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
Downtown New York artist Christopher D’Arcangelo (1955-79) created artworks that simultaneously highlight and frustrate the commoditization of both his artistic production and his artistic practice. During his lifetime, the artist carefully documented his ephemeral works in a variety of ways, demonstrating a deep concern 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
The following post was written by Lindsay Dumas, a former archival assistant at the New York University Archives. In August 2009 I uncovered an original blueprint of the Manhattan Bridge while processing boxes of unsorted blueprints that were part of the Records of the Office
This blog post will detail the experience of two graduate students in the NYU Archives and Public History program who worked on pre-processing the Sylvester Manor Papers in the Conservation Laboratory in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation & Conservation Department. The Sylvester Manor Papers were processed
More than 1,500 color political posters and broadsides and over 1,500 U.S. labor movement photographs from NYU’s Tamiment Library are now available exclusively to the NYU community through the ARTstor website (under “Browse — Institutional Collections – “United Automobile Workers of America, District 65 Photographs”
A few months ago I was watching Call Northside 777, a 1948 noir-ish quasi-documentary film starring Jimmy Stewart as a cynical journalist who ends up crusading for a the release of a man wrongly convicted of murder. Although the movie itself is entertaining (you can
The Council on Library and Information Resources, the organization which funds my project, recently convened a symposium in Washington, D.C. for its 2008 and 2009 grant recipients. It was an extremely exciting and invigorating conference, but one of the presentations that I found most engaging
The fastest-growing area of collecting at Fales is our Downtown Collection, which seeks to document the full spectrum of performance, literature, art, activism and music that flourished in downtown New York from the mid-70s to the early 90s. Because of the cross-disciplinary and multimedia nature
There are a growing number of articles within the professional literature that address the inclusion of archival projects within undergraduate curricula (Doris J. Malkmus provides a useful overview in her article “Primary Source Research and the Undergraduate: A Transforming Landscape,” found in Journal of Archival