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Visual Cues and Clues: Picking the Right Record Group for Still Pictures

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Finding a specific photograph within the holdings of the National Archives can be trickier. If you have a specific photograph you found in the course of your research and it is attributed to the National Archives, this “Visual Cues and Clues” guide to picking a Record Group may help you determine where exactly that photo is.

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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. Senate, 1789 – 2015 , Series: Committee Papers, 1842 – 1946 (NAID 2127316 ). This hand-colored glass lantern slide is one of a series found in the records of the United States Department of Agriculture.