In December of 1967, when nearly 15 percent of all Americans and 40 percent of African Americans lived below the poverty line, Martin Luther King and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) began organizing a national campaign against poverty. The Poor People’s Campaign was to inaugurate a new phase of civil rights extending the struggle […]
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, […]
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