Today’s entry is written by Ariana Dunning, a graduate student in Museum Studies at New York University, working in the Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department. The Tamiment Library and Wagner Labor Archive holds an extensive collection of political, labor, and protest buttons that have
Lá Fhéile Pádraig Shona Daoibh! In case you don’t speak Irish, that means “Happy Saint Patrick’s Day!” from the Archives of Irish America at Tamiment Library. While not a legal holiday in the United States, St. Patrick’s Day has been widely celebrated since the late
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 Lou Di Gennaro, Special Collections Conservator in the Barbara Goldsmith Book & Paper Conservation Laboratory at Bobst Library Much has already been written about the Liber Chronicarum better known to English speakers as the Nuremberg Chronicle. A simple Google search
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
Today’s post was written by Aleksandr Gelfand, adjunct curator at the New York University Archives. In 1956, Carol Heiss, a 16-year-old from Ozone Park, Queens, traveled to Italy to compete in the Winter Olympics. Heiss won a silver medal in figure skating, but her victory
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