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From Books by Black Women to Electricians' Stories, a Show Catalogues Alternative Archives
An exhibition at Nurture Art features evolving collections of art and testimony from people too often left out of official histories.
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Why a Herbarium of 7.8 Million Plants Is One of New York's Most Valuable Resources
The New York Botanical Garden is home to the world's second-largest herbarium, a vital archive in an era of vanishing botanical collections.
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Shuffle 200,000 Tracks from European Sound Archives
Europeana Radio is a new platform to access thousands of historic tracks from audio collections in European libraries, universities, and other institutions.
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Travel the Early-20th-Century World in Over 700 Films from the Penn Museum Archives
The Digital Penn Museum is a new portal to thousands of objects, videos, lectures, and other archives of the institution for archaeology and anthropology.
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Over 250,000 Photographs from the George Eastman Museum Go Online
The George Eastman Museum's historic photo collection is being digitized and it includes many important works of art.
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How a Magician Preserved the Ephemera of Victorian Entertainment
The British Library exhibits selections from its archive on Victorian entertainment, all collected by the 19th-century magician Evanion.
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National Archive GIFs Tell US History in Motion
The National Archives launches an online resource of GIFs from its collections of historic film, photography, art, and animation.
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Photographs of a Cree Community Before a Manmade Flood Washed It Away
A new online archive revisits George Legrady's 1973 photography project about the Cree communities of James Bay, Quebec.
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A New Online Trove Brings Historical Silhouettes to Light
The popularity of silhouettes in the 18th and 19th centuries wasn't only due to them being an affordable form of portraiture before the era of photography, the art also fit with popular pseudosciences like phrenology.
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Assert Your 21st Amendment Freedom by Transcribing Wine Label History
More than 5,000 wine labels at the University of California, Davis, chronicle the industry from the 1800s to the 1950s, before and after Prohibition in the United States.
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Listening to Archived Sounds Amid the Stacks at the New York Public Library
Up on the second floor of the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, you might hear the rising notes of opera faintly ringing from a card catalogue, or see people wearing headphones at the ends of the sheet music aisles.
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Rescuing the Logbooks of 19th-Century Whaling Ships
Each whaling ship that departed the northeastern United States carried a logbook aboard, in which whale hunts, shipwrecks, weather conditions, and daily sailing life were recorded.