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HBD Henry P Hamilton born 21 Apr 1862 youngest of 3 brothers, worked with older brthr George at _The Detroit Record_ as a printer & then with oldest brthr James at Hamilton & Baker, later Hamilton Mfg Co Credited patents USD37308 & 37309

http://www.woodtyperesearch.com/hamilton-mfg-672-673

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#WoodType #letterforms #typography #archives #libraries #collections #bibliography #TypeSpecimen #TypeDesign #TypeHistory #letterpress #type #design #history #NineteethCentury #19thCentury #patents #uspatents #ThisDayInHistory

Currently reading Chris Prom’s excellent 2010 “Optimum Access” paper, and I am FLABBERGASTED to learn that the “average repository provides descriptive information in the search room for only 67% of its processed collections” (based on a survey of college and uni archives).

No descriptive access for onsite researchers for a THIRD of PROCESSED collections??

[#veille] “À la source : Archives, genre et sexualité”, une enquête collective des étudiants de l’EHESS sur les archives judiciaires de la Somme : affaires de délits sexuels ou contre les mœurs jugées en 1966
ehess.fr/fr/vie-%C3%A9tudiante
#histoire #histodons #archivesjudiciaires #AD80 #Somme #archives #moeurs #histoiresociale #20esiecle #genderstudies @archivistodon

I've just created a GPT that converts a table (CSV, XLSX, or ODS) into an AEF file, ready to be imported into Archimista (the archival description software promoted by Regione Lombardia).

chatgpt.com/g/g-6803427373c881

I don't know if it will be useful to anyone, but here's the link just in case.

ChatGPTChatGPT - CSV-AEF converter (Il Trasformamostri)Converte file CSV/ODS/XLSX in AEF

Ktoś hobbystycznie zrobił i wywołał 2245 kliszy swoich zdjęć po Glliwicach. Kilkadziesiąt lat później ktoś inny się tym zachwyca szukając znanych sobie miejsc rodzimego miasta.

["Klisze szklane ze zbiorów Muzeum w Gliwicach", syg.467/1/0, Muzeum w Gliwicach, szukajwarchiwach.gov.pl/zespol]

Brooklyn Rail: Carolee Schneemann’s Digitized Diaries. “[Carolee] Schneemann was a life-long documentor and kept diaries and scrapbooks dating back as early as 1951, now all part of Stanford University’s archives. Following the five year embargo period on their use, the first thirty-six volumes in this collection (1951–78) are now fully digitized and available to view online, providing […]

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/04/20/brooklyn-rail-carolee-schneemanns-digitized-diaries/

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(SF Standard) Filmakers & Archivists Reel from DOGE cuts

"The Internet Archive, the SF-headquartered nonprofit best known for its “Wayback Machine” archiving tool, was halfway through an NEH grant of $345,960 when the funding was cut. 

That was just the first DOGE-related funding cut to hit the Internet Archive..."

#USPol #DOGE #nonprofits #Film #Archives

sfstandard.com/2025/04/17/doge

The San Francisco Standard · ‘A death blow’: Filmmakers, archivists reel as DOGE suddenly cuts their fundingThe NEH had $17.8 million in active grants to Bay Area humanities projects — grantees are scrambling to continue their work.