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The University of Sheffield's National Fairground and Circus Archive includes tens of thousands of images of carnival attractions.

This British University Has an Archive of Ye Olde Haunted Houses

The times have changed, but the thrill remains the same.

April White October 21, 2021

Two siblings—Aiko and her brother Isamu—pose in their masks in the yard of their family home on Los Feliz Boulevard near Griffith Park, where their parents ran a flower nursery. This photo, taken in 1925, was collected as part of Shades of L.A., an outreach program the library conducted in the 1990s to diversify its photo collection.

Explore a Century of Halloween in L.A. Through Vintage Photographs

An eerie/fun glimpse into the Los Angeles Public Library Photo Collection.

April White October 8, 2021

Tattoo designs of Lena Liberty by Ed Liberty, Boston, ca. 1935.

How Historians of Modern Tattooing Explore a Long-Hidden Past

The growing field probes everything from family collections to problematic museum exhibits.

Eve Kahn October 5, 2021

Go-go legend Chuck Brown performs with the Chuck Brown Band in 2011 at Ibiza, a now-shuttered D.C. nightclub.

Tracing the Funky Story of D.C. Go-Go, From Parties to Protest

It's not every day that a library archive will make you want to boogie.

April White September 22, 2021

One of Jerry Weller's photo albums, with notes that Patti May gave to GLAPN identifying people in the pictures.

The Precious, Precarious Work of Queer Archiving in the Pacific Northwest

Local legacy-keepers are working to ensure that the histories aren't lost or forgotten.

Emma Banks April 14, 2023

One of the included cookbooks, <em>Cooking by Kadambila Saraswati</em>, is about South Canara cuisine.

Cook Your Way Through Regional Indian Recipes With This Online Archive

A student project is digitizing the subcontinent's community cookbooks.

Sharanya Deepak May 3, 2021

David Shorter prepares herbs from his garden to make tinctures. From left to right: blue lily flowers, calea zacatechichi, lavender, and gordolobo.

Help Curate This Vast Trove of Kitchen-Table Remedies

The Archive of Healing includes hundreds of thousands of folk healing traditions from six continents.

Reina Gattuso April 21, 2021

An anatomical engraving from 1872.

Seeking the Truth Behind Books Bound in Human Skin

And the "gentleman" doctors who made them.

Megan Rosenbloom January 29, 2021

Inside a Historic Observatory That Almost Went Up in Flames

Lick Observatory in California has lived to see another starry night.

Isaac Schultz September 3, 2020

A plan for the controversial World War II exhibition known as <em>Exhibition X</em>.

Plumbing the Secrets of the Archives of the Museum of Modern Art

From an Avenue of Fascism, to turtle soup, to a phantom photo of three important women having tea.

Andrew Russeth August 3, 2020

Berthold Laufer's cylinders: one row for vocals, the other for instruments.

Do These Tubes Hold the Oldest Known Stereo Recordings?

In 1901, a traveling researcher recorded some Chinese opera, and accidentally made music history.

Matthew Taub July 15, 2020

Biblioteca Capitolare of Verona

One of the oldest libraries in the world is still operating and contains the oldest existing document in the Italian language.

A participant named Debbie Graves shows off her goth look.

The Museum of Youth Culture Wants Your Teenage Memories

Your awkward, rebellious stage, it turns out, is history.

Matthew Taub May 20, 2020

The mine slows the degradation of the photos. The most delicate materials are kept in a special refrigerated section.

This Vast Photo Archive Is Hidden Inside a Cold, Heavily Guarded Limestone Mine

Over 11 million Getty images are on ice near Pittsburgh.

Isaac Schultz May 11, 2020

"The package may be small, but you will know it does not need to hold the love I send, for that cannot be confined," Hildreth Heiney wrote to her fiancé in 1918. The man in the photograph, identified as John, may be her brother.

A Trove of Sad, Funny, and Familiar Stories From the 1918 Flu Pandemic

A UCLA librarian has built a remarkable collection of century-old letters, diaries, and photographs.

Jessica Klein May 1, 2020

While you're sheltering in place, you can collect oral histories that bridge your family's past and present.

It's the Perfect Time to Record Your Family's History. Here's How.

Invite your relatives to share great stories with these tips from oral historians.

Jessica Leigh Hester April 29, 2020

If you're at home, sit down for a cup of tea with Joyce Chen.

Hobbies to Hone While Hunkering Down, With Help From Public TV

Learn to draw, craft up a storm, or boogie like it's 1979.

Jessica Leigh Hester April 16, 2020

At Harvard, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Annie Jump Cannon, Williamina Fleming, and Antonia Maury.

Even More Ways to Help Librarians and Archivists From Home

As long as we're all cooped-up, here are six digital projects that could use your curiosity.

Jessica Leigh Hester April 7, 2020