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Washington University Film & Media Archive Many presidential libraries include archives. Many large organizations such as universities , corporations , newspapers , and so on maintain archives consisting of the papers and records which have been created during the course of the organization's life.
The organization of the National Archives and Records Administration refers to the administrative and bureaucratic structure of the National Archives and Records Administration of the United States. The National Archives is considered an independent federal government agency , receiving this status in 1985 after existing under the General ...
The Society of American Archivists was established in 1936 on the heels of the creation of the National Archives. The organization was born in the wake of the dissolution of the Public Archives Commission of the American Historical Association. The early days of the organization were fraught with difficulty related to membership as well as ...
The National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC)—the agency's grant-making arm—awards funds to state and local governments, public and private archives, colleges and universities, and other nonprofit organizations to preserve and publish historical records. Since 1964, the NHPRC has awarded some 4,500 grants.
Internet Archive's Wayback Machine is the largest and oldest web archive in the world, dating back to 1996. Internet Archive also provide various web archiving services, including Archive-IT, Save Page Now, and domain level contract crawls. The Wayback Machine is the publicly available access service to Internet Archive and partners' collections.
This is a list of archives from around the world. An archive is an establishment that collects, stores and preserves knowledge in several formats: books , manuscripts , journals , newspapers , magazines , sound and music recordings , videos , play-scripts, patents , databases , maps , stamps , prints , drawings and more.
Archives (6 C, 12 P) Archivist associations (3 C, 18 P) C. History centers (22 P) H. Heritage organizations (21 C, 122 P) ... Pages in category "History organizations"
Some national archives collections are large, holding millions of items spanning several centuries, while others have been created more recently and have modest collections. Many national archives are effectively dispersed, especially in post-colonial countries, and often have smaller local collections due to cultural imperialism and the theft ...