Spotlight on the Portal to Texas History, Part I - Discovery Features. I first learned about the Portal to Texas History in a metadata course I took back in May 2012, with Amigos Library Services.
The instructor used the Portal as a tool to demonstrate the three types of metadata–descriptive, structural, and administrative. I instantly became hooked on the Portal.
Guardian. History Magazine. American History In Video. Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog. Posted Jul 26, 2010 Share This Gallery inShare324 These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations.
The photographs and captions are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color. Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders.