PRESERVATION

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  7/14/2022
  

  Archival Structures and the Preservers and Retrievers of Stories

  by Fernando Amador II

  "Historians rarely understand the terminology, organizational strategies, or labor required for establishing and maintaining an archive, and I was no exception."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/7/2022
  

  Matthew Barton is the Man Behind the Library of Congress's Recorded Sound Division

  "Ah, well, that’s it. This is the national parks of culture, of history, of memory."

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2020
  

  Smithsonian Archives of American Art Gathers an Oral History of 2020

  The National Archives of American Art has been moving aggressively to document artists' responses to the concurrent social traumas of 2020, including the pandemic, police violence and protests, and a tumultuous election campaign. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/16/2020
  

  Academy Museum Gives Debbie Reynolds Her Due as a Costume Conservator

  For reasons likely including institiutionalized sexism, costumes have been a neglected part of the preservation of cinematic history. The new Academy Museum of Motion Pictures hopes to work with the late Debbie Reynolds's son to change that. 

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• SOURCE: Leominster (MA) Champion
  11/16/2020
  

  Fitchburg State Professor Named to Library of Congress Task Force

  Fitchburg (MA) State University professor Katherine Rye Jewell has been named to a Library of Congress task force for the preservation of college and community radio. 

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  5/16/2020
  

  ‘Everyone Has A Story’: How Will World Remember Pandemic?

  Museums and historical societies are collecting materials, often with help from people accustomed to capturing and sharing even the most mundane moments around them.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/5/19
  

  Lois Weber, Hollywood's Forgotten Early Pioneer, Has 2 Films Restored

  As Hollywood continues to struggle with the underrepresentation of women behind the camera, most people have forgotten that 100 years ago, one woman ruled.

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• SOURCE: Places Journal
  6-2-17 (accessed)
  

  African-American gravesite are victims of neglect

  It’s considered a preservation crisis.

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• SOURCE: The Civil War Trust
  12-12-14
  

  Congress Enacts Landmark Legislation to Preserve America's Endangered Battlefields

  Legislation expands successful federal Civil War battlefield grant program to include preservation of Revolutionary War and War of 1812 battlefields.

• SOURCE: Engadget
  5-14-13
  

  Smithsonian 3D-scanning collection for future

  The Smithsonian has been experimenting with 3D scanning for some time now, using tools like laser arm scanners to map models of whale fossils and other ancient artifacts. Now the museum is utilizing the technology to preserve its collection for posterity. Its "laser cowboys" Vince Rossi and Adam Metallo are working full-time to record items for future generations, as part of an extensive effort to digitize 14 million prioritized objects (a list that also includes artwork and lab specimen)....

• SOURCE: AP
  3-2-13
  

  Developer pledges to continue Berlin Wall removal

  A German property developer has rejected calls to halt work to remove one of the last remaining stretches of the Berlin Wall, despite angry protests against the plan.Maik Uwe Hinkel says work to move a 22-meter (yard) section of the 1.3 kilometer (3/4 mile) section of the wall will resume next week...