Slate Vault

Slate Magazine's The Vault Blog: histories big and small. Tweets and posts by @rebeccaonion. On temporary hiatus, Spring 2017.

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Photos & history of FDR's White House Map Room, used to monitor military activities during WWII https://t.co/TRBBUhnJST

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Page from the 1818 children's book _My Father_ https://t.co/IVWcxBz7FE via @AmAntiquarian

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Map of explored parts of Mammoth Cave, drawn from memory by Stephen Bishop, an enslaved guide, 1842 https://t.co/Nt5CdBObR5 via @gordonbelt

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Teenage Ben Franklin's first piece of printing, a 1723 broadside elegy for a poet & fellow printer, reappears https://t.co/hr8oWlCQLK

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Some beautiful graphic bookplates from the early 20th c, including this beehive-themed example, via @hyperallergic https://t.co/FlHkY6ZsHD

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Oblique cutaway of the gondola of the Graf Zeppelin 1929. #dataviz #aviation https://t.co/9ZRTf5pmHP

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Five More Compelling Digital History Projects We Loved in 2016 https://t.co/ERULy2IPl4

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Foxhunting map of Manhattan showing 18th & 19thc. locations https://t.co/dEy5GkBgiv

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Five Fascinating Digital History Projects We Loved in 2016 https://t.co/9w5YEfmCl1

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Unexpectedly adding Georgia O'Keefe to my favorite painters of urban scenes https://t.co/UVnY3Il5LD

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"Crows at twilight," woodblock print by Shibata Zeshin, late 19th c https://t.co/WaIlbopFQn via @FreerSackler

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Tenant displays padlocked fire escape, Chicago, 1950 https://t.co/CnIDbS4xQb

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Illustration for "Automobile," in French dictionary Larousse Universel, 1922 https://t.co/24XXZ9kgfR

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During the Great Depression, one family sent this honest-yet-cheerful card on recycled paper: https://t.co/m1iUAnIGh2

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A few illustrations from the 1964 kids' book _What Colonel Glenn Did All Day_ #RIP https://t.co/eVGXyslSEQ

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Alice Paul and members of the National Woman's Party, 1920 https://t.co/po8te7cuWG

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Scops Owl in Moonlight, woodblock print by Ohara Shoson, early 1920s https://t.co/bp5AhQRxes

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A map of events in Huckleberry Finn, 1959 https://t.co/0DYfVJCSNZ via @LOCMaps

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Illustrations from 1979 Soviet children's book "Your Name? Robot"

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"Chart of Geographical Illustrations" for classroom use, published in London in 1915 https://t.co/1es7RMq1V4 via @Nemfrog