Cassandra Day
Your #AskAnArchivist Questions, Answered
There are few things an archivist enjoys more than a good question, and few places better suited to answering them than an…
Don’t Let History Live in a Shoebox: How to Archive Your Family Treasures
Are you the designated “historian” in your family? Do you have piles of family photos, books, and papers taking up space in…
From the Badlands to the Tetons: A 1930s Family Road Trip West
Long before smartphones and GPS guided travelers across the country, the Pease family packed their car and headed west. Their destination? The…
The Myth of the Fully Processed Archive
When you think of an archive, you probably imagine countless collections all perfectly organized and described down to the last scrap of paper. You may…
Heart Mountain Through the Lens
Each July, former detainees, their families and descendants, gather at the Heart Mountain Interpretive Center for the annual pilgrimage to reflect and…
Speaking in Code: Rare Winchester Telegraph Code Books
Among the rarest items in the McCracken Research Library’s archival collections are three Winchester Telegraph Code Books from 1905 and 1909. At first glance they look like…