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  • Old Series Trademark No. 0573

    The Chief

    Date: 1880

  • McCarthy Album 11, Photograph 272

    Caption: "General Motors Building, Chicago Fair. Sept. 17, 1934." Grace McCarthy stands at a railing with the General Motors Building in the background. The building was part of the Century of Progress Exposition, a world fair attended by thirty-nine million people, celebrated Chicago's one-hundred year anniversary of incorporation. Originally planned to only run from May to November in 1933, it was such a success that its organizers decided to keep it running for a second season from May through October the following year. The central theme of the Exposition was technological innovation, with a motto of "Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms." None of the buildings constructed for the fair are still extant today, having been built as temporary facilities.

    Date: 9/17/1934

  • Correspondence on Absentee Voting

    Correspondence from Earl Warren (by Chas. W. Johnson) to Roger Walch regarding the right of incarcerated Japanese-Americans to vote with absentee ballots

    Date: August 11, 1942

  • "Proposal for the Continued Collegiate Training of Citizens of Japanese Ancestry Forced by Evacuation Orders to Interrupt Studies"

    Report on plan to accommodate Japanese college and university students during incarceration; Sections: The General Problem; Methods of Meeting the Problem; Suggested Procedures

    Date: Undated

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3622

    Malt-Oats Breakfast Food

    Date: 1900

  • Rosa Parks at the White House after receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom

    This item has no description.

    Date: 1996

  • Old Series Trademark No. 3621

    Malt-Wheat Pancake Flour

    Date: 1900

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 100

    Caption: "Rescue of Life Raft from Wrecked Steamer Valencia." Photograph showing a boat crew about to rescue 18 people on a life raft. On Monday, January 22, 1906, the passenger liner Valencia ran aground on a reef during a storm off the southwestern coast of Vancouver Island (an area notorious for ship wrecks). Although the shore was only about fifty yards away, heavy seas and rock cliffs prevented the passengers and crew from making their way safely to land. Circumstances prevented rescue vessels from coming to the stricken ship's aid until Wednesday January 24th. The steamship City of Topeka rescued 18 men on a life raft, shown in this photograph. The official death toll was 136: seven officers, 33 crewmen, and 96 passengers (including seventeen women and eleven children -- all of the women and children on board perished). Only 37 people survived the wreck.

    Date: 1/24/1906

  • McCarthy Album 08, Photograph 266

    Caption: "The Arrival of the Atlantic Fleet at the Golden Gate -- May 6, 1908. San Francisco, California." and "Copyright 1908, Chas. Weidner, S.F." This photograph, by Charles Weidner, shows the U.S. Navy's Atlantic Fleet, consisting of sixteen battle cruisers and various support vessels, steaming toward the Golden Gate and San Francisco Bay. President Theodore Roosevelt ordered the Atlantic Fleet (later called the "Great White Fleet" because the ships were painted white with gold trim) on a tour around the world, beginning in December 1907, to show American goodwill and also demonstrate the power of the U.S. Navy. The Fleet reached the Golden Gate, entrance to San Francisco Bay, on May 6, 1908.

    Date: 5/6/1908

  • Old Series Trademark No. 1691

    Electric Paint

    Date: 1889