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ourpresidents: Treaty of Peace Between the Arab Republic of...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:05:50 -0400

Treaty of Peace Between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel

On March 26, 1979, on the North Grounds of the White House, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, U.S. President Jimmy Carter, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin joined hands after the signing of the “Treaty of Peace Between the Arab Republic of Egypt and the State of Israel.”

This is among the most requested photographs in the holdings of the Carter Library.

More- The Camp David Accords

usnatarchives: Just 6 more days until the 1940 Census! This was...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:05:18 -0400

Grandmother and sick baby

Destitute pea pickers

Couple from Oklahoma

usnatarchives:

Just 6 more days until the 1940 Census!

This was the first time that census takers asked a random sample of the population (about 1 in 20 people) additional detailed questions. These included new questions for women. For women who had been married, they were asked: whether they had been married more than once, age at first marriage, and number of children born.

The photos above were taken by Dorothea Lange for the Farm Security Administration:

“On Arizona Highway 87, south of Chandler, Arizona. Grandmother and sick baby of migratory family camped in a trailer in an open field. They came from Amarillo, Texas, to pick cotton in Arizona. 11/1940”

“Destitute pea pickers in California. Mother of seven children, ca. 02/1936”

“Kern County, California. A couple from Oklahoma, now resettled in California. They came four years ago. Photograph is in large-scale potato field where husband is crew foreman and oldest son operates the mechanical digger. They own their home in Shafter, 04/11/1940”

todaysdocument: “I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:03:00 -0400

todaysdocument:

“I shall not seek, and I will not accept, the nomination of my party for another term as your President.”

On March 31, 1968, President Lyndon B. Johnson spoke to the nation about the situation in Vietnam and concluded with his decision not to seek re-election.

Read the entire address at the Lyndon B. Johnson Library and Museum »

ourpresidents: Martin Luther King, Jr. sent this request for...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 15:00:17 -0400

ourpresidents:

Martin Luther King, Jr. sent this request for donations to President Eisenhower on behalf of CORE, the Congress for Racial Equality. CORE worked towards school integration in the face of sometimes violent resistance.

-from the Eisenhower Library

todaysdocument: San Francisco, California. The family unit in...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:59:17 -0400

todaysdocument:

San Francisco, California. The family unit in kept intact in various phases of evacuation of persons of Japanese ancestry. …A view at Wartime Civil Control Administration station, 2020 Van Ness Avenue, on April 6, 1942, when first group of 664 was evacuated from San Francisco. The family unit likewise is preserved in War Relocation Authority centers where evacuees will spend the duration.

This photo of Japanese-American evacuees was taken by Dorothea Lange on April 6, 1942. Professional photographers such as Lange were commissioned by the WRA to document the daily life and treatment of Japanese-Americans during World War II.

todaysdocument: My Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being...

Fri, 06 Apr 2012 14:58:52 -0400

todaysdocument:

My Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being [burned]. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, with 45 pound 90mm recoiless rifle. 04/05/1968

Army Specialist Fourth Class Dennis Kurpius, photographer