Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893. Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 95, Image no. MAH-12188

Link Love: 12/07/2018

Link Love: a weekly post with links to interesting videos and stories about archival issues, technology and culture, and Washington D.C. and American history.

Make some crafts at the National Postal Museum’s Holiday Card Workshop this weekend. [via East City Art]

The Newberry's Pictures from an Exposition exhibit revisits the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition, also documented in the Archives’s Record Unit 70. [via the Newberry]

Chicago World's Columbian Exposition, 1893

Cambridge University’s Violence Research Centre has launched a morbid (yet fascinating) digital humanities project in the form of the London Medieval Murder Map. [via Atlas Obscura]

The Louis Armstrong House Museum has digitized the musician’s personal papers, now available for browsing online! [via JAZZIZ]

Producers of a National Gallery podcast share their perspectives on Renaissance art! [via National Gallery]

Check out hundreds of newly digitized medieval manuscripts from the British Library and the National Library of France. [via infoDOCKET]

A new AR (augmented reality) app will install a Vermeer exhibit wherever you point your phone. [via Open Culture]

The early web artwork Unfolding Object has been restored by the Guggenheim—see a video below, or “unfold” it yourself here! [via Mellon Foundation]

 

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