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Category Archives: History
Free Archives from Newspapers and Magazines
More and more newspapers and magazines are making deep archives freely available on the web, dropping requirements for print subscriptions and registration, making it easy to find the full-text of many well-known and respected publications available online. Richard Pérez-Peña wrote … Continue reading
Posted in History, Journalism, Local History, Reference
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Helen Keller and Lizzie Borden
Two recent news stories caught my eye, quite literally. Each reported the discovery of a previously-unknown childhood photograph of a legendary American woman. The women couldn’t be more different : the notorious Lizzie Borden and the inspirational Helen Keller. In … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Libraries, History, Photographs
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Library of Congress on Flickr (yet again…)
Yesterday’s Brainiac column in the Boston Globe, “Everyone’s a historian now,” is about the Library of Congress images on Flickr. Columnist Joshua Glenn admits that asking the crowd to provide identification and information about these pictures makes him nervous, but … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Libraries, Flickr, History, Local History, Photographs
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Library of Congress on Flickr (More)
The Library of Congress collections on Flickr have gotten a lot of attention and activity since its launch on January 16. Flickr reported on their blog that in the first twenty-four hours after the launch, users added about 19,000 tags … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Libraries, Flickr, History, Libraries, Local History, Photographs
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Library of Congress on Flickr
The Library of Congress and Flickr have a new pilot project called The Commons. Photographs from two of the American Memory collections, 1930s-40s in Color and News in the 1910s, a total of over 3,000 images. The first set consists … Continue reading
Posted in Digital Libraries, Flickr, History, Libraries, Local History, Photographs
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Universal Newsreels at the Internet Archive
From 1929 to 1967, Universal City Studios produced newsreels twice a week to be shown at movie theatres before the feature film. Each newsreel was a collection of six or seven short segments, usually just a minute or two in … Continue reading
Posted in History, Internet Archive, Video
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