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'Cryptogram' in a silk dress tells a weather story

Was this silk dress worn by an early employee of the National Weather Service?
Mystery code in the pocket tells a story about early forecasting.

Sometimes a dress is just a dress. In this story, a dress becomes a kind of time travel portal, where we get to return very briefly to the Industrial Revolution & learn about the history of weather forecasting on the frontiers of North America in the 1800s.

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The title page of the Weather Bureau’s 1892 Weather Code book. (Image credit: Sean Jones, NOAA Central Library)
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Born on this day, the Works Progress Administration established through Executive Order No. 7034 issued on May 6, 1935. archives.gov/research/guide-fe

The attached video excerpt from NBC News Special - Nothing to Fear: The Legacy of FDR (1/24/1982) talks about how the WPA played a crucial role in advancing American culture during the 1930s. While it was primarily an employment and infrastructure program, it also had a significant impact on the arts and humanities.

Thank you to the @internetarchive for preserving this important part of our cultural heritage! Full video: archive.org/details/youtube-SH

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