Do you keep a journal? A secret diary? A to-do list on a post-it note? I know the idea of writing with paper and pen seems foreign in today’s technologically advanced society, but part of being human means recording our stories. For organizations like Winchester Repeating Arms Company or Schuyler, Hartley, and Graham, writing down transactions […]
When I tell people I manage the Corporate Archive Blueprints for the Buffalo Bill Center of the West, they immediately assume I am Harry Potter with the Marauders Map and I know interesting secret passage ways into the building. Alas, I have yet to find a Room of Requirement, the One-Eyed Witch Passage or moving […]
This article originally appeared in our Spring 2011 issue of Points West Magazine as “Bringing the BBHC’s McCracken Research Library Archives to the Internet”. I have incorporated some updates, changes, and corrections to the information presented originally in this article so that it more accurately reflects our current efforts. These changes appear mostly in bold […]
This article originally appeared in our Spring 2011 issue of Points West Magazine as “Bringing the BBHC’s McCracken Research Library Archives to the Internet”. I have incorporated some updates, changes, and corrections to the information presented originally in this article so that it more accurately reflects our current efforts. These changes appear mostly in bold […]
Guns of the Week: November 17 – 21, 2014 The Winchester Museum to the Cody Firearms Museum PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE Unloading the Myth – The Past The Cody Firearms Museum got its start as the Winchester Museum. In 1975, the Olin Corporation loaned the Winchester Arms Collection, a collection of more than 4,000 firearms as well as […]