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

Unwritten Record

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. According to Agriculture Department lore, this early filmmaking was done with a degree of secrecy.

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Security Affairs newsletter Round 330

Security Affairs

SEC warns of investment scams related to Hurricane Ida Apple will delay the rollout of new child pornography protection tools FIN7 group leverages Windows 11 Alpha-Themed docs to drop Javascript payloads Source code for the Babuk is available on a hacking forum USCYBERCOM and CISA warn organizations to fix CVE-2021-26084 Confluence flaw Conti ransomware (..)

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Episode 215-1: Jeremy O’Sullivan of Kytch On The Tech Serving McDonald’s Ice Cream Monopoly

The Security Ledger

As the Internet of Things expands from “smart thermostats” to cars; home appliances; the agricultural equipment that plants and harvests our food; or the machinery that businesses rely on; the chances that you or someone you love might end up as a digital share cropper or the resident of one of these virtual “company towns” are growing. .

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Surveying Community Webs Members’ Digital Preservation Needs

Archive-It

When asked to give a brief description of the digital content survey respondents wanted to preserve long-term they mentioned the following types of content: Digitized photographs, maps, books, manuscripts, news releases, architectural drawings, survey records, genealogical records, business documents, organizational records, postcards, community newspapers, (..)

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

Unwritten Record

486, Air Force Magazine: [link]. to record an airplane in flight at his own expense. Greg Bradsher, National Archives and Records Administration: [link]. I Saw Kitty Hawk: Film, Memory, and Archives, Audrey Amidon, National Archives and Records Administration: [link]. The Army’s Specification No.

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Queens of the Air: American Women Aviation Pioneers

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She grew up in Texas and briefly attended college at the Colored Agricultural and Normal University in Oklahoma before dropping out due to a lack of tuition money. As told in the November 1927 issue of The National Magazine , the pair encountered a ferocious storm over the Atlantic. Bessie Coleman, Local Identifier: 237-G -142-10.

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One of the County’s Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930

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Department of Agriculture, where he was involved with research related to black farmers. January 15, 1930 – Elmer Carter on “Negro Literature” Elmer Anderson Carter (1890-1973) was the editor of Opportunity, 1928-1942, a magazine published by the New York Urban League, when he appeared in the WNYC studio.