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Photos and snapshots taken of Bethel Nadine Holmes Van Tassel, her Vantassel family, and locations and places or events from her life.

Bethel Nadine Holmes 11 months

3 Holmes Sisters in 1918

Bethel in the Philippines

Mama Visits at The Woods Resort

Starting off for Tennessee

Visit to Aunt Alma - Dad's Sister

3 Holmes Sisters in 1942

On the Yellowstone River

Rhoda Beach Aldred descendants

Martha Holmes in Kentucky

Bethel & Van in Indiana

Santa Cruz Boardwalk Photobooth

Graduation of Bethel Nadine Holmes

Bethel Holmes at 14

Visit to the French Ranch

Visit to Uncle Harry Holmes Ranch

Hammonton Front Yard

Visit to Holmes Ranch

Jungletown Jitney

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In 1909, in the year that Bethel Nadine Holmes Van Tassel was born, the NAACP was founded by W. E. B. Du Bois. The organization focused on legal strategies designed to confront the critical civil rights issues of the day - which included lynching and segregation in schools. The goal was to secure for all people the rights guaranteed in the 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments to the United States Constitution.

In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson signed a proclamation designating Mother's Day, the second Sunday in May, as a national holiday to honor mothers. Anna Jarvis had championed a Mother's Day for years but Congress had joked a few years earlier that then they would have to proclaim a "Mother-in-law's Day" as well. The President who championed a woman's right to vote also created a day in their honor.

In 1933, the day after being inaugurated, the new President, Franklin Roosevelt, declared a four-day bank holiday to stop people from withdrawing their money from shaky banks (the bank run). Within 5 days of his administration, the Emergency Banking Act was passed - reorganizing banks and closing insolvent ones. In his first 100 days, he asked Congress to repeal Prohibition (which they did), signed the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, signed legislation that paid commodity farmers to leave their fields fallow, thus ending surpluses and boosting prices, signed a bill that gave workers the right to unionize and bargain collectively for higher wages and better working conditions as well as suspending some antitrust laws and establishing a federally funded Public Works Administration, and won passage of 12 other major laws that helped the economy.

In 1985, in May, a paper published in Nature by three British scientists reported that a huge hole was discovered in the ozone layer over the Antarctic. It was much larger than expected and is due to the use of manmade chemicals.

In 1999, on January 1st, the Euro became the new official single currency of the eurozone. It was used by Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, and Spain and has since spread in use. Daily, over 337 million Europeans use the euro.