The John F. Kennedy Presidential Digital Archive debut on the web for the first time this Thursday (January 13, 2011). Thursday also marks the 50th anniversary of JFK’s inauguration.

This online exhibition of letters and audio, created by the Gilder Lehrman Institute and the Legacy Project, features correspondence from over 200 years of American conflicts, ranging from the Revolution to the war in Iraq. This exhibition uses the words of famous generals and lesser-known troops, as well as parents, sweethearts, and children, to explore such themes as leaving home, life in the military, the pride and worries of those left behind, and ultimate sacrifice.

Genealogical Society of Washtenaw County, Michigan, Inc.

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The Bentley Historical Library was established in 1935 by the University of Michigan Regents to carry out two functions: to serve as the official archives of the University and to document the history of the state of Michigan and the activities of its people, organizations and voluntary associations. (learn more...)

The Digital Photo Archives Project is a cooperative venture between the Ypsilanti Historical Society and the University of Michigan Digital Library System. When completed the collection will contain approximately 5,000 photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. Images included cover people, buildings, homes, events, celebrations and other subjects. Click here to go to the web pages for the Digital Photo Archives Project.

The "Constantinos A. Doxiadis Archives" are hosted at the Benaki Museum - Pireos St. Annexe, Athens, Greece. They contain nearly all of Doxiadis' original writings, projects, drawings and photographs, as well as the full body of his correspondence, professional memoranda and notes. A significant part of the catalogue is available for on-line search.

A thousand years hence, it will be easy to miss the fact that the text comes from two different periods of time, separated by 62 years. Will all information (regardless of when it was produced) end up packaged in one agglutinated mass? Perhaps this is an example of an unintentional falsification — where we completely loss track of context, where there is no longer a before and after. Only an endless present.

Depressing and not getting enough notice: masked police recently raided the office of the Russian human rights group Memorial, which has been digitally cataloguing the artifacts and names of those affected by the Soviet Gulag. The police took drives containing biographical information on more than 50,000 victims of Stalinist repression and over 10,000 digital photographs, among other unique archival documents. We worked with Memorial on our Gulag history project. (Thanks to Elena Razlogova for bringing this to my attention.)

A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

aviation history via abandoned airfield

cph.jpgFor the past two years around Christmas, I’ve shared this wonderful album performed by the children in the Inpatient Music Therapy Program at the University of Michigan’s Children’s Psychiatric Hospital. The response has always been fantastic. Tracks from the album have found their way onto the playlists on WFMU in New York, have been used as background music in between shows at the Music Box Theater in Chicago, Illinois, and, judging from the many emails I’ve received and from my server logs, has been enjoyed by hundreds of people all over the world.

"The purpose of this Request for Proposals is to solicit proposals to be the Initiative Manager of the American Archive Pilot Program. The Initiative Manager, working in close consultation with CPB, will coordinate and support the development, execution, and evaluation of grants to public television and radio stations for the collection, coding, digitization, and possible restoration of existing content."

My partner Megan and I run a research library in San Francisco that we built around our personal book, periodical and ephemera collections. At some point it got a life of its own and started growing like mushrooms in Mendocino. Many of you know it because you’re our honored shelvers. We joke about how it’s a library full of bad ideas; I characterize it as 98% false consciousness. It’s full of outdated information, extinct procedures, self-serving explanations, ideas that never passed the smell test, and lies. And yet that’s where you find the truth. You can’t judge the past at its best, you need to confront its imperfections. And of course that’s true for the present as well.

jpeg 2000 is the archival format

The Library of Michigan houses copies of Anatomy of a Murder and other books by John Voelker (Most were written under the name “Robert Traver.”). Richard D. Shaul examined Voelker’s life in “Backwards Barrister,” an article in the November/December 2001 issue of Michigan History magazine. Northern Michigan University Archives houses Voelker’s personal papers, and their web site can be found at: http://www.nmu.edu/archives/ The Archives of Michigan houses photos of John Voelker and historic documents of the Michigan Supreme Court. Those curious about the Court’s history can consult Scott A. Noto’s A Brief History of the Michigan Supreme Court (Lansing: Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society, 2001). The Michigan Supreme Court Historical Society web site (http://www.micourthistory.org) contains a wealth of information, including biographies of Voelker and other justices, lesson plans and links to other pertinent web sites.

Welcome to the localCHAOS online 'zine archive. This collection of skate and music 'zines are mostly from the 80s with a few from recent history. These were all part of the great "'zine network" that existed back then. Today's websites have kinda taken over what 'zines did back then. Which is to showcase local bands and skaters and other people doing creative and or original shit. 'zines are still being published today as a few of the HARDCORE have not subscribed to the whole internet thang. Good for them. Websites will NEVER be able to capture the raw feel and attitude of the original 'zines.

Archival resources provide us with a direct link to the past. We present here a wealth of archival materials for students, researchers, and all who seek a better understanding of the past in order to comprehend and guide the decisions of the future. Our site includes almost 3000 records, organized around some 50 case studies. As well as a timeline to provide chronological context, some of the case studies include audio or video, and we have transcribed many of the original materials for easier reading.

My grandfather was a remarkable man who was fascinated by technology and built all kinds of electronic and mechanical gadgetry during his lifetime. He started working on electronic home projects in an era when components were only just becoming available to hobbyists. Among other things, he built electronic musical instruments, radios, and even a TV, around which all the neighbors gathered to watch some of the first BBC broadcasts from the Crystal Palace in London where he lived. In the late 1940s, he built an electronic wire recorder. Tape recording had not yet been introduced commercially and steel wire, thinner than a human hair, was the only medium available for making audio recordings. Although by this time wire recorders were being introduced to the domestic market in America, in Britain they were still a rarity, confined mainly to the military and to offices where they were used as dictaphones.

Welcome to Bildarchiv Foto Marburg's Image Index of Art and Architecture!

At present, the "Image Index" contains 1.9 million pictures which you can order as scan, slide or proof.
Photographs may only be published with the express consent of the institution that owns them!
For information on Bildarchiv Foto Marburg's Terms of Use, please consult our
Price List and the General Terms and Conditions of Business.

Iconclass is a subject-specific classification system; it is a hierarchically ordered collection of definitions of objects, persons, events and abstract ideas that can be the subject of an image. Art historians, researchers and curators use it to describe, classify and examine the subject of images represented in various media such as paintings, drawings and photographs.

Numerous institutions across the world use Iconclass to describe and classify their collections in a standardized manner. In turn, users ranging from art historians to museum visitors use Iconclass to search and retrieve images from these collections. And as a research tool, Iconclass is also used to identify the significance of entire scenes or individual elements represented within an image.

Having roots in New Orleans, the American cocktail has influenced music, theater, art, film, and politics around the world during its two-century-old history.

At the NEH, we look forward to funding humanities projects that will begin to address some of these problems. We welcome projects that would serve as models for historical and cultural organizations and that would establish best practices for using mobil

gallery of new web applications

an essential reading, this 1994 era Dutch magazine (originally delivered in print) showing the transition point in the culture when storage gets so cheap that you start archiving EVERYTHING

awesome project to collect and digitize and distribute archives of oral histories of the science fiction world.

Tearing up floorboards in search of hidden treasure is a bad idea. A messy process, it seldom yields anything of value. As a rule, attics are a better bet.

The Chronicle was one of the treasures of the library of the antiquarian Robert Cotton, and it was stored in the same bookcase with the Beowulf manuscript. Its location was in the book press surmounted by a bust of the Roman emperor Vitellius, and it take

Welcome to the searchable collection of photographs from the Archives of the Ypsilanti Historical Society. When completed this collection will contain approximately 5,000 photographs dating from the 1850s to the present. Images included cover people, buil

The project has a degree of urgency. Becuase of the highly distributed nature of the Internet many of the physical records from the period are in the possession of individuals and are being discarded. Additionally, with the passage of time participant's m

To allow full access to the original flight films for both researchers and the general public, Johnson Space Center and Arizona State University's Space Exploration Resources are scanning and creating an online digital archive of all the original Apollo f

Ricky Erway is a program officer in the OCLC Programs and Research, where she focuses on digital library activities. Before RLG and OCLC merged in July of 2006, she was Manager of Digital Resources at RLG, responsible for CAMIO (the Catalog of Art M

The purpose of this report is to provide an accurate assessment of the status of Iraqi academic libraries and principal archives in the post-Saddam, post-invasion, post-looting period

Thanks to the tireless work of the Thomas A. Edison Papers at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, the daily record of Edison's extraordinary life and achievements is coming to light.

Vast portions of Edison’s original archives have recently been digitized and can be viewed online. This eliminates the need for mothballs and maintaining rooms full of old papers that can only be studied by someone showing up and going through them one

This collection includes the professional correspondence and field notes of George F. Kay while serving as state geologist for Iowa, 1911-1934, and as professor and head of the University of Iowa Geology Department, beginning in 1907. Speeches and offprints of articles are also included.

The Prelinger Library eschews the Dewey Decimal and Library of Congress systems, and is organized instead by what Megan Shaw Prelinger calls “a map of my brain”

We were frustrated because the historical archive on campus does not receive 3-D objects and other kinds of historical detritus. We set out to create our own archive that would take anything we wanted to donate...even the most unusual things.

In this context the experience of archives, libraries, and museums (often referred to as "memory institutions" because of their role in social and cultural memory) could enrich and interact with computing science research on "memories for life" and the de

The Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History in Duke's Special Collection Library acquires and preserves printed material and collections of textual and multimedia resources and makes them available to researchers around the world. Throug

All of the newspapers digitized through the National Digital Newspaper
Program will be available through here (at this point it is only
newspapers from 6 states from 1900-1910). The NDNP is a long term
program with all states (including Michigan) event

archivists can't see the merit in preserving the history of their profession. fools.

sarah suggests that the NPR archives (going back to 1996) are a good source and archive for searchable news. the text of the summary is searchable, and then you play the audio to get the whole story.

jeff ubois on murphy brown and the inability to study television history

George Shiras manuscript

back in 1988, i maintained a collection of MS-DOS software on the U of Michigan mainframe. Some part of the collection still exists reachable in gopherspace.

Bucky Fuller kept exhaustive records of his life at 15-minute intervals - 270 linear feet. At Stanford now.

go visit next time you're there!