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A Legacy Unspooled: Archival Research for Documentary Filmmakers

... State University in early 2007 to begin the research for what would become my first feature documentary, Brothers On The Line , the ... grew long, as I had an intense curiosity to keep digging. What if the perfect shot was right on that next shelf? Thankfully, time and ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 05/09/2013 - 09:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Juneteenth - A celebration of freedom since 1865

... continued to gain ground in the South states. But what does this have to do with Juneteenth? What is Juneteenth you might ask? Juneteenth (June + 19th) commemorates ...

Blog entry - srafferty - 06/22/2021 - 10:48 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Guest Post: Karen Turk - Working in Time of Global Pandemic

... were: How am I going to get all my practicum hours in? What kind of work can archivists even do from home? Then I felt horribly guilty ... and I come in. The two of us review captures and decide what missing material should be patched in and what should be ignored. We also ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 05/09/2020 - 10:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: The 1913-1914 Copper Country Strike and the Italian Hall Disaster

... The majority of the strike-related casualties occurred at what would come to be known as the Italian Hall disaster. On Christmas Eve, ... floor of the building, happily celebrating the end of what had been a particularly difficult year. Around 4:40 p.m., after the ...

Blog entry - eclemens - 08/25/2014 - 16:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: Wayne State University's Seals, Logos, and Graphics

... related factors: the student body generally did not know what a Tartar was, and the uncommon name left student athletes open to jokes ...

Blog entry - cwesterman - 10/01/2013 - 11:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In Memoriam Edward J. Littlejohn

... Library agreed, which led to a joint effort between what is now the Damon J. Keith Center for Civil Rights and the Reuther ... Detroiter, and scholar collectively remind us of what it means to have a purpose tied to the betterment of society. An ...

Blog entry - ljones - 09/14/2023 - 09:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Subject Focus: The Purple Gang

... as well as organized gangs. During this era, what became known as the Purple Gang rose to prominence in the Detroit area. ...

Blog entry - Public Relation... - 04/03/2013 - 09:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event: Joel Suarez discusses “Work and the American Moral Imagination, 1940-1996”

... explores how workers themselves thought about work, what meaning they derived from it and what values they ascribed to it, and how this all changed over time. Feel ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 04/12/2016 - 11:18 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Collection Spotlight: Dale Rich Collection

... especially the trucks driven by the Teamsters. I asked what he planned to do with all of his photographs. He looked at me with a ... compassion. Rich sees photography as “a way to express what others would like to express. [In Detroit], there are a million stories ...

Blog entry - cdavis - 10/01/2013 - 11:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Discovering Unexpected Newspapers at the Reuther Library

... History Department, I took on the task with enthusiasm. What I found ended up being far more significant for the field of labor history ... down the Worker collection, it quickly became clear what the problem was. Mixed up with a series of UAW pamphlets of the same ...

Blog entry - mcourtney - 08/20/2018 - 08:32 - 0 comments - 0 attachments