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#AceHistoryDesk – Today in History – Florence Mabel Kling DeWolfe Harding, First Lady during the Warren G. Harding administration (1921-23), was born on August 15, 1860. An outspoken supporter of woman suffrage, Mrs. Harding cast her ballot in the presidential campaign of 1920 for her husband. She was the first American First Lady afforded that right, as the Nineteenth Amendment had been ratified the previous summer.

I owe allegiance to only one boss—and she sits right over there in that box. She’s a mighty good one too.

Warren G. Harding, campaign speech, 1910; quoted in Lewis L. Gould, ed., American First Ladies. (New York: Garland, 1996), 373.none

The eldest child of a prosperous Marion, Ohio, capitalist, Florence Kling learned about business from her father. When Warren Harding suffered a lengthy illness a year after their 1891 marriage, she put these skills to work by taking over his duties as owner/operator of the Marion Daily Star. When he recovered, she remained as business and circulation manager. “I went down there intending to help out for a few days,” she later recalled, “and stayed fourteen years.” Under Mrs. Harding’s skillful administration, the newspaper prospered.

A mother (divorced, with a young son from a first marriage), wife, and business manager, Florence Harding was one of the first women to bring a professional identity to the role of First Lady. In 1914, Warren Harding entered the U.S. Senate race at her urging. When Harding was nominated as the Republican candidate for president in 1920, “The Duchess,” as he referred to his wife, campaigned enthusiastically for his election. “I have only one real hobby—my husband,” said Mrs. Harding. President Harding openly acknowledged the importance of his wife to his political success.

During President Woodrow Wilson’s illness the White House had been closed to the public. Mrs. Harding reopened the house and gardens and presided over a crowded social calendar, graciously performing her ceremonial duties as First Lady. She talked freely, though not for quotation, with reporters and initiated the practice of providing “photo opportunities” to the White House press corps. The Hardings gave lavish garden parties to aid World War I veterans and were the first presidential couple to regularly show films after dinner to their White House guests. In her personal style and enthusiasm for automobiles and airplane adventures, Florence Kling Harding embodied the exuberant spirit of the 1920s. She also made the welfare of wounded and hospitalized veterans her personal cause, getting to know many of the patients at Walter Reed Army Hospital by name, encouraging individual veterans to contact her about problems with their care, and becoming directly involved in the affairs of the Veterans Bureau.

Florence Harding continued to exercise powerful political influence over her husband during his presidency. “He does well when he listens to me and poorly when he does not,” she once confided to a White House staffer. When President Harding died suddenly in San Francisco on August 2, 1923, the scandals that ruined his administration were beginning to break; the discovery of corruption in the Veterans Bureau was particularly upsetting to the First Lady. Mrs. Harding accompanied her husband’s body back across country by train while Vice President Calvin Coolidge assumed the presidency. Long plagued by repeated bouts of kidney disease, Florence Kling Harding passed away on November 21, 1924.

John Carroll: First Bishop of Baltimore: On August 15, 1790, John Carroll became the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Church in the United States.

The son of a wealthy Catholic merchant, Carroll was born in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, in 1736¹ and had significant Revolutionary connections. His cousin, Charles Carroll, was one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence; his brother, Daniel Carroll, signed the Articles of Confederation and the United States Constitution.

Wherefore it having reached our ears that in the flourishing commonwealth of the Thirteen American States many faithful Christians united in communion with the chair of Peter, in which the centre of Catholic unity is fixed…earnestly desire that a Bishop may be appointed over them…We willingly embraced this opportunity which the grace of Almighty God has afforded us to provide those distant regions with the comfort and ministry of a Catholic Bishop.

A Short Account of the Establishment of the New See of Baltimore in Maryland…. Charles Plowden; London: J.P. Coghlan, 1790. p12-13. The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600 to 1925none

Archbishop John Carroll. Gilbert Stuart, artist. Reproduced in Social Life in the Early Republic. By Anne Hollingsworth Wharton; Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott, 1902. After p84. The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, ca. 1600 to 1925

After receiving a Jesuit education at the Bohemia Academy in Cecil County, Maryland, Carroll studied abroad at the English-language Jesuit College of St. Omer in Flanders. He was ordained a Jesuit priest in 1761 and remained in Europe teaching philosophy and theology. When Pope Clement XIV dissolved the Jesuit order in 1773, Carroll returned to Maryland, serving local Catholics from a chapel built on his family’s estate at Rock Creek, near present-day Forest Glen. In 1776, he took part in a diplomatic mission to Canada on behalf of the Continental Congress. Though the effort failed to win over Canada to the American cause, Carroll gained the friendship of Benjamin Franklin, who was important to his later success.

In June 1783, a small group of priests called together by Carroll met at the chapel at White Marsh (now known as Sacred Heart Church) in Bowie, Maryland, to discuss how the Catholic Church in the new United States would be governed and its property managed. The group drew up a constitution and petitioned Rome to appoint John Lewis, former superior of the Jesuits in Maryland, as the superior of the American missions. However, and in part through the influence of then-U.S. minister to France Benjamin Franklin, the Vatican appointed John Carroll instead.

In 1784, John Carroll authored An address to the Roman Catholics of the United States of America. By a Catholic Clergyman. Carroll and his fellow priests were, after the American Revolution, concerned that the Catholic Church be accepted by Americans, who were primarily Protestant and had a history of distrusting Catholic allegiance to the Pope. During further meetings at White Marsh, the need emerged for the appointment of an American bishop—one who was, in the spirit of the new nation, elected in a democratic fashion by American priests. In a petition dated March 12, 1788, priests John Carroll, Robert Molyneux, and John Ashton asked that an American diocese be created and that the selection of bishop be left to its clergy. The petition was granted and on May 18, 1789, John Carroll was elected by twenty-four out of twenty-six possible votes. Baltimorewas selected as the seat of the American Catholic Church, where St. Mary’s Seminary was soon established. It was during these years that an academy (later college) at Georgetown was founded as well.

Carroll traveled to England where he was consecrated a bishop at Lulworth Castle, England, home of his good friend Thomas Weld. Bishop Carroll returned to Baltimore on December 7, 1790, where he took up residence and preached his first sermon at St. Peter’s church, which served as Baltimore’s temporary cathedral until a basilica designed by architect Benjamin Henry Latrobe could be constructed.

John Carroll is considered the architect of the Maryland Catholic tradition, stressing ecumenicalism and civic participation across religious lines. He was elevated to archbishop of Baltimore in 1808, overseeing Catholics in five U.S. dioceses as well as the Danish West Indies. While he had quietly restored the Jesuits to Maryland through an affiliation with the still-extant Russian community, Carroll lived to see the worldwide restoration of the order by Rome in 1814. Archbishop John Carroll died in December 1815, six years before the first permanent U.S. cathedral at Baltimore was consecrated.

1. With the intention of more accurately reflecting a solar year, Britain and its colonies replaced the Julian (Old Style) calendar with the Gregorian calendar in 1752, adjusting all dates forward by eleven days. At the same time, New Year’s Day was moved from March 25 to January 1. John Carroll’s January 8, 1735, birth date therefore became the New Style date of January 19, 1736. (Return to text)

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• The Capital and the Bay: Narratives of Washington and the Chesapeake Bay Region, 1600 to 1925 contains more information about John Carroll and the beginnings of the Catholic Church in America. A search of Catholic will find many references to Catholics in the Chesapeake region. Search Carroll to find members of the Carroll family, or refine your search to John Carroll or Daniel Carroll. Other well-known Catholic families from the Chesapeake region include Calvert, Claggett, Digges, Simms, Brent, Fenwick, and Neale, though many members of these prominent families were Anglican or Episcopalian as well. Search on these terms as well as the names of other religious faiths to learn about religion in the Chesapeake region. Learn more about religious archives throughout the state of Maryland.
• Upper Marlboro, Maryland, was also the birthplace of Thomas John Claggett, the first Episcopalian Bishop in the United States. Search Upper Marlboro MD in Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Surveyto find images of the church Claggett founded, Trinity Episcopal Church, as well as other architectural structures in the Upper Marlboro area.
• Designed by Benjamin Henry Latrobe and consecrated in 1821, the Baltimore Basilica has become a city landmark. Read about its architectural history in an Historic American Buildings Survey entryand see an early measured drawing by architect Charles Bullfinch. View additional color architectural photographs of the bascilica in the Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive. Search the Highsmith archive on Baltimore, Maryland, church, and basilica to find related houses of worship.
• For a broad introduction to the role that religion played in the founding of the American colonies, visit the online exhibition Religion and the Founding of the American Republic. Highlighted are more than two hundred objects including early American books, manuscripts, letters, prints, paintings, artifacts, and music. Scroll to the middle of the America as a Religious Refuge section to find a richly illustrated history of Roman Catholics in Maryland.
• Read additional Today in History features to learn more about Maryland’s history, including entries on Maryland Day, Cardinal James Gibbons, Reverdy Johnson, and Johns Hopkins. Search Today in History on Maryland for even more entries.

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#AceHistoryDesk – Today in History – On August 13, 1942, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin drafted a memorandum to British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt opposing their decision not to invade Western Europe at that time.

In the memo, Stalin, whose beleaguered Russian army had been contending with a German invasion for over a year, impressed upon the Americans and the British the necessity of relieving the pressure on Russia’s western front. Stalin pressed the Allies to open a second front against Hitler in Europe. Concluding that this action would be militarily unsound for them to attempt in 1942, England and the U.S. chose instead to invade North Africa.

The alliance between Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union began to unravel soon after the German threat was vanquished in 1945. Indications of the depth of the tensions between the allies had surfaced in February of that year at the Black Sea resort of Yalta, where Churchill, Stalin, and Roosevelt met to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany.

Also on the agenda was the question of how to deal with the defeated or liberated countries of Eastern Europe. Roosevelt was later criticized for failing to take greater measures at this meeting to prevent Stalin from seizing former German territory in Eastern Europe.

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• View photographs documenting the U.S. domestic experience of World War II. Browse the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives collection, which includes photographs issued by the Office of War Information to rally support for the war effort among the American people.
• Search on World War II, Churchill, Stalin, or Franklin Delano Rooseveltin the pictorial collections to view items such as images, posters, and cartoons, as well as buildings related to war production.
• World War II: A Resource Guide compiles links to World War II-related resources on the Library’s website including historical collections, online exhibitions, Journeys and Crossings presentations, and external websites. See also  Gen. George S. Patton’s diary entries for March 1943.
• Explore the 10th Mountain Division Resource Center available through the Denver Public Library website. The 10th Mountain Division trained in the Colorado Rocky Mountains in order to fight in the mountains of Northern Italy during WWII.
• Visit the Library of Congress online exhibitions Women Come to the Front and For European Recovery: The Fiftieth Anniversary of the Marshall Plan.
• See also Revelations from the Russian Archives, an online exhibit that includes information on the WWII wartime alliance between the Soviet Union and the U.S.
• Search Today in History on World War II to retrieve relevant features including the founding of the USO, the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the Allied invasion at Normandy, and the Japanese surrender of Okinawa.

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#AceHistoryDesk – Today in History – Calvin Coolidge took the presidential oath of office on August 3, 1923, after the unexpected death in office of President Warren Harding. The new president inherited an administration plagued and discredited by corruption scandals.

After all, the chief business of the American people is business.

President Calvin Coolidge, address before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, Washington, D.C., January 17, 1925. Foundations of the Republic (1926), 187.none

In the two remaining years of this term, Coolidge, long recognized for his own frugality and moderation, worked to restore the administration’s image and regain the public’s trust. He went on to win the presidential election of 1924 in his own right.

Coolidge believed that government should interfere as little as possible with business and industry. His administration supported tax reductions for U.S. businesses as well as high protective tariffs in support of U.S. goods—which were being produced in greater quantities than ever before. Technological and managerial innovations, improvements in the methods of production, and growing distribution networks made consumer items more generally available. Many Americans purchased cars and radios, vacuum cleaners, and washing machines—taking advantage of increasingly obtainable consumer credit.

Some groups did not participate fully in the emergent consumer economy, notably both African-American and white farmers as well as immigrants. While one-fifth of the American population made their living on the land, rural poverty was widespread. Despite agricultural overproduction and successive attempts in Congress to provide relief, the agricultural economy of the 1920s experienced an ongoing depression. Large surpluses were accompanied by falling prices at a time when American farmers were burdened by heavy debt. Between 1920 and 1932, one in four farms was sold to meet financial obligations and many farmers migrated to urban areas.

Restrictive immigration laws, aided by a resurgence of nativism in America in the 1920s, contributed to an atmosphere hostile to immigrants. The Emergency Quota Act of 1921 discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. The National Origins Act of 1924 completely excluded Japanese and other Asian immigrants and further reduced those admitted from southern and eastern Europe.Visitin’ ‘Round at Coolidge Corners. Filmed in Plymouth Notch, Vermont. United States: [Pathe?, 1924}. Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929. Motion Picture, Broadcasting & Recorded Sound Division

The economic growth of the 1920s spurred the rise of consumer organizations and campaigns. Some, such as the Truth-in-Advertising Movement, which pursued ethics and self-regulation in advertising, were industry-based. Other campaigns and organizations sought to educate consumers. The Better Homes Movement celebrated home ownership, home maintenance and improvement, and home decoration in towns and cities across the country. The Thrift Movement sought to teach children and citizens how to save and spend wisely. Lastly, there were campaigns such as the Playground Movement which began in response to popular anxieties about material excess, misuse of leisure time, and the loss of traditional values.

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• The collection Prosperity and Thrift: The Coolidge Era and the Consumer Economy, 1921-1929 contains a wide variety of materials related to the Coolidge presidency and the decade’s consumer culture.
• A selection of items from the Calvin Coolidge Papers, which are held by the Library’s Manuscript Division, have been digitized and made accessible online.
• Find digitized materials on the Library’s Web site relating to Coolidge’s life by consulting “Calvin Coolidge: A Resource Guide.”
• American Leaders Speak: Recordings from World War I includes several speeches Coolidge delivered while governor of Massachusetts which reflect his distinctive political philosophy.
• Find photographs and political cartoons relating to President Coolidge by searching on  Calvin Coolidge, in the collections with Photos, Prints, and Drawings.
• Search the Library’s Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers to find newspaper accounts of Coolidge’s early career.

On August 3, 1492, Christopher Columbus set out on his first voyage to what came to be known as the New World. With three ships and a crew of ninety, Columbus hoped to find a western route to the Far East. Instead, the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria landed in the Bahama Islands.Replica of Santa Maria. c1904. Detroit Publishing Company. Prints & Photographs Division

If the winds are favorable the distance is traveled quickly; but no one must start without being sure of the weather, and this assurance can be obtained by observing the sky, and finding out that this is very clear and that the wind comes from the side of the northern star, and blows for some days always in the same direction.

Christopher Columbus to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, February 6, 1502. In The Authentic Letters of Columbus. William Eleroy Curtis [introduction]; (Chicago: Field Columbian Museum, May 1895), I, no. 2:125.none

Columbus set sail in an era of maritime advances, charting his route with the aid of a mariner’s compass, an astrolabe, a cross-staff, and a quadrant. The most popular map for mariners at the time was Ptolemy’s Geographia or Cosmographia, printed in 1482 but originally compiled by the Alexandrian geographer, astronomer, and mathematician Claudius Ptolemy in the second century A.D.Cosmographia. Claudius Ptolemy; translated by Jacopo d’Angelo; edited by Nicolaus Germanus; Ulm, Lienhart Holle, 16 July (XVII Kal. Aug.) 1482. Thacher Collection. Rare Book Selections. Rare Book & Special Collections Division

Early on the morning of October 12, 1492, a crew member spotted land. At daylight, Columbus went ashore and planted the flag of his sponsors, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain, on the Bahamian island of Guanahaní. Columbus eventually created a base of operations for his first and second trips on the island the Europeans called Hispaniola, now the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Columbus’ remains are believed to have been buried in the Cathedral of Santo Domingo in the Dominican Republic following his death in 1506.

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#AceHistoryDesk – Today in History – After its first bid for statehood was vetoed by President Andrew Johnson, Colorado entered the Union on August 1, 1876, the year the United States celebrated its centennial. Thus, the thirty-eighth state is known as the Centennial State.

Among the early inhabitants of the land encompassed by Colorado were the Anasazi cliff dwellers. They were forced by drought and other factors to abandon their Mesa Verde homes in the late 1200s. At the time of European exploration and settlement Colorado’s population was made up of Arapaho, Cheyenne, and Ute peoples. Their territory was explored by the Spanish who, after Napoleon’s conquest of Spain, turned over its title to the French.

The United States acquired the eastern part of Colorado in 1803 through the Louisiana Purchase and the western portion in 1848 through the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. In 1850, the federal government also purchased a Texas claim in Colorado. This combined property eventually became the Colorado Territory in 1861.

The 1858 discovery of gold caused a population influx in Colorado, just as it had in California in 1849. After Horace Greeley notified readers of the New-York Tribune of this news, as many as 5,000 miners per week poured into the territory. By 1900 gold production had reached over $20,000,000 annually at Cripple Creek, one of the world’s richest gold camps.

Colorado proved rich in other minerals as well, and smelting ores to separate gold and other valuable metals became commercially profitable. As late as the 1940s, mountain streams in Ouray County, Colorado, ran yellow because of the tailings from the gold mills, as documented by Farm Security Administration photographer Russell Lee.

Railroad lines with names such as the Denver, Cripple Creek and Southwestern Railroad brought even more travelers and settlers to Colorado. Railroad traveler Sue A. Pike Sanders recorded the following impressions in her journal of an overnight stay in Denver in the summer of 1886:

Denver is a beautiful city of some 75,000 inhabitants, built mostly of stone and brick. It contains the usual amount of fine buildings. One in particular we are lead to observe, and that, Tabor’s Opera House, the largest in the world, excepting one in Paris, France. This building cost $850,000. The County Court House occupies an entire block, with buildings and ground. There are two large smelting works here…

A Journey to, on and from the “Golden Shore,” by Sue A. Sanders. Delavan, Ill.: Times Printing Office, 1887. “California as I Saw It”: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849 to 1900. General Collectionsnone

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• Panoramic Maps includes early maps of a number of Colorado cities. Zoom in on an area of the map to see mining camps, smelters, railroads, hotels, houses, horse-drawn carriages, and much more in fine and accurate detail.
• Colorado is also known for the richness of its agricultural production, and its physical diversity and beauty. In 1891, President Benjamin Harrison set aside the White River Plateau Timber Land Reserve as the first national forest reserve in Colorado. For additional documents and images related to Colorado’s natural resources and their conservation, search on Colorado in The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920. Read, for example, the establishment of Rocky Mountain National Park.
• The Denver Public Library Digital Collections contain over 30,000 photographs which illustrate Colorado towns and landscape, document mining in the West, and show the lives of Native Americans from more than forty tribes. Search on the terms Arapaho, Cheyenne, or Ute to see images of these tribal peoples and landscapes which bear their names.
• Learn how travel and settlement paralleled the growth and development of the U.S. railroad system in Railroad Maps, 1828 to 1900. Browse the collection by geographic location, and select a state, such as Colorado, to view available maps.
• See two films set in Colorado in Inventing Entertainment: The Early Motion Pictures and Sound Recordings of the Edison Companies. View Cripple Creek Bar-Room Scene and Terrible Teddy, the Grizzly King.
• Listen to sound recordings collected from Spanish-speaking residents of Southern Colorado and Northern New Mexico. Hispano Music & Culture from the Northern Rio Grande: The Juan B. Rael Collectioncontains, for example, Marcha de Napoleón (Napoleon’s March)played by residents of Antonito and Romeo, Colorado.
• Search across the photo and print collections on the term Colorado to see a wide range of historical images of the thirty-eighth state. See, for example, Lillies, Rose Album, and Looking for Lydia — quilts judged the Colorado State Winners of the All-American Quilt Contest in 1992, 1994, and 1996 respectively.
• Search on Colorado in National American Woman Suffrage Association Collection to find books and pamphlets related to the women’s suffrage movement in Colorado between 1868 and 1898.
• Search on Colorado in the“California as I Saw It”: First-Person Narratives of California’s Early Years, 1849 to 1900 collection to find first-person narratives about Colorado.

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#AceHistoryDesk – Today in History – Joseph Jenkins Roberts declared Liberia, formerly a colony of the American Colonization Society, an independent republic on July 26, 1847. He was elected the first president of the republic in 1848.

A native of Petersburg, Virginia, Roberts immigrated to Liberia in 1829 at the age of twenty under the auspices of the American Colonization Society. The Society was organized in late December 1816 by a group that included Henry Clay, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Francis Scott Key, Bushrod Washington, and Daniel Webster. The colonization scheme, controversial from the outset among blacks and whites alike, was conceived as an alternative to emancipation. The idea grew from the recognition of the difficulty that the Republic would face should it choose the path of becoming an integrated nation.

This map was compiled chiefly from the surveys and observations of the Reverend Jehudi Ashmun, who led the settlement of what was to become the country of Liberia.

With difficulty, funds were found for the venture and, after an initial unsuccessful attempt, a colony was finally founded in Mesurado Bay on Providence Island in 1822. Reverend Ashmun negotiated with the native people to grant a tract of land at Cape Mesurado at the mouth of the St. Pauls River.

Expansion of the original colony at times resulted in conflict with indigenous Africans. The colony grew as it became a home for freed African Americans and slaves released from the West Indies and from slave ships as well as many native tribal people. Nevertheless, confrontations between the descendants of African Americans and indigenous tribes have remained a factor in Liberian politics through the twentieth century.

Learn more about the colonization movement in the online exhibition The African-American Mosaic: A Library of Congress Resource Guide for the Study of Black History & Culture. The first section of the exhibition, entitled “Colonization,” includes an overview of the origins of the American Colonization Society and the founding and early history of Liberia. Of particular interest is a treaty between the American Colonization Society and African tribal leaders for rights to tribal lands along the Grain Coast and on major rivers leading inland.

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• There are many images of New York State’s lakes, rivers, falls, and other natural wonders in the Library’s collections. Browse the Subjectsin Photos, Prints, and Drawings collections to see the variety available. Or, browse Detroit Publishing Company to locate additional images. For example, there are close to 200 views of Niagara Falls in this collection.
• Search on New York in Maps collections for a wide variety of maps of the state and its various regions.
• Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record/Historic American Landscapes Survey contains thousands of photographs and drawings of New York buildings.
• The Horydczak Collection also has images of New York State and New York City.
• A search on New York in the Van Vechten Collection yields more scenic views and images of statues than it does of portraits taken in New York City.
• Discover important conservation documents as well as related photographs in The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920.
• Find out more about the process of drafting and ratifying the Constitution. Browse Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774 to 1789 or see the special presentation To Form a More Perfect Union.
• For more information about New York, view Today in History features about Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, Columbia University in Manhattan, the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty, and the New York City Police Department.

• Among the maps included in Map Collections are the Maps of Liberia, 1830 to 1870.
• Also of interest is a series of documents on Liberia in African American Perspectives: Materials Selected from the Rare Book Collection; to locate this material, search the collection on Liberia.
• The Library’s Manuscript Division holds the collection of the American Colonization Society Records, 1792-1964. The Prints & Photographs Division holds images that are part of this collection.
• To develop a bibliography of works about Liberia, use the Browse Search menu of the Library of Congress Catalogs. Then, enter the term Liberia in the subject search page.
• Search on Liberia in The Church in the Southern Black Communitycollection to find documents about Liberia. This collection is included in the University of North Carolina/Chapel Hill’s Documenting the American South.

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#AceHistoryDesk – Today in History – On July 16, 1790, the Residence Act, which stipulated that the president select a site on the Potomac River as the permanent capital of the United States following a ten-year temporary residence in Philadelphia, was signed into law. In a proclamation issued on January 24, 1791, President George Washington announced the permanent location of the new capital, an area of land at the confluence of the Potomac and Eastern Branch (Anacostia) rivers that would eventually become the District of Columbia.

Soon after, Washington commissioned French engineer Pierre-Charles L’Enfant to create a plan for the city.Panorama aerial view of Washington, D.C. Carol M. Highsmith, photographer, between 1980 and 1990. Highsmith (Carol M.) Archive. Prints & Photographs DivisionPlan of the City Intended for the Permanent Seat of the Government…. Pierre Charles L’Enfant, manuscript map on paper. Office, Commissioner of Public Buildings, D.C., 1791. Cities and Towns. Geography & Map Division

L’Enfant arrived in Georgetown on March 9, 1791, and submitted his report and plan to the president in August. It is believed that this plan is the one preserved in the Library of Congress.

L’Enfant’s plan was greatly influenced by the traditions of Baroque landscape architecture and his projections of a future city population of 800,000. Its scheme of broad radiating avenues connecting significant focal points, its open spaces, and its grid pattern of streets oriented north, south, east, and west is still the gold standard against which all modern land use proposals for the Nation’s capital are considered.

The glorious vistas and dramatic landscape of today’s Washington are a result of L’Enfant’s careful planning. From the steps of the U.S. Capitol one can gaze down the mall to the Washington Monument and on to the Lincoln Memorial.View of Washington City. Baltimore: E. Sachse & Co., 1871. Panoramic Maps. Geography & Map Division

Let Us Now Praise Famous Men

On July 16, 1936, photographer Walker Evans (1903-75) took a leave of absence from the Farm Security Administration (FSA) to accept a summer assignment with Fortune magazine. Evans, who had begun working as a photographer in 1928, had developed a modest reputation by the time that he was hired in October 1935 by Roy Stryker, then leader of the FSA photographic section. Stryker agreed to grant him leave for the magazine assignment on the condition that his photographs remained government property.

Evans and the writer James Agee spent several weeks among sharecropper families in Hale County, Alabama. The article they produced documented in words and images the lives of poor Southern farmers afflicted by the Great Depression; their work, however, did not meet Fortune‘s expectations and was rejected for publication.

Evans’ desire to produce photographs that were “pure record not propaganda” did not harmonize with Stryker’s emphasis on the use of the image to promote social activism. Soon after the Alabama series was completed, Evans returned to New York. There Evans and Agee reworked their material and searched for another publisher. In 1941, the expanded version of their story was published in book form as Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, now recognized as a masterpiece of the art of photojournalism.

Walker Evans went on to exhibit and publish his work (he was a staff photographer at Fortune, 1945-65) and to teach at the Yale University School of Art and Architecture. James Agee became one of America’s most influential film critics as well as a poet, novelist, and screenwriter. James Agee died in 1955; Walker Evans died in 1975.

Learn More

• Read the Prints & Photographs Division Picture This blog post about Walker Evans’ photo albums that document the photographic essence of what later appeared as the landmark book Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, published first in 1941. Links to the albums are included in the item record in the online catalog.
• Search the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Black-and-White Negatives collection on the phrase Hale County, to view photographs taken by Evans in Hale County, Alabama, which furnished material for Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. Additional essays about the collection, participating photographers and examples of their work are available in the Articles and Essays section of the presentation. In particular, New York City Block focuses on Walker Evans and his work. See also: Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information Color Photographs.
• A complementary collection, Voices from the Dust Bowl: The Charles L. Todd and Robert Sonkin Migrant Worker Collection, 1940 to 1941, documents the everyday life of residents in the FSA’s migrant work camps in central California during 1940 and 1941. Many of the individuals whose stories and songs are gathered in this collection shared both the socioeconomic and historic experience of the individuals documented by James Agee and Walker Evans.
• Search on depression in American Life Histories: Manuscripts from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1940 for depression-era stories.

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