Archival footage from (South) Africa: 1920s
Michael Gallagher I suppose it is historically consistent in that the video portrays (South) Africa as a place where one is more likely to see wildlife than people. Interesting video that pays…
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Video of Korea from 1901
I have nothing original to add to this video aside from the person who posted it to YouTube. It is a video of Korea at the turn of the 20th…
Old Seoul in color (1938): rare video footage
I would like to submit this as Evidence #1000 that YouTube is the greatest treasure trove of gobbledygook the world has ever known. Despite the slightly melodramatic soundtrack, this is…
American Memory (Library of Congress) and a Teddy Roosevelt Christmas in Oyster Bay
I think anyone who spends a few minutes trolling through the Library of Congress’s American Memory collections will walk away with at least one record that impresses them. It is…
Zamani Project: Documenting African Cultural Heritage
The Zamani Project is an attempt to capture the spatial domain of heritage, with a current focus on African heritage, by accurately recording its physical and architectural nature and dimensions.…
Living Memories and Archived Multimedia: The Edison Collection from the Library of Congress
Trolling through a section in the Library of Congress on Immigration (great learning tool), I rediscovered a collection that I had encountered before, namely the The Motion Pictures and Sound…