillaux, Americanism director of the American Legion told the Dies Un-American Committee today, 8/18/38

American Legion Head testifies before Un-American committee. Washingto...

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Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. Appearing before the Senate Unemployment and Relief Committee today, Bernard Baruch, noted Financier, declared that the nation must choose between the "profits system and the hope of gain" and "the new European ideas of state regulation and fear of punishment". He added "that if it became clear tomorrow that Americans definitely chosen her traditional profits system, forces would be released that would rapidly hasten recovery and reemployment," 2/28/38

Nation must make choice--Bernard Baruch Washington, D.C., Feb. 28. App...

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PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HONORS AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER ON ARMISTICE DAY. WASHINGTON, D.C. NOVEMBER 11. PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT LED THE NATION TODAY IN OBSERVING THE 21ST ANNIVERSARY OF THE SIGNING OF THE ARMISTICE BY JOURNEYING TO THE TOMB OF AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER WHERE HE HAD A WREATH PLACED BY HIS NAVAL AIDE AND THEN STOOD FOR A MINUTE OF SILENT PRAYER. CAPT. DANIEL J. CALLAGHAN, PRESIDENTIAL AIDE, IS SHOWN PLACING THE WREATH WHILE WITH THE PRESIDENT IS BRIG. GEN. EDWIN M. WATSON, WHITE HOUSE SECRETARY. TO THE LEFT IN THE PICTURE CAN BE SEEN SECRETARY OF WAR HARRY WOODRING AND ACTING SECRETARY OF NAVY CHARLES EDISON

PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT HONORS AMERICA'S UNKNOWN SOLDIER ON ARMISTICE DAY....

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WIVES OF NATION'S LEADERS, WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 10. MRS. FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT AND MRS. JOHN N. GARNER PICTURED AT A LUNCHEON OF THE SENATE LADIES CLUB TODAY, THE FIRST OF THE 76TH CONGRESS. MRS. GARNER WAS HOSTESS TO MEMBERS OF THE CLUB AT THE WASHINGTON HOTEL

WIVES OF NATION'S LEADERS, WASHINGTON, D.C. JANUARY 10. MRS. FRANKLIN ...

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Women are contributing their skills to the nation's needs by keeping our country's planes in top-notch fighting condition, Corpus Christi, Texas. Wife of a disabled World War I veteran, Mrs. Cora Ann Bowen (left) works as a cowler at the Naval Air Base. Mrs. Eloise J. Ellis is a senior supervisor in the Assembly and Repairs department

Women are contributing their skills to the nation's needs by keeping o...

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Montana Senator. Washington, D.C., Feb. 10. A new informal picture of Senator Burton K. Wheeler, democrat of Montana. He is Chairman of the Senate Interstate Commerce Committee which is now studying the nation's rail problems, 2-10-39

Montana Senator. Washington, D.C., Feb. 10. A new informal picture of ...

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Republican National Committee chairman before Dies Committee. Washington, D.C., May 22. John Hamilton, chairman of the Republican National Committee, today told the Dies Committee Investigating Un-American Activities that he had no prior knowledge of the activities of persons alleged to have disseminated anti-Semitic propaganda. Hamilton was subpoenaed after it was learned that he had exchanged letters with a Mr. Campbell, who described himself before the committee today as an 'American nationalist' opposed to the internationalist sentiment that he said is trying to get the nation into foreign wars

Republican National Committee chairman before Dies Committee. Washingt...

A large group of people sitting around a table, Library of Congress Harris and Ewing collection Title from unverified caption data received with the Harris & Ewing Collection. Gift; Harris & Ewing, Inc. 1955. ... More

Three Thirds of the Nation. Franchot Tone perches on high stool, watches the control booth for cue during presentation of War Production Board (WPB) radio show Three Thirds of the Nation, June 3, 1942

Three Thirds of the Nation. Franchot Tone perches on high stool, watch...

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Washington, D.C. A young boy who lives near the nation's capitol

Washington, D.C. A young boy who lives near the nation's capitol

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Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower shortage, which threatened the United States' summer cotton crops, Mexican workers were recently asked to assist farmers near Corpus Christi, Texas, during the cotton harvest season

Agricultural. Mexican cotton pickers. Because of the nation's manpower...

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Clouds. No clouds of war these, but peaceful carriers of rains that help broad acres of Kentucky farmland to bear life-giving crops for the nation's needs

Clouds. No clouds of war these, but peaceful carriers of rains that he...

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Transportation. Sight-seeing bus. Faced with a ban on motor buses for sightseeing purposes, Jimmy Grace obtained a horse-drawn bus which makes daily trips to the points of interest of the nation's capital

Transportation. Sight-seeing bus. Faced with a ban on motor buses for ...

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Three Thirds of the Nation. Howard McNeer and Edward Arnold during rehearsal of the War Production Board (WPB) radio program "Steel." McNeer played the automobile which wished it was a jeep

Three Thirds of the Nation. Howard McNeer and Edward Arnold during reh...

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Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnaces, tons of scrap from America's attics and basements are collected every day. Here, a junkman unloads his wagon in a central depot, where the scrap will be segregated and graded for shipment to steel mills

Salvage. Scrap for steel mills. To feed the nation's munitions furnace...

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War wagon trailer. It's better than standing! Government girls accustomed to crowded buses in the nation's capitol try out the "stand-sit" seat--a space saving feature of the new war wagon trailer

War wagon trailer. It's better than standing! Government girls accusto...

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After United Nation troops drove out the Germans and the Allied military government set up a new code of human liberty, Sicilians once again enjoyed their holidays without fear of Nazi reprisals

After United Nation troops drove out the Germans and the Allied milita...

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Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation tribal park whose red-sandstone formations on the Colorado Plateau lie mostly in Arizona but also into Utah

Monument Valley, a Navajo Nation tribal park whose red-sandstone forma...

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Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : by which Meer Jaffeir was raised to the government of that province, together with those of Babar and Orixa, including the motives to this enterprize, the method in which it was accomplished, and the benefits that have accrued from thence to that country, our United Company trading to the East Indies, and to the British nation.

Memoirs of the revolution in Bengal, anno Dom. 1757 : by which Meer Ja...

Published anonymously. Written by William Watts, formerly attributed to John Campbell. LC copy imperfect? Prelim. leaf may be wanting. ESTC T102030 Also available in digital form on the Library of Congress Web ... More

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