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50 Years Makes a Difference! How Film Research Has Changed Since the 1972 Conference on Audiovisual Archives

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You may have heard that the National Archives is partnering with the University of Maryland Cinema and Media Studies Program to present Films of State , an online conference on government-produced moving images (if not, check out my last blog post for more background). Researchers for the most part came to Washington, D.C.,

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RG 263 CIA Published Maps: A Digitization Project In Progress

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Many maps also show information regarding political, economic, and transportation features such as roads, railroads, communication lines, industries, agricultural crops, natural resources, boundaries, and military installations.

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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. military took renewed interest in the Wright’s machine. According to the National Park Service, in 1900 the Wright’s contacted the U.S.

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The Bureau of Indian Affairs – Photographs Finding Aid: A Closer Look

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The image is from series 75-ID , which is contained within the Still Pictures Branch of the National Archives. We can search for a variety of topics, listed in alphabetical order, from Agriculture to Transportation. We searched under the topic “Military Service”, which returned 30 results, including this image of Pfc.

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The U.S. Forest Service Presents: Winter Olympics

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The film Winter Olympics is from Record Group 16: Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture and was produced by the Department of Agriculture to document the contributions of the U.S. Forest Service (an agency of the Department of Agriculture) to the Olympics. ” Clip taken from 16-P-1486, Winter Olympics.

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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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The Week in Cyber Security and Data Privacy: 5 – 11 February 2024

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