#east coast history

[menandwomanofhistory]

Andrew Carnegie

[themuseumlady]

tape, cardboard, and newspaper!!!

to go a bit more into detail on this - from what I understand, this was on display* in a house for a number of years. This particular piece comes from the home of the harbormaster (a lovely man), and was exposed to light and about 50+ years of cigarette smoke. The boat in the photo is an early ferry in my area, and the cardboard it is mounted on seems to be some sort of church(??) yard sign(???)

we are still deciding the best course of action for this piece, but in all honestly, as a smallish museum/historical society with a laundry list of pieces with urgent conservation needs, we don't have the manpower to do anything other than keep it in a dark and temperature controlled space.

There are a lot of things that make me sad when I see pieces like this, because its so easy to see how important it was to its former owner, and it hurts me that we can't pour all of our time and resources into every piece that needs help. There are pieces even in this intake (which I cannot show because they contain identifying information about my location) that will be prioritized as they demand more immediate conservation efforts. Time can be a cruel opponent - and all we can do is our best.

anywho!!! all this is to say Support your local historical society!!! they are trying their darndest to preserve your local history and can't do so without community support! (and support does not always mean money!!! genuinely just interacting with your local historical societies can mean so much)

*I am unsure the specifics of where/how long it was on display for

[switchkick]

John Valadez, Couple Balam, 1978/80

[jahtheexplorer]

Cuyahoga Valley National Park

[richs-pics]

Haile Sands Fort, Humber Estuary

[illustratus]

William the Conqueror lands at Pevensey by Peter Jackson

[lonestarbattleship]

USS NEW JERSEY (BB-62) at Philadelphia Navy Yard, showing radar installations.

Photographed on July 8, 1943.

U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command: NH 64662

[yearningforunity]

RING SHOUT, St. Simon's Island, Georgia, ca. 1940

The ring shout, rooted in the ritual dances of West Africa and forged by the Atlantic slave trade, is believed to be the oldest surviving African-American performance tradition of any kind. Centered in the Gullah-Geechee region of the coastal South, it differs from traditional Black Religious Music in repertory, style, and execution.

[alliluyevas]

on the subject of religious historians and my former mason professors. i have been discussing this with a few people in other academic fields recently because this year i went to Baby's First Academic Conference (and I'm going to another one in the fall!!! Yay!!!) and I actually went with Dr. Turner (not like, together, we just happened to be going to the same conference because we have similar historical interests, but he was very nice and introduced me and another Mason grad student who was also going for the first time to a bunch of people). and then my friend who is a linguistics phd student went to HER first conference this summer and i helped her shop for clothes because she says she just wears jeans and flannels all the time.

but apparently the standards for how dressed up you should be at academic conferences vary WIDELY by which field you are in. (linguists are way more dressed down than historians, especially field linguists.) my former coworker at Mason who is trained as a marine biologist says STEM fields also don't dress up and that historians are among the most dressed up fields but she says that military historians are unusually formal even by history standards (she has a close friend who does military history) and i think the same is true of religious history people. which makes sense because both "the military" and "religious people" are demographics that tend to be more conservative and even if not everyone who studies military history is military or former military themselves, it just influences the vibe.

it will be interesting to compare how people dressed for my first conference (religious history, and specifically mormon history which, well, skews heavily mormon) to the one I'm going to this fall which is history but not religious history.

[rynliadon]

can you imagine if richard papen had just gone to like. ucla

[jingyuanyuan]

my dynastic china history prof said to me the other day that the current state of the us government reminds him of the end of chinese dynasties before the dynasty is about to fall and be replaced

he specifically mentioned culture wars, populace and intellectual landscape polarized, and ruling class increasingly out of touch with the people/constituents but not self aware of that fact

and then i said ah, yes, its been around 250 years the timer is running out and he agreed LOL

[menandwomanofhistory]

George Herman Ruth ("Babe" Ruth)

[themuseumlady]

neat metal detecting find!! lock from 1910!!!

found this neat Eagle Lock Co. Lock today (finally got permission to metal detect at my work:)) - it is likely from c. 1910 as that was the primary time that the section of property was used !!! this is probably my coolest find so far metal detecting!!

[aryburn-trains]

Unlike most Christmas trains this one is picking up toys. They are collecting toys from organizations that have collected them for the Santa train which will run later in the month. St. Augustine, FL December 8, 2012

[jahtheexplorer]

Portland Lighthouse

I have really good memories in Maine.

[darkwood-sleddog]

me: still thinking about dog team tavern and how even though i was obsessed with it as a kid i never had the knowledge i do now of the significance of the artifacts they displayed there. think about if it hadn't burned down.....