Mailifest Destiny: U.S. expansion visualized as post offices

http://boingboing.net/2011/08/10/mailifest-destiny-u-s-expansion-visualized-by-post-offices.html

NYPL at 100 Exhibition

"Our Centennial exhibition, which opens May 14, celebrates the depth and breadth of The New York Public Library’s collections, which now contain more than 50 million items. Library curators have always been guided by the philosophy that all knowledge is worth preserving, and over the past century, NYPL has radically expanded its holdings.

The exhibition includes highlights from the Library’s diverse collections, including a Gutenberg Bible, a Tale of Genji scroll, a handwritten manuscript by Jorge Luis Borges, one of Malcolm X’s journals, costume designs for the Ballets Russes — even Virginia Woolf’s walking stick. Many of the items on display are of obvious historical value, while others — dance cards, a board game, and a dime novel — may confound. Still others, such as a copy of Mein Kampf, may disturb. As Edwin Hatfield Anderson, director of the Library from 1913 to 1934, boldly stated, “If the devil himself wrote a book, we’d want it in the Library.”"

http://exhibitions.nypl.org/100/exhibition

ALSO

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/?num=3

National Jukebox - The Library of Congress

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The Library of Congress presents the National Jukebox, which makes historical sound recordings available to the public free of charge. The Jukebox includes recordings from the extraordinary collections of the Library of Congress Packard Campus for Audio Visual Conservation and other contributing libraries and archives. Recordings in the Jukebox were issued on record labels now owned by Sony Music Entertainment, which has granted the Library of Congress a gratis license to stream acoustical recordings.

At launch, the Jukebox includes more than 10,000 recordings made by the Victor Talking Machine Company between 1901 and 1925. Jukebox content will be increased regularly, with additional Victor recordings and acoustically recorded titles made by other Sony-owned U.S. labels, including Columbia, OKeh, and others."

http://www.loc.gov/jukebox/about

Fight of the Century Video

"According to the National Bureau of Economic Research, the Great Recession ended almost two years ago, in the summer of 2009. Yet we’re all uneasy. Job growth has been disappointing. The recovery seems fragile. Where should we head from here? Is that question even meaningful? Can the government steer the economy or have past attempts helped create the mess we’re still in?

In “Fight of the Century”, Keynes and Hayek weigh in on these central questions. Do we need more government spending or less? What’s the evidence that government spending promotes prosperity in troubled times? Can war or natural disasters paradoxically be good for an economy in a slump? Should more spending come from the top down or from the bottom up? What are the ultimate sources of prosperity?

Keynes and Hayek never agreed on the answers to these questions and they still don’t. Let’s listen to the greats. See Keynes and Hayek throwing down in “Fight of the Century”."

http://econstories.tv/2011/04/28/fight-of-the-century-music-video/

Early Watercolors of Native Americans

http://marinni.livejournal.com/723577.html

Civil War Injuries

http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/sets/72157614294677868/with/5280245645/

Child Labor 1908-1912

http://acidcow.com/pics/14837-child-labor-in-america-1908-1912-69-pics.html