La documentación de archivos debe alinearse a las nuevas tecnologías.
Los zaragozanos dispondrán de su propio archivo digital en internet completamente gratis.
Un juzgado que hace agua.
El edificio que alberga los Juzgados de Pola de Siero (Asturias) se deteriora irremisiblemente y los trabajadores sufren cada cierto tiempo algún contratiempo relacionado con el mal estado de las instalaciones. La última ha sido la filtración de aguas fecales de los baños del Juzgado. Actas de las Jornadas de Archivos Municipales de la Comunidad de Madrid.
La Familia Duca
The Guy Duca photographs and ephemera (2001-10) document the life and family history of Italian-American hairdresser and entrepreneur, Gaetano “Guy” Duca (1936-1989). Duca was from Philadelphia but lived in San Francisco for 25 years before succumbing to AIDS. The family photos in his collection date back to at least 1919 and feature La Familia Duca in Italy and Philadelphia. There are also lots of photographs from Guy Duca’s Navy days. Here are some of our favorite snapshots of Guy and his friends and family.
Hallada la primera traducción al español de "Elogio de la locura".
Biblioteca Digital del Museo del Prado.
La familia de Gabriel Faci dona a Aragón su archivo fotográfico.
La carta de amor que mandó Colón a Isabel La Católica.
Flash and Dazzle! Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors’ Archive
Nudie and his famous silver dollar-studded car. Photograph by Petrine Day Mitchum. Autry National Center; 97.148.24
Nudie Cohn (December 15, 1902–May 9, 1984) was a poor Russian immigrant who became one of the most famous and successful American Western wear designers of the twentieth century. Born Nuta (pronounced Noot-yah) Kotlyrenko to a Jewish boot maker and his wife in Kiev, Nuta was a tailor’s apprentice by age eight. At age eleven he was sent to America with his older brother to take up residence with relatives in Brooklyn, New York. At Ellis Island, his first name was misunderstood by immigration officers as “Nudie,” and the two brothers gave Cohn as their surname, to match their relatives in Brooklyn; thus Nudie Cohn was born.
Nudie tried his hand at many vocations, but the majority of his successful ventures were in tailoring. As a young man, he bounced between Los Angeles and New York City, and on one of these trips met his wife, Helen Barbara Kruger, in Minnesota. He nicknamed her “Bobbie,” and they married on September 4, 1933.
In New York City they opened Nudie’s for the Ladies, a boutique near Times Square that catered to burlesque dancers. It was here that Nudie started exploring the use of rhinestones and fanciful costumes. The couple returned to Minnesota in 1936, then moved with their two-year-old daughter Barbara to Los Angeles in 1940.
After a few false starts, Nudie and Bobbie eventually opened their own custom boot and Western wear shop in North Hollywood in 1963. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors and Western Equipment on Lankershim Boulevard—complete with a horse statue out front—became a landmark in the San Fernando Valley. The workshop employed Manuel Cuevas, a top name in today’s Western couture world, shirt and pants maker Jaime Castaneda, who is still in the tailoring business in North Hollywood, and master embroiderers Viola Grae and Rose Clements.
Nudie is famous for outfitting Roy Rogers in rhinestone-studded fringe, creating the gold lamé suit Elvis wore in 1957, and the light-up suit donned by Robert Redford in The Electric Horseman. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors’ clientele list is impressive, boasting such stars as Rex Allen, Gene Autry, Johnny Cash, Patsy Cline, Pee Wee King, Dolly Parton, John Lennon, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans, and John Wayne. Nudie was also known for his cars, including a 1950 Hudson, which were embellished with steer horns and silver dollars, and for wearing mismatched boots—a nod, he says, to his impoverished childhood, when the only pair of shoes he had was mismatched hand-me-downs. Although Nudie never met with success as a musician, he also recorded and released his own album, Nudie and His Mandolin, in 1975.
Sketch of jacket design. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 35, Pee Wee King folder, undated.
Sketches and swatches for Pee Wee King. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 35, Pee Wee King folder, undated.
Nudie retired from Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors in the early 1980s, but his wife Bobbie and their granddaughter Jamie kept the business running until 1995. Nudie’s creations are celebrated today by museums, collectors, and fans of his clothing. Permanent exhibitions at institutions such as the Autry National Center, the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, the Opryland Museum, and the Smithsonian Institution include pieces by Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors. Nudie’s designs are sought after as collector’s items and are still worn on stage by such performers as Beck and Emmylou Harris.
The Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors and Western Equipment Archives were donated to the Autry National Center in 1994. These records document the business’s activities from 1950 through the early 1990s. Documents include boot patterns and boot records and extensive customer clothing files. Many of Nudie’s custom clothes and boots have also been added to the Autry National Center’s collection.
Johnny Cash order. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 26, Johnny Cash folder 1, 1977.
Sketches for Johnny Cash. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 26, Johnny Cash folder 1, 1977.
Note from the Johnny Cash file. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 26, Johnny Cash folder 1, 1977.
Black shirt design. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 26, Johnny Cash folder 1, 1977.
Black pants design. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 26, Johnny Cash folder 1, 1977.
Johnny Cash shirt design with tailoring notes. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 26, Johnny Cash folder 1, 1977.
The Customer Clothing Files for Individuals section, which represents the bulk of the collection, often contains actual fabric swatches as well as drawings of individual items of clothing that Nudie was asked to design. Customers on file in the Autry’s Nudie’s Archives include Gene Autry, Cher and Sonny Bono, David Byrne, James Caan, Johnny Cash, Dick Clark, James Coburn, Tony Curtis, Cutter Bill, John Denver, Bob Dylan, Clint Eastwood, Chris Ethridge, Jerry Garcia, Elliot Gould, Merv Griffin, Gene Hackman, George Harrison, Chris Hillman, David Hockney, Mick Jagger, Janis Joplin, Pee Wee King, Louis L’Amour, k. d. lang, Lash LaRue, Cloris Leachman, John Lennon, Gordon Lightfoot, Audie Murphy, Mike Nesmith, Harry Nilsson, Nick Nolte, Phil Ochs, Graham Parsons, Dolly Parton, Bill Paxton, Slim Pickens, Elvis Presley, Robert Redford, and Porter Wagoner. Studio accounts include CBS, Columbia Pictures Corporation, Disneyland/Walt Disney Prod., KTLA TV, MGM, NBC, Paramount Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Universal Studios, Viacom, Warner Brothers, and Western Costume.
Keith Richards intake order form for bellbottoms. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 42, Keith Richards, undated.
Sketches for designs for Keith Richards. Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors Archives, 1950-1994, Autry National Center, Los Angeles; MSA.30; Box 42, Keith Richards, undated.
Sometime this summer, the museum will unveil a case in the Imagination Gallery that explores the legacy of Nudie the Rodeo Tailor and the Nudie Archive housed at the Autry. The case will feature artifacts related to country-western singer Porter Wagoner, one of Nudie’s best and most visible clients. The research and production of this exhibit is helped by the finding aid created for this collection under the NHPRC grant.
Nudie’s Rodeo Tailors was also frequented by every day folks, as I learned from co-workers as I processed this collection. Our Exhibitions Project Manager Andi Alameda shared her story with me of visiting Nudie’s shop—where everyone in the county went for the best moccasins in the late 1960s. If you have memories of Nudie, please share them in the comments section below!
Fines legítimos.
Magician of the Week #15: Skeleton Projector
The Civil Warrior of the Week takes the week off for the return of the Magician of the Week, in honor of today’s release of the latest issue of Occasional Nuggets (more info below).
Mr. SkeleProjector appears in…
a trade card for John H. Percival, magician:
Percival is, of course, the magician and collector whose library now resides here at the Providence Public Library. The card (advertising Percival’s services “For Lodge, Church, Parlor, and Music Halls”) is not only eye-catching, it’s also an intriguing optical illusion: Count the images of the playing cards, and you’ll see that there are clearly 16 of them. Cut the trade card in half on the horizontal white line and then cut the bottom half on the vertical white line and switch the two sides around and you’ll see that there are… Well, you’ll have to try it for yourself.
And if you’re looking for more magic to fill your day, you’ll find it in the latest issue of Occasional Nuggets:
The issue highlights patter books, the guides for magicians on what to say during their acts (how to introduce themselves, how to introduce their illusions, etc.), usually making use of very poor humor. And as a bonus, this issue comes with a handy card trick you can use yourself.
At $15 for 4 issues, it’s a steal. And every dollar of profit helps Special Collections. Get the order form at http://www.provlib.org/spc-occasionalnuggets .
EL ORIGINAL DE LA CONSTITUCION POR PRIMERA VEZ EN EXPOSICION DE CADIZ
SOFWARE PARA RECONSTRUIR 600 MILLONES DE TROZOS DE PAPEL DESTRUIDOS TRAS LA CAÍDA DEL MURO DE BERLÍN
iRevolution
The National Archives keeps looking for ways to work with other agencies to spark citizen engagement with our records. Our most recent project is the Document Your Environment contest for students, which we co-sponsored with the Environmental Protection Agency. We invited students aged 13 and older to explore some of the nearly 16,000 photos in the Documerica collection and create their own graphic art, poem, or multimedia video in response. I was delighted to see the entries we received from students around the globe. The selection process was difficult because many of the entries were so creative.
I am pleased to announce the grand prize winner of the Document Your Environment student contest: iRevolution by 24-year-old Anna Lee of San Francisco, CA. Her work stood out because it got the message across graphically and did it in a crisp manner that I found visually appealing.
Original Documerica photographer Michael Philip Manheim judged the graphic arts category and selected Anna’s work as a finalist. He wrote, “There is a message that is telegraphed in this art, so it achieves the goal of dramatically bringing an environmental problem into the viewer’s consciousness.” Anna was inspired by the 1972 photo titled “Children in Fort Worth Are Learning that Protecting the Environment Will Take More Than Awareness” by Documerica photographer Jim Olive, and she wrote in her… [ Read all ]
A pictorial letter card of Beer
There are times I still have to pinch myself that I have a job where I get to spend large parts – on this project most – of my time cataloguing other people’s correspondence ( I recently talked about this on my non-work blog as well ‘on reading other people’s letters’). Now admittedly this is not always interesting correspondence and I don’t read every letter - that would be impossible, not to mention pretty poor project time-management – however I do have to skim all the letters to decide if they’re worth reading. Even when the letters themselves are a bit dull though they can still be very appealing objects. A perfect example of this is in the current folder of branch correspondence I’m cataloguing. These folders contain lots of standard content regardless of the branch – requests for NUWT literature, arrangements for branch meetings, reports of changes to the staff of the branch etc. The letter shown below from 1933 is no different in content but instead of the usual handwritten NUWT letter-headed stationery this one was written whilst the teacher was on holiday in Devon. It’s called a ‘pictorial letter card’ and has photographs (I assume reproductions from postcards) of Beer and Seaton in Devon.
As well as the branch business she also talks about what a nice holiday she is having in Devon. I just love this aspect of the correspondence – all the glimpses of the personality of these women teachers – which comes through as much in the informal chitchat as it does through their reports of equal pay and equal educational opportunities campaign work they’ve been involved in.
I have to confess when I first saw this which says ‘Pictorial letter card of beer’ on the envelope side I immediately had images of lots of photos of pints of beer as I had never heard of a place called beer in Devon. I did wonder what a women teacher in the 1930s would be doing sending the General Secretary of her union a collection of postcards of beer – so, not only I have found an interesting letter in this folder, I’ve also improved my geography of England!
Entrevista exprés a Pilar Gil, Directora del Archivo Universitario de la UCLM
No tengo la fortuna de conocer personalmente a Pilar Gil ni a las integrantes del equipo que lidera, pero, en el ámbito profesional, es un grupo cercano a muchos profesionales porque mantienen una actividad intensa, constante y útil en los canales web profesionales.
Recientemente le propuse a Pilar intercambiar unas [...]
El Vaticano denuncia un “WikiLeaks” para desacreditar a la Iglesia.
Unamuno, en dos mil notas.
El Congreso cede por primera vez el manuscrito de la Constitución de 1812.
Modestos testamentos para grandes personajes.
La primera usuaria de la Biblioteca Nacional.
Las empresas podrán comercializar datos personales sin pedir permiso.
Dickens 1812-2012: Dr. Paul Fyfe Lecture 2/15
Charles Dickens is one of the most important writers in English Literary History. In celebration of his bicentenary in February 2012, Florida State University’s Department of English, in collaboration with Strozier Library’s Special Collections, is delighted to announce a pair of lectures on Dickens and his work by eminent FSU scholars. The two public lectures, sponsored by the Friends of FSU Libraries and the History of Text Technologies program, will take place on 15th February (Dr. Paul Fyfe) and 29th February (Professor John Fenstermaker) in the Library. Alongside these lectures, there will be an exhibition of nineteenth-century Dickensiana from Strozier Library’s Special Collections. All are welcome.
- text courtesy Dr. Elaine Treharne, English/History of Text Technologies
MEMORIAL AUSCHWITZ : MÁS DE 60.000 USUARIOS EN LA RED
MANIFESTA FOUNDATION DOCUMENTADA EN SUS EN SUS ARCHIVOS
CONSUMERIZACIÓN: USO DE DISPOSITIVOS PERSONALES PARA ACCEDER A SISTEMAS DE LA EMPRESA
Además, el hecho de estar conectados estáprovocando la necesidad de disponer de resultados y respuestas de formainmediata, en un mundo en donde todo se analiza y todo es analítico, ydonde la información ha dejado de ser en su mayoría estructurada a ser desestructurada.Y no solo se habla de aquella información desestructurada que representan archivos de vídeo,audio, y gráficos, entre otros, sino también, la que se genera en las redessociales, como Facebook y Twitter.
Partiendo de esto, lo que los empleados esperan de la tecnología de suscompañías y las funcionalidades de las TI está aumentando más allá de de lo quepuede proporcionar en realidad, lo que podría llevar a una disminuciónde la efectividad. Sin embargo, el estudio publicado por ‘The Economist Intelligence Unit’, a petición de la compañía HP, confirma quetales temores están sobrevalorados.
En la encuesta realizada a 500ejecutivos de organizaciones de EMEA, incluyendo a España, el84% afirma que las inversiones en tecnología realizadas con el objetivo deofrecer mayor eficiencia han cumplido las expectativas. Y un 78% considera quelos proyectos tecnológicos ayudaron a reducir costes.
Marco Doria…Genova è un alveare in cui è piombato un sasso!
Un commento serio-faceto a ciò che succede qui lo trovate in questo articolo di Paola Tavella. Siccome anche io sono andata al Liceo Doria, mi pare molto divertente il quadretto ieri/oggi disegnato da Paola. Per non parlare del siparietto di Casalino “Pinoli sono finiti”. Mi viene solo da dire che le “care vecchie tecniche del [...]![]()









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