Description: The University of North Carolina at Chapel wants to make archiving more accessible with Archivist in a Backpack. [via Hyperallergic]The Field Book Project wrapped up May 31 with a contribution of 517,000 pages of field books to the Biodiversity Heritage Library and Internet Archive! [via BHL Blog]Some lessons learned from archiving Lubalin's Radical 60's magazines. [via AIGA's
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.
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="430" caption="Henry Steinway and Van Cliburn inspect Paderewski piano on display in NMHT (NMHT), now the National Museum of American History (NMAH), Musical Instruments Hall, 9 December 1975, by Dale Hrabak, Photographic print, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 371 Box 2, Negative Number: 76-17811-28."][/caption]
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="421" caption="This rare 1948 Tucker automobile was acquired by the National Museum of American History for its transportation collection. The car was designed by Preston Tucker, Alex Tremulis, and a team of stylists and engineers. It is one of only 51 such cars produced by Tucker Corporation before Preston Tucker became embroiled in
Description: An important part of the museum story that we often forget: how the objects got there in the first place. Donors’ stories often reveal the fascinating and complicated path that object take before they come into the Smithsonian’s collections. Here’s a great read on a family who collected celluloid (plastic) souvenirs, jewelry, products, and knick-knacks, that now reside at the
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="222" caption="In the City Where Nobody Cares, by unidentified photographer, 1910, National Museum of American History, Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] A couple of years ago, as soon as Google’s Street View application was introduced, it generated worldwide controversy. Ground-level photographic images, shot from cameras
Description: [caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="237" caption="This is America...Keep it Free!, Dorothea Lange, 1942, National Museum of American History, Kenneth E. Behring Center, Archives Center."][/caption] More cameras in more places. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the installation of red light cameras and the controversy surrounding their use that’s continuing to spread
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