Guest blogger: Al-Amin Smith, HIST 497 independent study student
The Olavi V. Kukkola papers is a new collection at Archives and Special Collections that consists of Kukkola’s professional papers, engineering schematics, a developmental proposal, a technical diary, and several photos …
Blogger: Megan Friedel
In my last post, I discussed one of my favorite photograph formats, the stereoview. However, unlike most photographs, which are meant to be viewed as-is, the stereoview requires the use of another tool for the viewer to …
Guest blogger: Megan
I have an abiding fondness for stereoviews. Anyone of my generation who grew up with their eyes pressed to a View-Master camera knows the sheer magic of looking through the viewfinder into a tiny, three-dimensional scene, every …
Guest blogger: Megan
I sometimes think of the tintype as the ugly duckling of nineteenth-century photo processes. Those that have made it intact to the twenty-first century are often battered, bent, or rusted, the image sometimes shot through with a …
Guest blogger: Megan
“What are these blue thingies?” That’s a question I’ve heard countless times from interns and volunteers processing photo collections. “Are they supposed to look that way?”
Yep, they sure are. Those “blue thingies” are one of my …
Guest blogger: Megan
We’ve recently embarked on two projects here at Archives and Special Collections that I’m pretty excited about.
The first is to tackle our backlog. First of all, let me say that I have never worked at a …
Guest blogger: Megan
For a while now, we have been in the process of converting our old finding aids to a more standardized format. Being very pro-standardization in most aspects of my archival work and having done my share of …
Guest blogger: Megan
If you’re just tuning in, we’re celebrating Black History Month here at the Archives & Special Collections blog (with a brief detour for some Valentine’s Day affection). Mariecris and I have been highlighting collections from our archives …
Guest blogger: Megan
Last week, we had a visit to the Archives by Channel 2 (KTUU) to film a segment on African American history in anticipation of February’s Black History Month. The collection they were most interested in seeing and …
Apparently, I (Megan) can’t hide in my office anymore and plead my newbie status as an excuse for not writing a blog post. I’ve been Reference Archivist here in Archives & Special Collections for two weeks now and an Alaskan …
