Jeff McClurken’s Adventure’s in Digital History seminar is (or is it “was” now?) a pretty amazing thing. The driving logic of the course was that four distinct projects, each dealing with a unique facet of local history, were be framed for the world-at-large as online digital resources. This is a quite ambitious goal, and [...]
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Marking Digital History at UMW
Published by April 26th, 2008 in James Farmer, UMW Blogs, civil rights, google, insructional technology, maps, museums, open education and umw centennial. 3 CommentsWithout Cigarettes There Would Be No Baseball Cards
Published by January 21st, 2008 in americana, images, pictures and richmond. 2 CommentsWell, I’m not actually sure this blog title is entirely true, and that’s why I can freely publish it here. I found this 1887 baseball card on Shorpy’s Photo blog. It features the likeness of Chicago White Stockings first baseman Adrian C. Anson (also known as Cap Anson).
An early baseball card like this is in [...]
Library of Congress Images on Flickr
Published by January 17th, 2008 in Flickr, images and pictures. 0 CommentsImage found on the Library of Congress site here, very Star Warsy in my opinion
This news is making the rounds, but it is really cool to see 3,000 Library of Congress images on Flickr. The logic by which they are approaching this project is similar to the UMW Centennial images we have made [...]
I just posted an image from the ever-magical Shorpy’s Photo Blog, and when I returned to my RSS reader to continue browsing the images I stumbled on another moving photo titled “A Big Kiss for Grandpa” featuring a cool-looking, supine man holding his grand-daughter up in the air.
What you may or may not notice [...]
I really like this image…
…of workers in an Insurance Office on the South Side of Chicago in 1941. See the full-size image on Shorpy’s blog here.
Mary Washington Centennial on flickr
Published by December 30th, 2007 in Flickr, UMW Blogs, pictures and umw centennial. 2 CommentsUMW’s centennial is on the Flickr bus!
As 2007 comes to a close, the University of Mary Washington’s centennial year is set to begin. There has been much preparation for the centennial festivities, and the occasion has in many ways helped the university to focus on the importance of a digital memory for the institution more [...]
Babe Ruth in full salute after signing up for a three-year stint in the New York National Guard. I have to give a special thanks to the RSS feed at Shorpy’s Photo Blog which delivered this gem of an image right to my feed reader. Can you image that? All this history delivered straight [...]
Wireless has come a long way at UMW, baby …
Published by January 20th, 2006 Uncategorizedin . 2 Comments… but it cerainly lacks some of the “innate coolness” that characterized the aesthetics of Mary Washington wireless from ages gone by - what can I say, like any good noir will testify to, they just dressed better back then!!!
But don’t let me sway you - take a look for yourself at the picture below [...]
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