This post is written by Shannon O’Neill, Curator for Tamiment-Wagner Collections. This post is a part of a series that showcases different parts of Portable Devices, 1574-1998: Notebooks from NYU Special Collections, an exhibition on display April 14-June 21 at NYU Special Collections. Nestled within
This post is written by Julie Park, Assistant Curator and Faculty Fellow in the Special Collections Center. The exhibition she curated, Portable Devices, 1574-1998: Notebooks from NYU Special Collections, on display April 14-June 21, is based on her current book project, Writing’s Maker, a study
This post is authored by Ruodi Duan, a 2019-2020 Agnese N. Haury Dissertation Fellow at NYU and Ph.D. candidate in international history at Harvard University. The James E. Jackson and Esther Cooper Jackson Papers at the Tamiment Library are an immense, multimedia collection that provide unique
Today’s post is written by Camilo Lund-Montaño, Agnese N. Haury Dissertation Fellow, Center for the United States and the Cold War at NYU. The National Lawyers Guild (NLG) collection at the Tamiment Library is an incredible treasure trove. The Guild itself is an invaluable source for the
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
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
All throughout May, in honor of Labor History Month, we will be bringing you a variety of short articles, photo galleries, and linked content on our Facebook page, Twitter account, and here at the newly reinvigorated Back Table blog. Join us as we spotlight milestones
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
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