Inspired by a posting from the Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art earlier this month, we decided to share some of our favorite archives tools with you! First up, Arlene.
My Flip HD videocam, by Arlene
One of the regular questions we get is “what do you collect?” That’s not always an easy question to answer! Sometimes the answer is: it depends. For a while now, though, we’ve been talking about formalizing our collection policy for …
In last week’s mail came a rather lavishly illustrated catalog of materials from a documents/photographs/artifacts dealer listing a number of Alaskana items for sale. One of them, a photographic print by Eric A. Hegg, caught my eye. Because we have …
Without going on at length about archival appraisal and what that means and how we do it, sometimes it just comes down to throwing stuff out. Take this past Saturday, for example.
About once a month we have a Saturday …
