Historians to Digitize Endangered Peruvian Archive For years, the historical papers of a Peruvian peasants’ rights group sat heaped in piles on the floor of a house in downtown Lima — threatened by... 10/12/20 0
Library of Congress Launches New Tool to Search Historical Newspaper Images More than 1.5 Million Historical Newspaper Images Now Discoverable Online with Newspaper Navigator. 9/23/20 0
Petition Launched To Get 1926 Irish Census Online by 2022 The Council of Irish Genealogical Organizations (CIGO) launched an online petition calling on the Government of Ireland to honor the commitment given in... 9/1/20 6
Hungary: Countless Historical Maps Made Available Online by National Széchényi Library The National Széchényi Library is launching a new digital service called “Földabrosz.” Their ever-expanding database now contains nearly a thousand... 9/1/20 0
Tens of Thousands of Prison Portraits Captured in 15 Australian Jails Over 50 Years: ‘Portraits of Crime’ Now in Remarkable Digital Archive In recent years the NSW State Archives digitised 46,000 images and collated them in an exhibition titled Captured: Portraits of Crime. 8/27/20 3
Online Slave Registers from Curaçao Allow Descendants To Find Ancestors The National Archive of the Netherlands is putting the names of 21,000 people who lived as slaves in the former Dutch colony of Curaçao online, enabling... 8/27/20 0
Explore Dorothea Lange’s Iconic Photos With These Online Exhibitions In 1936, photographer Dorothea Lange made headlines with her stunning portrait of Florence Owens Thompson, a 32-year old pea picker in Nipomo, California.... 8/18/20 0
Digitisation of Historic Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Documents The Australian public will soon be able to access a trove of significant Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) documents, many of which have been locked away... 7/29/20 2