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- Oscar Night in the Pen
In recognition of Oscar Night we present some movie announcements for 1958 and 1959 from the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary inmate magazine, The Island Lantern. The Lantern regularly announced coming attractions.... Inmates could see John Barrymore, Glenn Ford, Bridgitte Bardot, Anthony Quinn and Elizabeth Taylor, among others, in films such as Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and La Parisienne.
RG 129, Records of the Bureau of Prisons, Records of the U.S. Penitentiary, McNeil Island, WA 1881-1981, Island LanternSee More
- A "No-No Boy's" Court Record
Recently a volunteer here at the National Archives-Seattle found thirty sequential McNeil Island Penitentiary intake records for inmates transferred from the Minadoka Internment Camp in 1944. All had been foun...d guilty of violating the Selective Training and Service Act. Sometimes known as "No-No Boys" for their answers to a 1943 federal questionnaire administered to interned Japanese-Americans, these inmates had refused induction into the military. In his criminal court file one of the inmates, George Katsumi Kodama, explains his reasoning for refusing induction.
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- For decades inmates in the McNeil Island Federal Penitentiary published the Island Lantern, a monthly magazine. The cover art typically reflected seasonal themes. Inmates did not forget Valentine's Day and it was the subject of a number of February covers, some of which are shown here.
Source: RG 129, Records of the Bureau of Prisons, Records of the U.S. Penitentiary, McNeill Island, WA 1881-1981, Island Lantern
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- These images were likely the idle drawings of some court clerk or other court employee. Found in the index of judgments, the most prominent doodle features comic strip character Andy Gump, the patriarch of The Gumps, an immensely popular co...mic strip that ran between 1917 and the 1950s, surviving even its original cartoonist and the start of strip syndication. The other personages populating the index appear to be inventions of their artist. Find many interesting characters at the National Archives at Seattle!
Source: RG 21: United States District Court; District of Oregon - Portland; Cross Index to Judgment Rolls #1-14364; Box 1
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- Students do it, teachers do it, and employees in staff meetings do it. We do it while sitting on hold for tech support. It appears that even federal surveyors could not resist the impulse to doodle. Within the correspondence files of the Or...egon Surveyor General was a lone plat map with few contextual documents but with a healthy complement of 1860s doodling, including this unique drawing of the 16th President, “A. Lincon [sic] For President.” Yesterday was the 204th anniversary of Lincoln’s birthday and we celebrate President's Day on Monday. See where your imagination takes you at the National Archives at Seattle!See More
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We are amazed that they got someone to pose in a plastic bra in 1943. But we are also thinking about how uncomfortable that bra must have been!- School Menus, 1903
With the recent attention on the content of school lunch menus we thought you might like to know what was served (or planned to be served) at the Puyallup Indian School in 1903. Coffee every morning must have gotten the students off to a lively start. Maybe it offset the starch intake.
RG 75, Puyallup Indian Agency, Series 6, Box 2, August 1903-March 1905
- Territorial Voices: A Civil War Reader's Theater
Humanities Washington and the National Archives at Seattle invite the public to Territorial Voices: A Civil War Reader’s Theater. As the 150-year anniversary of the Civil War continues, his...torian Lorraine McConaghy has developed an interactive, living theater piece in which the audience reads the words of ordinary settlers, territorial military and administrative leadership. The reading will be preceded by a brief lecture to set context and followed by a conversation about the ideas and themes raised by our communal theater.
When: February 8, 2013, 6:00 PM
Where: National Archives at Seattle, 6125 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle, Free Parking
Cost is free. Limited Seating, please register by email, seattle.archives@nara.gov or call Patty McNamee at 206-336-5115.See More
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