- Acquisitions of note - The Library of Congress acquired 500 images from the collection of Robin Stanford of Houston which depict a Civil War era United States and slavery and Yale's Beinecke Library and the Library of Congress acquired the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection of more than 73,000 items that document American history from the Civil War through the end of the nineteenth century and record the rise of photography as an common practice. [via Washington Post and InfoDocket]
- Check out the beta version of the redesigned records section of The National Archives (United Kingdom), Help With Your Research, which is streamlined into eleven new categories to help researchers find what they are looking for. [via The National Archives blog]
- The art and science of conservation at the Freer|Sackler Galleries. [via The Guardian]
- New York City is on display in an online gallery of over 900,000 historical images of the city. [via Open Culture]
- Going to great lengths - The Frontier Nursing Service helped provide medical services for pregnant mothers and their babies who otherwise were at risk of death or serious medical complications. [via O Say Can You See? blog, NMAH]
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