Library of Congress Acquires Archives of the National Woman’s Party The donation, timed to the centennial of the 19th Amendment, doubles the library’s holdings relating to the party, which fought for women’s suffrage... 10/12/20 0
Historians to Digitize Endangered Peruvian Archive For years, the historical papers of a Peruvian peasants’ rights group sat heaped in piles on the floor of a house in downtown Lima — threatened by... 10/12/20 0
Hungary: Countless Historical Maps Made Available Online by National Széchényi Library The National Széchényi Library is launching a new digital service called “Földabrosz.” Their ever-expanding database now contains nearly a thousand... 9/1/20 0
Tens of Thousands of Prison Portraits Captured in 15 Australian Jails Over 50 Years: ‘Portraits of Crime’ Now in Remarkable Digital Archive In recent years the NSW State Archives digitised 46,000 images and collated them in an exhibition titled Captured: Portraits of Crime. 8/27/20 3
Searching for America’s 1930s Post Office Murals – a Photo Essay Photographer Justin Hamel stumbled on a Great Depression-era mural one day in a New York post office, and was intrigued to learn there are 1,200 of them... 8/27/20 4
Explore Dorothea Lange’s Iconic Photos With These Online Exhibitions In 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange made headlines with her stunning portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, a 32-year old pea picker in Nipomo, California.... 8/18/20 0
After Spending Rs 24 Million on New Facility, Fate of Nepal National Library Is Still Uncertain After the building that housed Nepal National Library was damaged in the 2015 quake, many books and manuscripts are stored at Mahendra Bhawan School in... 8/7/20 0
‘Just nuts’: Australian Historian Decries Archives Merger Proposal Sydney cultural custodians are divided over a Berejiklian government plan to merge the State Archives with the authority responsible for some of the city’s... 8/7/20 0