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Pepperdine’s new digital collection includes anti-communism films. This one focuses on the necessity of congressional investigations and is awesome.  (via The questions and the answers: the story of congressional investigations :: Anti-Communism Films of the Early 1960s)

The NYARC’s new digital collection documents the New York City art scene at the turn of the 20th century. From the collections of the Frick Art Reference Library and the Brooklyn Museum Libraries and Archives.

Henri Matisse exhibition : January 20th to February 27th, 1915.

But it’ll cost you.

(via British Library newspaper archive)

NYPL Menu Collection.

The National Archives has released President Nixon’s long-secret grand jury testimony in the Watergate scandal.

Shoe Shine Boys on South Walnut Street (via Ball State University Libraries)

Raisins for dessert is worse than boiled tongue as an entrée. (via University of Houston Digital Library : Compound Object Viewer)

Surf sirens, Manly beach, New South Wales, 1938-46 (via Digital Collections - Trove)

Afghan War Rugs form the Fyke Collection. University of Calgary.

(via MSU Grant archive: Frederick Douglass lock of hair (Mississippi State University))

A flight attendant holding a coffee pot and cup stands just inside the door of a Ford-Maddux tri-motor airplane in 1929. “Passenger flights catered to the wealthy during the roaring ’20s. Transcontinental Air Transport specialized in first-class service; a one-way cross-country ticket cost $350. Ten days after this photo was taken. the stock market crashed and the Great Depression replaced scenes of luxury with hardship. The airline was bankrupt within a year.”

(via Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery and LA Times)

(Source: hdl.huntington.org)

(via PDHC Photo Collection)

(via PDHC Photo Collection)