This post comes from Daniel Reisner, a graduate student at the Palmer School of Library and Information Science. Daniel interned at the Taminent Library this past spring semester, dividing his time between helping me process the CPUSA records and helping Hillel process the Daily Worker
This week’s post comes from Caroline Partamian, who has been working as my Archival Assistant for the past few months. I hope you’ll enjoy her thought-provoking post on the identities of Daily Worker Photographers, which in part follows up on my post of last week
While processing the Daily Worker/Daily World Photographs Collection a few months ago, I came across a series of photographs in a folder titled “Floods” showing injured sailors arriving at New York City’s Penn Station from an unspecified “flood area.” I was intrigued by the photos
Long before there was Photoshop, news media used other means to modify photographs to match their message they wanted to convey. Compare the two images of a group of defendants on trial in 1963 under the McCarran Internal Security Act from the Daily Worker/Daily World
I’d like to point you to the website created by Roxanne Shirazi, a graduate student in Pratt Institute’s Library and Information Science program. To fulfill the requirements of her practicum course, Roxanne interned at Tamiment Library during the Fall 2010 semester under the supervision of
It’s been a few months since my last update on the processing of the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection. Since I last posted, we’ve made great progress, completing the processing the Biographical Series. We’ve also already made a significant (archivally sound) dent in
Today’s post comes from Michael Chui, who’s been working with me to process the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection. He’s a student in NYU’s Museum Studies program, and has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology. He’s got an interesting and unique take on the
If you’ve paid any attention to US politics, media, culture, etc., during the last century or so, you’re probably aware that Americans are not fond of communists. Of course, not every American feels this way, but I think it’s safe to say that hatred of
This week I wanted to draw your attention to an online exhibit on Flickr with images drawn from the John Penley Photographs Collection at the Tamiment Library. The collection came to Tamiment last year from John Penley, a photographer and grassroots political activist associated with
Today’s post comes from Jennifer Pondo, who is currently working as a Project Archivist at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archive. Jennifer received her BA in history with minors in Music history and Art history from West Chester University of Pennsylvania and a Masters