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
Today’s post is authored by Nicole Greenhouse, Web Archivist in Archival Collections Management. NYU Special Collections, specifically the Tamiment Library, has been web archiving since 2007. As part of the NYU Votes campaign, I thought it would be fun to highlight some of our holdings
The Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department, working in collaboration with NYU Libraries Archival Collections Management and Special Collections, recently digitized and have made available unique videos from the Estela and Ernesto Bravo Film and Video Collection (TAM.616). With funding from the Council on Library
This post is authored by Klavier J. Wang, PhD, who recently finished an internship in the audiovisual archives of NYU Special Collections. A scholar of Hong Kong cultural history, Wang is currently a graduate student in NYU’s Moving Image Archiving and Preservation (MIAP) program. Being
![Article titled “Sono shi ga ima toikakeru mono wa [What that death asks us now]” by Seki Kōzō, from an unidentified periodical, 1983. From the Karl Ichiro Akiya Papers (TAM.236).](https://wp.nyu.edu/specialcollections/files/2020/03/folder-26-ishigaki-Page-107-600x400.jpg)
Today’s post is authored by Melissa Redwood, a doctoral candidate focusing on Asian American history and the transnational study of race and gender in the 20th century at Yale University and a Cold War Dissertation Fellow at the Tamiment Library. The Tamiment Library is home
This post is authored by Ruodi Duan, a 2019-2020 Agnese N. Haury Dissertation Fellow at NYU and Ph.D. candidate in international history at Harvard University. The James E. Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson Papers at the Tamiment Library are an immense, multimedia collection that provide unique
Today’s post is authored by NYU Library’s Web Archivist Nicole Greenhouse. Amy Vo, the Cold War Collections Project Archivist, reached out to me the other day asking me about an archived website that is part of a collection that she is working on. Her inquiry
My name is Yvonne Rivas and I am a sophomore economics major participating in the Association of Research Libraries Fellowship for Digital and Inclusive Excellence with the Tamiment Library. As part of my internship, I have been working on the New York City Labor History
Today’s post is written by Camilo Lund-Montaño, Agnese N. Haury Dissertation Fellow, Center for the United States and the Cold War at NYU. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) collection at the Tamiment Library is an incredible treasure trove. The Guild itself is an invaluable source for the
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,