Grandma’s wedding photo. Your third-grade report card. Learn the basics of document care and organization from Trinity Archivists Joe Lapinski and Marissa Maggs, who also host the popular video series, “Ask Trinity Archives.”
Paying rent to sit in a certain pew at church for a worship service may seem extremely strange nowadays. Yet there was a time when the practice was quite common.
Times Square in Midtown Manhattan has been the focus of New Year’s Eve for New Yorkers for more than a hundred years. For the century before that, the celebration was synonymous with Lower Manhattan, and Trinity Church Wall Street.
We are living through a time of diverging national narratives. How do we come to understand who we are as a country? Hear from Colin Woodard, author...
Most of us are certainly not trained archivists, yet we all tend to collect and save certain items that are important to our personal or family identity. So we can all benefit from expert advice on preserving those treasures. Watch the latest episode of Ask Trinity Archives with archivists Joe Lapinski and Marissa Maggs.
Does a device as simple to use and as ubiquitous as a scanner provide the path that brings historical artifacts into the digital age? Good question. The answer is more complicated than you might think. Watch the latest episode of Ask Trinity Archives with archivists Joe Lapinski and Marissa Maggs.
If we could somehow be transported back in time to a Sunday morning in either the late 18th or early 19th century, how likely is it that we would see Alexander Hamilton sitting in a pew during a worship service?
