Tag: Halloween
Costume inspiration from the National Archives!
Still trying to think of a clever costume to wear on Halloween? We’ve listed some of our favorite suggestions below. (And if anyone actually takes us up on these suggestions, please send us a picture!) I Like Ike! Are you a power couple? How about combining the the upcoming election with some historic campaign fun [...]
Posted by Hilary on October 26, 2012, under Uncategorized.
Tags: American Archives Month, Archivist, Archivists, Halloween, Ike, Mamie
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Facial Hair Friday: The Death Mask of Walter Q. Gresham
Today’s featured facial hair is especially appropriate for the approaching Halloween weekend. It’s the plaster cast of a beard, taken of the deceased Walter Q. Gresham, who was Secretary of State at the time of his death in May of 1895. This death mask—complete with a few beard hairs stuck in it—may seem like an oddity [...]
Posted by Hilary on October 28, 2011, under Facial Hair Fridays.
Tags: beard, death mask, facial hair, Halloween, plaster cast, Secretary of State, Walter Q. Grisham
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Need a Halloween costume? Four food frights from our holdings
This postcard (ARC 2657925) was enclosed with several others as part of a letter from Acting Secretary of State Robert Bacon to U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom Whitelaw Reid regarding postcards that were circulating in South Africa regarding the meatpacking industry. Do you like to be scared? If you do, forget about watching Halloween [...]
Posted by Hilary on October 19, 2011, under What's Cooking Wednesdays.
Tags: borax, formaldehyde, Halloween, Meat Inspection Act, poison squad, Pure Food and Drug Act, Spanish-American War, sulfuric acid
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