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Category Archives: Photographs
On Finding Rabindranath Tagore
This post was written by Tisha Mondal and Judy Luis-Watson. Tisha is a National Archives Volunteer and Judy is the manager of Volunteer and Education Programs at Archives II in College Park, Maryland. This post is dedicated to the memory of … Continue reading
Posted in Audio Recordings, Photographs
Tagged India, Poetry, Rabindranath Tagore, Robert Frost, United States Information Agency
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Off the Board: Photographs of Past NFL Draftees
In light of the 2018 NFL Draft taking place this week, April 26th – 28th, we at The Unwritten Record decided to highlight some of the football related records in our Still Pictures collection. Dating all the way back to … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs
Tagged All-American, American Football, Buffalo Bills, Chicago Bears, Doak Walker, Doc Blanchard, Draft, Eastman Kodak Company, football, Hugh McElhenny, J. Edgar Hoover, J.C. Caroline, Larry Csonka, Miami Dolphins, New York Bulldogs, NFL, NFL Draft, O.J. Simpson, Pittsburgh Steelers, San Francisco 49ers, sports, The American Football Coaches Association, Vic Janowicz, Washington Redskins
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Spotlight: Remembering Ernie Pyle
On April 18th, 1945, war correspondent Ernie Pyle was killed by enemy fire on Iejima* during the Battle of Okinawa. At the time of his death, Pyle, a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist, was well-known for his intimate and personal storytelling … Continue reading
The 1918 Influenza Pandemic (Photos)
This post was written in collaboration with Kevin Quinn, Sarah Lepianka, and Katherine Stinson – Archives Technicians in the Still Photos Branch. The 1918 Influenza Pandemic, also known as the Spanish Flu, was one of the deadliest events in human … Continue reading
Posted in Digitization, Photographs, World War I
Tagged 1918 Flu, digitization, Influenza, Influenza Pandemic, photographs, Spanish Flu, World War I
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Spotlight: Wedded In Service
This post was written in collaboration with Beth Fortson. “I’d feel like a quitter if I left the service now.” – Wren Josephine Mary Kennelly This Valentine’s Day, the Still Picture Branch would like to share a photo story from … Continue reading
Posted in Digitization, Military, Photographs
Tagged 1940s, Military, U.S. Coast Guard, War Bride, Women, WWII
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Spotlight: Dogs in Airbrush
Airbrushing was an early method of retouching and coloring photographs which can be traced back as far as the late 1800s. It is a unique process which creates a beautiful matte effect, causing images to look as though they are … Continue reading
Posted in Graphic Materials, Photo of the Week, Photographs
Tagged Airbrushing, animals, art, Bureau of Animal Industry, competitions, Dogs, Spotlight, Still Pictures
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Cartographic’s Favorites of 2017
Co-written with Amy Edwards The Cartographic Branch holds a wide variety of materials. While working with these documents for reference requests, projects, or research room requests, our staff comes across some very cool and significant documents. Today, we are featuring … Continue reading
How to Research: Photographs Relating to WWII Marine Corps Units
In this fourth and final post of How to Research WWII photographs, we will provide an example of how researchers can search for and identify images related to a specific US Marine Corps unit. As is true with the WWII … Continue reading
Posted in Photographs, Reference, Uncategorized
Tagged research, United States Marines, USMC, WWII
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Shifting the Lens on WWI: Stories from the Home Front
Today’s post comes from Marissa Friedman, intern at Historypin. Historypin teamed up with the US National Archives (NARA) to develop the Remembering WWI tablet app, part of the Anonymous Donor Project. You can learn more about the national collaborative Remembering … Continue reading
The Digitization of 26-LG
Many different factors are considered when selecting a series for digitization. Records that are particularly fragile or have high intrinsic value might be digitized to help preserve the originals by reducing the amount of physical handling each item receives. Records … Continue reading
Posted in Digitization, Photographs
Tagged catalog, digitization, light stations, lighthouses, photographic processes, Photos, Still Pictures, U.S. Coast Guard
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