It Was After The Bars Had Closed And Well Into The Pre-dawn Hours Of An August Morning In 1966 When San

Today in history, President Kennedy signed the 1963 Equal Pay Act, which aimed to reduce income disparity between the sexes. 6/10/63.

Photo: President John F. Kennedy delivers remarks after signing the Equal Pay Act in the Oval Office of the White House, Washington, D.C. Standing (L-R): Representative Elizabeth Kee (West Virginia); Representative Edith Green (Oregon); Representative Edna Kelly (New York); Representative Catherine May (Washington); Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson; Director of United Automobile Workers (UAW) Women’s Department, Caroline Davis; Senator Maurine Neuberger of Oregon (in back); President of the National Federation of Business and Professional Women’s Clubs (NFBPWC), Dr. Minnie Miles; Director of the Department of Legislation for the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), Andrew Biemiller (in back); Representative Leonor K. Sullivan (Missouri); Executive Director of the National Council of Catholic Women (NCCW), Margaret Mealey; Representative Martha W. Griffiths (Michigan); Representative Julia Butler Hansen (Washington); Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz. 

-from the JFK Library 

Border between the United States and Mexico. Town of Nogales, Arizona is on the left and Nogales, Sonora, Mexico on the right. Sometime around 1898-1899.

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"The bloody massacre perpetrated in King Street, Boston, on Mar. 5, 1770."

Photo: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Gift of James H Wallace Jr, © Jim Wallace

A police shooting of an unarmed black man in Ferguson, Mo., this summer, along with other shootings by police officers around the country, led to weeks…

A completely automated section of a supermarket at the 30th Annual IGA Food Store Convention at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, July 1956.

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"Revisiting Selma" by Malin Fezehai via NYT Opinion http://nyti.ms/1EwoOEj

On this day, March 1st, 1961, President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps by Executive Order 10924. 

Here, JFK hands Sargent Shriver, whom he had designated as the Corps founding Director, the signing pen.

-from the JFK Library 

At the New Whitney Museum, America Is Actually Very Easy to See

Happy Earth Day!

This image of the Grand Canyon is drawn from the collection of two early photographic pioneers–Ellsworth and Emery Kolb–who played a major part in documenting its natural beauty and history.

An NHPRC grant to the Cline Library at Northern Arizona University helped assure that the tremendous photographic legacy compiled by the Kolb brothers would be preserved.

Some 17,000 images were cleaned and cataloged; 15,000 negatives printed; 7,000 copy and duplicate negatives made; 10,000 feet of films copied; and a set of 12,000 xerographic browsing copies prepared.

See more fantastic images at http://library.nau.edu/sp…/exhibits/daysofarchives/film.html

In the early-morning hours in turn-of-the-century New York City, a photographer who was afraid of the dark took his camera out into the light. Robert L. Bracklow, known as “Daylight Bob,” was a documentarian who captured quiet scenes of a rapidly changing city, often in areas where demolition and construction were underway. Despite the uniqueness of some of his images, his work isn’t widely known, partly because it hasn’t been easily accessible. This month the New-York Historical Society (N-YHS) and the Metropolitan New York Library Council (METRO) announced that the Robert L. Bracklow Photograph Collection has been digitized and is now available on the Digital Culture of Metropolitan New York site.

Early-Morning Photographs of Turn-of-the-Century New York City