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Hartford, CT
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Shopping got you down? Take a break and spend some time perusing historic Arkansas newspapers to see what Christmas was like 100 years ago. #authenticarkansas #arkansasarchives #chronam #xmasshopping
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This month for #ChronAmParty we're going to make collages, color between the lines, and have some fun with our images for the #ChronAmArty
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This month for #ChronAmParty we're going to make collages, color between the lines, and have some fun with our images for the #ChronAmArty
The sound of clean dishes:
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Happy Labour Day!
ALT Headlines from various years predicting work weeks of the following lengths: 36 hours, 35, 32, 31, 30, 28, 25, 24, 22, 21, 20, 10, 7 and 1. The headlines are all the same format: "X Hour Work Week Predicted",
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As we gear up for the Summer @Olympics, we bring you this #ChronAm item on #Olympic gold medalist Mildred “Babe” Didrikson Zaharias, born #OTD in 1911.
Read this 1931 "Evening Star" account of her achievements across several sports: bit.ly/3zyZA9Q
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It's our favorite Friday of the month—#ArchivesHashtagParty! Join us today as we explore some paw-some images and artifacts from our collections for #ArchivesPets! 🐶🐰🐭🐱
ALT A dog, rabbit, rat, and cat sit together on stools. Yep, you heard that right...together!
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When the researchers are away, the archivists will play! Live from our research room, here is a rousing game of archival Hollinger box Jenga for the #ArchivesGames #ArchivesHashtagParty.
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"Shinny" is an indigenous game played throughout North America that was often a woman's game. Like hockey, the objective is to knock the ball through the opponent's goal with curved wooden sticks. #ArchivesGames @USNatArchives
To learn more: youtube.com/watch?v=CrMfIb8k…
ALT Native American women play the game "shinny" with curved sticks while a buckskin ball is passed around. People gather to watch their game. Cars can be seen in the background.
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This watercolor painting by Indigenous artist John Saul (1878-1971) depicts two Yanktonai boys playing the Ice Glider game. In the winter, the Yanktonai competed to see who could slide the feathered and engraved buffalo rib the farthest. #ArchivesGames #ArchivesHashtagParty
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Cribbage, anyone? This photograph of a man and woman playing one of our region's most popular card games is from the Myra Miller Morton Collection.
#ArchivesGames #ArchivesHashtagParty
From the SD Digital Archives: sddigitalarchives.contentdm.…
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Take advantage of these warm spring days without the Illinois humidity and bugs by hosting a garden party! Not sure where to start? Perhaps Mrs. Frank Learned's article in the August 3, 1913 issue of the Chicago Examiner might be of use! #ChronAmParty #GardenParty
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On our way to the garden party. Follow us to catch all our posts today with tips for attending a garden party and how to make the most of it. Drawing from an 1896 issue of the Pine Bluff Daily Graphic.
#ChronAm #GardenParty
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Ready for the eclipse? In CT, it is expected to start at 2:11 p.m. At 2:52 p.m., the moon will cover roughly half of the sun before peaking roughly 30 minutes later with 92% coverage. You will have until 4:36 p.m. to sneak outside to catch the tail end of the eclipse.
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It's time for an #ArchivesHashtagParty! The Litchfield Cowgirls basketball team and their coach, Clarence Elliott were a powerful force- they brought home the 1924-25 championship! #ArchivesSnapshot #MarchMadness #finalfour
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Madison Square Garden began hosting the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in 1887. Find newspaper coverage of the event throughout the decades by searching in Chronicling America.
loc.gov/resource/sn83030214/… #ChronAm
ALT Detail from a newspaper featuring a collage of images of various dogs striking a pose.
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Sing Heigh! Sing ho!
The March winds blow
And Springtime is coming
I know.
For in brilliant array
With blossoms most gay
Bedecked were the shops
For the Spring Fashion Show
Catch up on the latest 1918 fashions in the Omaha Bee. #OldFashion #ChronAmParty loc.gov/resource/sn99021999/…
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Happy #ChronAmParty day! With Easter just around the corner, we'd like to highlight *the* Easter dress of 1915, from the March 3, 1915, edition of the Day Book (Chicago, Ill.). #OldFashion. Browse the issue: chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/l…
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We are highlighting "Old Fashion" in soon to be digitized newspapers for Chronicling America! 👗✨Explore the evolution of style and culture through an array of fashion trends from the pages of our historical newspapers 📰
@uazlibraries 📕 #ChronAmParty #OldFashion
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For today's #ChronAmParty, we're highlighting the 15 newspapers in our Black Newspapers collection, including the Illinois Times (Champaign, Ill.) and The Broad Ax (Chicago, Ill.). Newspapers in this collection predominately cover the second half of the 19th c. through the 1950s.
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On this day in 1927, Bahamian American actor Sidney Poitier was born in Miami. Read more about the trailblazing matinee idol who became the first African American to win an Academy Award for best actor in #ChronAm loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/… #ChronAmParty #BlackHistoryMonth #AAHM
ALT A clipping from a newspaper reviewing the movie, Lilies of the Field, with a still photograph from the movie of Sidney Poitier. The review is titled: Keith’s Poitier Film is a Sheer Delight