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  1. 1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy

    Man on a motorcycle

  2. 1953 Inauguration

    January 20, 1953- Eisenhower takes the Oath of Office as President of the United States. Chief Justice Fred Vinson administers the oath.

  3. 1957 Inauguration

    72-2061-11 (NPS)

  4. Alaska Statehood

    January 3, 1959 - President Eisenhower signs the Alaska Proclamation admitting Alaska as the 49th state.

  5. Ardennes Campaign - Battle of the Bulge

    January 15, 1945 - Rendezvous for two elements of the 84th Division at an abandoned mill near River L'Ourt, Belgium.

  6. Atoms for Peace

    August 30, 1954 - Eisenhower signs H.R. 9757, an act "to amend the Atomic Energy Acto of 1946." The signing was witnessed in his office by various senators, congressmen and members of the Atomic Energy Commission.

  7. Camp David

    October 2, 1960 - David Eisenhower at the entrance to Camp David.

  8. Civil Rights

    May 5, 1955 - John H. Sengstacke, publisher of the Chicago Defender, presents Eisenhower with the Robert Abbott Award.

  9. CORONA

    August 15, 1960 - Eisenhower holds the American flag which was carried in the capsule retrieved from Discoverer XIII.

  10. D-Day

    June 6, 1944 - Gliders bring in supplies to U.S. army troops fighting on Utah Beach.

  11. Dwight D. Eisenhower with Celebrities

    March 19, 1955 - Joe E. Brown, Ray Bolger, Howard Keel, Connie Russell, Eisenhower, Lena Horne, Liberace, and Sid Richardson.

  12. Dwight: Portraits, Early Years, and Family

    Dwight D. Eisenhower, February 13, 1959.

  13. Funeral Ceremony

    March 30, 1969 - Dignitaries pay their last respects in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol.

  14. Growing Up in Abilene, 1900

    Historical photo of the Abilene High School Baseball Team.

  15. Hawaii Statehood

    August 21, 1959 - Admitting Hawaii as the 50th state to join the Union. In attendance are Fred Seaton, Daniel K. Inouye, Edward Johnson, Sam Rayburn, Richard Nixon, Lt. Col. James S. Cook, Jr., and Maj. Gen. A.T. McNamara.

  16. Holocaust

    April 12, 1945 - A portion of the bodies found by U.S. troops when they arrived at Nordhausen concentration camp.

  17. International Geophysical Year

    Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica - An ice drilling rig begins the task of making a hole through the seven foot thick ice in order to set up a fishing site for the scientist of U.S. Antarctic Research Program.

  18. Interstate Highway System

    November 3, 1959 - Eisenhower participates in the ribbon cutting ceremony opening the new extension to the George Washington Memorial Parkway.

  19. Jonas Salk & The Polio Vaccine

    April 22, 1955 - Presentation of citation by Eisenhower to Dr. Salk and Mr. O'Connor.

  20. Korean War

    December 4, 1952 - Eisenhower inspects living quarters of troops of the Republic of Korea's Capitol Division during his visit to Division headquarters, Korea. Maj. General Song You Chai, CG, ROK Capitol Division, is at right background.

  21. Life in Abilene, 1900

    Historic Photo of Mrs. Jolley's Millinery Shop

  22. Louisiana Maneuvers

    1941 - Camp Polk Louisiana Colonel George Barker, Lieutenant General Lesley J. McNair, and DDE studying situation maps.

  23. Mamie: Portraits, Early Years, and Doud Family

    Portrait of Mamie, 1914-1915

  24. McCarthyism

    Senator McCarthy holding a photostat of the Daily Worker which includes an advertisement for a Communist front organization to which he alleged that Miss Dorothy Kenyon, a former State Department employee, had once joined.

  25. Monuments Men

    General Dwight D. Eisenhower inspects art treasures looted by the Germans and stored in the depths of a salt mine in Germany.

  26. National Aeronautics & Space Agency (NASA)

    April 1, 1960 - Eisenhower and Dr. T. Keith Glennan review photographs transmitted from Satellite Tiros I. The satellite was designed under NASA's national program in space exploration to aid in meterorological research.

  27. Nineteenth Century Fun & Games

    Historical photo of the C.W. Parker Amusement Company, 1899.

  28. People-to-People

    October 19, 1959 - Committee Chairmen of Eisenhower's People-to-People program.

  29. Remembering Old Downtown

    Historical photo of the Dickinson County Courthouse.

  30. White House Staff Book 1953 - 1961

    National Geographic Article Page 26

  31. Women in the 1890s

    Homestead of the William Botz Family. Mrs. Botz holds her baby. Flora Township, Dickinson County near Manchester, 1898.

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