This online collection at the University of Georgia provides resources for learning about the Civil RIghts movement of the 1960s and 70s.

Images of the installation of a microfilm reader in 1975. My dad worked on these through most of his working life.

This may be a source of industrial b-roll.

This would be a good source of b-roll of sheep.

I've been looking for old Suck columns, but suck.com is content-free. Fortunately Aaron Schwartz has a mirror of the old articles.

There might be some chuckles in this collection of a TV show about computers that began airing in the 1980s.

Children's Television Workshop now has a site with streaming Flash video of some classic "Sesame Street" clips.

I don't know what this is, but it's cool.

Warren Spector catalyzed this project at the Center for American History.

Library of Congress online exhibit of what I presume to be WPA work.

Archive of world's fair ephemera at The University of Maryland.

I keep meaning to post this video art magazine from the 1970s. Now I have.

I was looking for videos from the N30 protests to show in class today, Students are snickering...

Via Larry Lessig, this service from the University of Toronto caches web pages so scholars can create persistent links to the documents they're citing. It's too bad they couldn't develop a TinyURL URI style.

Archive.org has cached millions of websites related to the events surrounding Hurricane Katrina. They're the folks responsible for the Wayback Machine, so they would probably be caching this information anyway, but it's nice they have the Katrina gateway.

This sounds pretty cool.

David Nunez points to this database of mid-century print ads. I'm particularly interested in the ads for radio and television receivers.

Wow, the Tulsa library has scanned and uploaded hundreds of old photographs of Tulsa. Unfortunately, the interface for browsing the images is terrible. There are no thumbnails and you have to click twice to get to the image.

I was looking around for this for a presentation tomorrow, and, sweet sassy molassy, Ant Farm's groundbreaking video Media Burn is available on the Internet Archive.

Via, Chutry, an archive of the old magazine of things academic, Lingua Franca

This site aggregates profiles of MySpace users who have died.

The venerable database service is adding blogs to the content it hosts, adding a whole new level to blog metrification.

Be sure to check out Dr. Scott's Electric Girdle for Men.

Argentine site with screenshots onomatopeia from the 1960s "Batman" series.

Interview with the president of the Criterion Collection, Peter Becker. The criterion re-releases classic films on DVD and formerly LaserDisc. I wish they'd hurry up and release Alex Cox's _Walker_ on DVD.

Old cigarette TV commercials at Archive.org

UCSB library project to digitally preserve the content of old wax phonograph cylinders. r4d!