Photographs posted this week come from one of my favorite series, "Airscapes" of American and Foreign Areas, 1917 - 1964" (18-AA). Click on the images below to view higher resolution versions. Local Identifier: 18-AA-138-5. Washington, D.C. - Keystone Bombardment airplanes of 2nd Bombardment Group. April 23, 1931. Local Identifier: 18-AA-139-2. Washington, D.C. - Griffith Stadium. … Continue reading Images of the Week: Airscapes
With the 50th Anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom occurring this past Wednesday, it was easy to come up with this week's subject matter. Here are a few of the images found in the series "Miscellaneous Subjects, Staff and Stringer Photographs, 1961 - 1974" (306-SSM). Local Identifier: 306-SSM-4-D-102-15. "Civil Rights March … Continue reading Images of the Week: The March on Washington
With only a couple of weeks until the start of the NFL season, the theme this week is football. The images below are part of the small series, "Photographs of Washington Redskins Football Games" (79-RED), which were taken by photographer Abbie Rowe. These photos are also available in our online catalog. Local Identifier: 79-RED-32 "Photograph … Continue reading Images of the Week: Abbie Rowe’s Photographs of the Washington Redskins
The theme this week is oil and I’m not talking about cooking oil, but crude. Here's several images from our holdings that might be of interest. Local Identifier: 330-CFD-DN-ST-90-04678 "Exxon tugboats escort the commercial tanker Exxon Valdez. A massive oil spill occurred when the vessel ran aground while transiting the waters of Prince William Sound … Continue reading Images of the Week: Oil
It's been a while since our last Still Picture blog post, so to make up for it we are going to try and post one or several interesting images from our holdings at the end of each week. For this week, I'm posting images from two series, "Scuttlebum Posters" (344-SBP) and "Original Artwork for World … Continue reading Images of the Week: World War II Posters
My first couple of blogs focused on born-digital and scanned images created by Federal agencies and accessioned to the Still Picture unit, but I’m now shifting gears and highlighting some of our in-house digitization activities. The main series I’m going to talk about can trace its roots back to 1974 when we received the first … Continue reading Digitization Activities
I'm writing this blog post to highlight and provide a link to a recent article posted online by National Archives volunteer and Still Picture researcher Harry B. Kidd. The article, "Navy Transport Stranded on Fire Island Beach", tells the story of the grounding of the USS Northern Pacific on the Fire Island sandbar and the … Continue reading Navy Transport Stranded on Fire Island Beach
A few weeks ago, thanks to the hard work of the Still Picture Processing Team and ARC staff, our largest series of digital photography was made available online through the National Archives Catalog. This series, "Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files, compiled 1982-2007" (National Archives Identifier 6274097), contains 269,667 JPEG images of numerous military activities from the Defense … Continue reading Department of Defense Digital Photographic Files
When I first started working with the Still Picture Processing Team in College Park, MD , my first three projects dealt with gelatin dry plate glass negatives, albumen cartes-de-visite and Kodachrome film. Even though we will still be accessioning analog photography for years to come and dealing with the issues that come with that (most … Continue reading From Analog to Digital
