#National Archives Catalog

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“I was in Monmouth battle and many others and received a wound in my face from a ball, the scar of which is still visible.” – Robert Green, veteran

Robert Green gave this testimony at the age of 65 when applying for a federal pension for his service. Green’s story embodies the courage and resilience of African American patriots during the Revolutionary War. Wounded at the Battle of Monmouth, Green’s journey is a testament to the sacrifices made for the liberties we cherish today.

We invite you to be a part of a monumental effort to bring these stories to light. By joining our Revolutionary War Veterans Transcription Project, you’re not just transcribing documents; you’re helping to preserve and honor the legacy of African American soldiers.

You can ensure their stories, their sacrifice, and their dreams are not forgotten. Dive into history, transcribe with us, and help make the legacy of heroes like Robert Green accessible for generations to come.

Visit https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions/revolutionary-war-pension-files for details!

[todaysdocument]

The National Archives Catalog makes access happen! 

The Catalog contains over 200 million pages of digitized or born-digital records–and that number is growing every week. 

#SunshineWeek2023 

[petsincollections]

Farming (Chickens)

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Series: Photographs

National Archives Catalog

[mydemonsdrivealimo]

loveeee using profs as my personal library catalog. why would i search for this myself when i can just email them.

[danniswrites]

Library Petition! on change.org Libraries need funding! Is your library listed on worldcat.org? If it isn't, maybe your library system can't afford to be a member of OCLC, the nations database of catalogued books and documents. OCLC saves a librarian's time, which is sparse, and saves your taxpayer money!

For those of us who can't afford to buy books, or as many as we want, the local library is a godsend. With a free library card, we can access many books in electronic form from Galileo.org or other online sources. Ebooks on every subject you can name, electronic versions of your favorite magazines, all of this is free for every person with a library card.

Government funding has always been low for libraries, and pay low for their workers. When I worked in libraries, I was a government employee and had great benefits, though pay was a lot lower than I would have made at a similar job for a private company. Now, government employees might suddenly have to take a day or a week off WITHOUT PAY because of government furloughs. Back in the 90's, most library workers I knew had to have roommates because their full-time jobs didn't pay enough for them to live by themselves. It's worse, now. Please sign this petition. Libraries and the people who work in them are important. Your taxes pay their salaries and buy the books and databases in them. If you enjoy libraries, please let your government representatives know you think they are important!

Things you can learn in your local library:

Value of antiques you might have in your attic Manuals to repair your car Enjoy reading a popular magazine Newly-released bestsellers Classics If the library you visit doesn't have the physical book you want, you might be able to order it via Interlibrary Loan for a small fee. Local files of interest, including resources for family history researchers that aren't on the Internet yet!

Did you know there are many interesting things that aren't scanned and therefore, aren't on the Internet?

Many of these resources for researchers and family history researchers are crumbling to dust. Literally. Library workers are the ones to save this material for our posterity! The average library worker is very busy, so things like scanning materials in the archives aren't a high priority.

If research is important to you, please sign this petition! Write to your local senator and representative, and tell them how vital your research is and how it benefits people. https://www.change.org/p/require-federal-funding-for-libraries-oclc-subscriptions-and-basic-needs?recruiter=1340264102&recruited_by_id=5086dc10-21d9-11ef-bc0c-4fdea37820d7&utm_source=share_petition&utm_campaign=petition_dashboard_share_modal&utm_medium=facebook Video was made with Canva and Clipchamp #libraries, #government employees, #archives, #history, #databases, #OCLC, #cataloging, #basic library needs, #government, #funding, #petition

[youmight-know]

NRDS-BUILDINGS & EQUIPMENT, NEVADA TEST SITE

[callmepip]

Explaining Internet Horror Things Badly

Local 58 - the moon is one scary ass motherfucker.

Gemini Home Entertainment - neptune is one scary ass motherfucker.

Mandela Catalog - what if jesus, but like among us.

The Monument Mythos/Nixonverse - THE STATUES ARE MOVING! Anyways, America is a country built on the suffering of oppressed peoples, and-

FNAF VHS - What if FNAF made sense?

Welcome Home - tumblr sexyman muppet feeds people to house (REAL) (NOT CLICKBAIT)

SMILE Tapes - Don't Do Drugs :)

Gilbert Garfield - WHAT THE FUCK IS HAPPENING.

Kane Pixel's Backrooms - 🎶 My life is like a videogame-🎶

Vita Carnis - meat is everywhere.

The June Archive and Restoration Project - Fuck you nintendo, deleting hatena flipnote killed a junillion innocent stickmen

Don't Hug Me I'm Scared - funny muppet become scary muppet.

Mystery Flesh Pit National Park - It is a lovely morning in The Flesh Pit, and you are a horrible capitalist.

VibingLeaf - creepypasta if it was good

TMK - the whole thing was leading up TO A DAMN KARL MARX JOKE!

[valdevia]

Hi, I love your works!! I was wondering where you find the original, unedited pictures you use for your art? Do you take them yourself or find them online?

Hey there! I get them from many different sources! Whenever I can I use my own, and sometimes my followers send me cool pics to use (or put them up in the Sacrificial Altar channel in my Discord), but I find most of what I use through public domain sources online!

For the online part, I put this little list together with some of the common resources I use! Feel free to share it around and copy it:

For an easier experience, I'll copy the relevant part below:

STOCK SITES

- Unsplash: Usually the best quality out of the free stock sites. They’ll try to sell you a subscription plan but you can ignore that.

- Adobe Stock: Select “Free” on the dropdown menu next to the search bar. The free image selection here is big and high-quality, though they feel more like stock pictures than natural photos. Note: They limit how many pictures you can download per account per day, but you can make several accounts to circumvent this if you use it a lot.

- Texturelabs: lots of free, very high-quality textures!

- Pexels: Similar to Unsplash, but it has more pictures with people. If you need a photo with models, this is usually the best place.

- Pixabay: Widest selection, but worst quality control. Go here if you haven’t found anything in other sites and don’t mind sifting through a bunch of garbage pics and occasional AI images.

PUBLIC DOMAIN SOURCES

- Wikimedia Commons: an enormous selection of CC and public domain pictures. Super useful, especially for the really specific images that you'd expect to find on a Wikipedia article. Always check the copyright conditions! To filter by license, search something and then click on the License dropdown under the search bar. Select “No restrictions” for public domain images.

- Picryl: A repository of public domain sources, ranging from ancient historical books and artifacts to fairly modern pictures. If you're looking for something old/historical, chances are it's here! This website is probably one of the most complicated ones to use, so here are three important tips before you use it:

This site added a paywall that appears after the 3rd page of search results. To remove it, install uBlock Origin, go to the “My Filters” page (clicking on the gear icon after opening the extension), and paste this filter: picryl.com##._9oJ0c2

After searching, use the timeline on the top right to narrow down the result by year.

It won’t let you download the full picture without paying, but it always has a link to the source site below the description. Click on that, then copy-paste the image’s name to find it in the original source. That way you can get it for free, and often in better quality than Picryl offers.

National Archives Catalog, The Library of Congress, NASA, and Europeana have wide selections, but they are included in Picryl so it’s usually better to search there and then download them in the source as mentioned above!

- Flickr Search: a ton of usable pictures with a generally more amateur feel, just remember to filter by license using the “Any license” dropdown menu. When you find an image, make sure to check its specific license (you can find it below the image, on the right side).

- Openverse: The official Creative Commons archive, has many sources! Includes other sites on this list, but has a lot of clutter if you don’t filter.

- iNaturalist: a repository of user-submitted images of animals, plants, and fungi. Look for a genus or species, then navigate to the photo list and filter by license.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

- The Met: An amazing selection of artifacts from all over the world, with top quality photographs of most of them (usually with several angles for each). You can filter images by material, location, and era.

- Getty Museum: Another smaller selection of museum pieces, but this one includes old photos as well as artifacts. You can also filter by dates, materials and cultures. Make sure you include the “Open Content” filter to only see public domain things!

- Smithsonian: Big selection of around 5 million museum pieces, with some 3D scans of museum pieces. Most pieces just have a single picture that can sometimes be low quality, but pieces with 3D models sometimes also include a lot of high quality photos from multiple angles. This collection also includes things from museums of natural history, so you can also use it to search for bones and specimens.

- Artvee: public domain classical art. They make you pay to download high-quality images.

If you guys got any others, please let me know and I'll add them to the collection!

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Ancient Necklace from Georgia (South Caucasus), c. 100-200 CE: this necklace is almost 2,000 years old; it includes an amulet case with a ram's head carved in amethyst, a garnet-studded perfume vial, and a chain woven from gold

This necklace features two pendants:

The uppermost pendant is a hollow, puck-shaped medallion with a removable lid that opens from the front, allowing the pendant to be used as a container/locket (possibly for a textual amulet or similar item); the lid is decorated with an amethyst relief of a ram's head, along with a ring of alternating turquoise and garnet stones. Turquoise tiles can also be seen running along the outer edge of the amulet case, and a chain is attached to each side, with a second pendant hanging below.

The second pendant is a hollow, pear-shaped container used for storing perfume or incense. The body of this second vessel (and its cap) is decorated with a series of garnet "spikes."

Both pendants are made of gold, as is the primary chain, which is crafted from a series of gold strands that have been twisted into a thick wicker-work pattern.

The necklace was found in the ancient necropolis of Armaziskhevi (located near Mtskheta, Georgia) which is a site that was once used by members of the local aristocracy, including the provincial governors (Pitiakhsh) and high-ranking nobles (Eristavi) of Kartli/Iberia, in what is now the Republic of Georgia.

I know I've mentioned this in some of my previous posts, but just for reference, here is a map showing the location of modern-day Georgia:

Sources & More Info:

Georgian National Museum: Necklace with Medallion & Perfume Vial

Caucasus Travel Guide: Archive of Georgian Artifacts

Georgian National Museum: Archaeology of the Roman Period in Georgia (essay & catalog)

[cosmic60s]

June 27, 1978

Happy 100th birthday to President Jimmy Carter - here he is with Jerry in the White House!

(sourced from the National Archives Catalog)

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MURDERERS' ROW

Third Fleet aircraft carriers at anchor in Ulithi Atoll, 8 December 1944, during a break from operations in the Philippines area. The carriers are (from front to back): USS Wasp (CV-18), USS Yorktown (CV-10), USS Hornet (CV-12), USS Hancock (CV-19) and USS Ticonderoga (CV-14). Wasp, Yorktown and Ticonderoga are all painted in camouflage Measure 33, Design 10a.

Photographed from a USS Ticonderoga plane. Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the National Archives.

Catalog #: 80-G-294131

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WWI coffee break - wounded American GIs pause for coffee while recuperating in a Red Cross outpost NARA gif, NARA ID 8953.

Hooray, hooray, it’s National Coffee Day! ☕

Our records clearly show that coffee is a health food! See product label below.

COFFEE IS:

"A drink for the sick and the well"

"A drink for the young and the old"

"palatable, wholesome and nourishing"

"A drink for morning, noon and night."

"Healthful and delicious, wholesome and appetizing."

Coffee is a health food! Grains of Health Label, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, Product label 1906, NARA ID 5714039.

Coffee samples from various areas are tested for taste and aroma by Sr. Aldo Cabella. Oficina Central de Cafe, Guatemala City, 4/3/1947. NARA ID 30805841.

Coffee in SPACE!

Commander Richard Richards drinks coffee on the Space Shuttle Discovery's during STS-64, 1994. NARA ID 22837732

Glorious, glorious beans!

Coffee drying in concrete patio is turned at intervals to expose all beans to the sun. Finca Chocola. Guatemala. Mitchell. 13-17-45

Coffee at the North Pole?

Original caption: This image depicts Coast Guardsmen on a trawler in the Arctic enjoying a cup of coffee.

[todaysdocument]

Puerto Rico

Want to search National Archives holdings? Use our online catalog!

Here's a search for "puerto rico."

You might want to narrow your search by selecting filters in the sidebar. For instance, choose "Available to access online" if you're looking for things that are already online.

You can also narrow your search by type of materials, such as photos, maps, sound recordings, or other formats.

So if we narrow our search results by "Available to access online" and "Photographs and other Graphic Materials" we get this!

[petsincollections]

Painted Turtles

The creator compiled or maintained the parent series, Photographs from the National Digital Library, between ca. 1998–2011.

National Archives Catalog

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Milestone Monday

Untitled, 1939

Self-Obliteration No. 1 and No. 2, 1962-67

A Pumpkin, 1999

Women of Shangri-La (Infinity Nets), 2002

Women Wishing for Peace, 2004

Yayoi-chan & Toko-ton, 2013

I'm Here, but Nothing, 2000/2018

My Heart with Many Worries, 2013

Tomb of Downfall, and my Spiritual Poverty Dominates my Entire Body, 2017

January 22nd is National Polka Dot Day and to celebrate we’re sharing artwork from the Queen of Polka Dots, Yayoi Kusama (b. 1929)! Kusama’s first recorded use of polka dots dates back to around age ten when she covered a drawn portrait of her mother in a field of frantic dots. More than a stylistic choice, Kusama has since shared the use of polka dots reflects the “infinity nets” present in the visual hallucinations she often experiences in relation to her mental illness. Incorporating them into her art became a way for Kusama to share and coexist with the fears prevalent in her life.  

Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love, published by Thames & Hudson in 2019, is an intimate overview of Kusama’s life and career documenting the artist’s retrospective exhibition of the same name that was on view at the Matsumoto City Museum of Art in 2018. One of the many exhibition catalogs held within Special Collections, Yayoi Kusama: All About My Love offers nearly 200 color reproductions of Kusama’s work accompanied by numerous photographs of the artist, archival paraphernalia, poetry, interviews and her exhibitions throughout her long career.  

Read other Milestone Monday posts here! 

– Jenna, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

[littlefeather-wolf]

1943 ... CODE TALKERS ✊🏼

Cpl. Henry Bake, Jr., and Pfc. George H. Kirk, Navajos serving in December 1943 with a Marine Corps signal unit, operate a portable radio set in a clearing that they have hacked in the dense jungle close behind the front lines ...

View in National Archives Catalog