This post is written by Maddie DeLaere, an Archival Collections Management Graduate Student Worker. She is completing the NYU/LIU Dual Degree program, pursuing a Masters in Food Studies alongside an MLIS. Sometimes, when a new collection is processed – materials sifted, organized, and removed to
This post is written by Weatherly Stephan, Head of Archival Collections Management, and Rachel Searcy, Accessioning Archivist In 2019, Archival Collections Management received the Collection on Enslavement in Cuba for accessioning into the Fales Library. The collection consists of documents concerning slavery in Spanish-colonized Cuba
This post is written by Shannon O’Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, and Rachel Searcy, Accessioning Archivist. Language evolves over time. Think about words or phrases that you once utilized that are no longer popular, or have since been critiqued as being harmful or offensive. You
In 1990, the New York City Council renamed the intersection of Pearl and Park South Streets in Lower Manhattan “Joseph Doherty Corner.” Typically streets are renamed to honor the deceased and to acknowledge a significant connection or contribution to the local community. Joseph Doherty Corner,
Today’s entry is written by Maggie Schreiner, adjunct archivist at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. The Tamiment Library recently acquired a newspaper and pamphlet collection, consisting of over 350 individual titles. The materials were collected by the Freedom Socialist Party and
There is a box in the Tamiment stacks bearing an ominous mark: “Lucifer.” The box itself is dirty, and at first glance looks like it could have been burned. In general, the presence of fire is frowned upon in the archives, let alone the lakes
If you’ve been in Tamiment within the past year or so and taken a peek into our conference room, you may have wondered, “What is the deal with all of the Post-its?” All will be revealed to you now… We are pleased to announce the
“The white man says that the 1890 massacre was the end of the wars with the Indian, the end of the Ghost Dance. Yet here we are at war, we’re still Indians, and we’re Ghost Dancing again.” -Russell Means, Pine Ridge Reservation, 1973 [1] On
Today’s entry is written by Sarah Moazeni, a Graduate Reference Assistant working in the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives. On May 1 1886, thousands of workers across America demonstrated and organized strikes to force employers to agree to an eight hour work day. Workers
The Gilded Age in America (approximately 1870-1900) was a time of great growth for organized labor. With this growth came the publication of union newspapers and magazines, and with the publications came poetry. Union magazines offered a sort of portable communal meeting place for workers