Series: Photographs of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1882 - 1945
Collection: Franklin D. Roosevelt Library Photographs, 1870 - 2004
Image description: Franklin D. Roosevelt and his family pose in front of a large Christmas tree. One woman is holding a baby on her lap, and most people are smiling and looking at the baby. The Christmas tree is heavily decorated with tinsel.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
File Unit: War Relief - YWCA - Miscellaneous, 1917 - 1918
Series: American Unofficial Collection of World War I Photographs, 1917 - 1918
Record Group 165: Records of the War Department General and Special Staffs, 1860 - 1952
Image description: Black soldiers and their families gather together. The men are wearing WWI-era military uniforms. Children in suits or dresses sit on the laps of adults. One woman holds a baby on her lap as she smiles at another woman.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
Paralyzed at age 35, this “very intelligent woman” kept a “very comfortable one room house” with the help of her children and her community.
Series: Blackfeet Industrial Survey, 1921 - 1921
Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1793 - 1999
Image description: A family portrait. Mrs. Cayton sits on a bench, wrapped in a shawl, holding an infant on her lap. A teenaged boy wearing a newsboy cap and a suit stands behind the bench. A preteen girl wearing a stocking hat with her dress and cardigan sits next to her mother.
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Source: catalog.archives.gov
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 middle-aged man in a red aloha shirt and white sailor cap kisses his son on the cheek. The son wears a winter US Navy uniform with the insignia of Petty Officer, Third Class. He has one arm slung around his father’s neck.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
Series: Photographs of American Military Activities, ca. 1918 - ca. 1981. Record Group 111: Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985.
Uncover more World War I Centennial Resources at the National Archives.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
Series: Photographs Accompanying Reports to the Secretary of the Interior, 1887 - 1930. Record Group 48: Records of the Office of the Secretary of the Interior, 1826 - 2009
Source: catalog.archives.gov
File Unit: [Book #1], 1942 - 1943. Series: Richmond Housing Project Photographs, 1942 - 1943. Record Group 178: Records of the U.S. Maritime Commission, 1917 - 1950
This photo is from a series held by the National Archives at San Francisco, documenting public housing built in Richmond, California, during World War II.
Browse more of these photos in the National Archives catalog.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
Parker, Tom, Photographer. Series: Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority, 1942 - 1945. Record Group 210: Records of the War Relocation Authority, 1941 - 1989
Professional photographers were commissioned by the War Relocation Authority to document the daily life and treatment of Japanese-Americans who were interned during World War II.
Browse nearly 4,000 photos of Japanese American relocation and internment in the Central Photographic File of the War Relocation Authority in the @usnatarchives online catalog.
Source: catalog.archives.gov
Series: Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, 1982 - 2007
Record Group 330: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, 1921 - 2008
Source: catalog.archives.gov
A U.S. Navy Sailor from the Arleigh Burke Class Guided Missile Destroyer USS RUSSELL (DDG 59) holds his baby for the first time after returning home at Naval Station Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, on Sept. 5, 2006, following a six-month deployment. RUSSELL departed this year as part of the Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group and later joined the Kitty Hawk CSG before returning here at Pearl Harbor.
(U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication SPECIALIST 1ST Class James E. Foehl) (Released), 09/05/2006
Source: research.archives.gov
The Roosevelt Grandchildren, 1945
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt pose with their 13 grandchildren at the White House on January 20, 1945. In total the Roosevelts had over 20 grandchildren, including several who were born after the President’s death in 1945.
Franklin D. Roosevelt and E.R. with their 13 grandchildren in Washington, D.C, 01/20/1945
Source: research.archives.gov
It’s National Radio Day!
“A Farm Family Listening to Their Radio, 08/14/1926”
from the series: Photographs of Extension Service Activities and Personnel, 1928 - 1943
What are your radio memories?
Source: research.archives.gov
BLACK FAMILY ENJOYING THE SUMMER WEATHER AT CHICAGO’S 12TH STREET BEACH ON LAKE MICHIGAN. FROM 1960 TO 1970 THE PERCENTAGE OF CHICAGO BLACKS WITH AN INCOME OF $7,000 OR MORE JUMPED FROM 26 TO 58%. MEDIAN BLACK INCOME DURING THE PERIOD INCREASED FROM $4,700 TO $7,883, BUT THE DOLLAR GAP BETWEEN THEIR GROUP AND THE WHITES ACTUALLY WIDENED, 08/1973
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
Source: http://go.usa.gov/T3WT
Earlier today, the National Archives in Washington, DC hosted Jimmie Walker the actor who played J.J. Evans in the 1970s television show Good Times and the author of Dynomite!: Good Times, Bad Times and Our Times- A Memoir.
Watch the archived webcast here: http://www.ustream.tv/usnationalarchives
Residence of G. L. Rule Feb. 18, 1898. Have lived here since Sept. 1893. Family stands in foreground; sod building and cabin in background, Arizona Territory
From the Series: Photographs Accompanying Reports to the Secretary of the Interior
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