- Two very different cases of unexpected discovery of photos: World War I negatives found in an attic and a camera caught by a fisherman in Lake Tahoe, California. [via PetaPixel]
- Excited about the Sochi Winter Olympics? Janes Rogers, curator at the National Museum of American History, gives you a tour of the museum's collection of Winter Olympic related items. [via O Say Can You See? blog, NMAH]
- Congratulations to Cornell University Library which recently acquired its 8 millionth volume! [via InfoDocket]
- Meet the real "Monuments Men" at the Archives of American Art's new exhibition, MONUMENTS MEN: On the Frontline to Save Europe’s Art, 1942-1946, at the Smithsonian American Art Museum [via The Torch, SI]
- A new updated version of the Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library was launched this week that has 10,000 newly uploaded images. [via Jennifer Wright, SIA]
- Stanford University Libraries and the Bibliothèque national de France partnered to create a French Revolution Digital Archives that includes more than 14,000 hi-res images. [via InfoDocket]
- Going it alone . . . Cezar Popescu's mission to save over 5000 portraits captured on deteriorating glass plate negatives and several hundred prints by digitizing them. See his process as he digitized each negative in the video below. [via PetaPixel]
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