Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Advanced Cataloging

New York Is Cataloging, and Returning, Bloody Relics of 1971 Attica Assault. (The New York Times, 10/5/2014)

Artifacts from “the bloodiest one-day encounter between Americans since the Civil War.”
This year, state officials finally began cataloging the bloodstained uniforms of both guards and inmates, barrels of baseball bats, a homemade cannon, makeshift knives and other ephemera that had been stored in a Quonset hut to determine which were personal belongings that could be returned to the victims’ families, and which other artifacts to ultimately discard or to retain for research or eventual display in the New York State Museum.

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