Looking through the pages of a sketchbook from 2013, travelling from BC to Norway
#sketches #watercolour #watercolor #pleinair #ontheferry #norway #artistabroad #inthearchives #yahgulanaas #drawing #sketching #penandink
Check out this TOC of the Korea Review, an English-language monthly magazine published in Korea from 1901-06 before the Japanese occupation. #research #inthearchives
A beer stein styled ceramic cup showcasing Mt. Vernon. It says “Mt. Vernon Mansion — Souvenir of Washington, D.C. in dark green and white.
Love finding gems like this in the collections of preservationist women. Always connecting to each other! #inthearchives #researching #preservationwomen #mountvernon
I truly forgot how much I love being in the archives, research fields, conceptualizing new writing & gathering the crumbs that will eventually make a whole path.
#AmResearching
#InTheArchives
#AmReading
#AmWriting
A 1970 letter to the Ford Foundation that claims the chair of the Board of Directors of National Council of La Raza was “stirring up revolutionary activities among the ordinary peaceful and patriotic Mexican-Americans” shows trolling is nothing new. #InTheArchives
Me reading letters from the Ford Foundation in response to people complaining to them because they confused the National Council of La Raza (a nonprofit they provided funding to) with La Raza Unida party (a political party that they did not provide funding to) #InTheArchives
So apparently Charles Ferguson went by Fergie. This might be the most exciting thing I have found in this week of archival work. #InTheArchives
A collection having different folders for bilingual education that includes papers from linguists and Chicano projects that includes papers from critical race scholars is a great metaphor for what happened to bilingual education in the 1970s. #InTheArchives
A Ford Foundation staff member lamenting Latinxs suspicion of white researchers in 1977:
“It is probably the case right now that the valuing of power is of higher priority than that of knowledge.”
Translation: Why won’t you let me save you from yourself?
#InTheArchives
Apparently Antonia Pantoja went by Toni with some people spelling it Tony #InTheArchives
There is a real difference between "organized" and having a logical organizational schema. #inthearchives #frustrated
