Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Image description: Drawing of a woman in a long bustled dress with and without a train; drawings of the interior of the skirt showing how a drawstring can be pulled to shorten the length of the skirt.
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You like them? Thanks, they have pockets!
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Image description: Drawing of a glove with a wide cuff; on the inside of the wrist is a pocket, with a buckle or stud and loop closure.
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Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007
Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008
Image description: A man rides a unicycle, one foot a bit blurry. He is wearing a white and red ringer tee, blue track pants with cuffs that flare open to show the colors on his tube socks, white Nike sneakers, and a black backwards baseball cap. His arms are stretched out, and one hand holds a portable Walkman-type radio or cassette player, with the corded headphones hanging around his neck.
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Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: Drawings of a long, narrow piece of wood, curved in the shape of a woman’s tight long sleeve.
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Image description: John Owens, a Black man wearing glasses and a suit (maybe not a suit; the jacket and pants are not made of the same fabric, but they do look stylish together), sits in front of a long counter and shelf. The counter and shelf are covered with pieces of equipment, connected with cables and wires.
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This photograph was submitted to the Immigration and Naturalization Service as Wong Lan Fong immigrated to join her husband in Buffalo, New York.
File Unit: Immigration Arrival Investigation Case File for Wong Lan Fong (26002/1-9), 1927 - 1927
Series: Immigration Arrival Investigation Case Files, 1884 - 1944
Record Group 85: Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service, 1787 - 2004
Image description: Wong Lan Fong and Yee Shew Ning stand with two attendants in the doorway of a brick building. The women wear loose, wide-sleeved, light-colored cheongsams, beaded headbands across their foreheads, and each carries a bouquet. Wong Lan Fong also wears a white veil and what looks like flowers across her forehead. The grooms wear white tie, with flowers in their buttonholes. The bride and groom have their arms linked.
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Her new innovation? Adjustable elastic straps at the sides of the garment.
Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: Front, back, and side views of a corset with shoulder straps. The front and back sides of the corset are attached with 6 elastic straps on each side, from underarm to hip.
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Record Group 83: Records of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, 1876 - 1959
Image description: People stand outdoors, on a short wall or curb, in front of a Pueblo Revival-style building. They are probably listening to a speaker who is not in the photo. Many people look apprehensive.
Image description: Zoomed-in image of some of the people, showing older women with blankets wrapped around them and over their heads, and a man in a fedora.
Image description: Zoomed-in image of some of the people, showing young men in jeans and leather jackets or cardigans, and young women in tailored coats. One young woman carries a stack of books.
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Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007
Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008
Image description: People stand in line in front of the USS Iowa. Many people wear red, white, or blue. Tube socks are in abundance. The battleship flies the U.S. Jack (50 white stars on a blue field) and is strung with bunting made of International Code of Signals flags.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
Series: Case Files for Registered Product Labels , 1874 - 1940
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: A white spiderweb on black background, in which is caught 12 tiny women in 1920s dresses and hats, arranged in a circle like the numbers of a clock. In the center is a larger woman in a 1920s dress and hat, her arms outstretched very gracefully at one and eight o’clock. A hole is punched in the center of each woman; presumably this is where each fastener would be attached to the card.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
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Series: Nixon White House Photographs, 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974
Collection: White House Photo Office Collection (Nixon Administration), 1/20/1969 - 8/9/1974
Image description: President Nixon and Elvis Presley stand in front of flags in the Oval Office. They are shaking hands as they pose for the picture. Nixon is wearing a medium-toned suit; Elvis is wearing a white shirt with a gigantic collar, a black vest and pants, a belt buckle the size of a Kindle, two necklaces, and a wide-lapel black coat over his shoulders. [Note: it’s a black and white photo so Elvis’ clothing might be a very dark color rather than black.] In the background, Oval Office shelves hold bird figurines.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
Series: Utility Patent Drawings, 1837 - 1911
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: Two drawings of a top hat. In the first drawing, the illustration is cut away to show a concave part inside the hat, and a tube attached to the top of the concavity. In the second drawing, the hat has been inflated so that the concave part bulges out of the hat (it looks like a balloon with a hat on top of it), and the tube leads away from the bottom. It is not clear how the hat is inflated.
Series: Gerald R. Ford White House Photographs, 8/9/1974 - 1/20/1977
Collection: White House Photographic Office Collection (Ford Administration), 12/6/1973 - 1/20/1977
Image Description: The Prime Minister and President sit in mustard-colored brocade chairs and chat. The PM is wearing a dark suit and tie. The President is wearing a sky-blue suit with a blue floral tie.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
Series: Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman, 1957 - 2004. Collection: Audiovisual Collection, 1957 - 2006.
Submitted anonymously to our Citizen Archivist Takeover.
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