Tag: FDR

Pokemon Go has come to the FDR Presidential Library and that’s a good thing.

by Matthew Schaefer, posted in Presidential Libraries, Social Media (Web 2.0), Uncategorized

Today's post is written by Paul Sparrow, Director of the FDR Presidential Library and Museum, and was originally posted on the Library's Forward with Roosevelt blog. The Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum is swarming with Pokemon Go characters. Visitors are wandering around staring at their phones, and catching them left and right. I’ve … Continue reading Pokemon Go has come to the FDR Presidential Library and that’s a good thing.

Finding FDR in the Brooklyn Navy Yard: An example of “One NARA” at work.

by lbarber, posted in Digitization, Miscellaneous, Photographs, Preservation, Techniques

Today’s post comes from Michael Horsley, a Digital Imaging Specialist with the Digitization Services Team. During a long day of scanning glass plate negatives in the Digital Image lab a fleeting image with an intriguing caption caught my eye during a quality control inspection session. As hundreds of images depicting various scenes of the Brooklyn … Continue reading Finding FDR in the Brooklyn Navy Yard: An example of “One NARA” at work.