Tag: archives
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Black Folks in the West and Old Newspapers
My first short essay. I chose to take a glance at African-Americans in the Pacific Northwest and Mountain West and express my love of old newspapers.
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Bittersweet
I apologize for the long gap between postings. A lot has happened over the past few weeks and I’m just now getting in a place of being able to blog and write again. Back in October, I got the painful news that my Father had passed away. Shortly before that, I told him I wanted…
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Researching the Family History
To my five readers, I apologize for taking so long to update. I always underestimate the adjustment that comes with a transition even in the best of circumstances. A lot has happened in the month that I’ve been working including what I would consider a fateful encounter. My institution recently hosted a reception for an…
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Archives Job Market Revisited
At orientation for my MLIS program, the archives professor basically told us that if we aren’t willing to move out of state, we’d have a difficult time finding a job. The region was already saturated with graduates from our school (she wasn’t lying either). Though I had no intention of staying, I ended up blessed…
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History of Atlanta
So I was processing this collection earlier and came across an article from the 1940s about how Atlanta had the most black businesses of any area of the country. I was born and raised in a rural area of Georgia and so Atlanta was a fantasy land for me. It was the place that…