Women’s Worlds in Qajar Iran is a fantastic online exhibit in English and Arabic related to women’s experiences during the Qajar period (1796-1925). The collections in the exhibit include art, photographs, marriage contracts, letters, and more.
If you follow the link above, you will find that the artist’s blog is credited and that the post is tagged with “manipulation.” The above images are manipulations of nineteenth-century photographs created by Jamie Vesta. I had seen the couple picture before and am now disappointed that someone removed it from its original context as a digitally-manipulated work in order to present it as real. Thanks to Emily for guiding me to the original artist’s work.
This post hearkens back to an earlier post about the issue of presenting a caption on a historical photograph as real. It’s always important to follow up on citations, credit sources, and question the validity of the information we are given.
“Botany Herbarium specimens stacked in cabinets and on tables.”
(Via The Field Museum Library)
GAH! This is so cool too. I’m freaking out right now.
From the site:
What do you get when you cross archives and artifacts with timelines, modern and historical maps, and an appreciation for the interpretive aims of humanities scholarship?
Neatline is a geotemporal exhibit-builder that allows you to create beautiful, complex maps and narrative sequences from collections of archives and artifacts, and to connect your maps and narratives with timelines that are more-than-usually sensitive to ambiguity and nuance. In other words, Neatline lets you make hand-crafted, interactive stories as interpretive expressions of an archival or cultural heritage collection. Every Neatline exhibit is your contribution to humanities scholarship, in the visual vernacular.
“In the early eighties, rare book librarian John Rathe pulled down a dusty box, wrapped in twine, from a remote corner of the Rare Book room. Attached to the box was a label that said: ‘Do not open until war is over.’ Which war? The Civil War? The War of 1812? What he discovered was a box filled with disguised anti-Nazi tracts hidden in packets of tea and shampoo and concealed in miniature books both popular and scholarly.”
Did I already reblog this? Oh, well. Worth it.
May is Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Photos from previous posts: Ho Miu Ling (Madame Wu Ting Fang), Indira Gandhi, Uzbek girl engineer, Kang Tongbi (Kang Tung Pih) 康同璧, Philippine schoolgirls, and Japanese mother and daughter.
The Louvre is evacuated before German invasion in 1939, its works returning in 1945
Know were you stand: Modern Day Locations blended with Major Historical Events by Seth Taras
1. The Hindenberg Disaster of May 6, 1937
2. Allied soldiers rushing the beach at Normandy in June 1944
3. The Fall of the Berlin wall in 1989
4. Adolf Hitler touring Paris and standing in front of the Eiffel Tower in 1940
Happy Marathon Monday!
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first registered woman to run the Boston Marathon. Women would not be allowed to run the race until 1972, so she registered under the name K. V. Switzer. A race official tried to eject her from the race, but she finished.
The previous year, Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb was the first person to run the entire marathon. She did so without a race number, hiding at the starting line and jumping into the beginning of race after about half the pack had passed her.
Frustratingly, HuffPo did not cite its images, but they are presumably from a press archive.
(Source: The Huffington Post)
