Understanding 9/11: A Television News Archive. John C.H. Grabill's Photos of Western Frontier Life | Plog — World news photography, Photos. Posted Feb 23, 2011 Share This Gallery inShare281 Between 1887 and 1892, John C.H. Grabill sent 188 photographs to the Library of Congress for copyright protection. Grabill is known as a western photographer, documenting many aspects of frontier life — hunting, mining, western town landscapes and white settlers’ relationships with Native Americans. Title: "The Deadwood Coach" Side view of a stagecoach; formally dressed men sitting in and on top of coach. 1889.
Title: Villa of Brule A Lakota tipi camp near Pine Ridge, in background; horses at White Clay Creek watering hole, in the foreground. 1891. Title: Ox teams at Sturgis, D.T. Title: The last large bull train on its way from the railroad to the Black Hills Summary: Train of oxen and three wagons in open field. 1890. Title: Freighting in "The Black Hills". Title: Freighting in the Black Hills A woman and a boy using bullwhackers to control a train of oxen. Title: At the Dance. Title: Indian chiefs who counciled with Gen. Title: U.S. AmericanaTVblog | Il blog di Andrea Salvadore. 14 Rare Color Photos From the FSA-OWI. Photo by Russell Lee. Jack Whinery and his family, homesteaders, Pie Town, New Mexico, 1940. Even today, many documentary photographers will tell you they are influenced by the works of the Farm Security Administration in the 1930s and 40s.
Under the direction of Roy Emerson Stryker, the FSA sent photographers to document the plight of the rural farmer during the Great Depression and the progress of New Deal programs. When the U.S. entered World War II, the photography program continued under the Office of War Information (OWI). The best-known FSA photographs are in black and white. Less commonly seen are the color photos by FSA and OWI photographers, shot between 1939 and 1945. Below we present a selection from the works Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, FSA-OWI Collection. 1930s-40s in Color – un set su Flickr. 2008 Presidential Election Interactive Map and History of the Electoral College. Military Bases. Influence & Lobbying.
Use these resources in OpenSecrets.org's Influence & Lobbying section, which are also found at the left, to learn more about Washington's influence industry and its most powerful players. Interest Groups Just about any interest group you can think of has a presence in Washington-and spends money to maintain that presence. Here we've totaled all the campaign contributions over the years from more than 100 interest groups, so that you can see patterns that might have affected policies with an impact on your life. We also track how much interest groups have been spending on lobbying, which is the other side of the influence coin. Lobbying Professional advocates make big bucks to lobby members of Congress and government officials on the issues their clients care about.
Revolving Door You've heard it before - it's not what you know, it's who you know. PACs Organizations Influence in Washington is created from many ingredients. 527s.