Author Archive for: ‘Boleslas Matuszewski’

A New Source of History: The Creation of a Depository for Historical Cinematography (Paris 1898)

It would be a mistake to believe that all the categories of representational documents [1] which come to the aid of History have a place in Museums and Libraries. Unlike medallions, illuminated pottery, sculpture, etc., which are collected and classified, photography, for example, has no special department. To speak the truth, the documents it provides are rarely of a clearly historical …

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