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Archive-It Partner News, October 2021

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by the Archive-It team. 60+ public libraries and cultural heritage organizations from across the US, Canada, and internationally have joined Community Webs to document local history and the lives of their patrons through web archiving. Meet them and learn much more about the program here on the Internet Archive blog.

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Spotlight: Saving Time with “A Step Saving Kitchen”

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It comes from the Records of the Department of Agriculture, in the series “Public Information and Training Motion Picture and Television Productions, 1990 – 1995”, which consists of films produced or acquired to document agriculture, forestry, and home economics. Demonstration of revolving corner cabinets.

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Surveying Community Webs Members’ Digital Preservation Needs

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Internet Archive Community Programs staff received member feedback on what members liked about the program, what they wanted to see more of, and how we could sustain the program long into the future. Out of those 51 members, 49 members (96%) expressed an organizational need or mandate to preserve digital content over the long-term.

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Eggplant Activism: Philadelphia Community Gardens and COVID-19

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Community gardens are an important part of our Commonwealth’s food and agricultural system,” Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. On Wednesday, March 22, Philadelphia Parks and Recreation declared that gardens were life-sustaining businesses and were permitted to operate during the emergency. July 23, 2020.

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The Wright Military Flyer Soars on Celluloid: Uncovering the Story of Our Oldest Government Film

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The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is well known for preserving the first written records of our nation. Baumhofer names United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee Winfield Scott Clime , later a famous landscape painter, as the cameraman who filmed the 1908 test.

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Summer Road Trip 2019: San Francisco and Yosemite National Park

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Next on our summer tour of the National Archives’ non-textual holdings, we move on from Los Angeles to San Francisco. This hand-colored glass lantern slide is one of a series found in the records of the United States Department of Agriculture. As a happy coincidence, we digitized this film yesterday for an access request.