The National Archives will commemorate fifty years since Shirley Chisholm was sworn in as the first African American congresswoman with a special document exhibit. [via National Archives Prologue]
Thanks, Cleveland Museum of Art! 30,000 collection objects have been digitized and made available with a CC0 license. [via Open Culture]
Sculptor Ruth Asawa is the subject of a short documentary, the first in a series hosted by ARTnews and produced by the Archives of American Art. [via AAA]
A new database from the Folger Library lets you search through thousands of British book illustrations. [via Folger Library]
Graduate students at the École du Louvre have launched an interactive map of Parisian landmarks focusing on women’s contributions to art and architecture. [via Smithsonian Magazine]
The fifty-one interviews conducted with historians for the 2013 American Experience miniseries, “The Abolitionists,” are now available to watch in their entirety! [via American Archive]
In a new essay, University of Oregon archivist Alexandra Bisio finds a lot of common ground between Marie Kondo's KonMari Method and archival appraisal. [via ArchivesAWARE!]
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