#archiveshashtagparty

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For this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty, we're taking an #ArchivesVacay! Explore exotic locations illustrated in our travel poster collection, and take a look at how they were made in the student-curated exhibit Commercial Art: Travel Posters in Special Collections.

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September Hashtag Party: Archives Patterns

When the American Textile History Museum closed in 2017, Cornell, including the Kheel Center, acquired nine tractor trailers full of close to 100,000 books, periodicals, manuscript collections, photographs, tintypes, glass plate negatives and trade catalogs that depicted the textile industry across New England and the country. This was one of Cornell's largest acquisitions ever. What else was included in that collections? Textile sample books! #ArchivesPatterns

Check out these colorful, intricate patterns that showcase the vivid liveliness of the 19th and 20th centuries that is often obscured by black and white media.

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Each steamer of the Hudson River Day Line had "an elegant orchestra." #ArchivesMusic This Hudson River Boardside is from the Claire (Kock) Tholl Collection, SSHSA Archives. #ArchivesHashtagParty (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVbYsosPCi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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August Hashtag Party: Gather around the warm glow of your computers for #ArchivesCampfire on 8/2 on X and Instagram.

Gather ‘round, history buffs! It’s time to kindle your creativity and fan the flames of your archival passions. A spark of community! The glow of history! The warmth of shared stories! Join us for the next #ArchivesHashtagParty, #ArchivesCampfire, set to blaze on Friday, August 2, 2024. ⛺

With the National Archives inviting you to a day of virtual storytelling and shared history, we’re sparking conversations about summer camps, memorable outdoor adventures, and historic campfire gatherings. And rumor has it, Smokey the Bear might make a guest appearance to remind us to share archival flames responsibly!

For this #ArchivesCampfire event, we’re on the hunt for materials that capture the essence of the great outdoors and the magic of a campfire. Share photos, letters, documents, and artifacts that reflect the nostalgia, camaraderie, and timeless tradition of camping. Let’s see those snapshots that warm the heart, tell a story, or make us s’more curious about history.

Let’s make this #ArchivesCampfire Hashtag Party a night to rem-ember! Here are some ideas to spark your posts:

-Vintage photos postcards from summer camps and outdoor adventures.

-Letters or diary entries recounting memorable campfire stories or outdoor experiences.

-Artifacts or memorabilia from historic camping trips or famous campgrounds.

-Anecdotes about famous campers, historic campfire tales, or traditions.

Don’t miss out - it’s going to be lit! Thank you for joining us at the #ArchivesGoForGold finish line in July! Here are some stats:

Total mentions: 954 Total reach: 5.7M Total impressions: 74M Unique authors: 446

Remember, only YOU can prevent boring posts!

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Happy #ArchivesHashtagParty #ArchivesScience everybody! This illustration from 1730 is in Johann Leonard Frisch's Beschreibung von allerley insecten in Deutsch-land - part of our extensive collection of #NaturalHistory books. #archives #libraries

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#ArchivesHashtagParty asked archives across the USA to share their favorite repetitive designs and patterns for #ArchivesPatterns. We love the piano keyboard pattern on one of the local National Music Museum buildings.

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#cast #teen #girl #monochrome #woman #femme #estriephotographe #sherbrooke #estrie #amies #archiveshashtagparty

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@KYStateArchives

The northern cardinal is the state bird for seven states, including Kentucky! It is also the mascot for several Kentucky schools, most notably @uofl. #ArchivesForTheBirds #ArchivesHashtagParty @kyfishwildlife

4.7.23 • 8:30am • Twitter

my heart speaks to you in thought, just as you see here in writing (from the instrumental womb…)

but you can also hear music playing in True nature on garden earth, like instrumental birdsong

and of course humans made in God’s image have the ability to think and speak, even to play music and sing

the starry night skies of the heavens are silent to us, just as the moon, and on earth we hear so many things

it matters what we think and come to believe, and what we write and speak

(we are made of silence & sound)

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"La Fonda Hotel at the End of the Santa Fe Trail, Santa Fe, New Mexico"

Photographer: T. Harmon Parkhurst

Date: ca. 1930

Negative Number: 178049

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Civil War letter written to his family by Private Valentine Moulder. On the back are drawings of a woman smoking a pipe, probably done between 1863 and 1883 by one of Valentine’s 9 younger siblings.

Series: Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of the Army and Navy Who Served Mainly in the Civil War and the War With Spain, 1861 - 1934

Record Group 15: Records of the Department of Veterans Affairs, 1773 - 2007

Image description: Drawings in blue ink. Many faces in profile, some scribbled out; two drawings of a woman in profile (she has a prominent nose and chin), smoking a pipe, wearing a dress with a large skirt. 

Transcription of letter:

Sunday March 15th 1863

PADUCAH KENTUCKY

DEAR FATHER & FAMILY YOUR SON VALENTINE I NOW TAKE MY PEN IN HAND TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I AM WELL AT THIS TIME HOPING THESE FEW LINES MAY COME TO HAND & FIND YOU ALL WELL

Dear father I have nothing strange To write to you Times is tolerable good here it is nice weather here now The People of Paducah is putting out their guardrans the grass is springing up and looks nice 

The spring frogs is hallowing and the Birds is singing their Beautiful spring songs 

it seems like I ought be at home preparing for a crop 

This Beautiful weather turn over

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The photograph featured here is a panorama of the vast Olympic National Forest in Washington State.

This photograph was included with information about a fire detection system, which the David W. Taylor Model Basin was looking into procuring in the 1960s.

Check out the National Archives Catalog entry here: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/68123516

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Sanborn maps were created to allow insurance companies to assess the risk in an area. Buildings are color coded for the type of material used in construction.

This volume is part of a 1931 set for Toledo, Ohio. The 2nd book is for scale.

#ArchivesBookLove #ArchivesHashtagParty

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April Archives Hashtag Party ~ Archives Snapshot

You can observe a lot from one photo... how about ten? Check out these snapshots from a Southern Tenant Farmers Union meeting in Arkansas in 1937, taken by Louise Boyle.

Curious about the Southern Tenant Farmers Union? Check out our digital collection "Louise Boyle. Southern Tenant Farmers Union Photographs, 1937 and 1982" here:

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The theme for this month's #ArchivesHashtagParty is #ArchivesMusic. We will be sharing some music related material from our archive. Images: Mischa Elman pictured on the SS Leviathan. Elman (January 20, 1891 – April 5, 1967) was a Russian-born American violinist famed for his style, tone, and musicality. Anna Case (October 29, 1887 - January 7, 1984) was an American operatic lyric soprano. Images from 1968.01.1001, a scrapbook of photographs of passengers on the SS Leviathan, including many celebrities and other distinguished passengers. Dated 1910 - 1930. Elmo N. Pickerill Collection, SSHSA Archives. (at The Steamship Historical Society of America) https://www.instagram.com/p/CpVbIQvMAod/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Caption: “arriving in Australia, the first Negro nurses to reach these shores try bicycle riding near their quarters in Camp Columbia, Wacol, Brisbane.” 268th Station 2nd Lts: L-R: Beulah Baldwin, Alberta Smith, & Joan Hamilton. 11/29/1943. NARA ID 178140880.

Friday - #ArchivesOnWheels #ArchivesHashtagParty!

We’re rolling into June with #ArchivesOnWheels this Friday, June 4 on Twitter and Instagram!

Patent Drawing for J. O. Lose's One Wheeled Vehicle, NARA ID 6277782.

Surefootin' film, 1978. NARA ID 2990051.

1919 Transcontinental Motor Convoy - Firestone Homestead Visit, NARA ID 24694.

Let’s get on our bikes, trikes, unicycles, and skateboards and ride into the next hashtag party! Archives and museums around the world will share photos, film clips, artifacts, and illustrations of the way we use wheels to get a-round. From Model-Ts to roller skates, we’re going to take you on a wheely great tour of historic holdings!

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Happy Archives Month!  

Preserving old records involves knowing and understanding old records storage systems.  Here is a Box File, filled with correspondence and ephemera from 1912.  Box files were very popular at the turn of the Twentieth Century, and as you can see, a series of box files lined up nicely on a shelf, looking like well-tamed books.  We appreciate the look, and we can certainly get behind a good filing system, but we don’t appreciate the wooden substrate or the fasteners used on the records inside!  Happy Archives Month!