Edwin Prescott’s Roller Coaster, patented August 16, 1898.
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office
Image description: Drawing of a roller coaster, showing a single car at the start of the track, which includes a high hill and a loop-de-loop.
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Label for Bluebird Phonograph Records, first published 8/16/1937.
Series: Case Files for Registered Product Labels , 1874 - 1940
Record Group 241: Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, 1836 - 1978
Image description: Circular label for the center of a phonograph record, black with gold “BLUEBIRD” and bird flying across a music staff. The record is “Have You Got Any Castles, Baby?” from the Warner Brothers film “Varsity Show.”
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Children at play near housing for Black coal miners, McDowell County, West Virginia, 8/16/1946
Series: Photographs of the Medical Survey of the Bituminous Coal Industry, 1946 - 1947
Record Group 245: Records of the Solid Fuels Administration for War, 1937 - 1948
Image description: A view of several houses along a paved, curved road. The houses have large porches and open windows. Near one house, a woman carries a small child. Other children sit on the street curb or stairs, or play in the empty street with rubber balls.
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U.S. Shipping Board Records in the White House Garage
From the series “Photographic Prints of Storage Conditions of U.S. Government Records Before Accession to the National Archives,” photo taken 8/16/1935.
i.e., how not to store records.
Record Group 64: Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1789 - ca. 2007
Image Description: Records in disarray, including: open wooden boxes with papers in them; filing cabinet drawers removed from the cabinet and stacked on top of each other; bound volumes lying directly on a dirty concrete floor.
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“‘Victory Boys’ Sending a Message,” 8/16/1943
Series: Photographic Albums of Prints of Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, 9/1942 - 12/1945. Record Group 336: Records of the Office of the Chief of Transportation, 1917 - 1966.
Original caption: “The Victory Boys from Camp Patrick Henry [spelling out "Victory in '43” on their shaved heads]. Official Photograph U.S. Army Signal Corps, Hampton Roads Port of Embarkation, Newport News Virginia.“
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“Newsmap” - Volume 2, Number 17. 8/16/1943
Series: Issues of the World War II Era “Newsmap” Publication , ca. 1942 - ca. 1998. Record Group 26: Records of the U.S. Coast Guard, 1785 - 2005.
This U.S. War Department “Newsmap” was distributed to military personnel for the week of August 16, 1943. This week’s war news includes detailed information on the Eastern Front.
The reverse shows Japanese aircraft with their code names and information on how to identify them.
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Shore Line of Makin Island, seen through periscope of USS Nautilus. 8/16/1942
Series: General Photographic File of the Department of Navy, 1943 - 1958
Record Group 80: General Records of the Department of the Navy, 1804 - 1983
Periscope photo of the Makin Island shoreline, taken prior to the Makin Island Raid on August 17, 1942.
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“President Truman on the deck of his yacht, the U.S.S. WILLIAMSBURG, preparing to depart Washington for a vacation cruise to Bermuda, 8/16/1946″
Series: Photographs Relating to the Administration, Family, and Personal Life of Harry S. Truman, 1957 - 2004. Collection: Audiovisual Collection, 1957 - 2006
Any summer vacation plans?
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Uncle Sam’s Busy Diplomatic Days, 8/16/1915
From the Scope & Content note: This illustration entitled, “Uncle Sam’s Busy Diplomatic Days”, by cartoonist Clifford Berryman, which appeared in the Washington Evening Star on August 16, 1915, depicts Uncle Sam busy with diplomatic activities with European countries as war continued and German submarine attacks on merchant ships failed to cease.
(The British liner RMS Lusitania had been torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat only 3 months earlier, killing nearly 1200 people, including 128 Americans. )
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Happy Friday!
Here’s President Bush and his grandson Jebbie aboard Marine One on their way to Walker’s Point, Kennebunkport, ME on August 16, 1989.
-from the Bush Library
King Hussein, President Ford, Queen Alia, and Mrs. Ford pause at the base of the Grand Staircase before proceeding to the East Room to receive their guests.
Having attended White House functions before, President Ford felt that this first state dinner “would also give Betty and me an opportunity to put our personal imprint on White House social occasions.” He observed that during the previous administration after dinner entertainment had been formal and the Nixons usually left just after the show. The Fords wanted their dinners to be “more relaxed” and included after-dinner dancing as part of the evening.
R.I.P. Elvis Presley
This photograph of Richard Nixon meeting with Elvis Presley in the Oval Office was taken on December 21, 1970. Elvis died on August 16, 1977.
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