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
By Anna Gurton-Wachter, Archives Assistant, Fales Library & Special Collections There was a lot to take in at this year’s Society of American Archivists conference in New Orleans. It was my first time attending and I wanted to hear it all. I heard about loads
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
This blog posting comes from Alex Gelfand, an Archives Assistant at the New York University Archives. One day, while processing the papers of Mary Burnett Horton, an alumna of New York University, I stumbled upon a small, shiny horseshoe among some of her letters. Upon
Today’s entry is written by Brent Phillips, Fales Media Archivist, and Timothy Woitas, an Archives Assistant at the Fales Library & Special Collections. After the recent repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act, the Fales Library preserves rare LGBT video documenting its genesis. Back in
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
Today’s entry is written by Amy Hughes, a graduate student at the Institute of Fine Arts Conservation Center, with additional material from Conservation Librarian Laura McCann and Archives of Irish America Archivist Rachel Searcy Late in the afternoon on Monday, October 5, one week after
Today’s entry is written by Nicole Greenhouse, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Part of Tamiment Library’s history as an institution has been the collecting of ephemeral materials generated by trade unions. Much of this material, especially from
Today’s entry is written by Mary Corcoran, an archives assistant at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Militant. Radical. These are just two of the adjectives attributed to the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) in the pages of the Daily Worker. Founded