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Life’s Batter with Cake: Celebrating National Cake Day with the Still Picture Branch – The Unwritten Record
Being the week of Thanksgiving, this time of year is usually all about pie. But National Cake Day sneaks in on November 26! To honor the delicious treat during a time when it may be overshadowed by…
Girl Aces Hold Own Air Show: Universal Newsreel and the 1935 Women’s Championship Air Show – The Unwritten Record
Still is taken from Universal Newsreel Volume 7, Release 406. “Thirty women pilots have groomed their ships for a wholesale assault today and tomorrow on man’s supremacy in the air.” This quote is …
New Addition to the Catalog: Photographs from the John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field (255-GRC) – The Unwritten Record
We’re pleased to announce that 256,444 photographs from NASA’s Glenn Research Center have recently been added to the National Archives Catalog. The photos document facilities, personnel…
Spotlight on 342-C: Color Photographs of U.S. Air Force Activities, Facilities, and Personnel, Domestic and Foreign, ca. 1940–ca. 1980 – The Unwritten Record
342-C is a series of photographs comprised of color transparencies, slides, and negatives that document the activities of the U.S. Air Force and predecessor agencies, including the Army Air Fo…
Living “the future of our past”: Celebrating the 30th Anniversary of Archives II – The Unwritten Record
This post was created in collaboration with Phillip Wong, Archives Technician in the Still Picture Branch. On October 17, 1989, the ground shook as a 6.9 magnitude earthquake hit San Francisco, int…
Following Maps from Manuscript to Print in the Bureau of Indian Affairs Irrigation Division – The Unwritten Record
Recently I posted announcing the digitization of cartographic records from the Irrigation Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs. While scanning those records, I came across some interesting maps…
Celebrating National Submarine Day with a Dive into Drawings of the USS Holland (SS-1) – The Unwritten Record
Residing in Record Group 19 in the holdings of the Cartographic Branch are three drawings of a very early submarine owned by United States Navy. Though the USS Holland was not the first submarine o…