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United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: Propaganda
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. has created this online exhibit to complement the one at the museum about the role of propaganda in World War II. The exhibition includes a "Poll and Online Forum" and "Student Activity" and explores "how the Nazi Party used modern techniques as well as new technologies and carefully crafted messages to sway millions with its vision for a new Germany."
AdViews: A Digital Archive of Vintage Television Commercials
The AdViews digital archive consists of several thousand vintage television commercials from the 1950s through 1980s, and it is part of the John W. Hartman Center for Sales, Advertising & Marketing History at Duke University. Try entering some keywords like "peanuts" or "toothpaste" into the search engine. The results are returned in a grid format, and the commercials are played back via iTunes.
Hawaii War Records Depository Photos
The Hawaii War Records Depository was established in 1943, and it contains over 880 photographs taken by the U.S. Army Signal Corps and the U.S. Navy during the Second World War. The Depository also holds around 1000 newspaper photographs from the Honolulu Star Bulletin and 330 photographs identified as being from the Honolulu Advertiser. These unique items depict various Army and Navy activities throughout Hawaii during this period. The University of Hawaii was able to digitize these items via a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services, and they are now available for perusal by the web-browsing public.
>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2010. http://scout.wisc.edu/
Friday, March 19, 2010
Friday, March 12, 2010
Online Resource Suggestions
Abraham Lincoln Association Publications
The University of Michigan libraries website has a large digital collection of work about Abraham Lincoln which was originally published by the Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA). The mission of The Abraham Lincoln Association is "to preserve and make more accessible the landmarks associated with his life, and to actively encourage, promote, and aid the collection and dissemination of authentic information regarding all phases of his life and career." Available in electronic form are "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 1953", "The Abraham Lincoln Association Serials", which includes "The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, 1940-1952", "Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 1923-1939", "Lincoln Centennial Association Addresses, 1909-1918", and the "Lincoln Monographs".
Department of Defense Social Media Hub
The growth of online social-networking devices and other related technologies offers great possibilities for communicating with the global public, but there are also "real risks to personal and network security." This site brings useful content including a safety checklist which includes best practices in areas such as passwords and privacy settings.
Voices from Afghanistan
This Library of Congress online exhibit features voices of the people of war-torn Afghanistan, from letters that they wrote to Radio Azadi, the Afghan outlet for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. There are many themes expressed in the letters; there is some joy in their lives, despite everything, and there are many similarities between the desires, hopes and fears of Afghanis, and those of people of any other country. That may sound cliché, but helping to resolve conflict there depends in part on how Afghans are viewed by the rest of the world.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2010. http://scout.wisc.edu/
The University of Michigan libraries website has a large digital collection of work about Abraham Lincoln which was originally published by the Abraham Lincoln Association (ALA). The mission of The Abraham Lincoln Association is "to preserve and make more accessible the landmarks associated with his life, and to actively encourage, promote, and aid the collection and dissemination of authentic information regarding all phases of his life and career." Available in electronic form are "The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, 1953", "The Abraham Lincoln Association Serials", which includes "The Abraham Lincoln Quarterly, 1940-1952", "Bulletin of the Abraham Lincoln Association, 1923-1939", "Lincoln Centennial Association Addresses, 1909-1918", and the "Lincoln Monographs".
Department of Defense Social Media Hub
The growth of online social-networking devices and other related technologies offers great possibilities for communicating with the global public, but there are also "real risks to personal and network security." This site brings useful content including a safety checklist which includes best practices in areas such as passwords and privacy settings.
Voices from Afghanistan
This Library of Congress online exhibit features voices of the people of war-torn Afghanistan, from letters that they wrote to Radio Azadi, the Afghan outlet for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty. There are many themes expressed in the letters; there is some joy in their lives, despite everything, and there are many similarities between the desires, hopes and fears of Afghanis, and those of people of any other country. That may sound cliché, but helping to resolve conflict there depends in part on how Afghans are viewed by the rest of the world.
From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2010. http://scout.wisc.edu/
Friday, March 5, 2010
Highlighting Digital Collections
In an effort to provide greater accessibility and wider access libraries, museums, and historical sites are frequently digitalizing their collections. This provides access worldwide to specialized resources and allows for archival documents to be viewed without handling or environmental damage.
National Museum of American History: Stories of Freedom and Justice
http://americanhistory.si.edu/freedomandjustice/
In 1960, a group of four African American men sat at the lunch counter in the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina and refused to leave when asked. It was an important moment in the growing civil rights movement, and it is the event which serves as the inspiration for this site created by the National Museum of American History. The theme of the site is "Freedom and Justice", and the site contains a frequently updated blog, webcasts, news updates, and an event calendar.
British Museum: A catalogue of the Russian icons in the British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_research_catalogues/russian_icons/catalogue_of_russian_icons.aspx
The British Museum has been beefing up their online research catalog offerings as of late, and this work contains 72 of the Museum's Russian icons. To gain a sense of the context and history of this collection, start by reading the short "Preface". Searching the "All objects" area will reveal thumbnail sketches of all the icons.
NYPL Digital Gallery: Turn of the Century Posters
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=printing&col_id=212
Anna Palmer Draper collected hundreds of posters during her lifetime, and when she passed away in 1914, her will indicated that they would go to the New York Public Library. They did, and in the 1930s and 1940s library staff members mounted the posters on card stock and bound them into large volumes, alphabetically by artist. Many of them are now available on this site, and they represent a broad pastiche of magazine, book, and newspaper posters from the 1890s into the early 20th century.
Nickel Weeklies
http://drc.library.bgsu.edu/handle/2374.BGSU/744
A century or so, a nickel could buy a lot of entertainment. One such form of entertainment was the nickel weekly, which featured tales of detectives, Wild West characters, and evil villains. Bowling Green State University has created this thoroughly delightful digital collection of nickel weeklies for consumption by the general public. This collection includes 221 nickel weeklies, and visitors can browse these offerings by title, date, or author. Visitors can zoom in on the cover page of each weekly, or they may also download each title and view them at another more convenient moment.
New Mexico Museum of Art
http://www.nmartmuseum.org/
Renamed in 2007, the New Mexico Museum of Art (NMMoA) has built a collection of more than 20,000 works of art in its 1917 Pueblo style building in Santa Fe. The Museum's collecting focus has always been art of the Southwest in general and New Mexico in particular, by artists who have worked, lived, or been influenced by travel through the area. The Southwest is widely known as an area of great natural beauty, inspiring artists from all over the world. A variety of cultures have collided and commingled in New Mexico; Native Americans, settlers of European descent, more recently established landowners and tourists - and this cultural heritage is all apparent in the NMMoA collection.
>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2010. http://scout.wisc.edu/
National Museum of American History: Stories of Freedom and Justice
http://americanhistory.si.edu/freedomandjustice/
In 1960, a group of four African American men sat at the lunch counter in the Woolworth's store in Greensboro, North Carolina and refused to leave when asked. It was an important moment in the growing civil rights movement, and it is the event which serves as the inspiration for this site created by the National Museum of American History. The theme of the site is "Freedom and Justice", and the site contains a frequently updated blog, webcasts, news updates, and an event calendar.
British Museum: A catalogue of the Russian icons in the British Museum
http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/online_research_catalogues/russian_icons/catalogue_of_russian_icons.aspx
The British Museum has been beefing up their online research catalog offerings as of late, and this work contains 72 of the Museum's Russian icons. To gain a sense of the context and history of this collection, start by reading the short "Preface". Searching the "All objects" area will reveal thumbnail sketches of all the icons.
NYPL Digital Gallery: Turn of the Century Posters
http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/explore/dgexplore.cfm?topic=printing&col_id=212
Anna Palmer Draper collected hundreds of posters during her lifetime, and when she passed away in 1914, her will indicated that they would go to the New York Public Library. They did, and in the 1930s and 1940s library staff members mounted the posters on card stock and bound them into large volumes, alphabetically by artist. Many of them are now available on this site, and they represent a broad pastiche of magazine, book, and newspaper posters from the 1890s into the early 20th century.
Nickel Weeklies
http://drc.library.bgsu.edu/handle/2374.BGSU/744
A century or so, a nickel could buy a lot of entertainment. One such form of entertainment was the nickel weekly, which featured tales of detectives, Wild West characters, and evil villains. Bowling Green State University has created this thoroughly delightful digital collection of nickel weeklies for consumption by the general public. This collection includes 221 nickel weeklies, and visitors can browse these offerings by title, date, or author. Visitors can zoom in on the cover page of each weekly, or they may also download each title and view them at another more convenient moment.
New Mexico Museum of Art
http://www.nmartmuseum.org/
Renamed in 2007, the New Mexico Museum of Art (NMMoA) has built a collection of more than 20,000 works of art in its 1917 Pueblo style building in Santa Fe. The Museum's collecting focus has always been art of the Southwest in general and New Mexico in particular, by artists who have worked, lived, or been influenced by travel through the area. The Southwest is widely known as an area of great natural beauty, inspiring artists from all over the world. A variety of cultures have collided and commingled in New Mexico; Native Americans, settlers of European descent, more recently established landowners and tourists - and this cultural heritage is all apparent in the NMMoA collection.
>From The Scout Report, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2010. http://scout.wisc.edu/
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