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Seattle, Washington

Buried Indigenous Seed Capsules

Part of Seattle’s Ravenna Creek Drop project, these capsules preserve seeds of plants that predated the city.

Menawali, India

Nana Phadnavis Wada

A riverside mansion built in the 1770s still stands near the town of Wai.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Sherlock Holmes Collections

This collection is the largest in the world dedicated to Sherlock Holmes and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

Researchers are rushing to document carvings made by Basque herders, before they're gone.

The Disappearing Arborglyphs Carved by Sheepherders Across the American West

Basque immigrants inscribed jokes, names, and historical happenings on aspen trees.

Iñaki Arrieta Baro July 15, 2024

The Middle Ages were rife with murder tales, such as the murder of seventh-century King Candaules of Lydia (shown here in this 15th-century illustration by Maître François).

How a Medieval Murder Map Helped Solve a 700-Year-Old London Cold Case

It all started as a Cambridge criminologist’s macabre hobby.

Sofia Quaglia January 25, 2024

The call of the green frog is said to sound like the plunk of a banjo string.

The Many Lives of ‘Sounds of North American Frogs’

This metamorphic record is a teaching tool, a flirtation device, a college radio favorite, a nostalgic object, and more. BOOP!

Cara Giaimo January 23, 2024

A female astronomer peers through Yerkes Observatory's massive refractor telescope in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.

Uncovering the Forgotten Female Astronomers of Yerkes Observatory

It all started with a photo of Einstein.

April White January 9, 2024

Ex-Chiesa di San Michele all’Arco

Angels and demons watch over newspapers in this deconsecrated church.

The "Ode to the Ancestors" exhibit features 28 previously unseen archival photograph, including this one, circa 1940, of the ruins of Gedi, the first ancient monument to be excavated in East Africa.

museums and collections

The Forgotten Kenyans Who Excavated Ancient Monuments

A new exhibition celebrates the African archaeologists and excavators omitted from historical records.

Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing February 24, 2023

The Syrian Cassette Archives website currently hosts 91 fully digitized cassettes, including interviews with artists and distributors.

The Quest to Preserve Syria's Cassette Tape Era

Keeping sounds, stories, and cultural memory alive through years of conflict.

Line Sidonie Talla Mafotsing November 29, 2022

The Famous Fight Over the Turn-of-the-Century Trend of Spirit Photography

In one corner: Harry Houdini. And in the other: Arthur Conan Doyle.

April White October 29, 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

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

Librarians and archivists have digitized a lot of material, and they could use your help reading through it.

How to Help Librarians and Archivists From Your Living Room

If you're cooped-up and curious, use your free time to decipher handwriting, tag images, and more.

Jessica Leigh Hester March 23, 2020

The Soul Stirrers, Sam Cooke (left), JJ Farley, SR Crain, RB Robinson, and Paul Foster (right), in 1950. (Photo by Gilles Petard/Redferns)

How a Newspaper Article Saved Thousands of Black Gospel Records From Obscurity

A professor in Texas collects and digitizes rare recordings from across the country.

Santi Elijah Holley September 24, 2019