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Archive: August 2021 (2 Posts)

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Ready for Research: Enhancing Access through Archival Finding Aids

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

The following is a guest post by Emma Esperon, Archivist, and Aliza Leventhal, Head, Technical Services, Prints & Photographs Division. Navigating large collections can be so challenging that archivists create finding aids–contextual and structured description documents—to lower barriers to research. We’d like to take you behind the scenes to see the ingredients that go into …

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Exploring Black-Owned Businesses from the Turn of the 20th Century

Posted by: Barbara Orbach Natanson

August was designated as National Black Business Month in 2004. Just about a century earlier, visitors to the Paris Exposition of 1900 also had an opportunity to appreciate the entrepreneurial endeavors of African Americans. The Exposition included a display devoted to the history and “present conditions” of African Americans. W.E.B. Du Bois and special agent …