DC Public Library, Special Collections
Organization
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Archive This Moment D.C. Collection
Collection — External hard drive DIG_00029
Identifier: 144
Scope and Contents
Archive This Moment D.C. tells the story of daily life in the District during the initial quarantine period of March 25, 2020 to May 28, 2020. Materials were collected from public Instagram posts submitted through the hashtag #archivethismomentdc. The structure of the original social media posts have been recreated as closely as possible. Materials that were posted together have been grouped together in this collection. In addition to social media, creators also submitted materials using a...
Dates:
2020-03 - 2020-06
Union Soldiers Alliance
Unprocessed Material — Box 1: [Barcode: 31172091111138]
Identifier: 2021.028
Dates:
1879 - 1918
Washingtoniana Scrapbook Collection
Collection
Identifier: 224
Scope and Contents
Collection consists mainly of scrapbooks created and assembled by Washingtoniana Staff. Scrapbooking started within the division in the early part of the twentieth century and was phased out following World War II. The scrapbooks were topically assembled and mainly contain newspaper articles, while some scrapbooks contain photographs, manuscript and ephemeral materials. Additional topical scrapbooks not assembled by Library staff were added to the collection over the years. Scrapbooks have...
Dates:
1812 - 1966
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- Biography 1
- Buildings 1
- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020- 1
- Civil war 1
- Demonstrations 1
- Digital materials 1
- Local history 1
- Minutes (Records) 1
- Neighborhoods 1
- Newspapers 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Societies and clubs 1 + ∧ less
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