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Category Archives: Archive
Discovering American Women’s History Online
http://cdm15838.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/women Based at Middle Tennessee State University, this valuable database gives interested parties access to digital collections of primary sources (photos, letters, diaries, and so on) that document the history of women in the United States. Visitors can browse the … Continue reading
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National Security Archive
Image via Wikipedia An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the National Security Archive (http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/) collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. It also serves as a repository of … Continue reading
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Northwest Digital Archives opens up GFU, other archival collections
Over one hundred additional archival collections at liberal-arts colleges in Washington and Oregon are now accessible on Northwest Digital Archives (NWDA). Funded by a $123,188 grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), the granting arm of the … Continue reading
LOC Packard Campus
Opened in 2007, the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio-Visual Conservation in Culpeper, Va., was designed for the acquisition, cataloging, storage and preservation of the nation’s collection of moving images and recorded sounds. In partnership with the Packard Humanities Institute, … Continue reading
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British Newspaper Archive
British Newspapers, 1800-1900 http://newspapers.bl.uk/blcs/ The British Library has done historians a tremendous service by creating this extensive and thoroughly engaging collection of British newspapers from 1800 to 1900. The site contains over two million pages of 19th century newspapers, though … Continue reading
Historic Baseball Resources
Image by The Library of Congress via Flickr Historic Baseball Resources http://www.loc.gov/topics/baseball/index.html The Library of Congress is ready to take die-hard baseball fans out to the (virtual) ballgame with this cornucopia of digital resources related to America’s favorite pastime. Visitors … Continue reading
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Archive of Japanese American Relocation
Online Archive of the Japanese American Relocation during World War II http://departments.oxy.edu/digitalarch/web/index.htm From 1941 to 1946, Occidental College President Remsen DuBois Bird and College Librarian Elizabeth McCloy made it their mission to preserve articles, newspapers, pamphlets, and other items related … Continue reading
Oregon Multicultural Archives
Oregon Multicultural Archives Digital Collection http://digitalcollections.library.oregonstate.edu/cdm4/client/cultural/index.html Ethnic minorities in Oregon are the subject of this Oregon State University Library website and the collection “consists of images that document the lives and activities of ethnic minorities in Oregon.” With its streamlined … Continue reading
Drug Industry Document Archive
University of California, San Francisco: Drug Industry Document Archive http://dida.library.ucsf.edu/ This archive is one that will be of particular importance to those with an interest in public health, public policy, and the general activities of pharmaceutical companies. The Drug Industry … Continue reading
Google Wins in France
After a four year legal battle Google has won its fight to scan the archives of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France. Read more in the article, “Google bruises Gallic pride as national library does deal with search giant“, in the … Continue reading
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