#archivesgov

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Barber Shop at American Center, Brisbane, Australia

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

Original caption: April 26, 1944 Barber shop at American Center, (Brisbane, Australia.) Photographer: Pfc Joseph McCoy

This black and white photograph shows a row of six barber chairs, each with a man sitting in it, covered with a cloth.  Barbers stand behind each chair in white coats, cutting hair.  You can see the feet of people in another row of chairs facing the first row on the left side of the photograph.  More people sit in the back of the barber shop.

#archivesgov #april 26 #1944 #1940s #world war ii #wwii #barbarshop #Brisbane

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Last week marked the fiftieth anniversary of title ix which banned discrimination from any educational platform and institution based on gender.

let’s take a moment to remember the many accomplishments that has happened since and recognize the progress and know that we have a long way to go for women’s rights

#Title ix #archivesgov #women's history #education #title ix #feminism #politics

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Is reading cursive writing your superpower?

Join a special transcription challenge featuring Revolutionary War Pension Files!

Image description: One half of image is a form from a Revolutionary War pension file, filled out in cursive writing. The other side says "can you read this? Help us transcribe pension files of the first veterans of the US military." There's the same link as in this post, and the National Archives logo.

#archivesgov #RevWarVets #American Revolution #Revolutionary War #cursive #transcription #National Park Service #military #pension

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“Crooked Politicians Are Elected By Honest People Who Don’t Vote” 

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information Agency

Series: Propaganda Posters Distributed in Asia

Transcription: 

The Qualified Electors in this House will all Vote on Election Day

Will You?

Remember -

Crooked Politicians Are Elected By Honest People Who Don't Vote

NAMFREL

#archivesgov #July 30 #1953 #1950s #Philippines #poster #vote #voting

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Labor. [African-American] women at work in lumber yards.

Record Group 86: Records of the Women's BureauSeries: General Photographic File

Original caption: Labor. [African-American] women at work in lumber yards. [African-American] women, dressed in men's clothes, lifting heavy pieces of lumber.

This black and white photograph shows two African-American women in overalls lifting long pieces of lumber.  They are posing for the camera.  The woman on the left stands with one hand on her hip and looks away from the camera.  The woman on the right looks right into the camera.

#archivesgov #February 5 #1919 #1910s #african american women #women working #black history

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"Pfc. Johnnie Mae Welton, Negro WAC, laboratory technician trainee, conducts an experiment in the serology laboratory sf the Fort Jackson Station Hospital, Fort Jackson, SC."

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

This black and white photograph shows Pfc. Johnnie Mae Walton, an African American woman in the Women’s Army Corp, sitting at a lab table.  She wears a military uniform and her hair is tied back.  She appears to be blowing through a straw into a test tube.  Three racks of test tubes are on the lab table before her.

#archivesgov #March 20 #1944 #1940s #world war ii #wwii #wacs #african american veterans #women veterans

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Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter sing with Martin Luther King, Sr., Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young and other civil rights leader during a visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta

Collection JC-WHSP: White House Staff Photographers CollectionSeries: Jimmy Carter's Presidential PhotographsFile Unit: Jimmy Carter, Rosalynn Carter - At the Ebenezer Baptist Church

This color photograph shows from left to right Martin Luther King, Sr., Rosalynn Carter, Andrew Young, Coretta Scott King, President Jimmy Carter, and others holding hands while singing.  In the background there are other people, an American flag, and part of a pipe organ. 

#archivesgov #January 14 #1979 #1970s #Ebenezer baptist church #civil rights

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Some handy tips from the War Department’s “You’re Going to Employ Women” pamphlet, April 1, 1943. 

Unfortunately, this is not a joke. 

Record Group 407: Records of the Adjutant General's Office

Series: Central Decimal Correspondence Files

File Unit: 291.9 Status of Women 1-1-42 THRU 12-31-45

Transcription: 

(a pamphlet with single staple on left side, off-white paper)

You're Going to Employ Women

WAR DEPARTMENT

WASHINGTON, D. C.

(In pencil along right side)  WGCS  17, 291.9,  (4-1-43)

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(left page black and white photo)  woman filing a piece of metal

_______________careful...

(right facing page)  

(title)  When Training Women

ORIENT her more thoroughly than a man on health and safety rules, plant layout and production, company policies, job techniques.

Give her a preliminary training course to get the feel of work.

Relate her job training to past experience, usually domestic--interpret machinery operation in terms of household and kitchen appliances.

Arrange for continuous upgrading and train her for higher grade jobs.

Use community training facilities when necessary--trade schools, vocational classes in colleges and universities.

[page 3]

(Left side same woman)

_____________and conscientious...

(Right side)

(title)  When Working Woman

LIMIT her hours to 8 a day and 48 a week.

Schedule short morning and afternoon rest intervals on arduous jobs.

Have diet-balanced luncheons available--and  extra food on exhausting jobs.

Provide ample clean toilets and rest rooms--good plant ventilation free of dust, fumes and drafts--work seats and benches at proper height--clean orderly surroundings--safety devices on machinery.

Insist on proper work clothing, safe shoes.

Promote adequate local housing and transportation.

And…

[page 4]

(Left side of page)

(title)

Use a Trained Personnel Woman

She can counsel with management on training, job simplification and all general employment policies.

She understands women-worker needs.

She can give sympathetic attention to home problems.

She can be told personal difficulties that would not be confided to a man.

She can arrange for child care.

(right facing page)

-Women are pliant--adaptable.

-Women are dexterous--finger nimble.

-Women are accurate--precision workers.

-Women are good at repetitive tasks.

-Women are fine color and material observants.

Women CAN BE TRAINED TO DO ALMOST ANY JOB YOU'VE GOT.

#archivesgov #April 1 #1943 #1940s #WWII #World War II #women's history #labor history #captain america chair dot gif

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Rising Earth Greets Apollo VIII Astronauts

Record Group 306: Records of the U.S. Information AgencySeries: Master File Photographs of U.S. and Foreign Personalities, World Events, and American Economic, Social, and Cultural Life

This image is a color photograph of earth from lunar orbit.  The surface of the moon appears on the right edge of the image.  To the left, the earth appears to be floating in the blackness of space.  Just over half of the earth is visible, the rest is in shadow.

#archivesgov #December 29 #1968 #Apollo 8 #apollo program #nasa #nasa photos #space #space exploration #moon #1960s

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Photograph of Members of the Headquarters Company, 480th Port Battalion Set Up Between the Columns of the Ancient Greek Temple of Neptune

Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal OfficerSeries: Photographs of American Military Activities

At desk, front to rear: Sgts. James Shellman, Gilbert A. Terry, John W. Phoenix, Curtis A. Richardson, and Leslie B. Wood. In front of desk, front to rear: T/Sgt. Gordon A. Scott, M/Sgt. Walter C. Jackson, Sgt. David D. Jones, and WO Carlyle M. Tucker. Italy. September 22, 1943.

Black and white photograph of soldiers working at makeshift desks in the middle of ancient ruins.

#archivesgov #1940s #world war ii #September 22 #1943

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Students at Whittier School at the Hampton Institute (now Hampton University) learn to knit for the war effort. August 5, 1918.

Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs

Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs

File Unit: Colleges and Universities - Hampton Institute

Image description: Four girls and a young woman sit on a porch. Each has a ball of yarn on her lap and is knitting. They are all wearing light-colored dresses. The teaching institute and associated school were created to serve the Black community; all of the people in the photo are Black. 

Transcription: WAR ACTIVITIES OF HAMPTON INSTITUTE, HAMPTON, VA. / Whittier School girls learning to knit for war sufferers. 

#archivesgov #August 5 #1918 #1910s #World War I #WWI #Hampton University #HBCU #knitting #Black history #African American history

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Officers of 366th Infantry Regiment

Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of TransportationSeries: Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation

Original caption: "Captain O. T. Thornton, 0-331267, Washington, D.C., Battalion Adjutant of Headquarters, 1st Battalion, 366th Infantry (Shipment Unit 2240-C) on pier 4 preparing to embark on USS General William Mitchell. A graduate of Howard University 1935, Capt. Thornton went on active duty 3 March 1941. Official photograph U.S. Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News, Virginia."

This black and white photograph shows two African American army officers (two others are just visible behind them).  They are dressed in uniforms with helmets on and holding their equipment.  They both carry overcoats over their arms.  The man on the left wears sunglasses.

#archivesgov #March 27 #1944 #1940s #world war ii #WWII #veterans #us army #infantry #african american history

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Anti-Slavery Petition from Women of America

Record Group 46: Records of the U.S. SenateSeries: Petitions and Related Documents That Were Presented, Read, or Tabled

PETITION. ____ To the Honorable the Senate of the united States and House of Representatives: Your petitioners, women of America, whose names are hereunto subscribed, constrained by the love of humanity, address you in behalf of the claims of a million and a half of their sex, who are afforded no legal protection for the heart's dearest ties, or WOMAN'S "sacred honor," but with their husbands, sons, and brothers, are the doomed victims of a system that dwarfs the intel- lect, degrades the morals, and debases the entire being. Believing that they are solemnly bound to "remember those that are in bonds, as bound with them," and believing that in this AGE OF LIGHT, while the great principles of LIBERTY are anima- ting the nations, that the government of these United States-this "Model Republic"-should use all its constitutional power to eradicate, within its own bounds, an evil which is being repudiated by the civilized world as its direct curse-they are constrained respectfully and earnestly to pray your honorable body at once to devise such measures as may come legitimately within their prov- ince, both to prevent the farther extension of American Slavery, and to withdraw the protection and countenance hitherto afforded by your Government and Flag to the American Slave Trade, and to suppress Slavery effectually in those sections over which Congress has competent jurisdic- tion. And your petitioners will ever pray. Rosetta M Cowles Mary Ann Perkins Jane N Coan Julia A Curtys K[illegible] C. North G A Sues Rosetta L Merriam Harriat P Pratt Sarah D. Linsley Alma Dunham Harriet F Foster Charlotte Melone Bridget Mason Margaret Moran Ann Moran Martha G Fowler Berille Shipman Sarah Shipmen Caroline Shipmen

#archivesgov #February 27 #1849 #19th century #abolition of slavery

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Wacs At Teletype Machines At A Bomber Command Headquarters In Pine Tree, High Wycombe, Bucks, England. 

Record Group 342: Records of U.S. Air Force Commands, Activities, and OrganizationsSeries: Photographs of Activities, Facilities and Personnel

Original caption: Wacs At Teletype Machines At A Bomber Command Headquarters In Pine Tree, High Wycombe, Bucks, England. The Wacs Are, Left To Right: Pfc. Rosalie S. Jones, Baltimore Md T/5 Eugenia M. Hall, Ridgeway, Penn.; Pvt. Virgie M. Deas, Columbia, Sc And Cpl. Dorothy M. Albers, Keystone, Iowa, supervisor 29 September 1943

Black and white photograph shows four women in military uniforms.  Three are sitting at teletype machines while one stands looks at the teletype tape.  There are several unused teletype machines and typewriters around them.  Behind the women is what looks like a telephone exchange panel.

#archivesgov #February 29 #1944 #1940s #world war ii #wwii #wwii history #wacs #women in military #women's history #teletype

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Guion Bluford became the first African American to go to space as the Space Shuttle Challenger lifted off on August 30, 1983. 

Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

Image description: The Space Shuttle Challenger is lifting off at night. The cloudy plume surrounding it is lit dramatically. 

#archivesgov #August 30 #1983 #1980s #NASA #space #space shuttle #Challenger #liftoff #dramatic lighting #chiaroscuro

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9th Cavalry Personnel with Red Cross Canteen Worker

Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of TransportationSeries: Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation

This black and white photograph shows a group of seven African-American soldiers posing for a photo around an African-American Red Cross worker. The soldiers wear helmets and carry all their equipment.  Several hold paper cups.  The Red Cross worker wears an overcoat and is holding a water bucket.

Original caption: "Colored enlisted men of unit 5891-E (A detachment of the 9th Cavalry) are shown on pier 2 with Red Cross Canteen Worker, Helen Alston, before sailing overseas. Official Photograph U.S. Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News Virginia.

#archivesgov #February 1 #1944 #1940s #wwii #world war ii #world war 2 #black veterans #american history #us army #red cross