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Archive: March 2012 (2 Posts)

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Words About Pictures: More National Book Festival Visitor Comments

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

We are still savoring the comments visitors to the National Book Festival offered last fall while viewing sample photographs from our collections.  This visitor’s comments seem particularly apt as we continue to celebrate Women’s History Month. The commenter recognized the well-known subject of the photograph, educator and civil rights activist Mary McLeod Bethune. Bethune served …

Smiling woman dressed in outdoor winter clothes holds a large, old-style camera

Collections Ripe for Research: New Reference Aid

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

Researchers come to their topics in many ways.  Some set out to test a theory, to revise the assertions of others, or to explore people, places, events or issues from new angles. For others, topics surface from the primary sources themselves.  One of my favorite stories in this regard is historian David McCullough’s account of …