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This device allows recording onto a lacquer disk, a common system used for decades for reasonably stable audio capture.

This 200-seat theater with an organ that rises from the floor regularly screens well-known and rarely-seen movies from the Library of Congress's collection. The theater can project film (including a safe method for projecting nitrate film base) and video in many forms, including digital.

The Binghamton is a retired ferryboat that operated from 1905 to 1967 transporting passengers across the Hudson River between Manhattan and Hoboken. She was built for the Hoboken Ferry Company of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad and was designed to carry 986 passengers plus vehicles.[5] Binghamton has been permanently moored at Edgewater, Bergen County, New Jersey, United States, since 1971. The US Department of the Interior added her to the National Register of Historic Places on July 9, 1982. Operated as a floating restaurant from 1975 to 2007, the vessel is now closed and awaiting demolition.[6] The Binghamton is significant as possibly the last surviving steam ferry still afloat built to serve New York Harbor, the birthplace of commercial steam navigation, the birthplace of the double-ended steam ferry, and an area whose development was profoundly shaped by the introduction of vessels of this kind.

This is in a room filled with an example of nearly every input and recording method over the entire history of fixing sound into a physical medium.

Photo by U.S. Secret Service via Library of Congress #2022676748

Material that doesn't need perfect archival condition is stored in racks in the main building as it works its way through repair or digitization.

Especially when she unsheathes her sword.

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Adm. Sir Percy Scott

 

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.18487

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 3388-12a

  

Mix tapes aren't desirable, but a fair amount of music is only available in cassette tape form, or cassettes have the best-available copy of a work.

A colorized version of Franklin Roosevelt as a photographer

The Packard Campus including quite a lot of material in the process of being entered into digital catalogs before it heads into conservation, the archives, or digitization.

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Mrs. Charlotte Gulick of Campfire Girls making fire

 

[between ca. 1910 and ca. 1915]

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title from unverified data provided by the Bain News Service on the negatives or caption cards.

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.19166

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 3487-6

  

Rosa Parks Collection Opens to Researchers Feb. 4

Select Items from Collection on Public Display During March

  

From Monday, March 2 through Monday, March 30, a sampling of approximately two dozen items from the collection will be on view in three glass cases on the first floor of the Library’s Thomas Jefferson Building, 10 First St. S.E., Washington, D.C.

 

See www.loc.gov/today/pr/2015/15-020.html

Looking down from Mount Pony at Culpeper, Virginia.

It's not Raiders of the Lost Ark, but the hallway under Mount Pony of temperature controlled vaults stretches on.

A gentleman's collection was donated recently of an enormous amount of miscellaneous theatrical prints, including many science-fiction titles. He apparently collected these without an overriding theme, with films spanning decades of modern moviemaking. It's a treasure trove, filling in missing pieces in the not-so-distant past.

Paul Marie Verlaine, Parallèlement, lithographs by Pierre Bonnard. Paris, A. Vollard, 1900 – from the collection of the Library of Congress

Bain News Service,, publisher.

 

Sec'y. A.S. Burleson

 

1913 March 13.

 

1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.

 

Notes:

Title and date from data provided by the Bain News Service on the negative.

Photo shows Albert Sidney Burleson, Postmaster General in President Woodrow Wilson's cabinet from 1913 to 1921. (Source: Flickr Commons project, 2008)

Forms part of: George Grantham Bain Collection (Library of Congress).

 

Format: Glass negatives.

 

Rights Info: No known restrictions on publication.

 

Repository: Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA, hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

 

General information about the Bain Collection is available at hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.ggbain

 

Higher resolution image is available (Persistent URL): hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.11438

 

Call Number: LC-B2- 2508-6

  

Many of Bergen County New Jersey’s earliest settlers were Lutherans. Originally these settlers had to attend church in New Bridge (Hackensack / River Edge area) or Remmerspack (now Mahwah) at the Ramapough Lutheran Church. As the Saddle River valley became more settled, the Lutherans organized a local congregation, and every fourth Sunday they used the Reformed Church in Upper Saddle River for worship. This arrangement did not last long and services where then held at the home of Thomas Van Buskirk, using the barn in the summer and the garret (attic) in the winter.

 

In 1819 the congregation decided to build a church. Andrew Esler, chairman of the building committee, designed the church. The land was donated by Thomas Van Buskirk and David I. Ackerman. The corner stone was laid on October 4, 1820. A bottle of wine, a loaf of bread, a bible and a hymn book were placed within the stone. On October 14, 1821, the Rev. Dr. Schaeffer preached the dedication of the new church building. The new church was named the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saddle River and Ramapough. In 1900 the name was changed to Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Saddle River. It is the oldest church building in Bergen County and the sixth oldest church in New Jersey to be associated with a Lutheran congregation.

 

A large portion of this area is the donated archives of NPR.

Including a glamor shot of one interesting device.

Old Harbor (Vieux-Port), Marseille, France, with Hôtel-Dieu Hospital in background.

Paul Marie Verlaine, Parallèlement, lithographs by Pierre Bonnard. Paris, A. Vollard, 1900 – from the collection of the Library of Congress

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