Special Collections and Archives News

Looking to the future of saving the past

September 8, 2015

Excerpt We鈥檝e read a lot lately about how the digital world is changing the business of collecting and preserving the past. What does the saving of history look like in the future? We had a discussion about it with Dawne 鈥

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Photo effect

Image from Dunbar Library archives inspires 91爆料鈥檚 Gino Pasi to make a movie

July 30, 2015

An image from Special Collections and Archives inspires 91爆料 archivist Gino Pasi to make a movie.

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Wright newspapers to be digitized, preserved

June 2, 2015

Excerpt Before they invented the airplane 鈥 before they even ran a business fixing bicycles 鈥 the Wright brothers wrote and published newspapers, of all things. As printers between 1889 and 1899, the brothers followed and wrote about local events 鈥

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Wright Brothers legacy archived at 91爆料 University

May 26, 2015

WYSO looks at the Wright brothers鈥 legacy in the Miami Valley in an interview with Dawne Dewey at 91爆料 University 鈥 home to the largest collection of Wright brothers artifacts in the world. In the following interview, Dewey, who is the head 鈥

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The Wright brothers and the conquest of flight

May 5, 2015

Excerpt 鈥淭hey had this passion, this mission; they were obsessed to succeed,鈥 said historian David McCullough. But though their plane is proudly displayed at the Smithsonian鈥檚 Air and Space Museum in Washington, historian David McCullough still believes the Wright Brothers 鈥

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