To my fellow loafers, Two more collections to bookmark today–both from the University of Washington’s digital archives. In honor of the Jewish Day of Atonement this coming Monday, there’s the Washington State Jewish Archives, including 569 photographs, documenting the everyday life of the Evergreen state’s Jews from the 1890s to the 1990s. I can’t figure it [...]
Archive for September, 2009
Jews and Protesters (Not Mutually Exclusive)
Posted in periodicals, photography, tagged 1960s, counterculture, periodicals, photography, protest, University of Washington on September 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Civil War cartoons and the World’s Fair
Posted in cartoons, photography, tagged cartoons, Civil War, photography, University of Maryland, world's fair on September 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear Partners in Leisurely Labor, For this entry, I want to highlight the digital collection at University of Maryland, a mid-size but nice to navigate site. One of their newest additions is a book of drawings from a Confederate soldier who was imprisoned in a Union camp in Point Lookout, Maryland for the last year [...]
Cereal Commercials and Giraffe Broadsides
Posted in advertising, tagged advertising, broadsides, commercials, Duke, video on September 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Dear readers, Who, or what, is the Lazy Scholar, you ask? I’ve been mulling for a few months now the idea of starting blog devoted to the ideal of scholarly sloth–doing as much research as humanly possible without actually leaving your computer. In all seriousness, I think that web archives are an incredible resource for scholars and [...]
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