Handwritten Letter requesting the Arizona Territory be established.
This #HouseRecord, written #OTD 1862, sought to establish a temporary government for the #AZ Territory. 50 years later it would become a state. #HouseRecords https://loom.ly/OVpwGRg
Handwritten Letter from January 3, 1857
#OTD 1857 Utah's territorial delegate asked for more money to finish the state house in Fillmore. By 1858, the territorial government decamped to Salt Lake City. Congress refused to fund a new state house until 1916. #HouseRecords https://loom.ly/rsW99AM
Handwritten document signed by John Muir
#OTD in 1893, John Muir advocated for preservation of Yosemite National Park borders. #HouseRecords #RecordsSearch https://loom.ly/tOFeXGI
Petition for West Virginia statehood
#WV citizens petitioned the House for statehood in December 1862. Request granted in June 1863. #HouseRecords https://loom.ly/I8yE0vM
pre-printed postcard from 1913
Although there's no evidence they came across Santa's workshop, two men claimed to be the first to reach the North Pole 1909. This postcard asked Congress to investigate who made it there first. #HouseRecords https://loom.ly/3hg_4kg
Letter from Queen Liliuokalani
Queen Liliuokalani protested annexation of her beloved Hawaii to the US #OTD in 1898. #HouseRecords #RecordsSearch https://loom.ly/62Bilfc
A Tally Sheet with names and check marks next to them.
#HistoryTeachers, design a #DBQ using #WWII documents like the tally sheet for the U.S. declaration of war against Japan. #sschat #HouseRecords history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/15032...
Letter from The Old Time Printers' Association of Chicago
#OTD 1917, the Old-Time Printers' Assn. of Chicago wrote in support of Prohibition, asking Congress to, "remove the blighting curse of the liquor traffic, root and branch, from American Life." #RecordsSearch #HouseRecords history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/15032...
Typed letter from Representative Martin to Speaker Cannon.
Rep Eben Martin of #SD asked Speaker Joe Cannon for a "lesser" committee assignment #OTD 1905. #RecordsSearch #HouseRecords history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/15032...
Petition from the National American Woman Suffrage Association in favor of the creation of the Committee on Woman Suffrage
#OTD 1917 the House created a Committee on Woman Suffrage. This petition urged its creation. #RecordsSearch #HouseRecords history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/15032...
Document with fancy black border and letterhead plus a seal from the Minnesota Department of State ratifying the 19th Amendment
#MN became the 15th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, #OTD in 1919. #HouseRecords #RecordsSearch history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/15032...
Election credentials for Romualdo Pacheco's 1879 election to the House
#OTD in 1850, #CA entered the Union as a state. In 1876, Romualdo Pacheco's was the first Hispanic American Representative in Congress. This certificate verified his second election in 1879. #HouseRecords #PrimarySources history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/15032...
The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom took place #OTD in 1963. Judiciary Committee Counsel Benjamin Zelenko remembers attending and its impact on Members of Congress. #CivilRights #OralHistory #HouseRecords #CivicsEducation history.house.gov/Oral-History/Events/Civi...
HJ Res 1, introduced in the House, extended the right of suffrage to women. After ratification by 3/4ths of the states #OTD 1920, it became the 19th Amendment to the Constitution. #HouseRecords #PrimarySources history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/25769...
Handwritten letter to Chairman Celler in support of the VRA
"Our Democratic heritage cannot advance until all have the right to vote and participate." This letter from a Brooklyn, NY, resident supported the #VotingRightsAct, which became law #OTD in 1965. #HouseRecords history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Detail/25769...
Timeline of events in Selma, AL, in 1965 and the passage of the Voting Rights Act
#OTD 1965, the Voting Rights Act was signed into law. Use #OralHistory and #HouseRecords to explore how this landmark legislation came to be. #VRA history.house.gov/Exhibitions-and-Publicat...
Handwritten letter to Chairman Celler in support of the VRA
HR 6400 introduced on March 17, 1965. It became the VRA.
The #VotingRightsAct passed the House #OTD 1965. Explore #HouseRecords relating to how the law was made, including the bill as introduced and a letter in support. history.house.gov/HouseRecord/Search
Yellowed document handwritten in script with numbers in the ledger
"FY 1789." The government's first budget, submitted #OTD in 1789, can be found in #HouseRecords.
Bill to amend the National Labor Relations Act
Color coded map of the United States showing Regionalized farming
Tally Sheet for a vote in the House
Bill that became the Lend Lease Act
Learn more about the United States during the Great Depression and World War II with these records from the House of Representatives. #HistoryBlog #HouseRecords loom.ly/2OLPoQQ
Handwritten letter
Image of three boys selling newspapers in front of the Capitol
Petition entitled "Give Us Pure Lager Beer"
Petition from high school students.
Where are the #teachers? Latest in our #HistoryBlog: Use #HouseRecords for #PrimarySource #LessonPlans on the Development of the Industrial United States and the Emergence of Modern America (1870–1931). #TeachingWithPrimarySources loom.ly/IULPAUs
Letter from The Old Time Printers' Association of Chicago
#OTD 1917, the Old-Time Printers' Assn. of Chicago wrote in support of Prohibition, asking Congress to, "remove the blighting curse of the liquor traffic, root and branch, from American Life." #RecordsSearch #HouseRecords loom.ly/_4nt-LM
