livelymorgue:

Aug. 13, 1969: “Data processing cards joined ticker tape in paper blizzard,” read the caption on this photograph, which was published the day after the three Apollo 11 astronauts paraded through New York. The Sanitation Department cleaned up 300 tons of paper the following day. Mayor John V. Lindsay had urged employers to give their workers time to watch the motorcade. The city’s public events commissioner said the turnout was “the biggest ever in the history of New York.” Another article quoted an 8-year-old from Connecticut. “There’s a lot of confetti down there,” he said, “but I don’t see any astronauts.” Photo: Jack Manning/The New York Times 

Today in Tumblrs that are so, so cool: The NYT’s Lively Morgue is a collection of great photographs from their archives, accompanied by the notes that appear on the back of each one. 

Notes

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    We should all be celebrating like
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    who returned from the moon.
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