by Nicola Mantzaris, Photographic Metadata Cataloger A few years ago my sister-in-law, a middle school counselor, asked if I would be willing to participate in a Career Day event she organized at her school. She told me I had a really cool job and that the students would be excited to learn about what…
by Laura Kintz, Audiovisual Metadata Cataloger We are pleased to announce that all White House Photographs from President John F. Kennedy’s trip to Germany in June of 1963 are now digitized in full. Over two dozen photographs from the trip had previously been cataloged, but all 153 photographs are now accessible online through the…
by Laura Kintz, Graduate Student Intern (UMass Boston) We are pleased to announce that all White House Photographs from President John F. Kennedy’s trip to Italy in July of 1963 are now digitized in full. They are accessible online through the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s digital archives. The 92…
by Lindsay Closterman, White House Photographs Metadata Cataloger We are pleased to announce that all White House Photographs from the state funeral of President John F. Kennedy are now digitized in full. These photographs capture a time of great significance and grief in our nation’s history, and they (together with the photos from the…
(Ver traducción española aquí.) The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library has teamed up with the National Archives Communications Office to extend its social media reach to Spanish-speaking audiences. As chance would have it, a Kennedy Library intern was in the midst of cataloging President and Mrs. Kennedy’s 1962 trip to Mexico when NARA announced…
(See English translation here.) La Biblioteca Presidencial John F. Kennedy se ha unido a la Oficina de Comunicaciones de los Archivos Nacionales para extender su alcance de medios de comunicación social para el público de habla hispana. Tal parece que de casualidad, nuestra interna de la Biblioteca Kennedy, estaba en medio de la catalogación…
by J.T. Buzanga (Former Graduate Student Intern, Northeastern University) Sven Walnum was born in Oslo, Norway and immigrated to the United States in September 1947. Walnum’s life in Norway was difficult; having survived debilitating childhood illness, a chaotic family life, and World War II, Walnum went on to study cinematography at the University of…
by Lindsay Closterman and Nicola Mantzaris, Metadata Catalogers, White House Photographs The John F. Kennedy Presidential Library is now on Flickr! We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new National Archives Flickr page, a crowdsourcing pilot project featuring images from the White House Photographs collection at the Kennedy Library. As metadata catalogers, we…
by Maryrose Grossman, Audiovisual Reference Archivist Now that spring is blooming, the White House Rose Garden–the most prominent horticultural display on the grounds of the Presidential mansion–comes to mind. Bordering the Oval Office and the West Wing of the White House since 1913, the White House Rose Garden has long been the setting for…