SIS Preservation

1914: Lubin fire in Philadelphia destroys Oliver Hardy's film debut as well as footage of McKinley?s ambulance leaving the Expo after he was shot. Also lost in this fire Hobart Bosworth's version of The Sea Wolf. 1914- Los Angeles: The lab shared by Keystone and Ince Films has a fire destroying films. 1915- Edison's vault may have had a fire.

Black and white negatives were found by Peter Berry Ottaway, 71, in the attic of his late grandfather's home Hubert Ottaway took the photos while he was a combat engineer in the Territorial Army between 1914 and 1917 He was stationed in northern France and spent the majority of his

If African documentary heritage is digitized, how many Africans will be able to benefit?

21 July 2014 in by Photographer Brooke Shannon In this increasingly digital world, we salute everyone who takes pride in physical collections. For many people, photo albums are one of their most treasured possessions. Others have spent years (and thousands of dollars) building their music and film collections.

In the agonizing quest to pin down exactly what happened when Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 went down over Ukraine last week, Web archivists and other digital sleuths are playing an unusual - potentially pivotal - role. Wayback Machine, the nonprofit Web crawler that archives old versions of Web pages, captured evidence last Friday that a pro-Russian group was behind the attacks.

The University of Melbourne Archives is acquiring the archive of Germaine Greer, one of the iconic figures of the twentieth century and ongoing contributor to current political and social commentary. As publisher, writer and critic Carmen Callil, states, Greer continues to be a "living work-in-progress" - an influential figure in many spheres

Completing the Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Project The third and final phase of the Iraqi Jewish Archive Preservation Project (Phase 3) was funded in 2011 by the Department of State with $2.98 million