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A glowing advertisement for kudzu—now considered to be a highly invasive plant—in a 1902 catalog.

The Treasures Blooming in Canada's Largest Seed Catalog Archive

They were once considered disposable, but the Royal Botanical Gardens is putting 30,000 horticultural periodicals to good use.

Cara Giaimo November 22, 2017

How ‘Photo Detectives’ Have Helped Reveal Irish History

The National Library of Ireland asked the public for help, and the public provided it.

Vittoria Traverso November 2, 2017

The notebooks were deteriorating fast.

Forgotten Notebooks Chronicled the Lives of Congolese Trees for 20 Years

The data could help biologists understand how climate change is affecting forests.

Sarah Laskow September 28, 2017

Edith Wharton around 1890.

Found: A Lost Play by Edith Wharton

In which woman's past as a nurse comes back to haunt her.

Sarah Laskow May 30, 2017

Womyn holding a banner for the Lesbian Herstory Archives during the 2007 LGBT Pride March in New York

Brooklyn, New York

Lesbian Herstory Archives

The world's largest collection of materials relating to lesbian history is housed in a Brooklyn townhouse.

The Sussex Declaration

Found: A Unique, Handwritten Copy of the Declaration of Independence

It contained a puzzle of sorts.

Sarah Laskow April 21, 2017

It still works, too.

Found: A Miniature Working Model of the National Archives Vault

It had been forgotten down in the basement.

Elliot Carter March 6, 2017

One of the memos found.

Found: Internal Apple Computer Memos From 1979, Left at a Seattle Goodwill

A local discovered them by chance.

Sarah Laskow February 24, 2017

The Mosler safe under construction

Washington, D.C.

National Archives Vault

An atomic bomb-proof strongbox protects the U.S. Constitution from terrorists and thieves.

The Carnegie Hall archives now contains around 300,000 artifacts.

New York, New York

Carnegie Hall Archives

More than 300,000 historical artifacts from the famous music venue, from Duke Ellington's handwritten score to The Beatles' booking slip.

Martin Luther King, Jr., with his wife, in 1964.

Found: A Recording of a Martin Luther King, Jr., Speech from 1964

The archivist at Pacifica Radio rediscovered a recording of MLK giving a speech in London.

Sarah Laskow January 16, 2017

A sampling of the material shown to visitors on a regular basis.

San Francisco, California

Letterform Archive

A library and museum dedicated to typography.

Permanently Closed

The Museum is in the crypt below St. Augustine with St. Philip's Church

London, England

Royal London Hospital Museum

This small museum in a former church crypt contains artifacts of the Elephant Man, Jack the Ripper and Florence Nightingale.

The Strange History of Microfilm, Which Will Be With Us for Centuries

From carrier pigeons to comic books.

Ernie Smith June 20, 2016

A little green alien on Tobias Lindgren’s desk at the Archives for the Unexplained.

There’s a Huge UFO Archive Hiding in These Swedish Apartment Cellars

And it's surprisingly low-key.

Lara Andersson June 16, 2016

One of six archival rooms on the first floor of Tuscany's Villa le Corti. All together, they hold 4,000 feet of volumes containing the Corsini family’s history, from the 1360s through the 1960s.

A Look Inside Florence's Strangest Archive

For six centuries, the Corsini Family has recorded everything that's ever happened to them.

Cara Giaimo May 11, 2016

How the Smithsonian Institution Is Crowdsourcing History

Andy Wright February 10, 2016

The NYPL Just Released More Than 180,000 Images. We Picked the Best of Old New York

Anika Burgess January 7, 2016