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ASSORTMENT OF SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS FOR SALE AT A FLEA MARKET IN WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS, NEAR TROY. IT IS SPONSORED BY THE MA HUSH KA (WHITE CLOUD) HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE LOCAL MUSEUM HOUSED IN THE 100-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLHOUSE. SOME PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PLACE RESTORED AS AN EXAMPLE OF A 19TH CENTURY KANSAS RIVER TOWN. IT WAS NAMED FOR THE LAST GREAT IOWA INDIAN CHIEF WHOSE TRIBE WAS GIVEN AREA LAND BY TREATY IN 1836, 09/1974 
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
They say that variety is the spice of life. Check out this awesome collection of salt and pepper shakers! 
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ASSORTMENT OF SALT AND PEPPER SHAKERS FOR SALE AT A FLEA MARKET IN WHITE CLOUD, KANSAS, NEAR TROY. IT IS SPONSORED BY THE MA HUSH KA (WHITE CLOUD) HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO RAISE MONEY FOR THE LOCAL MUSEUM HOUSED IN THE 100-YEAR-OLD SCHOOLHOUSE. SOME PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE THE PLACE RESTORED AS AN EXAMPLE OF A 19TH CENTURY KANSAS RIVER TOWN. IT WAS NAMED FOR THE LAST GREAT IOWA INDIAN CHIEF WHOSE TRIBE WAS GIVEN AREA LAND BY TREATY IN 1836, 09/1974 

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

They say that variety is the spice of life. Check out this awesome collection of salt and pepper shakers!

Source: http://go.usa.gov/2w7P

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #Kansas
    • #flea market
    • #salt and pepper
    • #Patricia Duncan
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AFTER A COLD MORNING OF PATROL DUTY POLICE OFFICER SHEARER AND CHIEF ALLEC ENJOY HOT COFFEE AT MAC’S CAFE, 01/1973 
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
Today is Peace Officers Memorial Day, also known as Police Week. Take the opportunity to thank law enforcement officers today!
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wGV
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AFTER A COLD MORNING OF PATROL DUTY POLICE OFFICER SHEARER AND CHIEF ALLEC ENJOY HOT COFFEE AT MAC’S CAFE, 01/1973 

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

Today is Peace Officers Memorial Day, also known as Police Week. Take the opportunity to thank law enforcement officers today!

Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wGV

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VIRGINIA SHEA, LEFT, AND SHARON CARDILLO, ON DOORSTEP OF HOUSE ON NEPTUNE ROAD. THIS IS THE COMMUNITY CLOSEST TO LOGAN AIRPORT, AND RESIDENTS FACE A COMPLEX OF PROBLEMS, FROM AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION TO DWINDLING PROPERTY VALUES. MANY HOUSE EXTERIORS SHOW LACK OF MAINTENANCE. PEOPLE ARE RELUCTANT TO PAY MONEY TO KEEP UP STRUCTURES THEY MAY SOON BE FORCED TO VACATE, 05/1973 
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
These ladies exude Seventies style in their bell-bottom jeans.
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wpH
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VIRGINIA SHEA, LEFT, AND SHARON CARDILLO, ON DOORSTEP OF HOUSE ON NEPTUNE ROAD. THIS IS THE COMMUNITY CLOSEST TO LOGAN AIRPORT, AND RESIDENTS FACE A COMPLEX OF PROBLEMS, FROM AIR AND NOISE POLLUTION TO DWINDLING PROPERTY VALUES. MANY HOUSE EXTERIORS SHOW LACK OF MAINTENANCE. PEOPLE ARE RELUCTANT TO PAY MONEY TO KEEP UP STRUCTURES THEY MAY SOON BE FORCED TO VACATE, 05/1973 

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

These ladies exude Seventies style in their bell-bottom jeans.

Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wpH

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #Logan Airport
    • #Boston
    • #bellbottoms
    • #Michael Manheim
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SKYSCRAPERS, 05/1972
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
Photographer LeRoy Woodson captures a bug’s eye view of a skyscraper in Birmingham, AL.
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wwA
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SKYSCRAPERS, 05/1972

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

Photographer LeRoy Woodson captures a bug’s eye view of a skyscraper in Birmingham, AL.

Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wwA

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #skyscraper
    • #LeRoy Woodson
    • #Birmingham
    • #bug's eye view
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THIS LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL FIELD WAS BUILT ON SANITARY LANDFILL, 05/1972
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
A swing and a miss. These little leaguers play ball on the site of a former landfill.
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wdG
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THIS LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL FIELD WAS BUILT ON SANITARY LANDFILL, 05/1972

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

A swing and a miss. These little leaguers play ball on the site of a former landfill.

Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wdG

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #baseball
    • #little league
    • #Mississippi
    • #Bill Shrout
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WOMAN SEATED AT OLD SCHOOL DESKS ON THE LAWN TAKE A BREAK DURING AN AUCTION BY EATING PIE SERVED BY LADIES OF WHITE CLOUD KANSAS, NEAR TROY. THE AUCTION WAS HELD BY THE MA HUSH KA (WHITE CLOUD) HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE LOCAL MUSEUM HOUSED IN THE SCHOOL BUILDING. THE TOWN WAS NAMED AFTER THE LAST GREAT IOWA INDIAN CHIEF WHOSE TRIBE WAS GIVEN LAND IN THE AREA BY TREATY IN 1836, 10/1974 
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
A little conversation and some pie, what could be better?!
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wGx
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WOMAN SEATED AT OLD SCHOOL DESKS ON THE LAWN TAKE A BREAK DURING AN AUCTION BY EATING PIE SERVED BY LADIES OF WHITE CLOUD KANSAS, NEAR TROY. THE AUCTION WAS HELD BY THE MA HUSH KA (WHITE CLOUD) HISTORICAL SOCIETY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR THE LOCAL MUSEUM HOUSED IN THE SCHOOL BUILDING. THE TOWN WAS NAMED AFTER THE LAST GREAT IOWA INDIAN CHIEF WHOSE TRIBE WAS GIVEN LAND IN THE AREA BY TREATY IN 1836, 10/1974 

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

A little conversation and some pie, what could be better?!

Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wGx

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #Kansas
    • #pie
    • #Patricia Duncan
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SHRIMP BOATS BELONGING TO A BLACK-OWNED COOPERATIVE ON HILTON HEAD, 05/1973
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
Have you ever been on a real shrimp boat? Shrimp is the fruit of the sea. There’s fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, shrimp scampi, shrimp cocktail, shrimp gumbo…

Source: http://go.usa.gov/T2GA
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SHRIMP BOATS BELONGING TO A BLACK-OWNED COOPERATIVE ON HILTON HEAD, 05/1973

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

Have you ever been on a real shrimp boat? Shrimp is the fruit of the sea. There’s fried shrimp, boiled shrimp, shrimp scampi, shrimp cocktail, shrimp gumbo…

Source: http://go.usa.gov/T2GA

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #shrimp boats
    • #shrimp
    • #Hilton Head
    • #South Carolina
    • #Paul Conklin
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“THE FRUIT OF ISLAM”, A SPECIAL GROUP OF BODYGUARDS FOR MUSLIM LEADER ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, SIT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PLATFORM WHILE HE DELIVERS HIS ANNUAL SAVIOR’S DAY MESSAGE IN CHICAGO. THE CITY IS HEADQUARTERS FOR THE BLACK MUSLIMS. THEIR $75 MILLION EMPIRE INCLUDES A MOSQUE, NEWSPAPER, UNIVERSITY, RESTAURANTS, REAL ESTATE BANK AND VARIETY OF RETAIL STORES. MUHAMMAD DIED FEBRUARY 25, 1975, 03/1974 
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
Today at noon in the William G. McGowan Theater of National Archives in Washington, DC, Christian Caryl will discuss the book Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century. 1979 marked a many changes resulting in revolutionary Islam as a political force with changes in international economic changes which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Source: http://go.usa.gov/T3Bj
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“THE FRUIT OF ISLAM”, A SPECIAL GROUP OF BODYGUARDS FOR MUSLIM LEADER ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, SIT AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PLATFORM WHILE HE DELIVERS HIS ANNUAL SAVIOR’S DAY MESSAGE IN CHICAGO. THE CITY IS HEADQUARTERS FOR THE BLACK MUSLIMS. THEIR $75 MILLION EMPIRE INCLUDES A MOSQUE, NEWSPAPER, UNIVERSITY, RESTAURANTS, REAL ESTATE BANK AND VARIETY OF RETAIL STORES. MUHAMMAD DIED FEBRUARY 25, 1975, 03/1974 

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

Today at noon in the William G. McGowan Theater of National Archives in Washington, DC, Christian Caryl will discuss the book Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century. 1979 marked a many changes resulting in revolutionary Islam as a political force with changes in international economic changes which led to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Source: http://go.usa.gov/T3Bj

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #Nation of Islam
    • #Chicago
    • #John H. White
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BLACK CHILD LIFTS A LEG WHILE HIS MOTHER PUTS ON HIS SOCKS AT A 12TH STREET BEACH ON LAKE MICHIGAN ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE IN THE SUMMER OF 1973. FROM 1960 TO 1970 THE PERCENTAGE OF CHICAGO BLACKS WITH AN INCOME OF $7,000 OR MORE JUMPED FROM 26 TO 58%. MEDIAN BLACK INCOME DURING THE PERIOD INCREASED FROM $4,700 TO $7,883, BUT THE DOLLAR GAP BETWEEN THEIR GROUP AND THE WHITES ACTUALLY WIDENED, 08/1973 
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. Today, we mourn the loss of countless socks and recognize the unmatched survivors that no longer have a buddy in the drawer. 
Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wNH
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BLACK CHILD LIFTS A LEG WHILE HIS MOTHER PUTS ON HIS SOCKS AT A 12TH STREET BEACH ON LAKE MICHIGAN ON CHICAGO’S SOUTH SIDE IN THE SUMMER OF 1973. FROM 1960 TO 1970 THE PERCENTAGE OF CHICAGO BLACKS WITH AN INCOME OF $7,000 OR MORE JUMPED FROM 26 TO 58%. MEDIAN BLACK INCOME DURING THE PERIOD INCREASED FROM $4,700 TO $7,883, BUT THE DOLLAR GAP BETWEEN THEIR GROUP AND THE WHITES ACTUALLY WIDENED, 08/1973 

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

It’s National Lost Sock Memorial Day. Today, we mourn the loss of countless socks and recognize the unmatched survivors that no longer have a buddy in the drawer.

Source: http://go.usa.gov/2wNH

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #Chicago
    • #socks
    • #Lost Sock Memorial Day
    • #John H. White
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CATCHING UP ON THE NEWS, 02/1974
From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)
The more things change, the more they stay the same. Replace the newspaper with a smartphone for today’s version of news on the go. 
Source: http://go.usa.gov/T2sk
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CATCHING UP ON THE NEWS, 02/1974

From the Records of the Environmental Protection Agency (12/02/1970-)

The more things change, the more they stay the same. Replace the newspaper with a smartphone for today’s version of news on the go.

Source: http://go.usa.gov/T2sk

    • #US National Archives
    • #National Archives
    • #Searching for the Seventies
    • #DOCUMERICA
    • #newspaper
    • #Aspen
    • #Colorado
    • #Ron Hoffman
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