Walt Whitman, ca. 1860-ca. 1865 (111-B-2245). Song of My Beard (with apologies to the original Whitman poem!) 1. I celebrate my beard, and sing my beard, And what I grow you shall grow For every follicle belonging to me as good as belongs to you. I loafe and stroke my beard I lean and stroke … Continue reading Facial Hair Friday: Sounding the bearded YAWP
Month: July 2010
Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Fact: this photo is actually from a post-apocalyptic future, and that's actually the Washington Monument, fenced to protect the only known remains of a land once known as "the District" ... strange that the future looks like rural Texas in … Continue reading Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
Navigation, devastation, exploration
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. The Summer 2010 issue of Prologue has just hit the shelves, and YouTube. While our award-winning magazine is packed with Ponzi schemes, prison themes, and polar dreams, we've added something extra for our online readers: the silver screen. Our hardworking … Continue reading Navigation, devastation, exploration
Match your photos with ours
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. If you've ever been to Washington, DC, we have a challenge for you! We've found pictures of some of the famous monuments and buildings in the District, and we'd love to compare our old photos with some of your own. … Continue reading Match your photos with ours
FR 2.0, now in English
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. What is the Archivist's favorite thing about the Federal Register's new website? "Its translation into English, into words that make sense. I think that's the biggest contribution," Archivist Ferriero explains in a video detailing the history of the Federal Register. … Continue reading FR 2.0, now in English
Hottest Beard on Record
It's Facial Hair Friday, and it's been a scorching week in Washington, DC, at the National Archives. It's going to reach 100 degrees today. So what can you do to cool off? Perhaps you should gaze upon the fulsome beard of General David A. Russell of the Union Army. Do you have such a long, rippling … Continue reading Hottest Beard on Record
Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. Ladies and Gentlemen, you have astounded your judge with your caption compositions. Words and phrases like "historical sub-context" and "ingenuity" were used. Also used was the word "shibboleth," which I had to look up. For the uninitiated, it refers to … Continue reading Thursday’s Photo Caption Contest
Top 10 National Archives Web Sites
Today's post comes from National Archives Office of Strategy and Communications staff writer Rob Crotty. The National Archives is a behemoth of information. There are 10 billion or so pages of documents and hundreds of thousands of reels of motion picture footage, all spread out among regional archives, Presidential libraries, and Federal Records Centers to … Continue reading Top 10 National Archives Web Sites
How the Boy Scouts won World War II
This year is the big centennial of the Boy Scouts of America. Thousands of young Scouts will gather together next week at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia to celebrate 100 years of scouting. Sixty years ago, Boy Scouts were swarming the towns and cities of North America. But they weren't camping or earning badges. They … Continue reading How the Boy Scouts won World War II
Facial Hair Friday: Daring escapes from Nazi prisons!
In honor of Bastille Day earlier this week, we present a French "moustache." This moustache decorates the face of General Giraud, here seen out walking in the gardens of the cliffside fortress Konigstein, where he was held as a POW by the Germans. He was captured in May of 1940 and escaped two years later. … Continue reading Facial Hair Friday: Daring escapes from Nazi prisons!