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Interesting documents from the U.S. National Archives. Not an official account. I do not represent the National Archives. But I do take requests.
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cw: Nazis The National Archives has recently digitized and published Nazi Party membership files, making some very interesting research much easier!
dehypotheses@dehypotheses.bsky.social · 5mo agoNeu im #Slider : Martin Clemens Winter zeigt im Forschungsprojekt zur Hugo Schneider AG das Potenzial der kürzlich online gestellten #NSDAP-Mitgliederkartei der National Archives (USA). Sein Blogbeitrag wurde zum Ausgangspunkt einer breiten Medienberichterstattung. hasagpuzzle.hypothes...
"[U]nidentified actors . . . during the play "Julius Caesar" presented in the Rotunda of the Missouri State Capitol Building, Jefferson City, Missouri, November 15 and 16, 1958." catalog.archives.gov/id/348293532
![midcentury poster showing a man seated with his head in his hand, and "THAT TIRED FEELING" across the front. "Rx REGULAR REST and SLEEP / GOOD FOOD [dot] RECREATION"](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mk7mq3uc4mcpukjxyd3rkzrv/bafkreiait2bcx5lcrte4qfxyo6bguxnhhki62v5mqwjzoomb3fz5ijcuvy)
Microscopic view of wood, from the Forest Service. I just think it's pretty. catalog.archives.gov/id/7059691
Drinking from the scuttle butt on the USS Charleston, April 4, 1906. catalog.archives.gov/id/6880361
The Archivist's Code: "The archivist has a moral obligation to society to preserve evidence on how things actually happened and to take every measure for the physical preservation of valuable records." catalog.archives.gov/id/3493260
![The Archivist's Code
The archivist has a moral obligation to society to preserve evidence on
how things actually happened and to take every measure for the physical preservation of valuable records. On the other hand, he has an obligation not to commit funds to the housing and care of records that have no significant or lasting value.
The archivist must realize that in selecting records for retention or disposal he acts as the agent of the future in determining its heritage from the past. Therefore, insofar as his intellectual attainments, experience, and judgment permit, he must be ever conscious of the future's needs, making his
decisions impartially without taint of ideological, political, or personal bias.
The archivist must be watchful in protecting the integrity of records in his custody. He must guard them against defacement, alteration, or theft, he must protect them against physical damage by fire or excessive
exposure to light, damp, and dryness; and he must take care to see that their evidentiary value is not impaired in the normal course of rehabilitation, arrangement, and use.
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Specialist Fifth Class Dwight Johnson receives the Medal of Honor for his actions during the Vietnam War, 11/19/1968 catalog.archives.gov/id/192526
Two of the Pointer Sisters perform in a USO show on the USS San Jose during Operation Desert Shield, on 12/1/1990. catalog.archives.gov/id/6468525
A man mines phosphate, somewhere in the Tennessee River Valley. 10/1/1934. catalog.archives.gov/id/214436946
Pompey Factor, one of the Black Seminole Scouts, had trouble verifying his service so he could receive his military pension. His lawyer resorted to sending in Factor's Medal of Honor as proof. catalog.archives.gov/id/75298117
![May 24, 1926
[ . . .]
Dear Sir:
I have a letter before me addressed to Pompey Facton, from the Bureau of Pensions of date April 22nd, last, advising that his claim for pension as survivor of the Indian Wars in rejected on the grounds that "No new elements has been brought into the case."
Factor-Facton a he is known by in the Army came to me some time in March, last, and requested that I file his application for pension, stating to me that he had never filed before and therefore, I knew nothing of his claim having been previously rejected.
This old gentleman is an illiterate and has no recollection of dates of any information that would assist in the prosecution of his claim, and has to depend on his friends who served in the Scouts with him to assist him with this information. Parties that know him state that he was in the service during the years 1874-75, and that he did fight Indians during that period. He has a medal of Honor that ws awarded him, he states, for saving the life of then Liet. Bullis his Commander from an attack of Indians at a place known as Painted Cave on Devils' River (Texas), and which he thinks happened in the year of 1875. He states that Lt. Bullis, John Ward, Isaac Payne and himself, while enroute to some village, the name of which I do not recall, were overtaken by a band of Indians at the place called Painted Cave, that the Indians were in great numbers, and I believe during the fight the horse of Lt. Bullis was killed. That the Indians were about to surround them and that John Ward taken Lt. Bullis off with him of his (sic)Ward's horse, while Payne and Factor fought off the Indians, and that in this way they escaped. This medal the old gentleman guarded all these years and would not part with it for anything, but he has consented that I send it to you in hope that it may be of help in the prosecution of his claim. The old man is now feeble, in need and deserving, and if his story as relate to me is](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mk7mq3uc4mcpukjxyd3rkzrv/bafkreiez53ctmsw5btowyoimwfkfxzibtykqdlv4xfmoyo55h2aydybitm)
![true, which I have reasons to believe is true, for the two witnesses to his application for pension, related to me that they had occasion to stop at the place where this fight with the Indians occured(sic) and looked over the grounds shortly after the fight, and that it was during the yer 1875, I cannot see why he is not entitled to a pension.
I have prepared affidavits for him signed by the two witnesses to his petition for pension, which affidavits are now on file in the Bureau of Pensions, to the effect that Pompey Factor and Pompey Facton is one and the same person, and the same party who now holds this medal, and why and when the medal was awarded to him. Should you find that anything can be done in this case, and should need other affidavits I think that we can procure them for parties here that served with Facton at that time.. We are unable to furnish affidavits by any of the parties that were with Facton in this fight with Indians a he is the only survivor, the other three named having died.
I am mailing you the medal under separate cover, and enclosing you herewith return postage, and will ask that after you have completed your investigation that you return same to me, as I have assumed the responsibility of returning the medal safely to this old gentleman.
Thanking you for any information concerning this claim, I am,
Yours very truly,
(Signature) Carl Kartes
(Handwritten note)
[6/5/06] Returned bronze medal inscribed " The Congress to Priv. Pompey Facton Indian [Scout]"
Carl Kartes (3 initials, cannot read)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:mk7mq3uc4mcpukjxyd3rkzrv/bafkreidygmj655j4ieqtwlbiso6g4bo5nbfg54jws34ca6ayctof4h26u4)
"Portrait of Ronald "Ron" Guy, White House Executive Butler," 11/14/2001 catalog.archives.gov/id/7431198
"--- no person in the public service is for that reason under any obligations to contribute to any political fund, or to render any political service, and --- he will not be removed or otherwise prejudiced for refusing to do so." catalog.archives.gov/id/6267052
Employee Appreciation photo, 6/6/2014, at NARA's National Personnel Records Center (Civilian) at Valmeyer, Illinois. catalog.archives.gov/id/301693359
About 3 percent of the National Archives' textual holdings are online. www.archives.gov/findingaid/r...
Creek Freedmen* outside their home in 1900. *People of African descent who were formerly enslaved by citizens of the Muscogee Creek Nation. Also their descendents, obvs this baby was not enslaved <1866 but it is very hard to explain all the history in one tweet catalog.archives.gov/id/516396
A tenant farmer in Putnam County, Georgia, plows a cornfield in 1941. catalog.archives.gov/id/521339
Men of the Triple Nickles (555th Parachute Infantry Battalion, the first Black parachute infantry battalion) fight a fire caused by a Japanese incendiary bomb in Umatilla National Forest in 1945. catalog.archives.gov/id/148728140
A wartime wedding in the European Theater. Pfc. Florence Collins and Cpl. William Johnson were married on 8/19/1945. catalog.archives.gov/id/531314
"While awaiting assignment after arriving in Australia, first [Black] nurses to reach these shores try bicycle riding near their quarters in Camp Columbia, Wacol, Brisbane." 11/29/1943. catalog.archives.gov/id/178140880
The National Archives' National Personnel Records Center at St. Louis receives and processes over 4,000 requests for veterans' records per day. catalog.archives.gov/id/184341469
