Last spring, Robin Rottier, a Mason psychology student and Preservation Assistant working in the library, donated a collection of thousands of slides, negatives, and prints taken by her father Jack Rottier. Jack Rottier worked as a photographer for the National Capital Region of the National Park Service from the early 1960s until he retired in […]
Earlier this fall an inquiry came to SC&A about the John C. Becher Soldier Show Collection (see Veronica Fisher’s post from Tuesday, October 20, 2009). Further correspondence revealed that the researcher had actually taken part in the World War II soldier show “Fall Out for Fun.” Excited by the prospect of learning more about the […]
Jordan Patty, SC&A’s processing archivist, recently introduced me to this cool online tool for figuring out copyright protection offered by the Copyright Advisory Network: The Copyright Slider Found at the url: http://www.librarycopyright.net/digitalslider/ The Copyright Advisory Network is a wonderful resource for librarians, scholars, students, and educators. I highly recommend the site if you are interested […]
This introduction to The Road to Happiness (1924) explains how the producers used Fairfax County, Virginia, as the location but used a different name in the film so that the real county would remain anonymous. Real people that lived in Fairfax County are featured in the film. You can view the introduction video here. Also, […]
With the holiday season in full swing, we’ve been inspired here in the library by some of the recipes found in our Rosemary Poole Cookbook Collection. The collection includes over 200 cookbooks from the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries covering a range of regions and cuisines with books on proper etiquette, table settings, and dress […]
