Searching for material at Brown which has an exceptional Lincoln archive, including the collection of John Hay, Lincoln's secretary Widmer came upon a Civil War notebook with sketches in it ascribed to Nast.
The illustrations are exceptional, reproducing one archive gem after another...
When I came across a cluster of records related to the Space Shuttle Challenger accident, I discovered that the shuttle commander, Francis Dick Scobeeee, was considered a "Person of Exceptional Prominence" by the Archives, and that records of his Air Force service were available for public viewing... at the Archives Military Personnel Records Centerr in St .Louis, Missouri!
What is enduringly surprising, however, is why projects such as Towards a Common Archive remain exceptional — why Israel still struggles to contemplate its own history, all of it.
Where an individual or organisation is unable to dispose of its records or where the records are of exceptional significance to the Archive, a long term loan will be considered in line with the Guiding Principles for Terms of Deposit (1997) (approved by the Society of Archivists, the National Council on Archives and the Business Archive Council) on a case by case basis.
It maintains an exceptional collection of over 900 archives of historical, literary, economic and artistic content.
The exceptional value as an environmental archive is due to large laminated sections, found in several long cores.
On November 7th, the worlds of music and documentary archives intersected in an exceptional concert highlighting the works and life of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev.
On November 7, the worlds of music and documentary archives intersected in an exceptional concert highlighting the works and life of Russian composer Serge Prokofiev.
Paris has exceptional collections of rare books and historical archives, housed at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Biblothèque mazarine, and the Archives nationales de France.
