ARMA Liberty Bell Chapter

ARMA Liberty Bell Chapter The home of the Liberty Bell Chapter of ARMA is located in the City of Brotherly Love, in Philadelphia, PA.

We are chapter of the Mid-Atlantic Region of ARMA International.

02/02/2021

Clifford Berryman drew this portrait of Punxsutawney Phil for the Washington Evening Star in 1909, but fans of "Groundhog Day" might think of Phil Conners and his grumpy behavior in the 1993 movie.

In "The Groundhog Up to Date," Berryman shows the groundhog on Groundhog Day as he grows weary of his prophecy duties and walks off carrying an umbrella--hiding his shadow so that he can't predict whether or not we'll have six more weeks of winter.

Are you hoping for more snow or are you ready for daffodils?

Image: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/6010782

01/29/2021

If you enjoyed the movie "Monuments Men," don't miss our new Citizen Archivist mission on looted art!

During the Second World War, the N***s stole huge numbers of artworks and hid them. In this photograph from 1945, M. SGT Harold Maus of Scranton, PA, holds a Durer engraving, which was found among other art treasures at the Merker Salt Mine.

Help us transcribe property control cards, which may include information such as artwork classification, identifying marks, history and ownership, and more.

These transcriptions make it easier to find documents in our online Catalog, which aids researchers and makes history more accessible to the public!

To participate, go to https://www.archives.gov/citizen-archivist/missions

Image: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/5757194

01/28/2021

Today’s post comes from Thomas Richardson, an archives technician at the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis, Missouri. On January 28, 1986, the Space Shuttle Challenger launched from th…

01/27/2021

In this letter written to his parents, Army medic Harold Porter described his reaction to the horrors he saw at newly liberated Dachau concentration camp: “Certainly what I have seen in the past few days will affect my personality for the rest of my life."

Learn more in our online exhibit: https://go.usa.gov/xAHFe

01/27/2021

Read about one student’s research into legislative, genealogical and video sources to create a National History Day documentary project about Dr. Patricia Bath.

01/27/2021

Today is International Holocaust Remembrance Day. More than 6 million Jews and 11 million others were killed by the N**i regime and its collaborators*. The National Archives holds many primary sources related to the Holocaust, including film footage taken by the US Army.

Recently, Auschwitz survivor Lilly Engleman Ebert identified herself in a reel of U.S. Army Signal Corps footage. (She is second from the right in this photo.) Ebert’s great-grandson managed to track down the short clip amongst hundreds of thousands of hours of footage.

Ebert had been imprisoned at Auschwitz before being forced on a death march to Buchenwald, where she was eventually liberated by American soldiers. The footage she appears in was filmed by Signal Corps members attached to military units tasked with rehabilitating and relocating liberated camp survivors.

Holocaust survivors and their families sometimes start their research with the National Archives, but they also locate our records through the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum The museum makes films from the National Archives holdings available on their webpage, which is where Ebert found the footage of his great-grandmother.

The two institutions collaborate when records are located through the museum and additional copies or information are needed by the researcher, making these important records and history accessible to more people.

Learn more in today's blog post on the Unwritten Record: http://go.usa.gov/xAH7U

*For questions about this number, please see https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/documenting-numbers-of-victims-of-the-holocaust-and-nazi-persecution

Image: Still from "Orphans of Buchenwald/Ex-Prisoners Coming Home/Air Views HQ and Camps (1945)." June 17 & 19, 1945. National Archives Identifier: 111-ADC-4812

01/25/2021

Today’s post is by George Fuller, Archival Reference Technician at the National Archives at St. Louis. Working at the National Archives at St. Louis has been one of the most educational employment …

01/22/2021

Today’s post comes from Michael J. Hancock, an archives technician at the National Archives at College Park, MD. There was a time when the greatest threat during the Cold War was a nuclear strike b…

01/22/2021

CMP Standard The Institute of Certified Records Managers (ICRM) believes it is vital that a Certified Records Analyst (CRA) and a Certified Records Manager (CRM) remains current in the dynamic field of records and information management. This is accomplished through Certification Maintenance Points....

01/21/2021

If you have ever visited Washington, D.C., one of the most striking features of the city is the National Mall and the area surrounding it. If you stand in the middle of the mall and look due east,…

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