#personalpapers — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #personalpapers, aggregated by home.social.
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Video Game History Foundation: Our first “expansion pack”! New materials in our development collections. “This week, we’ve updated two of our existing library collections: the Mark Flitman papers and the Andrew Nelson papers! We recently received packages from Mark and Andrew containing new materials from their collections that we missed the first time around, as well as a few items we […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/01/video-game-history-foundation-our-first-expansion-pack-new-materials-in-our-development-collections/ -
Canadian Press: Harper’s archival collection includes one million photos, a quilt and a hockey card. “[Élizabeth] Mongrain, who is a manager and senior strategic adviser at Library and Archives Canada, said the project is the largest digital archive acquisition ever undertaken by Library and Archives Canada. She said it includes more than 400,000 digital records, 4,000 sound recordings and […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/02/07/canadian-press-harpers-archival-collection-includes-one-million-photos-a-quilt-and-a-hockey-card/ -
University of Michigan: New Additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. “The William L. Clements Library would like to announce the availability of new additions to the Thomas Gage Papers Digital Collection. General Thomas Gage served as the British Army’s Commander-in-Chief in North America from 1763 to 1775, the highest level of administration in the American colonies at that […]
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Popular Science: Flip through Charles Darwin’s digitized address book. “If you’ve ever wondered whose addresses Charles Darwin was sure to keep tabs on—or even a few rat poison recipes—you’re in luck. A digitized edition of the famed naturalist’s personal address book is available online for the first time.”
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Yale Library: Five new and nine expanded collections now available for researchers. “Beinecke Library reports that from July to September, staff processed 5 new collections and added new materials to 9 existing collections—including the Louise Glück papers. All the collections are discoverable in Archives at Yale.”
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The Wire: New Smartphone-Friendly Nehru Archive Goes Live. “…the platform offers an easily searchable and freely downloadable collection initially centred on the 100 published volumes of the Selected Works of [Jawaharlal] Nehru, covering the years 1903 to 1964. The Nehru archive currently hosts more than 75,000 pages and over 3,000 illustrations.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/11/21/the-wire-new-smartphone-friendly-nehru-archive-goes-live/
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The Dawes Arboretum: Beman Dawes’ Manuscript Collection is Now Digitized and Accessible!. “This collection features correspondence and documents spanning from 1876 to 1953. The manuscripts in this collection consist of letters, shares, investments, properties owned by the Dawes family, trust information and more.”
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Jewish Press: Preserving the Legacy of Rabbi Norman Lamm. “A treasure trove of previously unpublished sermons, correspondences, and essays by Rabbi Dr. Norman Lamm (zt”l) – a foundational figure in twentieth-century Modern Orthodoxy – is now available online through the newly launched Lamm Legacy Project.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/09/18/jewish-press-preserving-the-legacy-of-rabbi-norman-lamm/
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New Mexico State University: NMSU Archives acquires Frederick Nolan papers, a treasure trove on Lincoln County War, Billy the Kid. “New Mexico State University’s Archives and Special Collections has acquired the papers of Frederick Nolan, the pre-eminent historian of Lincoln County, the Lincoln County War and Billy the Kid. The collection, shipped from London to Las Cruces, marks a highly […]
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University of Nevada Las Vegas: UNLV Libraries Acquire Groundbreaking Sex Work Activism Archive. “The Norma Jean Almodovar Papers, covering the years 1918 to 2022, document her decades of advocacy for sex worker rights and include materials from her personal life, activism, and the nonprofit she founded: the International Sex Worker Foundation for Art, Culture, and Education (ISWFACE).”
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Vanderbilt University: Heard Libraries complete digitization of Lamar Alexander Papers, making vital political history more widely accessible. “The Jean and Alexander Heard Libraries’ Special Collections and University Archives has completed a long-term project to fully digitize the Lamar Alexander Papers, which document the life and work of a significant figure in Tennessee and U.S. […]
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Associated Press: Stephen Sondheim’s papers go to Library of Congress, offering a look into a Broadway genius. “Manuscripts, music and lyric drafts, recordings, notebooks and scrapbooks from Stephen Sondheim have been donated to the Library of Congress, offering the public a chance to see firsthand the creativity of one of musical theater’s giants.”
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TVP World: New database uncovers lives of Czechoslovaks executed by Nazi regime. “A project aiming to eventually present the biographies of all Czechoslovaks executed by the Nazis has debuted as part of commemorations marking 80 years since the end of WWII. As part of the first phase, profiles of 300 people murdered in Dresden on the orders of the regional court have been made available […]
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Simmons University: University Archives Digitizes Gwen Ifill Papers Collection. “‘Gwen Ifill ’77, ’93HD [1955–2016] was a very impactful individual,’ says University Archivist and Digital Initiatives Librarian Kelsey Kolbet ’21MA/MS about the acclaimed journalist, PBS NewsHour anchor, and author. ‘Anybody who talks about her — whether they knew her directly or watched her on […]
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Yale Library: Library announces 10 new special collections now available to researchers. “Beinecke Library reports that in the first three months of 2025, staff have processed 10 new collections, which are now discoverable in Archives at Yale. These new collections—along with numerous additions to 17 collections already processed, including the Kent State, Cave Canem, and Rebecca West […]
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Brooklyn Rail: Carolee Schneemann’s Digitized Diaries. “[Carolee] Schneemann was a life-long documentor and kept diaries and scrapbooks dating back as early as 1951, now all part of Stanford University’s archives. Following the five year embargo period on their use, the first thirty-six volumes in this collection (1951–78) are now fully digitized and available to view online, providing […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/brooklyn-rail-carolee-schneemanns-digitized-diaries/
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Catholic Review: Daughters of Charity, DePaul University expand digital collection of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton’s papers, letters. “As the 50th anniversary of the canonization of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton approaches Sept. 14, many of her family’s documents are being made public digitally. The archives of the Daughters of Charity Province of St. Louise, in collaboration with the digital […]
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Butler Eagle: Heinz History Center launches digital archive. “The Rauh Jewish History Program & Archives at the Heinz History Center, in collaboration with the Irving and Aaronel deRoy Gruber Foundation, launched a digital archive providing a behind-the-scenes look at Pittsburgh artist Aaronel deRoy Gruber. The Aaronel deRoy Gruber Papers and Photographs digital collection has deRoy […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/23/butler-eagle-heinz-history-center-launches-digital-archive/
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The Guardian: Unearthed notebooks shed light on Victorian genius who inspired Einstein. “He was a self-educated genius whose groundbreaking discoveries in the fields of physics and chemistry electrified the world of science and laid the foundations for Albert Einstein’s theory of relativity nearly a century later. Now, the little-known notebooks of the Victorian scientist Michael Faraday […]
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The Violin Channel: Austrian Conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s Archive Launched Online. “The Nikolaus Harnoncourt Center (NHZ), which is based at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria, has recently launched an online archive covering all seven decades of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s life. Harnoncourt’s family opted to donate many of his personal effects to the university for this […]