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Once Bitten, Forever Archival: Mosquitoes Abuzz in Still Pictures

Unwritten Record

This post was created in collaboration with Hilda Gitchell, Archives Technician in the Still Picture Branch Local ID: 90-G-23A-575 As the summer winds down and we brace ourselves for a transition to cooler (albeit still humid) weather, we would like to say goodbye and good riddance to a constant presence in most outdoor summer plans: the mosquito.

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The Wright Military Flyer Soars on Celluloid: Uncovering the Story of Our Oldest Government Film

Unwritten Record

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is well known for preserving the first written records of our nation. Baumhofer names United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee Winfield Scott Clime , later a famous landscape painter, as the cameraman who filmed the 1908 test.

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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

Unwritten Record

You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). Researchers for the most part came to Washington, D.C.,

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Part 2: OMG! Not another digital transformation article! Is it about the evolution from RIM to Content Services?

ARMA International

In the Neolithic Revolution, early humans discovered agriculture, which helped establish early civilizations. Over the millennia, agriculture has used countless technologies to increase production. Therefore, the position of this article is that IG includes DG because information is data in context. Archival Services.

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Documenting the Detroit Industry Murals

Unwritten Record

The depictions of medical, agricultural, pharmaceutical, automotive, and chemical manufacturing workers and machinery caused controversy at a time when faith in industry was low due to the Depression. If you want to learn more about the Ford Collection check out the Unwritten Record blog and this article on Prologue. [1]

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Caretakers of the Sky: The Wright Brothers and Recording the Aerial Age

Unwritten Record

Photograph of the Wright Brothers’ Camp in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,” Records of the US Army Air Forces, Record Group 18, National Archives Local Identifier: 18-WP-48625. According to the National Park Service, in 1900 the Wright’s contacted the U.S. to record an airplane in flight at his own expense.

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Botany: one of FSU’s longest taught subjects

Archives Blogs

It prepares students to make important contributions to the world in the areas of agriculture, food security, natural resource management, sustainability, policy, and many others.”. This article was written by Aya Saludo, a student worker in Heritage & University Archives.