Anyway, here's a puppy catalog.archives.gov/id/205582892

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cw: Nazis The National Archives has recently digitized and published Nazi Party membership files, making some very interesting research much easier!

One of the classics catalog.archives.gov/id/7455613

"[U]nidentified actors . . . during the play "Julius Caesar" presented in the Rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol Building, Jefferson City, Missouri, November 15 and 16, 1958." catalog.archives.gov/id/348293532

mood catalog.archives.gov/id/515538

Service record for Civil War soldier Simeon (Cinnamon) Dial. catalog.archives.gov/id/55422327

Put More Punch Into Production, WWII poster from England. catalog.archives.gov/id/44266955

C.P. Goldey's Game Cards, patented 7/26/1881. catalog.archives.gov/id/363430278

Microscopic view of wood, from the Forest Service. I just think it's pretty. catalog.archives.gov/id/7059691

Drinking from the scuttle butt on the USS Charleston, April 4, 1906. catalog.archives.gov/id/6880361

USFWS biologist Henry Quinlan weighing a lake sturgeon, 2007. catalog.archives.gov/id/166712314

The Archivist's Code: "The archivist has a moral obligation to society to preserve evidence on how things actually happened and to take every measure for the physical preservation of valuable records." catalog.archives.gov/id/3493260

Iditarod sled dog race, March 1974. catalog.archives.gov/id/42207538

Specialist Fifth Class Dwight Johnson receives the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War, 11/19/1968 catalog.archives.gov/id/192526

Two of the Pointer Sisters perform in a USO show on the USS San Jose during Operation Desert Shield, on 12/1/1990. catalog.archives.gov/id/6468525

A man mines phosphate, somewhere in the Tennessee River Valley. 10/1/1934. catalog.archives.gov/id/214436946

Pompey Factor, one of the Black Seminole Scouts, had trouble verifying his service so he could receive his military pension. His lawyer resorted to sending in Factor's Medal of Honor as proof. catalog.archives.gov/id/75298117

"Portrait of Ronald "Ron" Guy, White House Executive Butler," 11/14/2001 catalog.archives.gov/id/7431198

"--- no person in the public service is for that reason under any obligations to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political service, and --- he will not be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so." catalog.archives.gov/id/6267052

Children play in North Philadelphia, September 1973. catalog.archives.gov/id/552755

Employee Appreciation photo, 6/6/2014, at NARA's National Personnel Records Center (Civilian) at Valmeyer, Illinois. catalog.archives.gov/id/301693359

About 3 percent of the National Archives' textual holdings are online. www.archives.gov/findingaid/r...

Creek Freedmen* outside their home in 1900. *People of African descent who were formerly enslaved by citizens of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Also their descendents, obvs this baby was not enslaved <1866 but it is very hard to explain all the history in one tweet catalog.archives.gov/id/516396

A tenant farmer in Putnam County, Georgia, plows a cornfield in 1941. catalog.archives.gov/id/521339

Men of the Triple Nickles (555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, the first Black parachute infantry battalion) fight a fire caused by a Japanese incendiary bomb in Umatilla National Forest in 1945. catalog.archives.gov/id/148728140

A wartime wedding in the European Theater. Pfc. Florence Collins and Cpl. William Johnson were married on 8/19/1945. catalog.archives.gov/id/531314

"While awaiting assignment after arriving in Australia, first [Black] nurses to reach these shores try bicycle riding near their quarters in Camp Columbia, Wacol, Brisbane." 11/29/1943. catalog.archives.gov/id/178140880

The National Archives' National Personnel Records Center at St. Louis receives and processes over 4,000 requests for veterans' records per day. catalog.archives.gov/id/184341469

Five-year-old Jacob Philadelphia touches President Obama's hair to see if it feels like his own, 5/8/2009. catalog.archives.gov/id/157649650

"Microbiologist examining core sample from bioremediation demonstration," at the EPA in 1996. catalog.archives.gov/id/7868756

Pvt. Henry "Black Death" Johnson of the Harlem Hellfighters, returning from fighting in WWI. He was awarded a French Croix de guerre in 1918; the US posthumously awarded him a Purple Heart, Distinguished Service Cross, and a Medal of Honor for his heroic actions. catalog.archives.gov/id/26431346

"Contraband school" during the Civil War. Confederacy: enslaved people are property Union Army: you know that we can confiscate property that you might use against us in war Enslaved people arriving at Union lines: oh no you better confiscate us catalog.archives.gov/id/529344

Macbeth performed by The New York Negro Unit of the Works Progress Administration Federal Theatre Project, 1935. catalog.archives.gov/id/195702

Germany, April 1945. catalog.archives.gov/id/535840

Black Revolutionary War soldier Prosper Gorton's discharge certificate, signed by George Washington. catalog.archives.gov/id/54698290

Tuskegee Airman 2nd Lt. Celestino S. Monclova receives his silver navigator's wings from his sister, Women's Army Corps Pvt. Anita Monclova, 1944. catalog.archives.gov/id/315834769

National Black History Month Proclamation by President Ford, 1976. ". . . seize the opportunity to honor the too-often neglected accomplishments of black Americans in every area of endeavor throughout our history." catalog.archives.gov/id/7342484

"American soldiers getting their bowl of hot chocolate and rolls in the American Red Cross canteen at Toulouse, France." It's International Hot Chocolate Day! Have a bowlful. catalog.archives.gov/id/533567

"His first hill climb. The fellow on the left is fixing the gear shift for him while the other is explaining how to take the bumps." catalog.archives.gov/id/532252

Happy Lunar New Year! Welcome to the Year of the Snake. catalog.archives.gov/id/166707560

Hand in hand at the March on Washington: leaders of the National Urban League, the NAACP, the American Federation of Labor, the United Auto Workers, and the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights. (Names and more info at link.) catalog.archives.gov/id/542010

The map used by the US and Mexico to determine the new border after the Mexican War. Mexico ceded 525,000 square miles to the U.S. in exchange for $15M. Most Mexicans living in the affected area (about 74,000 people) became U.S. citizens. catalog.archives.gov/id/102278422

A man of Japanese ancestry wears his WWI US Navy uniform as he enters an incarceration camp in 1942. catalog.archives.gov/id/537044

The Golden Circle Senior Citizens Club of Fairmont, Nebraska, in 1973. catalog.archives.gov/id/547339

I am very tired. Please enjoy this sphagnum moss. catalog.archives.gov/id/166711590

It's National Handwriting Day! The Archives has a call out right now for folks who can read and transcribe Revolutionary War pensions! I'm impressed by anyone who can read these documents, which are old and full of legalese and were microfilmed with a potato. catalog.archives.gov/id/54915807

Civil War service record of Private Washington Diss, 128th U.S. Colored Troops. Enlisting one month before the end of the war, 17-year-old Diss served as an orderly to generals and was later detailed to the Freedmen's Bureau. catalog.archives.gov/id/83700621

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. speaks at the March on Washington, August 28, 1963. catalog.archives.gov/id/542069