July 4th, 1921 – Petworth

Secretary McAdoo

Treasury Secretary William McAdoo. March 1913. Desmond King’s Separate and Unequal: African Americans and the U.S. Federal Government (2007) describes Secretary McAdoo’s role in the Wilson administration’s policy of racial segregation, a policy that would dominate Treasury and other government agencies for the next half-century.

Wilson’s Cabinet

President Wilson’s cabinet, 1916. Library of Congress.

Nelson and Proxmire

Wisconsin Senators Nelson (1963-1981) and Proxmire (1957-1989)

Dorothy Day

1973

National Park Service seasonal rangers, Grand Canyon National Park. 1940.

Women of the La Guardia Administration

Women of the La Guardia Administration.A reception honoring the women of the La Guardia municipal administration held at the Hotel Brevoort in Greenwich Village, 1937. Wagner and La Guardia Archives.

Congressman Karl Steffan, Nebraska, Member of House Appropriations Committee, with Col. Carter Burgess, Deputy Executive Secretary, studies the Committee Control Chart at the 1945 U.N. Charter Meetings in San Francisco. UN Photo/McLain. www.unmultimedia.org/photo/

Happy Halloween

October 31, 1963 – US National Archives