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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.

Spotlight on the Portal to Texas History, Part I - Discovery Features

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.

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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.

Captured: America in Color from 1939-1943 – Plog Photo Blog

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.