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Close to Home

plep — Sat, 26 Feb 2005 08:48:33 -0800

Close to Home: An American Album. 'This exhibition is devoted to American family photographs that were separated from their owners and then rediscovered by artists, writers, collectors, and museum curators. ' Highlights and site visitors' submissions.
Site of related interest :- BBC Family History; and Third Generation: Family Photographs and Memories of Nazi Germany.

The Adventure of the Wooden Spoon

matteo — Wed, 19 May 2004 14:36:03 -0800

"If this was Jane Austen or Charles Dickens, there would be a national outcry". Thousands of personal papers belonging to Sherlock Holmes creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, fetched $1.7 million at an auction Wednesday, with many items sold to private U.S. collectors. The auction was a great disappointment to scholars who had hoped the papers would be donated to a public institution. The archive also became entwined in a mystery worthy of Conan Doyle's fictional detective: the bizarre death of a leading Holmes scholar. Lancelyn Green, 50, was found dead in his bed on March 27, garroted with a shoelace tightened by a wooden spoon, and surrounded by stuffed toys. (more inside)

They Still Draw Pictures

plep — Fri, 17 Oct 2003 12:51:33 -0800

They Still Draw Pictures. Drawings made by children during the Spanish Civil War.

The World War I Document Archive

turbodog — Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:30:56 -0800

World War I Document Archive. Treaties, diplomatic documents and, of course, photos. even ee cummings.

Yad Vashem

plep — Thu, 19 Jun 2003 09:53:06 -0800

Yad Vashem: Online Exhibitions. 'Yad Vashem's task is to perpetuate the legacy of the Holocaust to future generations so that the world never forgets the horrors and cruelty of the Holocaust. Its principal missions are commemoration and documentation of the events of the Holocaust, collection, examination, and publication of testimonies to the Holocaust, the collection and memorialization of the names of Holocaust victims, and research and education.' No Child's Play; Private Tolkatchev; Photos from the Warsaw Ghetto; and much more.

The Illustrated Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

condour75 — Tue, 10 Dec 2002 00:12:54 -0800

The Illustrated Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám. An exhibit at the Smithsonian Museum of American Art. Stunning illustrations of world-class poetry. 'nuff said.

Su — Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:28:49 -0800

Getting the Picture at the Smithsonian Archives. Sometimes a bit of doodling can make that note a little more special than the latest syrupy Hallmark design.

justlooking — Sat, 16 Feb 2002 12:30:17 -0800

Rijksmuseum: Many of the paintings of this famous Dutch museum can now be viewed online.