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Archive: February 2019 (4 Posts)

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As Seen in the Appeal – St. Paul’s African American Business Community

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

The Western Appeal and the Appeal were noted African-American weekly newspapers published in St. Paul that covered news but also provided a way for African American businesses to advertise in the St. Paul area. The publication was celebrating their quarto-centennial (25th) anniversary and along with this souvenir edition, the paper held a celebration at the Junior Pioneer Hall that featured a number of speeches and musical performances.

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Gold Miners, Circus Performers, and Hairdressers – Stories from the Occupational Folklife Project

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was written by Nancy Groce, an ethnomusicologist and folklorist who is a Senior Folklife Specialist in the American Folklife Center.  After years of planning, research, fieldwork, and archiving, the American Folklife Center is excited to begin online posting of material from its Occupational Folklife Project, a major oral history initiative featuring in-depth interviews …

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Celebrate Innovators and Changemakers on National Inventors Day! Learn about Aviation Pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright

Posted by: Ellen Terrell

This post was written by Michelle Cadoree Bradley, a Science Reference Specialist in the Science, Technology and Business Division. “For some years I have been afflicted with the belief that flight is possible to man,” wrote Wilbur Wright in a letter to Octave Chanute in May 1900.  (Octave Chanute Papers: Special Correspondence–Wright Brothers, 1900, in …