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Art, Journalism, Science, Technology, History/Genealogy, German-ness and Pittsburgh ~

~ 2022 ~

"Meet the New Old Book Collectors" - by Kate Dwyer, New York Times, May 7, 2022

"Fifty Years a Bookseller: or, The Wolf at Your Door" - by Bruce E. McKinney, Rare Book Monthly, May 2022

"Harvard Creates Fund to Redress Its Ties to Slavery" - by Anemona Hartocollis, New York Times, April 26, 2022

"Buying Twitter, Elon Musk Will Face Reality of His Free-Speech Talk" - by Shira Ovide, New York Times, April 26, 2022

"Inside the Implosion of CNN+" - by John Koblin, Michael M. Grynbaum and Benjamin Mullin, New York Times, April 24, 2022

"The Getty Acquires Collection of African American Books & Ephemera" - Fine Books & Collections, March 30, 2022

"Thomas F. Staley, Dogged Pursuer of Literary Archives, Dies at 86" - by Richard Sandomir, New York Times, April 3, 2022

"The Archaeology of Death at a Southern Black Cemetery" - by Danielle Vander Horst, Art & Object, March 7, 2022

"Remembering Albert Tannler, PHLF’s Longtime Archivist and Architectural Historian" - Pittsburgh History & Landmarks Foundation, March 1, 2022

"How a National Movement Toppled Hundreds of Confederate Symbols" - by Audra D.S. Burch, New York Times, Feb. 28, 2022

"How Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Helped Remake the Literary Canon" - by David Remnick, The New Yorker, Feb. 19, 2022

"Sting Sells His Songwriting Catalog for an Estimated $300 Million" - by Ben Sisario, New York Times, Feb. 10, 2022

"A Search Begins for the Wreck Behind an Epic Tale of Survival" - by Henry Fountain, New York Times, Feb. 4, 2022

"Black history has defined American culture" - by Jeffery Gerritt, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Feb. 3, 2022

"Melinda French Gates No Longer Pledges Bulk of Her Wealth to Gates Foundation" - by Emily Glazer, Wall Street Journal, Feb. 3, 2022

"What We Can Learn From How the 1918 Pandemic Ended" - by John M. Barry, New York Times, Jan. 31, 2022

"How Facebook Is Morphing Into Meta" - by Sheera Frenkel, Mike Isaac and Ryan Mac, New York Times, Jan. 31, 2022

"80 Years Ago the Nazis Planned the ‘Final Solution.’ It Took 90 Minutes." - by Katrin Bennhold, New York Times, Jan. 20, 2022

"Obituary: James Mellon Walton | Executive who shaped Carnegie museums, Carnegie Library and Heinz Endowments" - by Marylynne Pitz, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Jan. 7, 2022

"A Cabinet of Wonders Opens Wide at the New York Public Library" - by Jennifer Schuessler, New York Times, Dec. 28, 2021

"Racial reckoning turns focus to roadside historical markers" - by Mark Scolforo, Associated Press, Dec. 28, 2021

"Alex Haley Taught America About Race - and a Young Man How to Write" - by Michael P. Hearn, New York Times, Dec. 17, 2021

"The Open Access Books Collection: Expanding Access and Building Connections" - by Carlyn Osborn, Library of Congress, Dec. 16, 2021

"Military Ends Pearl Harbor Project to Identify the Dead" - by Neil Vigdor, New York Times, Dec. 7, 2021

"What Happened to Amazon’s Bookstore?" - by David Streitfeld, New York Times, Dec. 3, 2021

"A World Record Price Set for an Item in the Books, Manuscripts, Maps and Ephemera Category" - by Bruce E. McKinney, Rare Book Monthly, December 2021

[11-Year Archive - 2011 to Present]

~ Outstanding National, Regional and Local Archives and Reference Libraries ~

National:

* The National Archives
* Library of Congress
* Google Books and Google Scholar
* Smithsonian Institution

* The Internet Archive
* Pulitzer Prizes

* Nobel Prize e-Museum
* Presidential Libraries
* New York Public Library (Catalog)
* Merriam-Webster Dictionary

* U.S. Census Bureau
* The British Museum
* Google Blog Search Tool

Ohio:
* Ohio Historical Society Library
* Bowling Green (OH) State University

Pennsylvania:
* Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh
* Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
* Cornerstone Genealogical Society
* Meyersdale (PA) Public Library
* Historic Pittsburgh
* Pennsylvania State Archives
* Pennsylvania State Libraries
* Historical Society of Pennsylvania
* Uniontown (PA) Public Library
* Dunbar Historical Society
* Berks County (PA) Historical Society
* University of Pittsburgh Archive
* University of Pittsburgh Library -
Archives and Special Collections

West Virginia:
* West Virginia University

Eastern United States:
* Maryland Archives Online
* Newark (NJ) Public Library

Indiana:
* Indiana State Library
* Allen County Public Library
* Allen County Genealogical Society

Midwest United States:
* Illinois State Archives
* The Newberry - Chicago
* Kansas State Library

Oklahoma:
* Oklahoma Historical Society

Academia Resources:
* Assn of College & Research Libraries
* Academia.edu

ACME News Pictures, 1926

~ Rare Books, Photographs and Special Collections ~

Special Collections Libraries:
* Rosenbach Museum & Library -
Manuscripts Online - Online Catalog
* Morgan Library & Museum
* Univ of Virginia Rare Book School
* Lilly Library, Indiana University
* Ransom Center, University of Texas
* Scheide Library, Princeton University
* Folger Shakespeare Library
* University of Michigan-Clements
* University of Florida-Smathers
* Vanderbilt University
* University of Rochester River Campus
* Ephemera Society of America
* University of Illinois
* University of Pittsburgh
* The British Library, London

Photography/Images:
* Getty Images (Bettman and Corbis)

* National Archives Catalogue

* Metropolitan Museum of Art Images

* Smithsonian Open Access

* Museums of the City of Paris

* Yale Center for British Art

* The Public Domain Review

* Teenie Harris Archive

* Unsplash

Publications:
* Fine Books & Collections
* Rare Book Hub - Monthly Archives
* The Book Collector
* Booktryst

Databases/Searches:
* ABEBooks
* viaLibri - Library Search
* Alibris
* Biblio.com
* BookFinder.com
* Antiquarian Booksellers Association

* Stolen-Book.org
* David Pearson Book Owners Online

Bibliography and Cataloguing:
* OCLC WorldCat

Harcourt, Brace and Company, 1937

~ Industrial and Railroad History ~

* U.S. Mine Safety and Health Administration Statistics
* Baltimore & Ohio (B&O) Railroad Museum
* Chesapeake & Ohio Historical Society

~ Faith-Based History and Culture ~

* United Methodist Commission on Archives and History
* Lutheran Historical Conference
* Presbyterian Historical Society
* Mennonite Church USA Archives
* Wexner Heritage Program

~ Science and Medicine ~

* U.S. National Library of Medicine
* U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
* NASA - National Air and Space Administration

~ Historical Reconstructions, Museums, Homes and Inspiring Spaces ~

* Colonial Williamsburg
* Henry Ford Museum at Greenfield Village
* Plimouth Plantation
* John Adams National Historic Park, Massachusetts
* Mount Vernon, Virginia
* Monticello, Virginia

* Frank Lloyd Wright's Home and Studio, Oak Park, IL
* Meadowcroft Rockshelter and Museum of Rural Life

* Westminster Abbey (London)
* Thomas Jefferson's Home Library at Monticello
* The Forbes Galleries (New York City)

~ Military History and Veterans Services ~

* Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System (National Park Service)
* Bugles Across America (services for funerals)
* Civil War Regiments
* U.S. Army Military History Institute
* U.S. Naval Historical Center and Merchant Marines

* A Compendium of the War of the Rebellion - by F.H. Dyer

* American Battle Monuments (Foreign soil burials)
* National Museum of Civil War Medicine
* Ohio in the Civil War
* Civil War Richmond
* National World War II Memorial
* Virtual Wall - Vietnam Veterans Memorial

Pittsburgh Regional Alliance

~ Select Pittsburgh Regional Cultural and Sports Attractions ~

* Andy Warhol Museum
* Fallingwater
* Senator John Heinz History Center
* Frick Mansion and Art Center
* Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra

* Pittsburgh Opera
* Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

* Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Hall

* Pittsburgh Cultural Trust

* Stephen Foster Memorial Museum

* Westmoreland Museum of Art
* Carnegie Science Center

* Civic Light Opera
* Pittsburgh Cultural District

* August Wilson African American Ctr.

* National Aviary

* Rachel Carson Homestead

* Jimmy Stewart Museum

* Pirates - Major League Baseball
* Steelers - National Football League
* Penguins - National Hockey League

* University of Pittsburgh Football
* University of Pittsburgh Basketball