Shooting for the Moon
Fifty years ago today NASA astronauts Commander Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed on the surface of the Moon, takingContinue Reading
Tag: Photography
Cataloguing the Collection of Langford Brooke Glass Plate Negatives
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia for Visual Collections. “There are always two people in every picture: the photographer andContinue Reading
Hidden Stories: Behind The Night Brother for Museums at Night 2019
Rosie Garland writes: For Museums at Night 2019 at The John Rylands Library, I was invited to work with JessContinue Reading
Collection Spotlight: The Mark Warner Photography Collection
In this post on the John Rylands Research Institute blog, Anne Anderton writes: The University of Manchester Library has recentlyContinue Reading
Can You Name 5 Women Artists?
In this, Women’s History Month, The National Museum of Women in the Arts is challenging people to name 5 womenContinue Reading
Portrait of a Living Archive
It’s with great excitement that we can announce that descriptions of The Portrait of a Living Archive photographs are nowContinue Reading
Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections: Bringing the Digital Backlog and Cataloguing Practice under Control
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia, Metadata Assistant (Imaging). In my previous post: Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections IContinue Reading
Digitising and Cataloguing the Special Collections
Posted on behalf of Ourania Karapasia, Metadata Assistant (Imaging). A prime example of neo-Gothic architecture and one of the mostContinue Reading
From Wild West to West End: ‘Buffalo Bill’ Scrapbook and Performances of Frontier Manhood
Stevie Watson, a PhD student in English and American Studies at the University of Manchester, writes about our ‘Buffalo Bill’ Scrapbook, EnglishContinue Reading
Close to the heart, the Art of family
In previous blogs about the Rylands photographic collections there has been a lot of focus on architectural photographs and landscapes;Continue Reading