#historic documents

[digitalfossils]

[mountrainiernps]

In 2024, Mount Rainier National Park celebrated its quasquicentennial, or the 125th Anniversary of its creation in 1899. The park has grown and changed a lot in those years! Pieces of its history have been preserved in the park’s archives. These objects and documents give a glimpse into the many events that have shaped the Mount Rainier National Park we know today.

A few of them are captured in the story map “Celebrating Mount Rainier’s 125th Anniversary with Artifacts”.

As we start the next year, what objects do you think will tell the park’s story in the future? What object or document tells YOUR story at Mount Rainier?

___ NPS Photos of some of the artifacts featured in the story map: 1930s drawing of Mount Rainier by the park’s first naturalist, Floyd Schmoe, 1930s saw and axe used by the Civilian Conservation Corps, beer bottle found in 2006 during excavations for the Jackson Visitor Center, soap found during the 2017-2019 rehabilitation of the Paradise Inn Annex, and the Mount Rainier 125th Anniversary challenge coin.

[willpowers]

yo i got really high and realized that its really fun to help archives translate documents that are numerous and hard to read but need to be typed up like. anyone can do it.

its real easy to log in, and if you're bored u can challenge yourself to see how much of it you can read. even if you only do half a sentence and give up its still helping! and who knows maybe youll find it as fun as me

[andhumanslovedstories]

I've been getting really into the idea of purposeful primary documents. Sometimes when I'm writing a journal entry, I'll stop to explain in excruciating detail something that I take for granted as common knowledge, like exactly what the process of getting groceries looks like for me. I have two main motivations. One, so many practical every day details of life get forgotten as time goes on, and losing that texture affects our understanding our history. Judith Flanders' book The Victorian City: Everyday Life in Dickens' London focuses on a glorious level of minutiae--jobs, railways, rivers, sewers, entertainment, sounds, smells--that fundamentally altered how I view this period in history. You don't need to understand how the implementation of gas lights on the streets affected London life to get the gist of major political movements at the time, but god does that information make everything so much more real.

My second purpose is someone someday is going to write a period piece about the time when I grew up, and I like to imagine that one hundred years from now, someone might read a scanned version of my journal and go, "oh thank god, THAT'S how doordash worked." And then they still write it wrong so their blorbos can fuck.

[ew-selfish-art]

DPxDC Au: Normally when Danny vandalizes ancient cave walls and historic places on his 'favor' missions for Clockwork, he gets sent back to erase them. But no, apparently this time, when Danny added his actual phone number into some painting, he's not allowed to go back and fix it. Ugh.

...

Tim has had the painting of Bruce professionally reviewed a few times since the old Bat was retrieved from the time stream. He's not entirely sure how the painting still exists, he's not even sure that it matters any more... But one day Tim catches something new in the painting.

It was small, and it could've just been the light at first but... Is that a phone number in the background?? It looks like black marker on the black curtains and it makes him feel feral. The family is kinder this time about how they think he's gone crazy- but each one of them admit that they can't remember a phone number ever being present.

The lab reports that the number was added over the paint- and that it's an ink based marking akin to a sharpie but like, hundreds of years old. So... It's been added recently but not at all recently enough for Tim to have an explanation.

Tim doesn't want to hear any more of his family members opinions on the matter and he certainly isn't going to just, stop investigating or something stupid like that. So, he takes the painting to the tower, gathers his team (Cassie, Kon and Bart), and they call the number in the middle of the night after a lot of planning/back-and-forth/catastrophizing.

It doesn't answer until the final ring, and the static that comes through the phone is bone chilling. A deep, monstrous groan which echoed with agony fills the room.

"I have a math test in like, three hours, who the fuck are you and why the fuck are you calling in the middle of the night?" The voice now complains, still sounding vaguely inhuman despite it's very human word choices.

"Your number is in a historical painting, we had a few questions but uh, you can call us back later?" Tim cringes as he says it but he hadn't planned on having to reply to someone trying to go back to bed. Or someone who was apparently also a teenager. (He had so, so many contingency plans for like, every kind of villain, alien or demon. lame.)

"...Ugh. might as well." The voice calls out, agreeing with a sigh that echos so deeply the team can feel it in their bones.

"Cool. Good luck on your test?" Tim offers.

"Mph." And the line hangs up.

...

Danny is at lunch with Sam and Tucker when he remembers the late night call. He'd spent the morning bitching about never getting a full night of sleep and it finally occurred to him what had happened. Of course his friends think it's hilarious that CW wouldn't let him erase his number. Of course they do.

They stop laughing when Danny calls the number back.

"Hello, this is Red Robin of Gotham. I have Superboy, Wonder girl and Impulse present with me. How did your math test go?"

[worfsbarmitzvah]

there’s such an attitude among ex-christian atheists that religions just spring up out of the void with no cultural context behind them. like ive heard people say shit like “those (((zionists))) think they own a piece of land bc their book of fairy tales told them so!!!” and they refuse to understand that no, we don’t belong there because of the torah, it’s in the torah because we belong there. because we’re from there. the torah (from a reform perspective) was written by ancient jews in and about the land that they were actively living on at the time. the torah contains instructions for agriculture because the people who lived in the land needed a way to teach their children how to care for it. it contains laws of jurisprudence because those are pretty important to have when you’re trying to run a society. same for the parts that talk about city planning. it contains our national origin story for the same reason that american schools teach kids about the boston tea party. it’s an extremely complex and fascinating text that is the furthest thing from just a “book of fairy tales”

[cheesenchalk]

thinking about that time somewhere in the early 70's George found an old letter of his from like '61 or something and pattie told him he should save it so he 'recreated' it and just for funsies threw in a line or two that wasn't in the original about how paul sucked at bass and john wanted to kick him out of the band. unparalleled haterism. you have to respect it

[czerwonykasztelanic]

Le 9 Thermidor, l'an II de la République une & indivisible / Age of Excuse VI, Mgła

[inkylizard]

Last year, in my dad's paperwork, I found this photocopy of a letter to my maternal grandmother, from a friend in Romania. She had presumably given a copy to my dad because of its historical significance: the letter is dated "22 Dec '89 - 22 Jan '90 - one month from the revolution!" It describes her life under the Ceaucescu regime, the things she had never been able to tell; and details its fall.

When I found it, I thought it was an interesting thing, and that I should share it. But I balked, I guess, at publicizing someone else's private letter; it's not so historical that the writer might not still be alive.

Now, It feels not just historically notable, but painfully, critically relevant. It's long, and it's not all politically pertinent - there's a bit about me and my cousins being adorable - but it's an all or nothing kind of read.

"Very few people fought to stop the wrong activity of that criminal Ceaucescu. If every important person in state didn't agree to report only lies concerning the economy (industry and agriculture) Romania would have been the same rich country, worthy of her brave past. Instead of truth it was easier to die thousands of people in order to regain our dignity, to have a better and a new life? For this reason we shall never be forgiven by the next generations. Will this revolution wash the shame?"

I hope you will read it. Thank you, Ela.

[auguste-marmonts-only-fan]

YO EUROPEAN HISTORY LOVERS

guys, I must tell you all

if you want/need high quality images or texts from european history

RUN TO https://www.europeana.eu/en!!

I just found out about it today and they have amazing sources

they have things I havent seen anywhere else, also its pretty much all copyright free (great for school work)

xoxo

[useless-catalanfacts]

How did Medieval people know that a document wasn't fake?

To prove that a document was real, important documents would be copied two (sometimes more) times on the same parchment, with drawings or words between them, and then they were cut right between those drawings or word. If a document was suspicious of being a fake, they would bring the two copies together and, if the drawings or word matched, it proved that the documents were original.

In this video, you can see an example of this, the moment when two documents are put together and match. This document is the inheritance of Guillem Isarn from Barcelona, Catalonia, written on January 17th, 1330. It's kept in Catalonia's National Archive.

Video and information posted by Catalonia's National Archive on their Instagram.

[borgialucrezia]

cesare is never beating the widowmaker allegations

[angstics]

multiple books including material from my chem are coming out this year!

"Where Are Your Boys Tonight? The Oral History of Emo's Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008" by Chris Payne (June 6, 2023, preorder link) -- Includes interview with Mikey Way (src)

“Top Eight: How MySpace Changed Music” by Michael Tedder (August 15, 2023, preorder link) -- Includes interview with Frank Iero

"Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006)" by Amy Fleisher Madden (Oct 24, 2023, preorder link) -- Includes essay by Frank Iero, photos by Mark Beemer

projects 1+3 also include photos of my chem from the 2000s. exciting stuff :-)

[resplendentoutfit]

Girls in white dresses...

because summer's not yet over, right?

Regency Era

Rolinda Sharples (British, 1793-1838 ) • Portrait of the Artist • 1814 • Bristol Museum and Art Gallery

Victorian Era

Anton Einsle (Austrian, 1801–1871) • Portrait of a Lady in a Hat • c. mid 19th century

Edwardian Era

Frank Dicksee (British/English, 1853–1928) • Lady Hillingdon • 1905

Roaring 20s

Gerald Festus Kelly (British, 1879–1972) • The Countess of Lisburne • 1926 • Ferrens Art Gallery, Yorkshire, UK

[sdentii]

Hatsune Miku (Ticino edition)