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The Pushmi-Pullyu Impact of Technology Innovation on Information Preservation

AIIM

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. Ancestry.co.uk

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The Wright Military Flyer Soars on Celluloid: Uncovering the Story of Our Oldest Government Film

Unwritten Record

The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is well known for preserving the first written records of our nation. The oldest known government-produced film in our holdings is First Army Aeroplane Flight, Fort Myer, Virginia , which captured daring test flights of the Wright Military Flyer. At that time, the U.S.

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Sergeant Dennis Fisher and Marine Corps Combat Photography in Vietnam

Unwritten Record

Upon graduation everyone was assigned a Military Occupational Specialty (MOS) and sent off to train for it. Wilson Hicks who was the former executive editor of Life Magazine. I met him in his role as advisor to student publications, primarily the Ibis yearbook, Tempo magazine, and Hurricane newspaper.