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Becky Fifield
Jan 12, 20162 min read
The Crazy Things We Do for Cultural Heritage
I was at a children’s playgroup in Beacon, New York yesterday with my son. Yet again, I was trying to pull together in a coherent thread...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 8, 20161 min read
“Omelettes – Plain or with Rum”
What? Where in culinary history did I miss the inclusion of rum in an omelet? New York Public Library announced recently the availability...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 21, 20132 min read
George Frideric Handel and The London Foundling Hospital
George Fredrich Handel. Public Domain. The Messiah, written by George Frideric Handel in 1741 and first performed in Dublin before its...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 29, 20132 min read
Catering to Clients in an 18th Century Philadelphia Shop
I spent July at a Research Fellowship at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden. This mainly meant identifying manuscripts and object...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 1, 20131 min read
Digging in the Archives: Swarthmore College’s Friends Historical Library
My time here at Winterthur is wrapping up. I took yesterday to visit two incredible local institutions, the Friends Historical Library at...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 22, 20132 min read
Museum Monday – WNYC Municipal Archives Online
Back in May, I gave a lecture on collections emergency preparedness at the New York Archives Conference. It was supposed to be a...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 8, 20131 min read
Museum Monday – Working at Winterthur
I’m in residence at Winterthur Museum, Library, and Garden working on my 18th century runaway project and participating in a preventive...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 5, 20131 min read
Historic Philadelphia Mapping Resources
My research on indentured and enslaved servants’ lives has led me to mapping out their existence on historic maps of Philadelphia. I’m...
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Becky Fifield
Apr 1, 20134 min read
Museum Monday: Maryland State Archives in 2013
The stepped structure of the Maryland State Archives on Rowe Blvd, Annapolis. For a building built in 1984, I think the Maryland State...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 30, 20132 min read
Book: The Look of Architecture by Witold Rybczynski
It’s a little bit untrue to title this small volume solely a book. It caught my eye while I was perusing the stacks last week at the New...
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Becky Fifield
Jan 16, 20132 min read
A Late Tribute to The Silver Spoon
The NYSL has old fashioned stacks, and up on Stack 11, I had been peering through books about railroad station design (alas, I did not...
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Becky Fifield
Dec 20, 20121 min read
Spaces that Feed the Writing Brain
McSorley’s. 2003. I just finished Dwight Garner’s “A Critic’s Tour of Literary Manhattan” in The New York Times (December 14, 2012). I’m...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 20, 20122 min read
Transportation Tuesday: Amtrak’s Quiet Car
I was putting together another post on Amtrak when I stumbled across a New York Times Opinion on Amtrak’s Quiet Car by Tim Krieder. The...
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Becky Fifield
Nov 12, 20122 min read
Museum Monday: User Theft of Collections
Yesterday, The Baltimore Sun reported that Jason James Savedoff was sentenced to one year in prison for his supporting role in the theft...
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Becky Fifield
Sep 20, 20121 min read
Library Find: How To Manage Without A Maid
“Maid service is getting harder and harder to find at any price and only too often, even if you pay top wages, you will have to put up...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 31, 20121 min read
Having Dinner with Robert Jocelyn
I’ll have the Scollop of Oysters, hartychokes, cold lobster, and olive pudding! Winterthur has in their collections the Dinner Book of...
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Becky Fifield
Aug 27, 20124 min read
Museum Monday: Researching Museum Collections for Living History Practitioners
Lecturing at the Bergen County Historical Society, March 2011. I’m a Collections Manager in a large New York City institution. My first...
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Becky Fifield
Jul 23, 20122 min read
Museum Monday: Lunch Hour at the New York Public Library
New York Public Library Stephen A. Schwarzman Building. Photo: Wikipedia. My mother’s favorite meal of the day is lunch. Usually those...
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Becky Fifield
Jun 26, 20122 min read
Books That Shaped America at The Library Congress
Go now, and visit the list at the Books That Shaped America project at The Library of Congress. The exhibition opens June 25 on the 2nd...
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