indians of north america

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Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2012 -- Local Red Hook resident Danielle Jackson paints the stoop at her house after being impacted by Hurricane Sandy. State and federal officials encourage people affected by the disaster to register for assistance immediately by calling toll-free 800-621-FEMA (3362) or TTY 800-462-7585. The toll-free line is in operation from 6 a.m. to midnight (CDT) until further notice. Registration can be accomplished anytime at www.disasterassistance.gov or with a smartphone at http://m.fema.gov. Multilingual operators are available and for information on programs in multiple languages visit www.fema.gov/all-languages. Jocelyn Augustino/FEMA

Brooklyn, N.Y., Dec. 4, 2012 -- Local Red Hook resident Danielle Jacks...

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[Eight amulets in different languages], engraving, Library of Congress

[Eight amulets in different languages], engraving, Library of Congress

Illus. in: Julius Reichelt, Exercitatio de Amuletis..., 1676, table VI (in front of book). Reference copy may be in SSF - AMULETS. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card.

Buddha receiving offerings from "History of the Indian Archipelago. containing an account of the manners, arts, languages, religions, institutions, and commerce of its inhabitants ... With maps and engravings"

Buddha receiving offerings from "History of the Indian Archipelago. co...

This image has been taken from scan 000226 from volume 02 of "History of the Indian Archipelago. containing an account of the manners, arts, languages, religions, institutions, and commerce of its inhabitants .... More

Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains

Account of an expedition from Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains

LAC scc 2019-06-12 update (1 card)

Ancient history, or, Annals of Kentucky : with a survey of the ancient monuments of North America, and a tabular view of the principal languages and primitive nations of the whole earth

Ancient history, or, Annals of Kentucky : with a survey of the ancient...

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portrait from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages ... With notes on the natural history of the Islands, by Arthur Adams. [With plates and maps.]"

portrait from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the y...

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map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages ... With notes on the natural history of the Islands, by Arthur Adams. [With plates and maps.]"

map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years ...

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map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages ... With notes on the natural history of the Islands, by Arthur Adams. [With plates and maps.]"

map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years ...

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map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages ... With notes on the natural history of the Islands, by Arthur Adams. [With plates and maps.]"

map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years ...

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map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages ... With notes on the natural history of the Islands, by Arthur Adams. [With plates and maps.]"

map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years ...

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map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages ... With notes on the natural history of the Islands, by Arthur Adams. [With plates and maps.]"

map from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years ...

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portrait from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the years 1843-46; employed surveying the Islands of the Eastern Archipelago; accompanied by a brief vocabulary of the principal languages ... With notes on the natural history of the Islands, by Arthur Adams. [With plates and maps.]"

portrait from "Narrative of the Voyage of H.M.S. Samarang during the y...

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languages from "The Story of Africa and its Explorers. [With plates and maps.]"

languages from "The Story of Africa and its Explorers. [With plates an...

This image has been taken from scan 000252 from volume 02 of "The Story of Africa and its Explorers. [With plates and maps.]". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from tags, created by... More

cover from "A Hymn for All Nations. 1851 ... Translated into thirty languages, etc. (Second edition.)"

cover from "A Hymn for All Nations. 1851 ... Translated into thirty la...

This image has been taken from scan 000009 from "A Hymn for All Nations. 1851 ... Translated into thirty languages, etc. (Second edition.)". The title and subject terms of this image have been generated from ta... More

map from "A guide or handbook to Richmond new park. In three languages, English, French, and German. By A. H. W"

map from "A guide or handbook to Richmond new park. In three languages...

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A lecture! will be given by Madame Hagerty! at Apollo Hall! on Friday evening March 25th, [1853] on Monday Ev'g March 28, she will sing ten different languages! of the unknown tongues. [Washington, D. C. 1853].

A lecture! will be given by Madame Hagerty! at Apollo Hall! on Friday ...

Available also through the Library of Congress web site in two forms: as facsimile page images and as full text in SGML. Printed Ephemera Collection; Portfolio 201, Folder 9a.

Karte vom östlichen China & Korea zur Übersicht der chinesischen Dialekte nach Edkins und der Reisen von Oxenham & Markham 1868-69 /

Karte vom östlichen China & Korea zur Übersicht der chinesischen Diale...

Relief shown by hachures. Does not give language information about Korea. Prime meridians: Greenwich, Ferro, Paris. From Petermann's geographische Mitteilungen. Jahrgang 1869, Tafel 17. Available also through t... More

music from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

music from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place...

This image has been taken from scan 000186 from volume 03 of "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent". T... More

music from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

music from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place...

This image has been taken from scan 000184 from volume 03 of "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent". T... More

music from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

music from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place...

This image has been taken from scan 000185 from volume 03 of "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent". T... More

Mohawk from "The Indian Miscellany; containing papers on the history, antiquities, arts, languages, religions, traditions and superstitions of the American aborigines ... Edited by W. W. Beach"

Mohawk from "The Indian Miscellany; containing papers on the history, ...

This image has been taken from scan 000165 from "The Indian Miscellany; containing papers on the history, antiquities, arts, languages, religions, traditions and superstitions of the American aborigines ... Edi... More

map from "Notes of Travel in Fiji and New Caledonia, with some remarks on South Sea Islanders and their languages ... With ... illustrations, etc"

map from "Notes of Travel in Fiji and New Caledonia, with some remarks...

This image has been taken from scan 000008 from "Notes of Travel in Fiji and New Caledonia, with some remarks on South Sea Islanders and their languages ... With ... illustrations, etc". The title and subject t... More

A language map of Africa / - Public domain old map

A language map of Africa / - Public domain old map

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Aboriginal Australians from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

Aboriginal Australians from "The Australian Race: its origin, language...

This image has been taken from scan 000168 from volume 01 of "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent". T... More

map from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place of landing in Australia, and the routes by which it spread itself over that continent"

map from "The Australian Race: its origin, languages, customs, place o...

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map from "A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus, with a chapter on the languages of the country ... With maps, etc"

map from "A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus, with a chapter on the l...

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map from "A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus, with a chapter on the languages of the country ... With maps, etc"

map from "A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus, with a chapter on the l...

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map from "A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus, with a chapter on the languages of the country ... With maps, etc"

map from "A Trip through the Eastern Caucasus, with a chapter on the l...

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Map of linguistic stocks of American Indians.

Map of linguistic stocks of American Indians.

From: Annual report of Bureau of Ethnology, v. 7, by J.W. Powell. LC Many nations, p. 209 Available also through the Library of Congress web site as a raster image.

languages from "Eaglehawk and Crow. A study of the Australian aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages"

languages from "Eaglehawk and Crow. A study of the Australian aborigin...

This image has been taken from scan 000235 from "Eaglehawk and Crow. A study of the Australian aborigines, including an inquiry into their origin and a survey of Australian languages". The title and subject ter... More

Academic reception of the honorable delegates of universities, colleges and societies, Catholic University. Washington, D.C., Nov. 13. Among the many who attended the solemn observance of the semicentennial of the founding of the Catholic University of America where William W. Bishop, Librarian of the University of Michigan, Herbert Putnam, Librarian of Congress Emeritus, and the Right Reverend Henry Hyvernat, Andrews Professor of Biblical Archeology and Professor of Semetic Languages and Literatures at the Catholic University of America. Honorary degrees were conferred upon them

Academic reception of the honorable delegates of universities, college...

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Hall of Languages, New York University

Hall of Languages, New York University

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[New York University library, School of Languages and Hall of Fame for Great Americans, New York, N.Y.]

[New York University library, School of Languages and Hall of Fame for...

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Library and Hall of Languages, Syracuse University

Library and Hall of Languages, Syracuse University

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Hall of Languages, Syracuse University

Hall of Languages, Syracuse University

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Linguistic families of American Indians north of Mexico

Linguistic families of American Indians north of Mexico

America Transformed: Originally displayed at Chicago's 1893 World Fair, this reconstructed map shows the distribution of major Indigenous language families at the time of European contact. Most maps published i... More

Flooding ^ Severe Storm - Nashville, Tenn. , June 11, 2010 -- The FEMA registration message appears in seven languages on posters in 50 buses across the Nashville Mass Transit Authority system to remind storm and flood survivors to register following the severe storms and floods of early May. David Fine/FEMA

Flooding ^ Severe Storm - Nashville, Tenn. , June 11, 2010 -- The FEMA...

The original database describes this as: Title: FEMA Registration Message on Nashville Mass Transit Production Date: 06/11/2010 Caption: Nashville, Tenn. , June 11, 2010 -- The FEMA registration message appe... More

West 23rd St. - United Cigar Co. - Albemarle Hotel - Hoffman House - No. 202 Berlitz, School of Languages

West 23rd St. - United Cigar Co. - Albemarle Hotel - Hoffman House - N...

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Ceremonies - Ohio - Sing National Anthem in sign languages. Deaf and dumb children of St. Rita's School, Cincinnati Ohio singing the Star Spangled Banner in the sign language

Ceremonies - Ohio - Sing National Anthem in sign languages. Deaf and d...

Date Taken: 1918. - Photographer: J.R. Schmidt Ceremonies - Ohio Public domain photograph related to the United States in World War One, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The Political subdivision of the Polish territory before the war and its linguistic areas.

The Political subdivision of the Polish territory before the war and i...

Scale not given. Manuscript; pen-and-ink, watercolor, and stick-on lettering. In right lower margin in script: Washington, October 8th, 1918. From the President Woodrow Wilson papers. Available also through the... More

The only chiropedist in Salonica has his shop on the street corner He is a Greek but as will be noticed by the sign he understands a number of languages including Turkish and Yiddish.

The only chiropedist in Salonica has his shop on the street corner He ...

Filed in: Greece Industries & Occupations. No. RC-4742. Forms part of: American National Red Cross photograph collection.

"God hath made of one blood all nations of men. Acts. 17th chap. 25th verse in 103 languages ... New York American photo-lithographic Co. [1920?].

"God hath made of one blood all nations of men. Acts. 17th chap. 25th ...

The awakening of Turkey is evidenced by the unveiled women of Stamboul. Even the old ones bare their faces to mere men Standing on the famous Galata Bridge one sees all races and hears all languages as the high and low of humanity rolls by.

The awakening of Turkey is evidenced by the unveiled women of Stamboul...

Photographs show women wearing a çarşaf without face veils and a porter with large basket on his back walking across the Galata Bridge, Istanbul, Turkey. Negative series code written on page: C262. On page: n... More

Lt. Col. A.F. Awl, Head of the Mail Sub-division of U.S. Veterans Bureau, who handles daily nearly 100,000 pieces of mail written in 41 different languages

Lt. Col. A.F. Awl, Head of the Mail Sub-division of U.S. Veterans Bure...

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Languages - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Languages - WPA poster, Public domain, Library of Congress

Poster promoting occupations in the field of languages, such as language teacher, translator, reporter on foreign language journal, and librarian in foreign department, showing book and globe. Date stamped on v... More

Inauguration of Tel-Aviv landing ground. Palestine Airways. Close-up of inscription Palestine Airways Ltd in three official languages

Inauguration of Tel-Aviv landing ground. Palestine Airways. Close-up o...

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First girl page in National House of Representatives. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. For the first time in history, a girl has been appointed a page in the House of Representatives. She is 13-year-old Gene Cox, daughter of Rep. and Mrs. E.E. Cox of Georgia. She was appointed by and will serve her father this session. Gene can speak 3 languages, 1/3/39

First girl page in National House of Representatives. Washington, D.C....

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Georgia girl appointed House Page by father. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3. Rep. E.E. Cox, Democrat of Georgia, and his daughter, Gene, whom he has appointed to serve as his personal page, this session in the house. Gene, who is 13 years old and can speak three languages, will be the first girl in the history of Congress to serve as a page, 1/3/39

Georgia girl appointed House Page by father. Washington, D.C., Jan. 3....

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The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel (under the joint administration of the Civil Service Commission and the National Resources Planning Board) employs this horizontal sorting machine as an aid in the exacting task of picking just the right combination of specifications. This machine selects from the prepared index cards the men who have the required specifications such as a definite specialization in one of the engineering fields, familiarity with certain languages, locations, marital status, ethnicity, age group, extent of education, etc.

The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The Natio...

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The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel (under the joint administration of the Civil Service Commission and the National Resources Planning Board) employs this horizontal sorting machine as an aid in the exacting task of picking just the right combination of specifications. This machine selects from the prepared index cards the men who have the required specifications such as a definite specialization in one of the engineering fields, familiarity with certain languages, locations, marital status, ethnicity, age group, extent of education, etc.

The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The Natio...

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The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel (under the joint administration of the Civil Service Commission and the National Resources Planning Board) employs this horizontal sorting machine as an aid in the exacting task of picking just the right combination of specifications. This machine selects from the prepared index cards the men who have the required specifications such as a definite specialization in one of the engineering fields, familiarity with certain languages, locations, marital status, ethnicity, age group, extent of education, etc.

The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The Natio...

Public domain photograph of indoor, interior activity, America in the 1930s, free to use, no copyright restrictions image - Picryl description

The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel (under the joint administration of the Civil Service Commission and the National Resources Planning Board) employs this horizontal sorting machine as an aid in the exacting task of picking just the right combination of specifications. This machine selects from the prepared index cards the men who have the required specifications such as a definite specialization in one of the engineering fields, familiarity with certain languages, locations, marital status, ethnicity, age group, extent of education, etc.

The National Roster of Scientific and Specialized Personnel. The Natio...

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Volker- und Sprachenkarte des Vorderen Orient /

Volker- und Sprachenkarte des Vorderen Orient /

Shows ethnicities, languages and beliefs of the peoples of the region. A relatively lengthy explanation in German begins by stating that this map "endeavors to show the coverage area of those oriental peoples, ... More

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Anthony Weber, proprietor of a store in the German section of New York, is selling a Westphalian ham to Mrs. Elizabeth Freygang. The names are German, but both are patriotic Americans, glad to be in the United States, where a storekeeper is free to keep such well-stocked racks of food. Weber has shown his support of his adopted country by posting his ceiling price list

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Anthony Weber, proprietor...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Mr. H. Brodskey is proud of the quality of the yard goods he carries at his marketplace stand in New York's East Side. He is proud too that he is aiding his government in the fight against inflation by displaying a price ceiling sign printed in Yiddish so that it may be easily understood by his customers

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Mr. H. Brodskey is proud ...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The plea to "Buy United States War Stamps and Bonds for Victory," which completes the ceiling price sign, emphasizes the patriotic spirit shown by O. Schwartz, proprietor of a children's dress stand in one of New York's East Side marketplaces. Mr. Schwartz shows his desire to help his country by posting his maximum prices in cooperation with the government's fight against inflation

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The plea to "Buy United S...

Picryl description: Public domain image of children in poverty, child labor, Great Depression, 1930s, migrant workers, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk in a grocery store in New York's Italian section, wishes the handful of spaghetti he is breaking were Mussolini's neck. The ceiling price sign above his head, written in Italian, is helping to defeat Il Duce by controlling inflation, one of America's most dangerous enemies

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk i...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Washington, D.C. Volunteer translators in the Red Cross district library translating messages from many foreign languages: Dutch, Polish, German, French, Italian, into English so that they can be censored before going to relatives in this country The Red Cross handles messages between people in foreign countries through their Foreign Inquiry Service

Washington, D.C. Volunteer translators in the Red Cross district libra...

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk in a grocery store in New York's Italian section, wishes the handful of spaghetti he is breaking were Mussolini's neck. The ceiling price sign above his head, printed in Italian, is helping to defeat Il Duce by controlling inflation, one of America's most dangerous enemies

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Charles Ruggiero, clerk i...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Grateful that the United States has given him the freedom which was denied him in his native country, Mr. Brafman is proud and eager to do everything he can to cooperate with the government in the fight against inflation. Like many other tenants of New York's East Side marketplaces who feel as he does about their new homeland, he has posted his ceiling prices where his customers can easily see them

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Grateful that the United ...

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Equipped with her "bible," a copy of the General Maximum Price Regulations written painstakingly in Mandarin, one of the chief languages of China, Mrs. Joanne A. Tee, price specialist of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is explaining the necessity for posting ceiling prices to Lee Bow, manager of a large wholesale and retail store in New York's Chinatown. Like the people of their native land, whose fighting spirit has earned the admiration of all freedom-loving nations, the Chinese-American storekeepers are fighting the Axis by cooperating with the government in the battle against inflation

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Equipped with her "bible,...

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of the 1930s - 1940s, woman, female portrait, United States, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Ann Samet is one of hundreds of tenants of New York's East Side marketplaces who are cooperating with their government by displaying prominently their price ceiling listings. They represent every conceivable nationality and the war is giving them the opportunity to prove in a tangible way that the people of a democracy, regardless of race, creed or color, will fight together for freedom

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Ann Samet is one of hundr...

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Picryl description: Public domain photograph of worker, marketplace, vendor, 1930s, Great Depression, economic conditions, free to use, no copyright restrictions.

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Equipped with her "bible," a copy of the General Maximum Price Regulations written painstakingly in Mandarin, one of the chief languages of China, Mrs. Joanne A. Tee, price specialist of the Office of Price Administration (OPA), is explaining the necessity for posting ceiling prices to Lee Bow, manager of a large wholesale and retail store in New York's Chinatown. Like the people of their native land, whose fighting spirit has earned the admiration of all freedom-loving nations, the Chinese-American storekeepers are fighting the Axis by cooperating with the government in the battle against inflation

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Equipped with her "bible,...

Actual size of negative is D (approximately 3 1/4 x 4 1/4 inches). Caption card lists some of the printing history of image. Title and other information from caption card. Transfer; United States. Office of War... More

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Ladies undergarments are covered by the General Maximum Price Regulations, so Mrs. Friedman, owner of a stand in one of New York's East Side marketplaces, has posted a price ceiling sign where it can be seen easily by her customers

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Ladies undergarments are ...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. America's shopper must be able to see and understand ceiling prices, so Freda Altberg's small yard goods shop in one of New York's East Side marketplaces has maximum prices for its stock posted in Yiddish. The sign reads, "Price Ceilings on Yard Goods," and lists the various types of cloth with their ceiling costs per yard

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. America's shopper must be...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Sergeant Frank Hoffman is on a busman's holiday from his job as cook at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, buying sausage to cook for his girl friend before he goes back to camp. Sergeant Hoffman is shopping in Anthony Weber's store in the German section of New York. Both Hoffman and Weber are glad to be in the liberty-loving United States instead of Germany, and each is doing his part to protect our democratic system of government from the Nazi forces which threaten to destroy it. Hoffman, of course, is in the Army; Weber is cooperating with other patriotic American storekeepers in the battle against inflation by displaying a price ceiling sign in German

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Sergeant Frank Hoffman is...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Lee Bow, manager of a large wholesale and retail store in New York's Chinatown, is making a sign in Chinese to show the ceiling prices for various articles sold in the store, according to the regulations of the Office of Price Administration (OPA). America's Chinese population is giving its full cooperation to the government in the battle against inflation and against the Axis

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Lee Bow, manager of a lar...

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Greek-speaking customers of Spiros Margrite are fully acquainted with the ceiling prices in Margarite's grocery store, for everything is carefully listed on this large sign. By cooperating with the Office of Price Administration's (OPA) fight against inflation, Mr. Margarite is helping to destroy the forces which have banished freedom from his native land and threatened the freedom of his adopted country

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. Greek-speaking customers ...

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. In a large store in the heart of New York's Chinatown, manager Lee Bow, at right, is attaching a price ceiling sign to a sack of rice so that his customers will easily understand his maximum prices for this commodity. Clerk Eng Hong pours rice with the help of Kai Wong and his older brother Fung Wong. The small tag on this sack also shows the ceiling price for this grade of rice

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. In a large store in the h...

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign displayed in "Shapiro's Bargain Stand," one of New York's East Side marketplaces, shows that the Shapiros, like hundreds of others in the market, are cooperating with the Office of Price Administration in posting prices where their customers can see them

Posting ceiling prices in foreign languages. The ceiling price sign di...

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Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

Posting ceiling prices in English and foreign languages

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Axis propaganda. Here are five of more than one hundred exhibits which Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War information, displayed to the press at a conference on March 6, 1943, to tell how the OWI was fighting the Axis on the propaganda front. In this collection appear NIPPON, a widely-circulated Japanese propaganda magazine; SIGNAL, the Nazi magazine which in many languages is widely distributed in neutral countries; YAMATO, a magazine lauding the Japanese published by the Italians; HITLER CODICA EL MUNDO, an expose of Hitler in Spanish by Hermann Rauschnigg and FREEDOM, the Japanese propaganda organ which ironically, displays a picture of American prisoners of war on the cover

Axis propaganda. Here are five of more than one hundred exhibits which...

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Indonesia Historic map, Library of Congress

Indonesia Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale not given. Manuscript: pen-and-ink and col. pencil. Legend pasted on. Shows linguistic groups of Indonesia. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. Vault AACR2

Labels. These labels, "From the United States of America," are printed in at least 16 languages, and placed on supplies of food-stuffs, clothing, medicine, sent from this country to all corners of the world

Labels. These labels, "From the United States of America," are printed...

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Axis propaganda. This pamphlet, telling the story of the American airmen appears here in three of the many languages in which it has been translated. These pamphlets are distributed abroad to combat Axis propaganda, Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War Information (OWI), told newspapermen at his press conference on March 6, 1943

Axis propaganda. This pamphlet, telling the story of the American airm...

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Axis propaganda. Here are five of more than one hundred exhibits which Elmer Davis, director of the Office of War information, displayed to the press at a conference on March 6, 1943, to tell how the OWI was fighting the Axis on the propaganda front. In this collection appear NIPPON, a widely-circulated Japanese propaganda magazine; SIGNAL, the Nazi magazine which in many languages is widely distributed in neutral countries; YAMATO, a magazine lauding the Japanese published by the Italians; HITLER CODICA EL MUNDO, an expose of Hitler in Spanish by Hermann Rauschnigg and FREEDOM, the Japanese propaganda organ which ironically, displays a picture of American prisoners of war on the cover

Axis propaganda. Here are five of more than one hundred exhibits which...

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United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training center, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland. Languages of countries to which they may be assigned are taught in informal seminars as part of the students' regular training before they are sent overseas

United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration training cente...

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China, south coast, principal ethnic groups and dialects

China, south coast, principal ethnic groups and dialects

Public domain image of the vintage map from Norman B. Leventhal Map Center. The Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library is a special collections center in Boston, Massachusetts w... More

Eritrea. Historic map, Library of Congress

Eritrea. Historic map, Library of Congress

Shows languages and religious minorities. Relief shown by gradient tints. "11366, Map Branch, CIA, 8-49." Includes tribal map of Eritrea. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Indonesia linguistic groups. Historic map, Library of Congress

Indonesia linguistic groups. Historic map, Library of Congress

Scale ca. 1:10,500,000. "29958." Includes index to "Linguistic groups." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Philippines, principal vernacular languages.

Philippines, principal vernacular languages.

Scale ca. 1:7,000,000. "38201 1-64." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

[Three St. John's University teachers conferring at strike headquarters: (left to right) Ken Lazara (physics instructor), Dr. Carlo Prisco (Associate professor of modern languages), and Joseph V. Phillips (associate professor of fine arts and strike chairman)] / World-Telegram & Sun photo by Dick DeMarsico.

[Three St. John's University teachers conferring at strike headquarter...

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Nigeria, languages & dialects / Historic map, Library of Congress

Nigeria, languages & dialects / Historic map, Library of Congress

Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. ARP

Communist China, ethnologistic groups.

Communist China, ethnologistic groups.

Scale ca. 1:30,000,000. "78021 4-70." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. AACR2

Africa: Ethnolinguistic groups. 10-70.

Africa: Ethnolinguistic groups. 10-70.

Scale 1:10,400,000. "Principal source: Africa, Its peoples and their culture history, G.P. Murdock." "77465." Includes table of ethnic groups. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster... More

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