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Without Cigarettes There Would Be No Baseball Cards

Well, I’m not actually sure this blog title is entirely true, and that’s why I can freely publish it here. I found this 1887 baseball card on Shorpy’s Photo blog. It features the likeness of Chicago White Stockings first baseman Adrian C. Anson (also known as Cap Anson).
An early baseball card like this is in [...]

Library of Congress Images on Flickr

Image found on the Library of Congress site here, very Star Warsy in my opinion
This news is making the rounds, but it is really cool to see 3,000 Library of Congress images on Flickr. The logic by which they are approaching this project is similar to the UMW Centennial images we have made [...]

Mary Washington Centennial on flickr

UMW’s centennial is on the Flickr bus!

As 2007 comes to a close, the University of Mary Washington’s centennial year is set to begin. There has been much preparation for the centennial festivities, and the occasion has in many ways helped the university to focus on the importance of a digital memory for the institution more [...]

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Babe in Uniform

Babe Ruth in full salute after signing up for a three-year stint in the New York National Guard. I have to give a special thanks to the RSS feed at Shorpy’s Photo Blog which delivered this gem of an image right to my feed reader. Can you image that? All this history delivered straight [...]




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