This weeks #CollectionHighlight is the Brooks Airway, which revolutionised how the delivery of artificial respiration. Designed by Dr Morris Brook (1911-1967) in 1957 as a hygienic and accessible solution to providing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation.
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#CollectionHighlight Check out #hcnswmember Museums of History NSW and Aboriginal Languages Trust NSW First Nations Community Access to Archives project this Reconciliation Week
Learn more about the project's journey of storytelling and truth-telling via buff.ly/ekbU74B
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Someone once asked me if George Marshall played golf. I know that he watched golf when he resided in Pinehurst, NC, but this is the only kind of golf he played, I think.
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Working on metadata for the Marshall Papers in the #MarshallFoundationLibrary, & came across this document. I translate Spanish & a bit of French, German, & Russian, but not this.
On my own, this document would have no catalog record. I'm grateful for collaborative librarians!
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Show us your standout piece!
What's the crown jewel of your football shirt collection? 🏆👕 #CollectionHighlight #Footballshirts #ShirtSquad
Show us your standout piece! What's the crown jewel or most unique piece of your football shirt collection? 🏆👕
I'll go for this squad signed Arsenal 2020-21 Home shirt.
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OK, #twitterstorians! Please help me decipher this lovely penmanship.
It's from Apr. 1944, and begins "Memo for CoS [Chief of Staff] on King's memo." I see King, Pearl Harbor fleet, & Manila.
What do you see?
Today's #CollectionHighlight -- 20k pairs of white gloves ON MANEUVERS?
Can you tell Col. Ward was a bit irritated?
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Remember the movie Twelve O'Clock High with Gregory Peck?
Frank McCarthy remembers it, too, from his early days in Hollywood. I didn't realize part had been filmed at Eglin.
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Gen. George Marshall in London for the coronation of QE2; meeting the Queen during a dinner at Prime Minister Winston Churchill's residence.
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From Gen. Charles D. Herron, commander of the Hawaii Division from 1938 until his retirement in 1941 before Pearl Harbor.
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