On Friday, May 24, the National Gallery of Canada (NGC), in partnership with Library and Archives Canada (LAC), will present Early Exploration Photographs in Canada, the first in a series of installations that will be on display at the NGC over the next three years.Made possible by a recent agreement between the two institutions, this series is dedicated to making LAC's rich documentary heritage more accessible to the public.
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Brazil and China will exchange information on the digital preservation of historical archives, state news agency Agencia Brasil said on Monday.
The fifth tranche of colonial administration records is now available to view in the reading rooms at The National Archives. This release contains records from Ceylon, Kenya, Malta, Mauritius, New Hebrides, Nigeria, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland, Palestine, Sierra Leone and Singapore.
Officially, they were men from Swansea and surrounding towns including Neath and Port Talbot who made up the 14th (Service Battalion), The Welsh Regiment, part of the Welsh 38th Division during World War I.
The records of thousands of 19th century immigrants to Britain are now available to search and download online.
This application provides a fully searchable placename index to the Valuation Revision Books (VAL/12/B) covering counties Antrim, Armagh, Down, Fermanagh, Londonderry and Tyrone between the years 1864 to 1933.
Wills and testamentary records are of assistance to genealogists as evidence of the date of a person’s death and for other information which they may contain concerning the dead person’s family, place of residence and property.
St Thomas’ Anglican Church early parish registers give a fascinating insight into early settler and convict society, a family history society says. Those records will be available in a user friendly publication produced by Port Macquarie & Districts Family History Society.
Little things slow down the process of putting 40 million pages of ancient manuscripts in the Vatican Library online: gold or silver in the illuminations, bindings that disintegrate if you open them, getting the synergy right.
A black braid hangs thick over his shoulder, trailing down his traditional Chinese garb and past his slippered feet to the floor. The brim of his hat reaches toward the ceiling. His gaze trails just to the right of the camera.
Hundreds of historical photographs are now available to view on the Dickinson County Library's website.
PhotosNormandie offered up 3,000+ CC photos from WWII, the NYC Department of Records compiled a database of over 870,000 photos of “the greatest city on earth,” and now the Finnish Defense Forces have put up an online archive of their own, showcasing almost 160,000 wartime photos from Finland during WWII.
Sifting through old Washington County court records, or reviewing old recipes and remedies, can help researchers find the key information they need about Appalachian culture.
The files include the text of a speech delivered on 31 July 1941 by erstwhile head of the Polish government-in-exile and commander of Polish armed forces in the West, General Wladyslaw Sikorski; instructions for a media campaign by Polish foreign missions in March 1940; and the personal files of writer Jaroslaw Iwaszkiewicz (from 1932 to 1964) who was also President of the Polish Writers’ Union.
The storied New York Stock Exchange in Manhattan's Financial District is rich with history. That history has been kept alive, in part, because the organization has kept thorough archives since 1792.