In late 2013, curators from the Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archives selected a Spanish Civil War-era rifle for rehousing treatment in the Barbara Goldsmith Book and Paper Conservation Lab. The rifle, which belongs to the Abraham Lincoln Brigade Archives (ALBA) Artifacts collection, had been
Today’s post was written by Sarah Moazeni, graduate reference assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Archives. In honor of Black History Month and the upcoming Oscars, we pulled out the Tamiment’s copy of 12 Years a Slave. This volume was printed in
There has been no shortage of discussion regarding the non-athletic aspects of this year’s Winter Olympic Games in Sochi, with activists expressing concern about various issues, including corruption, terrorist threats, human rights violations, regional conflict in the Caucasus, looming debts for citizens of host cities,
Today’s entry is written by Rachel Schimke, project archivist at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. January 27th is designated by the United Nations as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this date in 1945, the Nazi concentration camp at Auschwitz-Birkenau was liberated
The drama! The excitement! The dresses! The hermeneutic subtext on identity politics, the emptiness of financial success, and the inevitable mortality we all must one day confront! That’s right, it’s film awards season, and we are rapidly approaching its peak. Over the course of the
Today’s entry is written by Kimberly Tarr, Moving Image Preservation Specialist at the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department of NYU Libraries. NYU’s Tamiment Library and the Division of Libraries Media Preservation Unit are delighted to announce the recent film-to-film preservation of three 16mm reels
Halloween is fast approaching and we are taking our reference services to the next level with some radical costume suggestions based on our equally radical collections. You might not think of turning to the archives for Halloween costume ideas, but if you remember Ghostbusters with
Every so often your favorite archivists need respite from preserving the historical record. To break out of the summer doldrums we gathered together to play a board game, and because this is Tamiment Library we played…Monopoly. Just kidding. We played Class Struggle, an artifact from
On June 10, 1963 President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Equal Pay Act, an amendment to the Fair Labor Standards Act intended to end wage disparities and discrimination based on gender. Unfortunately, we are not celebrating 50 years of economic equality today. Admittedly,
Today’s entry is written by Rachel Schimke, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. On March 2, 1937, United States Steel signed a contract with the Steel Workers Organizing Committee (SWOC). SWOC, which would become the United Steel Workers