An exclaimation from a collegue who was helping me with photography and image selection: “Is that a Fluxus object?” he asked. “My uncle had these glasses! We used to go […]
Author Archives: Hannah Scates Kettler
The Bells
I have just heard the most melodic, soothing, cheerful souds emmenating from the Metal Bells from Box #3. They transported me right outside, and I imagined I was bare foot, […]
Transcribing Iowa women’s lives: the diary of a teenage girl in 1876
Now awaiting transcription at our DIY History crowdsourcing site is the late-19th century diary of Belle Robinson, a charming document of a girlhood in Iowa spent playing croquet, attending picnics, […]
The DADA Bluff
The title of the work is “Dada is everywhere”. Thinking the title of the work hinted at a practical joke such as “this bag will LITERALLY explode and letters of […]
“It means a lot to me to see this picture”: connecting with historic photographs at DIY History
Along with transcribing handwritten diaries and letters, users at our DIY History crowdsourcing site can comment, tag and favorite historic photos at the University of Iowa Libraries’ Flickr site. Most…
The Wilder Life
To celebrate Laura Ingalls Wilder’s birthday — she was born on this day in 1867 — we couldn’t decide whether to churn butter or make a corn-cob doll. So instead we…
Driven by love
These transportation-themed (and occasionally offensive, by today’s standards) cards are among the several dozen vintage valentines now featured on our Iowa Digital Library Pinterest site.
DIY History: 30,000th submission, new collections for UI Libraries’ crowdsourcing project
Thanks to the public’s voracious appetite for historic cookbooks, the University of Iowa Libraries has recently reached a new milestonetemp for its DIY History crowdsourcing site: 30,000 pages transcribed. An…
A good beginning
Perhaps your New Year’s resolutions include a self-documentation project, like more frequent updates on Facebook, Twitter, or even a good old-fashioned diary? For inspiration, we present Iowa Byington Reed (1851-1936),…