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This archive preserves and makes permanently accessible exclusively digital government information presented in official U.S. Federal agency Web sites. Iterations of sites are captured periodically to reflect Federal government sites' evolution, and to enable users to access publications and information that are no longer accessible from the sites' current versions.
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Panama-Pacific International Exposition: Opening day celebrations / crowds at the entrances / pan of Exposition proper / parades on Market Street and Van Ness Avenue / Tower of Jewels / Fountain of Energy / other buildings / day for night shots / submarines / Fun Zone at night / nighttime illumination of buildings showing use of fog machines and special lights / Uncle Sam's submarines. No audio. (13 minutes)
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The complete Abraham Lincoln Papers at the Library of Congress consists of approximately 20,000 documents. The collection is organized into series which include incoming and outgoing correspondence and enclosures, drafts of speeches, and notes and printed material. Most of the 20,000 items are from the 1850s through Lincoln's presidential years, 1860-65. In its online presentation, the Abraham Lincoln Papers comprises approximately 61,000 images and...
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Digital Collections Website offers papers of Alexander Hamilton (ca. 1757-1804), first treasury secretary of the United States. The Collection consists of his personal and public correspondence, drafts of his writings and speeches, which includes events in the lives of his family and legal papers from 1777 until Hamilton's death in 1804.
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Consists of approximately 12,000 items housed in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division, captured in some 72,000 digital images, including correspondence, personal notes, drafts of letters and legislation, an autobiography, legal and financial documents, and miscellaneous manuscripts. Highlights include a copy of Thomas Jefferson's notes from the Continental Congress of 1776, including Jefferson's copy of the Declaration of Independence as amended...
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While Civil Rights leaders agreed that the oppression of African Americans was unjust, they did not always agree on the methods that should be used to reverse that injustice. Martin Luther King Jr. founded the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) with the intention of leading a peaceful revolt, but Malcolm X, who belonged to the Nation of Islam, criticized King's philosophy of nonviolent resistance, arguing that it would be unable to produce...
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The task of successfully sending human beings into space orbit presented a series of challenges. Scientists at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) developed a series of tests for rats, chimpanzees, and other animals to determine what effect space flight might have on the human body. Copyright The WPA Film Library.
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In 1954, Vietnamese emperor Bao Dai appointed pro-Catholic Ngo Dinh Diem as prime minister; Diem became president of South Vietnam the following year. The U.S. government was at first supportive of the anticommunist Diem, but Diem's repressive policies toward the Buddhist majority of South Vietnam eventually caused the United States to withdraw its support. Diem was assassinated by rebels on November 1, 1963. Copyright The WPA Film Library.