“On the twelfth day of Archives an archivist brought to me: Twelve soldiers who headed for Camp Funston Eleven Marine Corps football players, ten messengers playing poker Eight Navy officers seven of Mrs. Hicks’s eight children, six tiny thorn carvings, five sisters from Alaska, four boys hanging out at the Fletcher aircraft school, three happy girls at a West Virginian celebration, two San Francisco children painting, and one astronaut in space.” Image: Marshall, Saline County, Missouri in the war. Twelve [African American] men who left for Camp Funston, Kansas. June 21, 1919, ARC Identifier 533570.
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“On the twelfth day of Archives an archivist brought to me:

Twelve soldiers who headed for Camp Funston

Eleven Marine Corps football players,

ten messengers playing poker

Eight Navy officers

seven of Mrs. Hicks’s eight children,

six tiny thorn carvings,

five sisters from Alaska,

four boys hanging out at the Fletcher aircraft school,

three happy girls at a West Virginian celebration,

two San Francisco children painting,

and one astronaut in space.”

Image: Marshall, Saline County, Missouri in the war. Twelve [African American] men who left for Camp Funston, Kansas. June 21, 1919, ARC Identifier 533570.

President Eisenhower and Pearl Harbor

A special exhibit featuring documents and artifacts from the Eisenhower Presidential Library and Museum holdings will be on display through December 2011 in the Library and Museum building lobbies to commemorate the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor. Artifacts in the exhibit include Pearl Harbor posters, buttons, sheet music and commemorative stamps, as well as Japanese military items.