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Tales From the Nitrate Negatives: The Taking of The Miami One Two Three - For this week’s Tales from the Nitrate Negatives, please humor us for a bit as we engage in a bit of train-based role play: Imagine with for a second that it’s the early spring, 1947 and you’re finishing up a long train journey back to Champaign from Chicago. It’s a quaint Saturday morning and you’ve Continue Reading
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Tales From the Nitrate Negatives: Home Sweet (Presidential) Home - For this week’s Tales from the Nitrate Negatives, we wanted to try something a bit different from usual. Instead of focusing on a single historical event documented through nitrates, we’re tracing the evolution of a house. More specifically, we follow the history of the houses of the presidents of the University of Illinois as captured Continue Reading
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