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Subject: New Online Photo Exhibit - Black History From: JohnInKansas Date: 21 Nov 12 - 08:07 PM Local News Clip: KU starts online exhibit of black photography > The Associated Press > Published Wednesday, Nov. 21, 2012, at 4:06 a.m. > LAWRENCE, Kan. — A photo collection featuring images of African-Americans in Wichita from the late 1940s through the 1970s is now available online through the University of Kansas Libraries. > The photos were taken by Leon K. Hughes, who began his photography career in 1946 while working in the city's aircraft industry. > Hughes became a leading photographer for Wichita's family, church and civic events. He shot marriages, birthdays, graduations and more. The collection offers an inside view of the African-American community. > Hughes died in 1978. His widow donated the photos in 2009. > The interactive online collection includes more than 1,000 images. Some details about the photos and their subjects aren't known, and curators hope those viewing the images will submit any information they have. --- > Online: http://liblamp.vm.ku.edu/omeka/exhibits/show/leonhughes Links to the local news items at the source for the article seldom remain working for more than a few days, based on past experience; but the "Online" link to the exhibit should be good for somewhat longer. There is no indication at either, that I saw, that says whether this is a temporary exhibit or is intended to be a more permanent online archive. (The photos surely will be archived, but may not remain online.) The few photos I flipped through are mostly local "social events" - in some cases more family affairs than society news(?). I also haven't explored how easily the whole exhibit can be accessed (I don't care much for automatic slide shows of the kind used at the intro to the exhibit, so would want another way to navigate.) Of interest, perhaps, for those wanting to know about local ethnic cultures, and also maybe for those who just like looking at "common things" that went on within a few decades fairly recently. In the "slide show" at the bottom of the "Online" link, clicking on the "More" link at the bottom of a picture gets a description of the individual picture (that sits there long enough to let you look at what it says) and the pages I looked at did have a link to the "permanent collection" that apparently will contain what's in the current exhibit. A quick look at what's available there may be of more general interest than this exhibit for some at the 'cat. John |
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Subject: RE: New Online Photo Exhibit - Black History From: Janie Date: 21 Nov 12 - 08:50 PM Fwiw, I think this belongs above the line where it started. It documents the more formal events in the life of a community and is certainly deserving to be categorized as folklore. Thanks for the link, John. As time goes on and they are able to collect more information about dates and people, I hope they also share comments of people who discover their family and relatives. |
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Subject: RE: New Online Photo Exhibit - Black History From: JohnInKansas Date: 21 Nov 12 - 09:17 PM Ah, but ethnic folklore has such a short accessible history that it's not "real folklore" like the stuff about dead people from a century ago. Kinda like that modern "Blues" or "Cowboy Music." Music Halls ok - Ragtime no way(?) John |
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Subject: RE: New Online Photo Exhibit - Black History From: Bobert Date: 21 Nov 12 - 09:25 PM Wow... Back in the early 70's when I was workin' in the Richmond City Jail as a GED teacher and at Rubicon North, an inpatient drug rehab program, I took hundreds and hundreds of pictures of folks I met both in jail and at the half-way house... I love having those pictures... They are all black and white but they are very decent as I was a purdy good photographer back then... I'd love to share them if that could be done without having to become all computer literate... B~ |
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Subject: RE: New Online Photo Exhibit - Black History From: JohnInKansas Date: 21 Nov 12 - 10:24 PM Bobert - Nearest decent University?. University Library? See if they have anything resembling a photo collection, or a local history section, or a photo art collection. (Take a look at whether they've done anything with what they've got?) Phone or send a letter and see if they're interested. For stuff as recent as the 70s there might be difficulties with posting "identifiable pictures" of living persons, but if they don't get archived soon enough they could be gone forever "soon enough." Let someone else do the work for you, and provide the place to post them, if you can. They'd certainly want as much documentation as you can provide on who/what/where/when for each photo, but if you don't write that stuff down soon anyway, even you won't know much of it by the time you're my age. Most "archives" probably prefer the originals, but with copy/scan resources pretty available it's possible to have "duplicate originals" or digital copies pretty easily. Unlikely, but remotely possible that the Richmond City Jail would have a library that would like the collection (or copies of it?) although they'd probably be less likely to post it publicly. Public libraries might be interested, but in most places they don't have the people available to "take ownership" of a significant bunch of stuff and do much with it. It might be worth asking, and probably would definitely be worth asking for their suggestions about what to do. Genealogical websites sometimes allow posting of pictures, but generally insist that they're known persons who have some connection to a family that someone's tracing. Some of them might be interested in a "site collection" along the lines of the "Ellis Island Photos" that have been recently noticed, and a "Richmond City jail/rehab site" theme might snag some interest even if the subjects aren't individually known. IF YOU CAN make them "digital" (i.e. scan them) it's really easy (I'm told) to put up your own photos and "share them" publicly on several mostly free websites. The site where we've posted our collection of Festival pics is a paid one (cheap), but the posting was simple enough for Lin to do it all with practically no "technical support," and you're about as technically competent as she is even if not quite as cute (slightly biased opinion). John |
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Subject: RE: New Online Photo Exhibit - Black History From: Bobert Date: 21 Nov 12 - 10:29 PM I'd lend them the entire collection if they'd do the work... Lotta cool pics... Maybe for me it would be VCU in Richmond since these pics are of folks I met and worked with and taught in Richmond... Good idea... I'll make some calls... B~ |
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Subject: RE: New Online Photo Exhibit - Black History From: JohnInKansas Date: 22 Nov 12 - 05:21 AM First it's up. Then it's down. Then it's up. Now it's down. ????????????????????WTF? ... ???? Hope our dueling elfs ain't usin' pointy sticks that's gonna hurt one of 'em. Pleeze be careful!!! John |
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