Results for "Library of Congress"
Link Love: 11/20/2020
- Date: November 20, 2020
- Description: 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.
Link Love: 5/19/2017
- Date: May 19, 2017
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: An early infographic explaining Earth in case of chance alien encounters, from 1972! [via Co.Design]A peek at the the 1st weather dataset collected by the Smithsonian in the late 19th century, and what it means about archival practices around data. [via Process History]How Chuck Berry's bright red Cadillac almost didn't make it to the Smithsonian's National Museum of African
Serendipity and Unexpected Connections
- Date: April 23, 2020
- Creator: Ellen Alers
- Description: Sometimes the research process reveals more than an answer to a single question. This is the story of the Smithsonian bison that inspired the “Buffalo Bill.”
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Let Freedom Ring?
- Date: April 20, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_564" align="aligncenter" width="350" caption="Taft Voting, by Bain News Service, publisher, 1912, Library of Congress, LC-B2- 2442-16"][/caption] It’s against the law to photograph certain things, at certain times, in certain places. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently reported that a photograph of an election ballot in a mayoral race—showing the name
Together We Can Meet The Email Preservation and Access Challenge
- Date: June 2, 2016
- Creator: Ricc Ferrante
- Description: How the archives and records management communities is facing the challenge of email preservation.
A Suffrage Protest at the Smithsonian
- Date: February 4, 2020
- Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
- Description: In 1917, police detectives arrested two suffragists suspected of planning a pro-suffrage demonstration at the United States National Museum.
Link Love: 8/1/2014
- Date: August 1, 2014
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
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Stop. Or They’ll shoot!
- Date: April 17, 2009
- Creator: Marvin Heiferman
- Description: [caption id="attachment_534" align="alignleft" width="191" caption="Traffic at 5:30 on Second Avenue, Detroit, Mich., by Arthur Siegel, 1942 July, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, LC-USW36-763 "][/caption] I remember my surprise the day a traffic summons arrived in my mailbox, illustrated with the close-up and pixilated images of my car and license plate
Link Love: 12/26/2014
- Date: December 26, 2014
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: A find for early animation - Archivists at Norway's National Library discovered a missing animation film, Empty Socks, about Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, a Disney precursor to Mickey Mouse. [via The National Library of Norway]A fascinating look at the workshop of Kenji Yamaguchi, a National Geographic employee who builds camera contraptions for their photographers. [via Proof,
Link Love: 9/18/2020
- Date: September 18, 2020
- Description: 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.
Link Love: 3/30/2012
- Date: March 30, 2012
- Creator: Catherine Shteynberg
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.
Link Love: 4/17/2015
- Date: April 17, 2015
- Creator: Mitch Toda
- Description: Link Love: a weekly blog feature with links to interesting videos and stories regarding archival issues, the Smithsonian, and history.