UC Berkeley Library: ‘A beautiful artist’: Mildred Howard’s archive comes to The Bancroft Library at UC Berkeley, offering a peek into a singular creative mind. “Morning light filters through the gauzy curtains on the floor-to-ceiling windows. A tufted chaise rests on a zebra-print rug. An oversized pear perches atop a stack of books beneath a scarlet semicolon, part of Howard’s series […]

Indiana University Bloomington: Breaking Away and Beyond: New Steve Tesich Collection. “A major new collection that brings together the life and work of IU alumnus Steve Tesich was added to Archives Online last week. Tesich was an Oscar-winning screenwriter, playwright, and novelist whose career stretched from the late 1960s through the mid 1990s. He was born Stojan Tešić in 1942 in Užice, […]

Utah State University: Outdoor Recreation Archive Receives Skip Yowell Papers, Documenting Outdoor Industry Trailblazer. “Utah State University’s Outdoor Recreation Archive has opened a new collection documenting the life and career of the late Skip Yowell (1946-2015), the longtime face of JanSport and a visionary in the outdoor industry.”

PetaPixel: Todd Webb, a Photographer Who Once Walked From New York to San Francisco, Has Archive Preserved. “Born in Detroit in 1905, Webb traveled the world and in the 1950s was awarded two Guggenheim Fellowships, which allowed him to photograph the pioneer trails of early American settlers as he walked from New York City to San Francisco. Webb also photographed in the United Kingdom, Papua […]

NBC Bay Area: San Francisco woman gets photographer’s old number. It changes both their lives. “[Wernher] Krutein, 72, has spent more than six decades traveling the world with a camera, documenting everything from people and architecture to insects and everyday objects. While his work spans continents, some of his most famous photographs were taken closer to home in San Francisco…. Starting […]

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'The career of Mel Brooks will be preserved in Jamestown. The National Comedy Center announced Wednesday the museum will be home to the legendary comedian and satirist's career archive.'

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WGRZ: Comedian Mel Brooks donates career archives to National Comedy Center. “The career of Mel Brooks will be preserved in Jamestown. The National Comedy Center announced Wednesday the museum will be home to the legendary comedian and satirist’s career archive. The set is made up of 150,000 creative & production documents and 5,000 photos, some of which have never been seen by the public.”

Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council: New Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Archives Collections now available online. “Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council are delighted to have the collections of the La Touche Family, Joseph McGrath and Thomas Cullen digitised and published in the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI), an online archive for the preservation of Irish cultural heritage.”

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Dead Air Fresheners continue our St. John's Portland Little Free Library tour with a rocking set of drops on Charleston Ave!

Dazed: The internet made us archive our lives – now we want out. “The shift points to a newer (and almost ironic) conundrum: part of the internet’s original appeal was that it offered us a way to document our lives and imagine that some piece of us might live on forever. But somewhere along the way, between the rise of curated feeds, influencer culture and the resurfacing of old celebrity […]