Archive for 'Photo Caption Contest'
Thursday Photo Caption Contest: July 12
It’s been hot here in Washington, DC. So hot that a plane got stuck in “soft spot” in the asphalt of the runway at Reagan National Airport just across the river in Alexandria, Virginia. So hot that our brains melted and we could not choose a winner from last week’s caption contest. So we turned [...]
Posted by Hilary on July 12, 2012, under Photo Caption Contest.
Tags: Ponca City, Reagan National Airport, Tokyo, Waddy's Wagon, World War II
Comments: 4
Thursday Photo Caption Contest: June 28
We waded into your captions like a man driving a car into a lake! How to choose between splashy captions that referenced Secret Service men wearing floaties, the Aflac duck, James Bond, or water taxis? Waterlogged with indecision, we turned to Liza Talbot, who in turn turned to the crew of the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library. [...]
Posted by Hilary on June 28, 2012, under Photo Caption Contest.
Tags: amphicar, LBJ, Lyndon Johnson, Stonewall, texas
Comments: 2
Thursday Photo Caption Contest: June 21
Nothing is sweeter than a girl and her dog . . . competing for treats? We enjoyed your captions suggesting the competition between a girl and her same-size canine companion, but like this little girl, the winner seemed just out of our grasp. So we turned to guest judge Sarah Malcolm, who writes for the [...]
Posted by Hilary on June 21, 2012, under Photo Caption Contest.
Tags: anna Roosevelt, dog, Fala, FDR, In Roosevelt History, Roosevelt, Sarah Malcolm
Comments: 24
Thursday Photo Caption Contest: June 14
We got a kick out of your captions, especially the suggestion that Fala might still be alive, stored in an archival box for preservation. (Who knows, there are all kinds of things in our holdings, from nuclear plugs to mole skins!) We had a hard time choosing this week’s winner from among the slighty salacious “drawers” [...]
Posted by Hilary on June 14, 2012, under Photo Caption Contest.
Tags: Bess glenn, Nuno Guerreiro Josué, Paul Wester, Records Express
Comments: 8
Thursday Photo Caption Contest–May 23
Trying to choose a winner from last winner’s caption contest got us all tangled up! How could we choose between balloon references, Air Force One, and the horrors of flying coach? Eventually we had to hand over our judging duties over to Natalie Rocchio, archives specialist in the Center for Legislative Archives. Natalie knows how to [...]
Posted by Hilary on May 23, 2012, under Photo Caption Contest.
Tags: 1918, Atlantic, balloons, caption contest, Congress in the Archives, eStore, Natalie Rocchio, scouting, U-Boat
Comments: 15