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Archive for 'NARA Coast to Coast'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. 2013 Regional Residency Fellowship: Request for ProposalsPhotograph of Mrs. Adelaide Minogue Checking Humidity Recorder in Stacks, 1942 (National Archives Identifier: 3493247) The National Archives, with the generous support of the Foundation for the National Archives, is now inviting proposals for the 2013 Regional Residency Fellowship Program. The Residency Fellowship Program gives researchers the opportunity to conduct original research using records held at [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on January 23, 2013, under NARA Coast to Coast, National Archives Fellowship, Research. Rolling into CourtAs Halloween approaches, our thoughts turn to candy — and court cases. A sweet combination of both can be found in Record Group 21, the U.S. District Court, the Northern District of Illinois, Chicago. Civil case number 47C1770 was filed in 1947, when the Life Savers Corporation sued the Curtiss Candy Company for trademark infringement. [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on October 19, 2012, under NARA Coast to Coast, Research. Records Heading West to St. LouisThe following post is by guest bloggers Rebecca Warlow, Description and Digitization Supervisor, and Ann Cummings, Supervisory Archivist for Textual Records. At the DC-Area Researchers Forum in November we announced that some records would be moving from the National Archives at College Park to the National Archives at St. Louis in 2012. The time has [...] Posted by Dawn on June 26, 2012, under DC-area Researchers, Genealogy / Family History, NARA Coast to Coast, Research, Veterans / Military. Communications Commission Creates Confrontational and Cacophonic Court Case“The following program is brought to you in living color by CBS.” Wait. That’s not right. But it might have been if the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had its way back in 1950. The variation of the long-used advertising slogan by the National Broadcasting Company (NBC), first uttered in 1957, may not have been conceived [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on June 22, 2012, under NARA Coast to Coast, Research. Taking the Streets in Chicago: The 1968 Democratic National Convention on HistorypinToday’s post comes from Kristina Maldre, Education Specialist at the National Archives at Chicago. Protestors are planning numerous demonstrations for this week, when world leaders will gather in Chicago for the 2012 NATO Summit. But assembling in the streets of the Windy City to oppose governmental policies is nothing new. This past year the Occupy [...] Posted by Meredith D. (admin) on May 17, 2012, under NARA Coast to Coast, Photographs, Social Media (Web 2.0). 1940 Census Events and Workshops at the National Archives Coast to CoastFrom coast to coast the National Archives is celebrating the 1940 census next week with events and workshops. We hope you will join us! The National Archives at Boston will be offering a program called “The 1940 Census is Here Today!” on April 2nd. Please email them at boston.archives@nara.gov for more information. The National Archives [...] Posted by Rebecca on March 28, 2012, under 1940 Census, Genealogy / Family History, NARA Coast to Coast, Online Research, Research. Communications ConspiracyWhen talking about red and blue, many Americans think of the political happenings and the colors of states. But before there were those geographic designations, red and blue were associated with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) and its networks. While in recent years there has been an increase in the number of entities corporations can [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on March 20, 2012, under NARA Coast to Coast. NARA Coast to Coast: The Coupon Craze of the 1940sThe economy has been at the top of the newscasts, not to mention peoples’ thoughts, for several years now with no end in sight. Although there has been prosperity since World War II, during the difficult war years the government worked at keeping the economy under control. At the forefront of its efforts was the [...] Posted by Katie Dishman on December 19, 2011, under NARA Coast to Coast. Byrd ExpeditionThe following post comes from guest blogger Robyn Dexter, Archivist at the National Archives at Anchorage. Rear Admiral Richard Byrd was born in 1888, part of a prominent Virginia family. His commission in the Navy enabled him to pioneer developments in aviation, learning to fly during WWI. Byrd was instrumental in developing new technologies, such [...] Posted by Dawn on November 18, 2011, under NARA Coast to Coast, Research. |
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