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
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 week’s post comes from Caroline Partamian, who has been working as my Archival Assistant for the past few months. I hope you’ll enjoy her thought-provoking post on the identities of Daily Worker Photographers, which in part follows up on my post of last week
While processing the Daily Worker/Daily World Photographs Collection a few months ago, I came across a series of photographs in a folder titled “Floods” showing injured sailors arriving at New York City’s Penn Station from an unspecified “flood area.” I was intrigued by the photos
Long before there was Photoshop, news media used other means to modify photographs to match their message they wanted to convey. Compare the two images of a group of defendants on trial in 1963 under the McCarran Internal Security Act from the Daily Worker/Daily World
It’s been a few months since my last update on the processing of the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection. Since I last posted, we’ve made great progress, completing the processing the Biographical Series. We’ve also already made a significant (archivally sound) dent in
Today’s post comes from Michael Chui, who’s been working with me to process the Daily Worker and Daily World Photographs Collection. He’s a student in NYU’s Museum Studies program, and has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology. He’s got an interesting and unique take on the
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
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