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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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On Finding Rabindranath Tagore

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Tisha is a National Archives Volunteer and Judy is the manager of Volunteer and Education Programs at Archives II in College Park, Maryland. How might Rabindranath Tagore—an Indian (Bengali) writer and poet, educator, musician, and visionary—have crossed paths with the federal government of the United States?

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

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Upon graduation everyone was assigned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and sent off to train for it. Mine was 0311 which was an infantry rifleman, and I was sent off for advanced infantry training. He provided context that never would have made it to the National Archives otherwise.

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An Update on Still Picture Catalog Additions

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Though our research rooms remain closed due to the COVID-19 pandemic, National Archives staff have been diligently working from home to make records more accessible to the public. Army Signal Corps Photographs Of Military Activity During World War II and The Korean Conflict. Submarine Mine Explosion. 111-SCA: U.S.