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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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Caretakers of the Sky: The Wright Brothers and Recording the Aerial Age

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Photograph of the Wright Brothers’ Camp in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina,” Records of the US Army Air Forces, Record Group 18, National Archives Local Identifier: 18-WP-48625. Clime presented his film of the 1908 trials to the signal corps in 1921, which were then transferred it to the National Archives.

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Queens of the Air: American Women Aviation Pioneers

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This post was co-written with Katherine Stinson , an Archives Specialist in the National Archives (NARA) Moving Image and Sound Branch. One of the joys of archives is discovering a research subject you never even knew was missing from your life. Local Identifier: 165-WW-429P-1281; National Archives Identifier: 45532836.

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One of the County’s Earliest African-American Radio Programs on WNYC 1929-1930

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Department of Agriculture, where he was involved with research related to black farmers. January 15, 1930 – Elmer Carter on “Negro Literature” Elmer Anderson Carter (1890-1973) was the editor of Opportunity, 1928-1942, a magazine published by the New York Urban League, when he appeared in the WNYC studio.

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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.