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After personal reflection I decided it was time to start fresh and delete my personal blog to focus on my research.
Sadly, this is a secondary blog off my original primary one and once the primary blog is deleted-this one will go, too.
So follow me on kelli-in-history.tumblr.com before I delete this blog in the next two days, please! :)
Signal boosting another blog I’m currently working on focusing on the history of 19th/20th century New York City through media.
New York City Noir, 1935 (via)
Keep calm and carry on (with trademarks)
The iconic World War II-era phrase, which adorns items and merchandise worldwide, is, as it turns out, trademarked in Europe by a former TV producer.
As the fight over the trademark continues, the couple partially responsible for the slogan’s revitalization, Stuart and Mary Manley, began just by framing it in their secondhand book shop and selling copies of the poster. But now, they’re less-than-enthused about the torrent of parodies.
From Mary:“I didn’t want it trivialized. But of course now it’s been trivialized beyond belief…. You want to keep up a standard, and ‘Keep calm and eat a cupcake’ doesn’t do that.”
Read more from our latest Column One report.
Photos: Henry Chu, Sang Tan / Los Angeles Times
(via greatestgeneration)
#museum #american #history #smithsonian #presidents (at National Museum of American History)
If there was an exhibit I would steal for my classroom, this would be IT.
Stage 1:
Preliminary plan for my exhibit for the staff meeting today.
I’ll go back to incorporate visitor evaluations and feedback, but this is the kind of “big idea” so far.
Miss Sanderson’s Parasol Self-Defense, 1908:
“Then Miss Sanderson came to the attack, and the demonstration showed her to be as capable with the stick as the sword. She passed it from hand to hand so quickly that the eye could scarcely follow the movements, and all the while her blows fell thick and fast. Down slashes, upper cuts, side swings, jabs and thrusts followed in quick succession, and the thought arose, how would a ruffian come off if he attacked this accomplished lady, supposing she had either walking-stick, umbrella, or parasol at the time? ”
- J. St. A. Jewell, “The Gymnasiums of London: Part X. — Pierre Vigny’s” Health and Strength, May 1904, pages 173-177. (via » Miss Sanderson and the womanly art of parasol self defence)
(via lostsplendor)
The Digital Public Library of America, to be launched on April 18, is a project to make the holdings of America’s research libraries, archives, and museums available to all Americans—and eventually to everyone in the world—online and free of charge.
(via i--amalibrarian)
