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Archive for 'NARA Staff Favorites'Motown Was Not AfraidSo many songs, so many lawsuits. As February brings a plethora of romantic tunes to the airwaves and to people’s hearts, a copyright case recalls how one of the most popular Motown creations was alleged to have been plagiarized from another source. When Baby Love was sung by popular “girl group” The Supremes, it became [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on February 14, 2013, under NARA Coast to Coast, NARA Staff Favorites, Research. Tag It Tuesday! Lights, Camera, Archives?Today’s Tag It Tuesday is going Hollywood! Did you know that every once in a while there’s a star sighting in the records of the National Archives? You just might find a poor little rich girl, a future Godfather, or a Top Gun making a guest appearance in our holdings. Tammy Kelly, a colleague from the Truman Library, [...] Posted by Denise on December 13, 2011, under NARA Staff Favorites, Social Media (Web 2.0), Tag It Tuesday. No Laugh-In Matter“Sock it to me!” That is, in a way, what happened to Richard Havilland. And he never got to utter that phrase on the television show that made it famous, Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. He did, however, fight back and socked Playboy with a lawsuit. The case provides a fascinating look at not only the [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on October 14, 2011, under NARA Coast to Coast, NARA Staff Favorites. The National Archives at Kansas City Opens over 300,000 Alien Case Files for Research!Today, guest blogger Elizabeth Carrington from the National Archives at Kansas City has written a special NARA Coast-to-Coast post announcing the opening of over 300,000 Alien Case Files from the records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. I find when I approach new records what I really want to understand is how a particular item [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on September 1, 2010, under Genealogy / Family History, Miscellaneous, NARA Coast to Coast, NARA Staff Favorites. Hidden Treasures from within Navy Deck LogsIn anticipation of our upcoming ‘What Are You Working On?’ blog series, Rachel Sutcliffe, an Archives Technician in the Holdings Maintenance Division at NARA, shares her experiences and insights on some very interesting records. One of the best things about working with the National Archives’ records as an employee is that you get to discover something [...] Posted by Mary (admin) on July 21, 2010, under Miscellaneous, NARA Staff Favorites, Research, Veterans / Military, What Are You Working On Wednesdays. Forty Years of Cleaning Up America: Honoring Earth Day with a Look at Photographs from Project DOCUMERICAThis guest blog post was written by NARA Archives Specialist Jerry Simmons. Earth Day turns 40 today! To mark this great, green event, I wanted to highlight the Environmental Protection Agency’s Project DOCUMERICA collection held in the Still Pictures branch of the National Archives at College Park. Though none of these images depict actual Earth [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on April 22, 2010, under Miscellaneous, NARA Staff Favorites, Photographs. NARA Staff Favorites- Online RecordsWe’ve loved reading your suggestions and comments about sharing NARA’s holdings on Flickr, and it’s been interesting to see which images people are marking as favorites. All of this got us wondering about which records NARA insiders are particularly fond of, so we asked a few of our experienced colleagues for their picks. This week’s [...] Posted by Kristen (admin) on December 21, 2009, under Miscellaneous, NARA Staff Favorites, Research. NARA Staff Favorites: Online RecordsWe’ve loved reading your suggestions and comments about sharing NARA’s holdings on Flickr, and it’s been interesting to see which images people are marking as favorites. All of this got us wondering about which records NARA insiders are particularly fond of, so we asked a few of our experienced colleagues for their picks. This week’s [...] Posted by Mary (admin) on December 7, 2009, under Miscellaneous, NARA Staff Favorites, Online Research. NARA Staff Favorites: Online RecordsWe’ve loved reading your suggestions and comments about sharing NARA’s holdings on Flickr, and it’s been interesting to see which images people are marking as favorites. All of this got us wondering about which records NARA insiders are particularly fond of, so we asked a few of our experienced colleagues for their picks. This week’s [...] Posted by Kristen (admin) on November 23, 2009, under Miscellaneous, NARA Staff Favorites, Photographs. NARA Staff Favorites: Online RecordsWe’ve loved reading your suggestions and comments about sharing NARA’s holdings on Flickr, and it’s been interesting to see which images people are marking as favorites. All of this got us wondering about which records NARA insiders are particularly fond of, so we asked a few of our experienced colleagues for their picks. This second [...] Posted by Kristen (admin) on November 9, 2009, under Miscellaneous, NARA Staff Favorites. |
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