I'm definitely a week behind in posting interesting tidbits from the YIVO archive 🫣📲 of which I've documented many. It's partly because Mastodon doesn't seem to load well on the WiFi there or on the subway where I lose service a lot, but I'll have to sit and post some goodies sometime soon.
Yesterday after a week of ordering many random landsmanshaft and relief society boxes one of the archivists actually came down to meet me and interrogate why I'm ordering so many of these obscure and hard to retrieve boxes from their collection. She seemed skeptical at first that I could find music history in these collections but when I explained how she seemed to accept that it was possible. Especially in advertisments which she said she'd researched in the past.