A small Documerica Twitter bot

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The text blob found under `record hierarchy -> record group -> series -> item` seems like it would be useful for the tweet body.

For example, you could add a nice descriptive text and the date "SMOG OVER INDUSTRIAL HUMBOLDT BAY-EUREKA AREA, 5/1972" to this tweet: https://twitter.com/dailydocumerica/status/14524913223848591...

Either way, very cool content!

Twitter doesn't do a great job of displaying it, but it's actually embedded in the alt text attribute for the images! This is what it looks like from the logged-in user's perspective[1].

I originally tried to additionally add the full text as a series of replies to the image tweet, but I couldn't get those APIs to work reliably. Perhaps it's worth another try :-)

[1]: https://imgur.com/a/eSK6TY7

https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/collections...

Author here: that collection has been curated a bit. If you want the entire (scanned) DOCUMERICA collection, it's on the National Archives' website[1].

[1]: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/542493

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