Challenge #8 ArchiveGrid and CAMIO

Basic Discovery Exercise Part 1 - ArchiveGrid

#1  Sitting Bull was a shaman and leader of the Hunkpapa Sioux.  Fought against Crow Idnians, wounded in battle several times.  Opposed the encroachment of white men.  Was at the Battle of Little Bighorn as a leader.  Led his tribe into Canada where he lived with his tribe until they surrendered to the U.S. forces.  After capture traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show.  Was killed while resisting arrest for his unwillingness to abandon the ritual Ghost Dance.

#2 I search "Homestake" and got 94 results.  Topics such as Homestake Mining Company records, Papers from Frances Staunton, and George Hearst letters: Dakota Territory to James B. Haggin, San Francisco, Calif., 1877-1890.  Instutions range from University of California Berkeley to Denver Public Library but are scattered all over the world.

There seems to be a lot of really good information here that could help anyone doing research or genealogy on families, companies or just general history.  They would have to do a fair amount of follow-up to get access but it looks like some really good stuff.  In fact I'm sending some information about this to a local researcher because I found some things that he might be interested in!

Basic Discovery Exercise Part 2 - CAMIO

#1  Items made by Paul Revere, a teaspoon, a sugar bowl and cover, a spoon, a tea urn, a salver, a teapot, a two handled covered bowl, a coffee urn, a sugar urn another couple of teapots, a sugar basket and a sugar urn (all on the first page of results. 

#2  Searched "Sioux", got back 63 resulsts none of which are later than 1900!  Dates range from 1830 - 1900.  Formats covered are oil on canvas, pencil, colored pencil, carved catlinite, buffalo hide, and etching.  Wide variety of types of art!  Collections are scattered around the country, just looking at the first page of results items are held in Cleveland, New York, Detroit, and Minneapolis.  Detroit has the largest number of holdings on the first page.  Looked at the Pipe Bowl and Pipe Stem from the Detroit Institute of Arts and liked the "medium" of carved catlinite, wood, horse hair, ribbon, feathers and porcupine quill.


#3  Searched Ansel Adams and got 17 results, most in the George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.  but some in Minnesota, California and Ohio.  The title "Winter Storm" caught my eye so I opened that one.  It is a storm moving into a valley.  In the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis MN, photograph date is 1944, came to MN in 1969.  Is a gelatin silver print 7-3/8 by 9 inches  Gorgeous photograph.

#4 For me and my patrons I see the most useful part as getting images of historical significance that relate to research done in the area.  It will be more useful as more places closer to home start adding to the collection.

#5  I pulled out seven items from a search of 14 on Lakota.  Three of them are tied to tobacco or pipes so I moved them together and then rearranged the whole bunch just to see how it works.  My webpage consisted of all seven but seeing them larger is helpful.  I also compared the two pouches to each other but they are both long and thin so cut off part of the bottom of both doing that.  I can see some application on this, especially if you were comparing something like battle maps.


Advanced Challenge

#1  Using ArchiveGrid, I would have to go the Iowa State University, Parks Library to read the papers of Theodore William Schultz, 1902 - .  Schultz is one of the founding members of Dairymen's League Cooperative Association in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.  He is tied to Mary Jean Bowman and economist best known for her work on the economics of education and Arthur F. Burns and Austrian-born economist who was chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve Board from 1970-1978.  He was also involved in the Oleomargarine controversy, 1943-1945.

#2  Took a few minutes to get this work well, once I did I got 102 records.  I tried first using the search box but it wasn't specific enough, so I selected the advanced search and started using that.  First I determined that using "any term" for fashion, dress or clothing would result in the highest number of hits.  Then I tried Victorian or Dickens and got little to nothing, so I switched to a date search for 1837-1901, that is when I got my 102.  There are some fun pictures here, I can see a community drama club loving this for getting ideas on new costumes!  I pulled up a high-resolution full-image of a Harper's Weekly, very nice to look and it is downloadable if you need it for reference purposes.