This post is written by Weatherly Stephan, Head of Archival Collections Management, and Rachel Searcy, Accessioning Archivist In 2019, Archival Collections Management received the Collection on Enslavement in Cuba for accessioning into the Fales Library. The collection consists of documents concerning slavery in Spanish-colonized Cuba
This entry is written by Camila Aguirre, a graduate student in NYU’s Archives and Public History Program. As part of her capstone project, Camila rehoused and amended the description of Mark Bloch PAN Archive’s Series I: Mail Art and Correspondence. Saving the Mail: The Rehousing
This post is written by Shannon O’Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections, and Rachel Searcy, Accessioning Archivist. Language evolves over time. Think about words or phrases that you once utilized that are no longer popular, or have since been critiqued as being harmful or offensive. You
By Weatherly Stephan, Head, Archival Collections Management, and Nicholas Martin, Librarian for Fales Archival Collections and Reference Services We’re excited to share a project we finished this year that was a first for us in the Special Collections, and one that we hope will serve
Today’s entry is written by Maggie Schreiner, adjunct archivist at the Tamiment Library and Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. The Tamiment Library recently acquired a newspaper and pamphlet collection, consisting of over 350 individual titles. The materials were collected by the Freedom Socialist Party and
If you’ve been in Tamiment within the past year or so and taken a peek into our conference room, you may have wondered, “What is the deal with all of the Post-its?” All will be revealed to you now… We are pleased to announce the
May Day seems an appropriate day to announce that the Robert Fitch Papers have been processed and are now available to researchers at the Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives. Fitch was a journalist, teacher and labor union organizer and one of the most consistently
This post is from Gwen Gethner, a graduate student in NYU’s World History program. This is Gwen’s second semester as a graduate assistant at Tamiment Library. The Tamiment Library recently acquired the papers of David Sullivan (19??:-2006), an activist involved in the American Maoist movement
As the culmination of a two year project funded by a grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), I’m pleased to announce that the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection and the Daily Worker and Daily World Negatives Collection are now
This post comes from Hester Goodwin, graduate student in NYU’s Archives and Public History program. For the past year, Hester has been aiding in processing the CPUSA records at Tamiment Library. Processing a huge and complex collection like the CPUSA Records is a project which