Authentic Government Red Tape Flag
A Salute to our Patriotic Heritage!
To commemorate the 75th anniversary of the National Archives, we are releasing a brand new product featuring our authentic government “red tape”:
An American Flag
A perfect addition to any office or proudly displayed in your home, this rendition of our flag has seven pieces of authentic Government “red tape” imbedded.
The term “cutting through the red tape”, a term often used to describe the bureaucracy of government is based the fact that many of our United States documents were once bound with twill tape that had to be “cut through” to gain access.
The tape used in this patriotic product originated from archival documents, some as old as the Civil War, which are held at the National Archives in Washington D.C. Each one is assembled by hand and due to the age of the red tape, pigmentation may vary ensuring that no two flags are exactly the same.
Each flag comes boxed with a packet of non-skid feet, cleaning instructions, and an information card.
Tape has been color enhanced for aesthetic purposes.
Dimensions – 3 1/8” x 4 1/2” x 1”
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Discovering The Civil War
Discovering the Civil War peels back 150 years of accumulated analysis, interpretation, and opinion to reveal a Civil War that is little-known. Featuring over 250 letters, diaries, photos, maps, petitions, receipts, patents, amendments and proclamations from the incomparable holdings of the National Archives, it takes a fresh look at the Civil War through little-known stories, seldom-seen documents, and unusual perspectives. Grouped into themes such as "Spies and Conspiracies," "Prisoners and Casualties," "Global War," and "Raising Armies," this new book looks beyond the battlefield to the experiences of ordinary people. Famous documents, such as the 13th Amendment to the Constitution, are juxtaposed with innovative wartime patents, including a multipurpose device that could serve as a tent, knapsack, or blanket, and a message in Chinese script asking for Confederate ships to be barred from Chinese ports - proving that the Civil War became a truly international struggle.
A generously illustrated book commemorating the 150th anniversary of the outbreak of the Civil War. Foreword by leading documentary filmmaker, Ken Burns, creator of the award-winning film The Civil War. Accompanies a major exhibition showing at the National Archives Building, Washington, DC, through April 2011, before beginning a multi-city national tour in 2011.
208 pages, hardcover, ISBN 978-1-904832-91-1
The March by E.L. Doctorow
Comes with an autographed bookplate.
This unique book “stunningly renders the countless lives swept up in the violence of a county at war with itself. The great march in E.L. Doctorow’s hands becomes something more-a floating world, a nomadic consciousness, and an unforgettable reading experience with awesome relevance to our own times.”
Praise for the Author:
"A ferocious feat of the imagination…Every scene is perfectly realized and feeds into the whole-the themes and symbols echoing and reverberating.” --Newsweek, about the Book of Daniel
“E.L. Doctorow is a national treasure.” --St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Hard Cover Edition, 363 pages
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Campaign Chickamauga PC Game
The "River of Blood"
It was at Chickamauga that Confederate General Braxton Bragg launched his counteroffensive to retake the vital rail junction city of Chattanooga from Union General Rosecrans. And it was at Chickamauga that the Confederacy had one of its last chances to win the American Civil War. Among other things, it was here that General George Thomas won the nickname “Rock of Chickamauga” for this valiant stand.
Chickamauga Features
* 170 stand alone scenarios and 80 campaign scenarios
* 4 different campaigns for a varied campaign experience, each also has a "weather variant" to choose from.
* Scenarios include: Perryville, Stones River, Frankfort, Nashville, Chickamauga, Greater Mill Springs and Chattanooga
* Large maps and inclusive orders of battle offer unlimited possibilities for user-created scenarios.
Engine changes include:
* Added new Mounted Cavalry Skirmisher Optional Rule.
* Added new Artillery Prolong Optional Rule.
* Added new Disrupted Movement Optional Rule.
* Added new Alternate Terrain Graphics scenario option.
* Change so that artillery cannot be spiked the same turn it is captured.
Scenario and Campaign editors are included to allow the player to create their own situations to play out. Play modes include A/I, Hot Seat, PBEM, LAN & Internet play.
Minimum Requirements * Pentium-based 200mhz+ PC with 32 megabytes of RAM. - 250 megabytes of hard drive space
* Windows 98/ME/XP operating system.
* DirectX 9+ is required and will install if not already present and not superceded. Win95 is no longer supported.
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War & Conflict CD-ROM
An amazing virtual catalogue of over 1,500 crisp, clear images relating to American military involvement from 1765-1970 from the National Archives. Features a powerful search engine, sectional text introductions, and additional information included with each image. PC Only. Windows 98, 2000, XP.
Volume One - 10 Prison Files CD
This CD contains the following Leavenworth federal prison files:
1 - Moses Harmon, No. 22
Moses Harmon’s life was complicated by one problem. He was born in the wrong century. Being an advocate of women’s rights in the late 19th century wasn’t just unpopular; it could threaten your liberty. Harmon was the publisher of a newspaper called “Lucifer the Light Bearer” Within the pages of his paper he attacked the state of marriage. Without equal rights for women he argued, it was nothing less than sexual slavery for women. One issue published a letter that described a rape within marriage. Harmon was charged with mailing obscene material under the Comstock Act and became the twenty-second inmate to serve a sentence at Leavenworth.
2 - William Pearce, No. 493
In March of 1909, notorious outlaw William “Driftwood Jim” Pearce was about to be released from Leavenworth at the expiration of his sentence. A prison official sent out a letter warning the Kansas City Chief of Police of the desperado who might soon be walking his streets. The official described him as “a skilled house and Post Office burglar and gun shooter of national fame…He is a bad egg.” Indeed, Driftwood Jim was the leader of the first successful escape from Leavenworth in 1898. He and three other men took two guards hostage and used them as shields during their escape. Pearce remained on the loose for two years until he was arrested for robbing another post office. He was returned to Leavenworth to serve out the remainder of his sentence.
3 - Oberlin Carter, No. 2094
Oberlin Carter was a West Point graduate and Captain in the Army Corp of Engineers. He was court-martialed for defrauding the U.S. Government of nearly two million dollars (nearly fifty million today) while he was the harbor engineer in charge at Savannah, Ga. His fall from grace made national news, and Carter spent the rest of his life trying to clear his name.
4 - Frank Grigware, No. 6768
In 1934 a man named Jim Fahey, was cited in Canada for trapping out of season. Fahey was fingerprinted and disovered to be Frank Grigware, who had broken out of Leavenworth Peniteniary twenty-four years earlier. Grigware’s story reads like a real-life “Les Misérables” with Grigware in the role of Jean Valjean. In 1909 he was convicted with four other men of robbing a Union Pacific train outside of Omaha. Grigware’s conviction was controversial because he was the fifth man convicted in a four man robbery. Some believed he was naïve and unaware of his companions activities, while others thought he was involved all along. Grigware was sentenced to life in prison and sent to Leavenworth, but six months later he and five other men stormed a supply train with fake revolvers carved from wood. They forced the engineer to ram through the west gate of the prison. All five were soon captured except for Grigware who escaped to Canada, and led an exemplary life where he became a husband, father and even mayor of his small town until his arrest over two decades later. He was never extradicted and lived the out the rest of his days in Canada.
5 - Roy Tyler, No. 12276
Tyler was one of one hundred fifty Buffalo Soldiers who in 1917 marched to Houston to confront police after a rumor spread that one of their men had been shot and killed by white officers. The resulting “Houston Riot” left fifteen civilians and four soldiers dead. Fourteen of the rioters were executed but Tyler escaped with a twenty year sentence at Leavenworth for “Mutiny and Assault to Murder.” Tyler was a gifted athlete who played in the Negro Leagues upon being paroled in 1924. In 1929 Tyler was sent to prison again after he was convicted of robbery.
6 - William Haywood, No. 13106
William “Big Bill” Haywood was a labor leader and prominent member of the Industrial Workers of the World (known also as “the Wobblies”) during the early 20th century. In 1917 over one hundred Wobblies were tried under the Espionage Act of 1917 for “conspiring to hinder the draft, encourage desertion, and intimidate others in connection with labor disputes.” He was sentenced to twenty years. A childhood accident cost Haywood his right eye. For the rest of his life he insisted on being photographed from his left profile. His Leavenworth mug shot is the only known photograph of Haywood with his entire face visible. Haywood was temporarily released while the case was appealed in 1921. He fled to Russia where he lived until his death.
7 - C.T. Doreums, No. 15302
Doreums was a surgeon convicted of several counts of aiding and abetting pharmacists to sell morphine and cocaine, a violation of the “The Drug Act.” Sent to Leavenworth on June 13, 1920, he was sentenced to two years, but the President commuted his sentence about six months before he was to be released.
8 - Robert Stroud, No. 17431
The “Birdman of Alcatraz” was never allowed to keep birds there; he bred his canaries at Leavenworth. Burt Lancaster and the “Birdman” movie made Robert Stroud famous, but the mythology it created couldn’t be more removed from the real man and his life. Stroud was a killer who stood trial three times for murder. One day in 1916 Stroud rose from his seat in the lunchroom, walked over to guard Andrew Turner and plunged a knife into his heart in front of everyone in the room. While he admitted to stabbing the guard, he calmly explained that he shouldn’t be charged with a crime because he did nothing wrong
9 - Joe Huffington, No. 32527
In 1920, Huffington was chosen by Imperial Wizard William J. Simmons of Atlanta to start an official Indiana chapter of the Ku Klux Klan. The chapter in Indiana became the largest Klan group in the entire country with an estimated two hundred forty thousand people for the Indianapolis chapter alone. During May 1929, Huffington was sentenced to two years after being convicted of violating of the Dyer Act. (taking a stolen car over state lines). He was eligible for parole in less than a year, but his sentence was commuted by President Hoover. His “First Friend” during parole was a judge in Indiana and his listed position was with the American Christian Association in Indiana. He served less than eight months.
10 - Samuel Caldwell, No. 53861
In 1937 Caldwell had the distinction of being one of the first marijuana offender sent to federal prison. He was arrested while attempting to sell his contraband and had on him six marijuana cigarettes and just over seven ounces of marijuana. He received a four year sentence. The judge in his case stated that marijuana was the most heinous of all drugs and would not allow the possibility of parole. Caldwell did have a long criminal history, including: writing fraudulent checks, carrying and possession of liquor, running a disorderly house, violating city narcotic law and burglary.
-- descriptions by Stephen Spence
Each file download includes a wealth of information about the inmate (i.e., mugshot, admission summary, property lists, personal letters, release statements, etc.)
Bookmarks have been added to all files to make searching easier and more enjoyable.
Adobe Reader© is needed to view these files.
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No refunds available on this product.
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Wednesday, July 14, 2010
National Archives eStore Page Now on Facebook
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Wednesday, June 23, 2010
Take advantage of our HUGE poster sale! Most posters are only $2.50!
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 | Warning!
Dimensions: 20" (w) x 28" (h) This WWI poster was issued by the Navy Publicity Bureau of the Office of Naval Records and Library. The original color poster (ca. 1917-1918) was done by the American artist L.N. Britton. This poster is indexed with the Local Identifier 45-WP-296 (Record Group 45-Naval Records Collection of the Office of Naval Records and Library, 1691-1945) located in the Still Picture Records Section, Special Media Archives Services Division (NWCS-S) of the National Archives II, College Park, MD 20740-6001. The Archive Research Catalog (ARC) Identifier is 516339. --description by Jaime Espiritu |
 | Anacostia River This photograph is entitled Scene in Marsh on Anacostia River, Washington, Capitol in Distance. About 1882. The photographer was John K. Hillers. This 1979 toned gelatin silver print was produced from the original glass plate negative. It was one of 191 photographs that comprised an exhibition in the Circular Gallery of the National Archives in Washington, D.C. The exhibition ran from November 15, 1979 through the fall of 1980. The exhibition was accompanied by the publication of all the photographs in a book entitled The American Image: Photographs from the Archives of the United States, 1860-1960 (Pantheon Books, New York, 1979). -- description by Henry Henley |
 | Poster of the National Archives at College Park Poster of the National Archives at College Park Learning from the Past - Building for the Future Photo by Maxwell Mackenzie Dimensions: 24" x 28" |
Monday, April 26, 2010
We offer a growing selection of clothing and jewelry related to the National Archives.
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 | Presidential Seal Cufflinks
These hand-painted cufflinks capture the many unique details of the Presidential Seal, including the mighty American Bald Eagle, clutching an olive branch in one claw and 13 arrows representing the fighting spirit of the original colonies in the other. The eagle is surrounded by 50 tiny gold stars representing the current 50 states. These magnificent cufflinks are plated with 14KT gold and come complete with a beautiful gift box. |
 | Elvis Presley visits President Richard Nixon T-Shirt Commemorate one of the oddest pairings in U.S. history when you don this shirt featuring one of our most requested photographs. Elvis Presley appeared at the White House gate in 1970, requesting a meeting with then-president Richard M. Nixon to offer his service in the war on drugs. Fortunately, photographs of and correspondence about this visit are in the holdings of the National Archives, otherwise, who would believe it? 100% cotton, gray, printed front and back. Adult sizes S, M, L, XL. |
 | National Archives Baseball Cap (Khaki)
We at the Archives love baseball and our holdings are full of photographs, newsreels, and numerous documents about the game. So it’s only natural we have a cap sporting our logo. Available in khaki, adjustable. |
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