Browse Items (16 total)

Work Projects Administration Poster Collection, Handle with Care - Steering Wheels, Library of Congress, 1940-1950

Poster promoting safe driving showing a traffic signal and a steering wheel.Work Projects Administration Poster (WPA) Collection

Tags: Driving, Security, Traffic, Wheels

U.S. Government Printing Office, United States Coast Guard, U.S. Government Printing Office, 1960

The U.S. Coast Guard is one of the five armed forces of the United States and the only military organization within the Department of Homeland…

Tags: Maritime, Military Service, Security, USGC

U.S. Government, History of the United States Secret Service, U.S. Government, 2002

The above is linked to the documented history of the United States Secret Service from its creation in 1865, in Washington D.C., to 2008.

Tags: National Defense, Security, Timelines, US Secret Service

U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI a Centennial History: 1908 - 2008, FBI, No date

In 2008 the United States Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) celebrated its 100th anniversary as a crime fighting and…

Tags: Cryptography, FBI, Intelligence, Security, Surveillance, Timelines, US

U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, U.S. Federal Aviation Administration, FAA, None

The modern age of powered flight began in 1903 when Orville Wright made the first sustained, powered flight on December 17 in a plane he and his…

Tags: FAA, Flying, Security, War

U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor, U.S. Department of Labor, No date given

The Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970 (OSH Act) was passed to prevent workers from being killed or seriously harmed at work. This law created…

Tags: Health, Labor, OSHA, Safety, Security

U.S. Department of Defense - Defense Security Service, U.S. Department of Defense - Defense Security Service, U.S. Department of Defense, None

Vision:
Through partnership and innovation, safeguard our Nation's interests as the premier provider of industrial security risk management and…

Tags: Defense Security Service, Department of Defense, DOD, National Security, Risk Management, Security

U.S. Coast Guard, Battling Blaze on Deepwater Horizon Oilrig, U.S. Coast Guard, 2010

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mohandas K. Gandhi, quoted in Small is Beautiful by E. F.…

Tags: Deepwater Horizon, Disaster, Gulf of Mexico, Oil, Security

Thomas E. Franklin., Ground Zero Spirit, Ground Zero Spirit, 11-Sep-01

On September 11, 2001, in New York City the World Trade Center (WTC) was attacked by terrorists. Flight 11 and flight 175 were hijacked and flown into…

Tags: 9/11, Ground Zero, Security, Terrorism

The Hall of Flame Fire Museum, American La France Motorized Fire Engine, The Hall of Flame Fire Museum, 1938

"An old fire engine used in Burlington. It was the first of its kind to be motorized.

Motorized fire engines didn’t hit the streets until 1910,…

Tags: Fire, Fire Engine, Security