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Wright Brothers photographs at Wright State University.
Boy, Dayton, Ohio is a lot bigger than I thought! I’m here to use the Frigidaire Collection at Wright State University, but while looking for the finding aid tonight I ran into their huge Wright...
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An “exploded” Model T Ford.
Stupid disposable cameras! Every picture I took at the Henry Ford Museum came out so bad I can’t post it here (except for an 1880 Grand Rapids Refrigerator Company icebox for some reason, and that’s...
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Reorganized photos on the Library of Congress site.
While this may not seem like much, it really is. The Library of Congress has reorganized the presentation of its pictures online and it is absolutely spectacular. From the LOC’s blog: Some of the new...
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Two wonderful photosets for Friday.
1. Yet again via Boing Boing, this article from Wired about the 1939 World’s Fair is quite wonderful and amply illustrated. I think I’ll use the picture above for my syllabus when I teach the history...
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The Lewis Hine Collection at the University of Maryland – Baltimore County.
I’ve looked for the famed progressive photographer Lewis Hine’s pictures on the web before, but not until I read this morning’s Scout Report did I realize that UMBC has over four thousand of them up on...
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The word “astonishing” is often overused these days.
Nevertheless, I think it is the appropriate term to describe these selections from the Burns Archives of photographs as excerpted at Newsweek. By the way, if the copyright holder ever wants to sell the...
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Extended metaphor of the day.
I just finished Linda Gordon’s prize-winning biography of the photographer Dorothea Lange. It’s very good. I think here subtitle, “A Life Beyond Limits” is actually a reference to this metaphor from...
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The power of place.
Perhaps my favorite part of these TAH teacher trips is when we do what I affectionately refer to as dog-and-pony shows at major American archives. In the last five years or so, the archivists and...
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Like one of those old Populist cartoons.
Let me interrupt this hiatus to discuss a development that has given me a lot more time to blog: Our entire campus computer network has been down for the last two days and it’s still mostly down. Did...
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The Henry Ford: A museum review.
I have a new favorite museum in America. It used to be the National Museum of American History, but I really think they’ve shot themselves in the foot in the course of remodeling and I’ll never forgive...
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