Unwritten Record
NOVEMBER 8, 2022
Working in the Special Media Division at the National Archives, we are used to seeing images of war captured by moving images and still photos. However, the US military also uses more traditional forms of artwork to document their operations and daily lives. Several films in our holdings feature military artists at work.
Unwritten Record
JULY 7, 2020
The Cartographic Branch holds thousands of drawings, plans, and maps relating to forts, fortifications, and other military structures. Army Forts and Facilities Maps and Plans (NAID 641035) , RG 92 Blueprint File (NAID 562281) , RG 153 Maps and Plans of Former Military Reservations within the United States (NAID 731298) , and many others.
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Preservica
DECEMBER 29, 2022
This year alone, Preservica announced two new launches, including a new generation of our leading Active Digital Preservation archiving and discovery software and the launch of free-forever Preservica Starter in Canada. The Preservica team connected with colleagues around the globe at many of 2022’s digital archiving and preservation events.
AIIM
MARCH 13, 2018
On the one hand , technology has revolutionized both the access and potential value of very long-term archival information -- much of which originated as paper -- exposing it to the light of day after years in the basement and giving it new life. I remember the first time I went to the Archives. Why didn’t I just do a web search?
Unwritten Record
DECEMBER 17, 2020
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.
Unwritten Record
MARCH 1, 2022
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.
Unwritten Record
NOVEMBER 19, 2018
In addition, thousands of feet of raw footage was saved as a historical record and is preserved at the National Archives. Hatch and Ercole were trained in “how to tell a story with cameras” in a photographic school for military personnel at the newsreel producer March of Time. Hatch describes how he got the battle footage.
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