This black flat lid suitcase with leather straps and two metal clasps with locks, and a single leather handle, c. 1930, is from the SSHSA Artifact Collection. Monogrammed initials "HOY" are on the sides.
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Halloween is around the corner! Check out these vintage Halloween-themed window displays at Lubbock's Hemphill-Wells Company department store from 1943.
- Winston Reeves Photograph Collection
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Find more posters from this collection at bit.ly/ChasePosters.
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It's Halloween month — and it's also #AmericanArchivesMonth, so it's only right that we bring you a ghost story from 1972.
Bill Crabtree and the Clinch Valley Boys perform a song about a hitchhiker's ghostly encounter with "Big Josie," animated by Glenn Palumbo's drawings.
📷 Appalshop Archive
See more posters from this collection at bit.ly/ChasePosters.
#AmericanArchivesMonth #PosterDesign #maritimeart
You never know what you're going to find when processing archival collections! Here are some examples of interesting items that our archivists have come across while processing.
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What was Bell County, Kentucky like in the 1950s?
During #AmericanArchivesMonth, home movies—preserved with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation—give us a window. This footage is from coal camp doctor John Parrott.
Happy American Archives Month from Appalshop Archive!
This large print on particle board with a glossy lacquer topcoat is a reproduced William James Aylward (1875-1956) painting of the cargo freighter PIONEER GEM of the American Pioneer Line (a subsidiary of United States Lines). SSHSA Art Collection.
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It's groovy baby! Who wants to take a Caribbean trip? Check out this bright quatrefoil pamphlet listing Beachcomber Caribbean Cruise schedules for the 1968 season on INDEPENDENCE and CONSTITUTION.
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If you are near Las Cruces, NM this weekend please be sure to stop by the Border Archives Bazaar. We'll have a booth featuring the Southwest Collection so be sure to stop by!
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It's #NationalDessertDay and #AmericanArchivesMonth! What dessert would you choose from this voyage on the Hamburg America Line from 1931? Ephemera Collection, SSHSA Archives.
See what other items we have in our archive and collections at shiphistory.org/collections/.
When Dr. Thomas D. Clark learned Kentucky’s records were in danger, he didn’t shrug—he showed up.
That’s what it takes to save history.
As Kentuckians, it’s what we must do too—before carelessness or neglect erases our past.
#genealogy #archives #preservation #americanarchivesmonth
Did You Know: October is American Archives Month! Come visit Hope College Archives and Special Collections to explore the stories of past people of Hope or share yours. We are located on the lower level. Swipe to see a map.
Map of the lower level with arrow pointing to the Archives and Special Collections office on the far right side of the building
Photograph of the front entry to the Archives and Special Collections space.
October is American Archives Month!
Archives collect, preserve and make available unique records and materials with historical or informational value, providing evidence of our shared history.
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October is Family History Month and American Archives Month.
The ledgers, photos, and records of ordinary people are what make history extraordinary. Go find your family’s story in the archives. #genealogy #familyhistorymonth #americanarchivesmonth
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A receipt dated May 17, 1907 from the Phoenix Furniture Company of King and Clifford Streets, Charleston, SC.
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Mrs. R.Y. Macbeth of Pinopolis purchased chairs and other items from Phoenix Furniture Company. The Company moved into its listed location in 1887. The building now houses Geo. C. Birlant & Co. Antiques, which purchased the building in the late 1920s.
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October is Archives Month! Follow along as we celebrate and share more about how our institution makes history accessible to you.
📷: Southwest Collection Photograph Collection, 1976-1997
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Black and white image of a Black family sitting for an outdoor portrait. Two little girls sit on their father's lap, while the mother holds a third little girl.
During #AmericanArchivesMonth, let's tell our WHOLE history.
📸 The Hollyfield family (Collins and Effie, with children Odessa, Betty, and Collene), Mullins, 1945, Appalshop Archive preserved
