1962, National Archives staff celebrate the holidays.
We can’t offer candy canes, but we can assure you a good time if you add a visit to “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam?” to your weekend festivities. Don’t wait too long, the exhibition closes on Tuesday, January 3.
Item from the Records of the National Archives and Records Administration, 1789 - ca. 2007
Happy Labor Day!
We hope you are enjoying your day off and celebrating/mourning the end of summer appropriately—perhaps with a lakeside cookout?
An heroic sacrifice indeed.
Ice cream is a nutritious and wholesome food, enjoyed by over ninety percent of the people in the United States. It enjoys a reputation as the perfect dessert and snack food. Over eight hundred and eighty-seven million gallons of ice cream were consumed in the United States in 1983 …
Now, Therefore, I, Ronald Reagan, President of the United States of America, do hereby proclaim July 1984 as National Ice Cream Month and July 15, 1984, as National Ice Cream Day, and I call upon the people of the United States to observe these events with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
In 1984, President Ronald Reagan proclaimed the month of July as National Ice Cream Month. Now that’s a presidential legacy that we can all be proud of.
Look for more ice cream posts throughout the day!
It’s Flashback Friday! Do you have a photograph of someone in your family in a powder blue tuxedo?
See more 1970s fashion in our new exhibit ...
“A patron of ‘Sammy’s Bowery Follies,’ a downtown bar, sleeping at his table while the resident cat laps at his beer, 12/1947”
Get it while it’s hot! You only have until January 3, 2012, to see “What’s Cooking, Uncle Sam” before it closes. This photograph of a be-napkined...
December 16th is National Chocolate Covered Anything Day
Yummmm Chocolate!
