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A New Home for Hundreds of Photographs by the Legendary Gordon Parks via Atlas Obscura [Shared]

Posted on March 16, 2022 by dewelch

A New Home for Hundreds of Photographs by the Legendary Gordon Parks – Atlas Obscura INDIVIDUALLY, THE PHOTOGRAPHS GORDON PARKS produced during his long and storied career are iconic: Ella Watson, Park’s own American Gothic, posed stoically in front an … Continue reading →

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The Archive of the Most Prolific Black Southern Californian Architect Finds a Home via Hyperallergic

Posted on April 21, 2021 by dewelch

The Archive of the Most Prolific Black Southern Californian Architect Finds a Home via Hyperallergic To Southern California, Paul Revere Williams is one of the most prolific Black American architects of all time. But to Williams’s granddaughter, Karen Elyse Hudson, growing up, he … Continue reading →

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Ways to Help Librarians and Archivists From Home via Adafruit Industries

Posted on May 2, 2020 by dewelch

  If you’ve run out of things to do or are just tired of making sourdough bread from scratch, Atlas Obscura lists digital projects that you can become involved in. …many libraries and archives remain closed, and will likely stay shuttered for … Continue reading →

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The Internet Archive’s VHS Vault will send you on a 90s nostalgia trip via The Verge

Posted on April 22, 2020 by dewelch

The Internet Archive, perhaps best known for the extremely handy Wayback Machine you can use to find older versions of webpages, also has free movies, books, software, and music. Yet a little known part of the organization’s media trove includes uploaded recordings … Continue reading →

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The Internet Archive is now working to preserve vinyl LPs via kottke.org

Posted on April 11, 2020 by dewelch

\ The Internet Archive is an absolute treasure with a gigantic task ahead of them. They have now set their sights on vinyl LPs and started the work of digitizing and archiving these recordings. Earlier this year, the Internet Archive began … Continue reading →

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