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Historical Documents Online:
Search Hints for Selected Topics in ARC

Search Hints for Historical Documents Online introduce visitors to the majority of the 125,000 plus digitized historical documents, photographs, and images that are accessible online in ARC. Here we provide:

• Short descriptions of highlighted collections
• Step-by-step search instructions
• A sample digital image from each highlighted collection

This starting point will help you search in ARC for digital images on the topics listed below.

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  Illustrated family record (Fraktur) found in Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application File R8260, for Thomas Pinkham, New Hampshire., ca. 1800 - ca. 1900. ARC ID 300048. Old Military and Civil Records (Washington, DC).

  African American History
  
  
• American History
  
  
• Aviation
  
  
• Buffalo Bill
  
  
• Congressional Records
  
  
• Court Records
  
  
• Exhibits
  • Public Vaults
    
    
• Federal Employees
  
  
• Federal Programs
  
  
• Genealogy
  
  
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  Unemployed men queued outside a depression soup kitchen opened in Chicago by Al Capone, 02/1931.
  ARC ID 541927. Still Pictures Unit (College Park, Maryland).

  
  
  

  

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  [Photograph from] Declaration of Intention of Maria von Trapp, 01/21/1944. ARC ID 596198. NARA's Northeast Region (Boston, Massachusetts).

  Immigration / Emigration
  • Aliens
  • Chinese Immigration
  • Naturalization Records
    
    
• Labor
  
  
• Maps and Geographic Materials
  
  
• Military Records
  • American Revolutionary War
  • Army Records
  • Civil War
  • Korean War
  • Navy Records
  • Official Military Personnel Files
  • Spanish-American War
  • Vietnam Conflict
  • World War I
  • World War II
    
    
• National Parks / National Park Service
  
  
• Native American Indian Records
  
  
• Natural Disasters
  
  
• Special Projects
  • Google Collaboration (Google Video)
    
    
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  ARC Identifier: 281568, Title: "Comic book produced for General Electric Company titled 'Adventures Inside the Atom', 1948"

  Presidential Materials
  • George H. W. Bush
  • Jimmy Carter
  • Dwight D. Eisenhower
  • Gerald R. Ford
  • Herbert Hoover
  • Lyndon B. Johnson
  • John F. Kennedy
  • Richard M. Nixon
  • Ronald Reagan
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt
  • Harry S. Truman
  • Miscellaneous
    
    
• Prisons
  
  
• Records Management
  
  
• Regional Archives
  
  
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  Jimmy Carter and Rosalynn Carter sing with Martin Luther King, Sr., Coretta Scott King, Andrew Young
  and other civil rights leaders during a visit to Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, 01/14/1979
  ARC Identifier: 183007
  Jimmy Carter Library, Atlanta, GA

  Science, Technology, Natural Resources and the Environment
  • Agriculture and Related Research
  • Civil and Mechanical Engineering
  • Energy
  • Environmental Studies
  • Forests and Forestry
  • Land Use and Surveying
  • Marine / Navigation
  • Medicine and Public Health
  • Mining and Mineral Resources
  • Patents and Inventions
    
    
• Transportation
  
  
• Women
  
  

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