Turning the Book Wheel
It’s official! The Smithsonian Institution is partnering with the Digital Public Library of America. The Smithsonian, like the National Archives and Records Administration, will be a “content hub” for the DPLA - providing metadata that will allow the DPLA to search and link to our online collections.
Not to brag (much) but the Smithsonian Libraries’ director, Nancy Gwinn, was instrumental in making this partnership a reality and Assoc. Director Martin Kalfatovic is one of the DPLA technical workstream co-chairs. Pictured above on the DPLA website is library book scanner extraordinaire Stefaan Hurts.
The District of Columbia Emancipation Act
On April 16, 1862, President Abraham Lincoln signed a bill ending slavery in the District of Columbia. Passage of this act came 9 months before President Lincoln issued his Emancipation Proclamation. The act brought to conclusion decades of agitation aimed at ending what antislavery advocates called “the national shame” of slavery in the nation’s capital.
Putting Women on the Map: New Women’s History Collections on Historypin
March is Women’s History Month and March 8 is International Women’s Day! To celebrate, the National Archives has created four new collections focusing on women of the past in on Historypin.
The Women at Work collection depicts the role of women in the workforce throughout our national life – in farms, shipyards, hospitals, manufacturing plants, markets, and in the aviation industry - including “Mrs. William Wood manages a one hundred and twenty acre farm in Coloma, Michigan, with little male assistance.”
Historical photographs and documents reveal the struggle for woman suffrage in the collection of the same name, including women protesting at the White House in 1917.
Two more collections include Women in the military and famous women from National Archives holdings.
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