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We just got these fantastic photos on the left from a researcher in Spain who lives near the sites of many points of interest from the Spanish Civil War that are documented in the Tamiment collection Harry Randall: Fifteenth International Brigade Films and Photographs (right), in whose finding aid we’ve embedded the images. Thank you, Fernando!

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Archives Cat is back with some helpful advice about using primary sources as you approach finals.

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Today is Star Wars day! Our collections are full material concerning rebellion and evil empires. Here are a few images from the other Star Wars, the 1983 Strategic Defense Initiative. May the 4th be with you!

"Star Wars": Delusions and Dangers. Moscow: Military House, 1985.

Avduevskiĭ, Vsevolod Sergeevich, and A. I. Rudev. The Earth Imperilled. Moscow: Novosti Agency Pub. House, 1986.

Kučera, Bohuslav, Jan Valeška, and Zdeněk Pagáč. Star Wars : A Blueprint for Doomsday. Prague: Czechoslovak Committee for European Security and Cooperation, 1986.

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May Day or International Workers’ Day is a national public holiday in many countries, and unofficially observed in others. To highlight the international scope of this observance, here is a selection of May Day posters from around the world.

Tamiment Library Poster and Broadside Collection; GRAPHICS 002; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University

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Today is May Day, also known as International Workers Day or in some places Labour Day! In celebration, we’re sharing a selection of May Day posters from our collections.

Tamiment Library Poster and Broadside Collection; GRAPHICS 002; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University

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It’s Preservation Week! We highly recommend following our colleagues in the  Barbara Goldsmith Preservation and Conservation Department for updates from the lab and insight into their work.

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April 15 is Tax Day, on which individual income returns are due to the federal government. Did you file, or are you resisting in the tradition of Henry David Thoreau through tactics like refusal, avoidance, paying under protest, or changing your lifestyle to owe less?

Here is a selection of panels from a CIO publication concerning the undue burden tax burdens placed on workers during the 1940s. 

Congress Of Industrial Organizations, and World Federation of Trade Unions. The Case of the Vanishing Paycheck. Washington, D.C.: Congress of Industrial Organizations, 1946.

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Let’s revisit our blog post on the wage gap and gender discrimination in the workforce for Equal Pay Day.

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On this day in 1961, Soviet pilot and cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completed an orbit of the earth in the Vostok spacecraft, becoming the first human to travel in space.

Soviet Planet Into Space. London: [Soviet Booklets], 1961

An. N Nesmei͡anov. Soviet Moon Rockets : A Report on the Flight and Scientific Results of the Second and Third Space Rockets. London: [Soviet Booklets], 1959

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More images from the 1903 Kathleen Carmody travel diary.

Kathleen Hill Family Collection; AIA 064; box 1, folder 2; Archives of Irish America, Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

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Just in time for the end of Irish American Heritage Month, here is a selection from a charming 1903 travel diary featuring written observations, poetry, drawings, and souvenirs.

Kathleen Hill Family Collection; AIA 064; box 1, folder 2; Archives of Irish America, Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

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St. Patrick’s Day was last week, but we couldn’t resist sharing this vaguely menacing holiday greeting.

Mick Moloney Irish American Music and Popular Culture Irish Americana Collection; AIA 031.004; box 53; Archives of Irish America, Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University.

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the Tamiment Library!

Tamiment Library Poster and Broadside Collection; GRAPHICS 002; Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University

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What was Joseph Doherty Corner? Why was it a source ofdiplomatic tension between the United States and the United Kingdom? And what did it have to do with the Troubles? Find out in our newest blog post over at The Back Table…

Irish Echo Photographs; AIA 045; box 2, folder 26; Archives of Irish America, Tamiment Library/Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives, New York University

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Happy International Women's Day! This image not only rejects the separate spheres ideology, but also underscores this observance's efforts to increase awareness of the political, social, and economic struggles women encounter in a global context.

The Masses (New York, NY), October-November, 1915.

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It's World Book Day! While we could never pick just one favorite, here are a few we're quite fond of.

Hille, Waldemar. The People's Song Book. New York: People's Artists, 1956.

New Yippie Book Collective and Youth International Party. Blacklisted News, Secret History : From Chicago, '68, to 1984 : The New Yippie! Book. New York, N.Y.?] : New York, N.Y.: Bleecker Pub. ; Overthrow [distributor], 1983.

Hoffman, Abbie. Steal This Book,. New York: Pirate Editions; Distributed by Grove, 1971.