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# 147
26 May
2012
OLD GLORY: Flags from the Museum Collection
Internet Archive Blogs - A blog from the Collections
Team
Potsdam Public
Museum
Permanent exhibition - On the history of the
Babelsberg studios
The Dream Factory – 100 Years of Film in
Babelsberg
The Verb 25 May 2012
BBC Radio 3's 'cabaret of the word' at the
Radio Theatre is presented by Ian McMillan.
Ian's guests at this recording are Wendy
Cope, who's been called the 'wittiest of contemporary English poets' - she'll be
launching the Proms Poetry Competition, and Barb Jungr - one of the nation's
most respected interpreters of popular song, who'll be performing 'Blind Willie
McTell' from her tribute album to Bob Dylan 'The Man in the Long Black Coat' and
her own composition 'Sunset to Break Your Heart'. Joining them will be Joanne
Harris to talk about revisiting the characters and landscape of 'Chocolat' in
her new novel 'Peaches for Monsieur Le Cure', and the performance poet Simon
Mole with 'Rebel, Rebel', a poem which explores the pleasures and difficulties
of having baby-boomer parents
Producer: Faith
Lawrence.
AND
FINALLY!
# 146
25 MAY
2012
The Federal Writers'
Project
Created in 1935 as part of the United States Work Progress Administration to provide employment for historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers. Originally, the purpose of the project was to produce a series of sectional guide books under the name American Guide, focusing on the scenic, historical, cultural, and economic resources of the United States. Eventually new programs were developed and projects begun under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration were absorbed by the Writers' Project. From its inception in 1935 through late 1939, the Federal Writers' Project was directed by Henry Alsberg.
Created in 1935 as part of the United States Work Progress Administration to provide employment for historians, teachers, writers, librarians, and other white-collar workers. Originally, the purpose of the project was to produce a series of sectional guide books under the name American Guide, focusing on the scenic, historical, cultural, and economic resources of the United States. Eventually new programs were developed and projects begun under the Federal Emergency Relief Administration were absorbed by the Writers' Project. From its inception in 1935 through late 1939, the Federal Writers' Project was directed by Henry Alsberg.
Welcome to Federal Writers' Project
To support writers, editors, researchers, and
historians during the Great Depression, the United States government created a
program called The Federal Writers' Project as part of the Works Project
Administration, under FDR's New Deal. The most famous works coming out of this
project include the state travel guides, which have been archived within the
Prelinger Library.
Federal Writers' Project Papers,
1936-1940
Digitized
Content
The American Guide Series of
books
Produced by the Federal Writers Project
between 1935 and 1943. The Federal Writers Project was one of the many programs
under the Works Progress Administration (WPA), a Depression-era government
program that assisted the millions of unemployed.
Missouri American Guide Series
(1941)
Walter Schroeder leads an examination of
The WPA Guide to Missouri on September 16, 2009.
TOURING FLORIDA THROUGH THE FEDERAL WRITERS'
PROJECT
by James A. Findlay and Margaret Bing
by James A. Findlay and Margaret Bing
Unmasking Writers Of the
W.P.A.
By DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
THE NEW YORK TIMES :: Published: August 02, 2003
By DOUGLAS BRINKLEY
THE NEW YORK TIMES :: Published: August 02, 2003
# 145
24 May 2012
THE SAN FRANCISCO PUBLIC LIBRARY
United States. Work Projects Administration (Calif.)
HISTORY OF MUSIC PROJECT
A San Francisco songster, 1849-1939 (1939)
An anthology of music criticism (1942)
Early master teachers (1940)
Fifty local prodigies : a survey of musical prodigies developed in San Francisco during the past four decades (1900-1940) (1940)
http://archive.org/details/fiftylocalprodig00lengCheck list of California songs (1940)
http://archive.org/details/checklistofcalif00lawt
An anthology of music criticism (1942)
Early master teachers (1940)
Music of the Gold Rush era (1939)
Celebrities in El Dorado : 1850-1906 (1939)
The letters of Miska Hauser, 1853 (1939)
A medley of Choral Societies (1849-1906) (1941)
The musical trade, 1850-1940 (1941)
SAN FRANCISCO THEATRE
Tom Maguire ; Dr. David G. (Yankee) Robinson ; M.B. Leavitt (1938)
Edwin Forrest ; Catherine Sinclair (1940)
Little theatres (1940)
Minstrelsy (1939)
A history of burlesque (1940)
Theatre buildings (1940)
Famous playhouses (1940)
James O'Neill (1942)
The Italian theatre in San Francisco (1939)
The history of opera in San Francisco (1939)
Lotta Crabtree ; John McCullough (1938)
Lola Montez ; Adah Isaacs Menken ; Mrs. Judah (1938)
Junius Brutus Booth, the elder ; Junius Brutus Booth, the younger ; Edwin Booth (1938)
The Starks ; the Bakers ; the Chapmans (1938)
The French theatre in San Francisco ; the German theatre in San Francisco (1939)
Report on progress of the works program in San Francisco; January, 1938 (1938)
http://archive.org/details/reportonprogres1938unit# 144
23 May
2012
All
Videos
ILLUSTRATION AND MORE
All
Videos The First
Photograph
With over
300,000 films and television programs, and 27 million feet of newsreel footage,
the UCLA Film & Television Archive is the world's largest university-held
collection of motion pictures and broadcast programming.
"Wish You Were
Here:"
A Postcard Story of
Historic Alexandria, Virginia
Postcards
dating from 1907 to the early 1980s which depict historic buildings and
landmarks of Alexandria, Virginia. Postcards selected from the
McIntosh-Bayliss-Frazier Collection and Postcard
Collection.
AND
FINALLY!
# 143
22 MAY 2012
THE FIFTH ARMY
ITALY = THE SECOND
WORLD WAR
"U.S. Forces Mark San Salvatore’s WWII
Liberation",
San Salvatore Telesino April 21,
2012
A commemoration of the U.S. Fifth Army's arrival in
San Salvatore 68 years ago
“With Force and
Spirit”
The 173rd Field Artillery Battalion in World War
II
Big Picture: This is Fifth Army
http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569532
http://archive.org/details/gov.archives.arc.2569532
A Fifth Army Report from the Beachhead (1944)
http://archive.org/details/FifthArmyReportfromtheBeachhead
http://archive.org/details/FifthArmyReportfromtheBeachhead
AND
FINALLY!
the 5th Army Mobile Radio Station
# 142
21 May
2012
The Great Alaska Earthquake of
1964
Alaska Volcano
Observatory 
# 141
20 May 2012
Flight Service 
WELCOME
TO AIR CADETS NORTH
THE WEBSITE FOR NORTH REGION, AIR TRAINING CORPS
Antique & Vintage
Aircraft
In
1891, the civil engineer Otto Lilienthal (Germany) succeeded in achieving the first
safe, multiple gliding flights in history. AND
FINALLY!
# 140
19 May 2012
Great Northern Railway
Page
a
group of volunteers working together to provide free genealogy websites for
genealogical research in every county and every state of the United States. This
Project is non-commercial and fully committed to free genealogy access for
everyone.
A Historyof Architectural Conservation http://www.iccrom.org/pdf/ICCROM_05_HistoryofConservation00_en.pdf
# 139
18 May 2012
MOVIE
THEATER STUFF 
“Reporting on the world
of early and silent cinema (http://thebioscope.net)” 
Curated
by urbanora
AND
FINALLY!
# 138
17 May
2012
The Cable Car Home
Page
A site about cable cars (also known as
cable tramways) all over the world. http://www.cable-car-guy.com/
Loftus
History
AND FINALLY!
Today it's a trip back to 1967 when Canada was celebrating our
Centennial at Expo 67, the world's fair in Montreal. Every day the fair was on,
CBC Radio aired a special program called Expodition.
"Man and His World" was the theme of the fair, and by the time it
was over it drew 50 million visitors to its site on three artificial islands in
the St. Lawrence River. There were 90 pavilions which represented countries as
well as themes: Man the Explorer, Man the Creator, Man the Producer and Man in
the Community. Canadian provinces and regions also had pavilions.
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