Archive for February, 2013
Facial Hair Friday: Portrait of the Artist with a Mustache
This self portrait, with carefully groomed mustache in the center, is a glamorous photo of a hardworking, groundbreaking photographer. James Stephen “Steve” Wright was from a working-class family in Washington, DC. By the 1940s he was head of photographic operations for the Federal Works Agency. But like many young black men at the time, he [...]
Posted by Hilary on February 22, 2013, under - Civil Rights, Facial Hair Fridays, Prologue Magazine.
Tags: African Americans, federal government, Fernleigh Graninger, Harold Ickes, mustache, Nicholas Natason, photographers, photography, Randolph MacDougall, State Department, Steve Wright, UN, Whitney Keith
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“I am a little country boy eight years old.”
Today’s guest post is from Sherri DeCoursey, who used the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library to find a special piece of history for her father. For as long as I can remember, a photo of FDR and a letter have hung side-by-side in the den of Mom and Dad’s home. The yellowed letter, written by [...]
Posted by Hilary on February 20, 2013, under - Presidents, Letters in the National Archives, National Archives Near You.
Tags: archives, Arkansas, FDR, FDR Presidential Library, letters, Missy LeHand
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George Washington Writes in the Margins
Today’s blog post comes from Susan K. Donius, Director of the Office of Presidential Libraries at the National Archives. This post originally appeared on the White House blog. Last month, President Obama began his second Inaugural Address by saying, “Each time we gather to inaugurate a President we bear witness to the enduring strength of [...]
Posted by Hilary on February 18, 2013, under - Constitution, - Presidents, National Archives Near You, News and Events, Pennsylvania Avenue, Unusual documents.
Tags: Acts of Congress, george washington, Inauguration, Mount Vernon, notes, Presidency, presidential libraries
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90 letters in 90 days: The courtship of Lady Bird and LBJ
“I do believe before the day was over he did ask me to marry him and I thought he was just out of his mind.” Claudia Alta “Lady Bird” Taylor Two teenagers in love might exchange hundreds of texts on their phones. But during their two-and-a-half month courtship, Lyndon Baines Johnson and Claudia Alta “Lady [...]
Posted by Hilary on February 14, 2013, under - Presidents.
Tags: courtship. letters, First Lady, Lady Bird, LBJ, marriage, President, romance, texas
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Application Denied!
Today’s blog post was written by Sam Rushay, a supervisory archivist at the Truman Presidential Library. In the late summer of 1945, Frances Sarah Curtis of Mt. Rainier, MD, applied for a White House pass. Curtis, a Treasury Department employee in the Bureau of Public Debt (BPD), had worked in the White House File Room [...]
Posted by Hilary on February 12, 2013, under Uncategorized.
Tags: background check, Communists, Frances Curtis, George Drescher, guest blogger, investigation, Secret service, Truman, White House
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