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Image description: A child touches the name of someone who died on September 11, 2011. The name is part of the memorial at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Find a name on the memorial.
Photo by Jin Lee. View more of Lee’s photos of touching moments at the memorial.

Image description: A child touches the name of someone who died on September 11, 2011. The name is part of the memorial at the National September 11 Memorial and Museum. Find a name on the memorial.

Photo by Jin Lee. View more of Lee’s photos of touching moments at the memorial.

Image description: The Archivist of the United States recently posted this story about patents that you may not know:

You may think that the National Archives is an unlikely place to learn the secrets of Michael Jackson’s dance moves — but you’re wrong!
Within Record Group 241, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, patent 5,255,452 gives us the secrets behind one move in particular — Michael’s “lean” as done in the music video, “Smooth Criminal.”

Learn more about Michael Jackson’s patent for “method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion.”

Image description: The Archivist of the United States recently posted this story about patents that you may not know:

You may think that the National Archives is an unlikely place to learn the secrets of Michael Jackson’s dance moves — but you’re wrong!

Within Record Group 241, Records of the Patent and Trademark Office, patent 5,255,452 gives us the secrets behind one move in particular — Michael’s “lean” as done in the music video, “Smooth Criminal.”

Learn more about Michael Jackson’s patent for “method and means for creating anti-gravity illusion.”

Fred Ott’s Sneeze

Video description

The earliest surviving copyrighted motion picture, the Edison Kinetoscopic Record of a Sneeze, is a short film made by W. K. L. Dickson in January 1894 for advertising purposes. Often referred to as “Fred Ott’s Sneeze,” this is is one of the world’s earliest motion pictures and America’s best known early film production.

The star is Fred Ott, an Edison employee known to his fellow workers in the laboratory for his comic sneezing and other gags. This item was received in the Library of Congress on January 9, 1894, as a copyright deposit from Dickson.

Image description: Political party conventions happen every four years. This photo is from the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. The delegates are wearing Jimmy Carter smile masks.
View more images from political conventions, including illustrations from the humor and satire magazine Puck.
Photo by Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Image description: Political party conventions happen every four years. This photo is from the 1976 Democratic National Convention in New York City. The delegates are wearing Jimmy Carter smile masks.

View more images from political conventions, including illustrations from the humor and satire magazine Puck.

Photo by Warren K. Leffler, U.S. News & World Report, from the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

Image description: Happy Birthday Hawaii! The Presidential Libraries shares this about Hawaii’s history:

On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state to join the United States of America. Hawaii’s journey to becoming a state had started five months prior when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act on March 18, 1959.
This cover is from a brochure compiled by the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii that outlines student support for Hawaiian statehood. It features reasons for statehood from students, staff, and a number of American public figures. It was included as part of a statehood petition sent by University of Hawaii students to Representative Hugh Peterson (D-GA), then chairman of the House Committee on Territories.
The brochure is titled “Hawaii: 49th State” because Alaska had not yet entered the union.
RG 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives
-From the Eisenhower Library

Image description: Happy Birthday Hawaii! The Presidential Libraries shares this about Hawaii’s history:

On August 21, 1959, Hawaii became the 50th state to join the United States of America. Hawaii’s journey to becoming a state had started five months prior when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Hawaii Admission Act on March 18, 1959.

This cover is from a brochure compiled by the Associated Students of the University of Hawaii that outlines student support for Hawaiian statehood. It features reasons for statehood from students, staff, and a number of American public figures. It was included as part of a statehood petition sent by University of Hawaii students to Representative Hugh Peterson (D-GA), then chairman of the House Committee on Territories.

The brochure is titled “Hawaii: 49th State” because Alaska had not yet entered the union.

RG 233, Records of the U.S. House of Representatives

-From the Eisenhower Library