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Spotlight: Photographs Documenting the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

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According to John Salmond, author of The Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-1942: A New Deal Case Study , “during its life span of nine years more than 2.5 Proper credit lines are encouraged in the interest of good documentation. They also help inform the public about government photographic resources that are available.

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Eggplant Activism: Philadelphia Community Gardens and COVID-19

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Local and State government hadn’t included specific regulations for gardens in their closure orders. Community gardens are an important part of our Commonwealth’s food and agricultural system,” Pennsylvania Agriculture Secretary Russell Redding said. Hundreds of community gardeners and urban farmers were stuck in limbo.

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Collecting for continuity and for change: The web archiving experience in Westborough

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We have little-league baseball records from the 1970s, but I had few ways to similarly document the the town’s new cricket club because it mostly functions online. We have church records that go back to the founding of our town, but I had no mechanism to document the building of the new Sikh Temple in our community.