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Ethical Data Considerations For Engaging In Reparative Archival Practice, Jamie Rogers, Rhia Rae

Works of the FIU Libraries

Archival textually-rich materials--such as warranty deeds, mortgages, legal documents, and letter correspondence--can provide valuable historical insights, and if transcribed and analyzed, can produce data points in the form of unstructured text, tabular data, and geospatial assets. This presentation will provide an overview of the process Florida International University librarians went through to turn the papers of Dana A. Dorsey, Miami's first Black Millionaire, into data. Their work is guided by the concept of "collections as data" as a form of reparative archival practice, enabling the elevation of marginalized individuals' histories. The goal of reparative archival practice is to create a …

The World As We Know It: Maps And Atlases From Special Collections, Archives And Special Collections, Luke Meagher

Library Exhibits

Selections of maps and atlases from Sandor Teszler Library’s Special Collections are presented in this exhibit to show how, over time, cartographers have represented the world as we know it.

The Shifting Shapes Of Early Texas: Some Highlights From Uta Libraries Special Collections, Ben W. Huseman

Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography Gallery Guides

This exhibit to accompany the Thirteenth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography featured not only cartographic materials showing Texas’ physical and political boundaries but also original rare prints, books, broadsides, letters, sheet music, paper money, and photographs. These materials reflect the ideas and ideals that shaped early Texas history, which itself has undergone shifting interpretations that continue to change with time.

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 6th Grade, Cynthia Barbosa

Spring Workshop March 2021

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): (1) History. The student understands that historical events influence contemporary events. The student is expected to: (A) trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions that resulted from historical events or factors such as colonization, immigration, and trade; and (B) analyze the historical background of various contemporary societies to evaluate relationships between past conflicts and current conditions. (2) History. The student understands the influences of individuals and groups from various cultures on various historical and contemporary societies. The student is expected to: (A) identify and describe the historical influence of individuals or groups on …

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 1st Grade, Sonia Aldape

Spring Workshop March 2021

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 113.12 (4) Geography. The student understands the relative location of places. The student is expected to:(A) locate places using the four cardinal directions;

(5) Geography. The student understands the purpose of maps and globes. The student is expected to: (B) locate the community, Texas, and the United States on maps and globes.

Lesson objective(s): 1. Student will understand the relative location of places on a map using cardinal directions.

2. Student will understand the purpose of maps and globes.

3. Student will understand how to locate the community, Texas, and the United States on …

Lesson Plan, Geography, Citlali González, Diana Rocha, Sonia Aldape

Spring Workshop March 2021

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills):

1: 113.12 (4,5,6)

Lesson objective(s):

1.The Student understands the concept of location using the four cardinal directions. 2.The Student understands the purpose of maps and globes 3.The Student will be able to locate community, Texas and the United States on maps and globes.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Teacher will model what the activity will look like. Divide class into groups to assist each other.

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 6th Grade, Alejandro Rivera

Spring Workshop March 2021

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills):

(1) History. The student understands that historical events influence contemporary events. The student is expected to: (A) trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions that resulted from historical events or factors such as colonization, immigration, and trade; and (B) analyze the historical background of various contemporary societies to evaluate relationships between past conflicts and current conditions. (2) History. The student understands the influences of individuals and groups from various cultures on various historical and contemporary societies. The student is expected to: (A) identify and describe the historical influence of individuals or groups on …

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, Kindergarten, Diana Rocha

Spring Workshop March 2021

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): Geography. K.4A K.4C K.15B

Lesson objective(s): 1.TLW understand the concept of location 2.TLW create and interpret visuals, including pictures and maps. 3.TLW identify tools that aid determine location, including maps and globes.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs:

Searching For Africa: The Map Collection Of Dr. Jack Franke, Ben W. Huseman

Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography Gallery Guides

Gallery Guide for the exhibit featuring 190 items relating to the history of Africa, largely drawn from the map collection donated by Dr. Jack Franke (UTA Distinguished Alumnus, class of 1983). Items range in date from 1493 to 1916.

The guide introduces Dr. Franke's collection, focusing upon the context of the maps' and images' production, with some minimal discussion of the African subject matter.

Greenville, Kentucky - First Map (Mss 701), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Genealogical Records

First map of Greenville, Kentucky.

Lesson Plan, Geography, 1st Grade, Baleria Magaña

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 6A: identify and describe the physical characteristics of place such as landforms, bodies of water, natural resources and weather SA: create and use simple maps of the community 14A: locate places using the four cardinal directions

Lesson objective(s): 1. The learner will identify a body of water that is on the side of the Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge. 2. The learner will identify that the body of water is located to the South of the Santa Ana Wildlife 3. The learner will be able to locate The Santa Ana Wildlife Refuge on a map. …

Lesson Plan, Texas History, 7th Grade, Alexia Alvarado Dimas

Fall Workshop October 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 7.1/7.2 (A) Natural Texas and its People Compare the cultures of American Indians in Texas prior to European colonization, such as the Gulf Plains, Pueblo and Southeastern

Lesson objective(s): TLW = The Learner Will 1. TLW understand the people, their environment, and reasons for movement. 2. TLW understand hunter gatherers. 3. TLW understand farmers

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: TLW work with artifacts and compare and contrast Native American groups.

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, Kindergarten, April Flores

Summer Institute June 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): K.4 The students understand the concept of location. c. Identifying tools that aid in determining location including maps and globes.

Lesson objective(s): 1. Students will do and activity: Think, Turn and Talk with their neighbor and discuss a location that was meaningful to them

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: Teacher will provide a map of the valley and photographs of different places in the valley.

Lesson Plan, History, 7th Grade, Sylvia Garza

Summer Institute June 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 7.1A, 7.2A, 7.8A, 7.9A, 7.19A, (7.13A)?, 7.21A

Lesson objective(s): The student is expected to: 1. Geography: identify ways in which Texans have adapted and modified the environment 2. Culture: Describe how people from various ethnic groups maintain their cultural heritage 3. Gulf Native Texans: Identify the major era of Texas history.

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: -Using maps and the attending of the Sal del Rey can be used to make connections with local events -The use of salt rock and stories of the Silk Route to make connections with how important …

Lesson Plan, Social Studies, 5th Grade, Johana Reséndez

Summer Institute June 2019

TEKS (Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills): 4.A, 5.A, 6.A, -Location -Land Water -Historical sites

Lesson objective(s): 1. Location of Palo Alto 2. Bubbli- Panama field trip/virtual 3. Describe the importance of the Rio Grande Valley river’s location

Differentiation strategies to meet diverse learner needs: -Students will use Chromebooks/Journals -Nearpod create a 360 virtual field trip and upload lesson -Seesaw to upload final product

Rice, Bertha Eleanor (Adams), 1875-1948 (Mss 661), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 661. Genealogical research and correspondence files of Bertha (Adams) Rice, Russellville, Kentucky, mainly regarding the ancestry of Logan County, Kentucky families. Includes a large amount of data copied from deed, marriage, will, and court records of Logan and other Kentucky counties, and from published works.

"A Thoreau Drawn Diagram Of Ktaadn:” If It Exists, Where Is It?, William W. Geller

Maine History Documents

With a diagram of Katahdin drawn by Henry David Thoreau and borrowed from the Colby College Miller Library, three Colby professors set off to climb Mount Katahdin on Friday June 28, 1912. The trip account, which accompanies this document, has numerous clues as to what was on the diagram. With the help of librarians and others I’ve tried to find such a drawing, but I am still looking. For those either curious or wanting to join the search or both, this paper reports on where I’ve searched and explores whether or not Thoreau drew such a diagram.

The topic begs …

Smith, H. (Sc 3200), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Small Collection 3200. “Illustrations of Modern Geography,” a set of seven hand-drawn and colorized maps of various parts of the globe, stitched into a chapbook with marbled paper covers. The title page indicates that the maps were drawn by H. Smith for his father Mr. Smith atWoodland House, midsummer 1834.

Paths To Highways: Routes Of Exploration, Settlement, And Commerce, Ben W. Huseman

Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography Gallery Guides

An Exhibit in Conjunction with the Eleventh Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography. September 23, 2018 through February 2, 2019.

One of many important functions of maps can be the depiction of trails, routes, roads, and highways. Trails may appear bold or almost invisible on a map, depending upon whether the cartographer's aim for such depictions is primary, secondary, or even just an afterthought. The study of how trails either became a part of the landscape as superhighways or were entirely forgotten can begin with old maps. A focus on depictions of trails, routes, roads, and highways …

Drawn To Politics The Editorial Art Of Etta Hulme, Samantha Dodd

Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography Gallery Guides

An Exhibition from the Etta Hulme Papers Spring/Summer 2018 Samantha Dodd, Curator Candy Mccormic, Exhibit Designer

Seutter Map Of America, Meredith D. Staats

Wonders of Nature and Artifice

The map featured in our show, Novus Orbis sive America, was printed in 1730. The engraving measures 50 x 58 centimeters and is a 1:19,000,000 scale.1 The map was donated by John H.W. and Mary G. Stuckenberg. It shows the “New World,” North and South America; the copy Special Collections owns features hand-colored continents. Different states or regions are colored in yellow, pink, orange, and green. On either side of each continent are islands with trade routes highlighted across the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. Also present are two text boxes, both in Latin, one in the upper left-hand corner and …

Farley, Seth Thomas, Jr., 1917-1999 (Mss 617), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 617. Correspondence, documents, news clippings and ephemera from Seth Thomas Farley, Jr., a life-long educator. This collection includes a good deal of information about Farley’s teaching career prior to his work as a professor at WKU, his involvement in organizations that fought alcoholism and gambling (particularly the lottery in Kentucky), his church work, and his service on a committee to choose a federal magistrate for the western district of Kentucky. The collection includes an entire box of assessment related material related to Fort Knox Dependent Schools in the mid-1960s.

Potter, Hugh Oliver, 1905-1986 (Mss 602), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 602. Correspondence, research notes, book manuscripts, promotional material, and editorials related to Hugh O. Potter’s career as a radio broadcaster and his interests in Kentucky history, specifically Owensboro and Daviess County, and Abraham Lincoln. Includes one box of original legal documents (1783-1953) related to the Massie family of Daviess County.

Walking The Line: The Diverse History Of Organized Labor In Texas, George N. Green

Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography Gallery Guides

A retrospective exhibit recognizing the 50TH anniversary of the Texas Labor Archives, 2017. Curated by Dr. George Green in conjunction with UTA Libraries Special Collections.

The task of organized labor is to persuade employers ato recognize unions and to share more of their wealth. Also-during much of our state and national history beginning in the 183os-labor called for a reduction in hours per day and days per week. In that early era, 14-16 hours worked were common over six, sometimes seven, days per week. By the late 19TH century, health and accident compensation were vital goals in more dangerous jobs, …

A Cartographic History Of Huntington, West Virginia, 1871-1903, Brooks Bryant

Manuscripts

Excerpt:

Maps provide a visual representation of the space that surrounds us, revealing how streets, towns, cities, states and countries developed physical boundaries. Plotting change over time through maps allows people to study and reflect on the environment leading to a better understanding of spatial reality. Just like any other primary source, maps are a creation of their social and cultural context conveying certain details while omitting others.

The Digital Musing Of A History Buff, Charles W. Kann

Computer Science Faculty Publications

Perhaps the best part of studying Computer Science (CS) is that it is not an isolated discipline; CS exists to produce systems and applications that support the business and interests of nearly every person in the world. Any area of inquiry is open to fanciful and meaningful exploration by computer scientists. In a very real sense, the world is the oyster of those who can use digital tools developed by CS.

In his talk, Dr. Kann will explore how he uses those digital tools to advance his enthusiasm for history. The talk will highlight some of the work he has …

Map Key And Documentary Sources, Imtiaz Habib

English Faculty Publications

The Map Key (see pages 164–65) offers a partial representation of the locations of black people in Elizabethan London derived from documentary sources and superimposed on [Georg Braun and Frans Hogenberg], Londinum feracissimi Angliae Regni metropolis ([Cologne], [1574]), hand-colored and letterpress text in Latin on back from 1635 edition; Folger Shakespeare Library Shelfmark: MAP L85c no.27. This map is used by permission of the Folger Shakespeare Library under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. All locations are approximate. For the locations that exceed the borders of the map, arrows indicate approximate direction. The numbered entries of the Documentary Sources …

Enlightenment Mapmakers And The Southwest Borderlands: Treasures From The Virginia Garrett Cartographic Library, Ben W. Huseman

Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography Gallery Guides

An Exhibit in Conjunction with the Tenth Biennial Virginia Garrett Lectures on the History of Cartography, October 3, 2016 through January 15, 2017

New Digital Collection: Works Progress Administration Maps Of Atlanta, Kathryn Michaelis

Selections from the University Library Blog

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Mdocs Tri-Fold-2015-04-14, Mapping A City: Saratoga Springs Through 250 Years Of Maps, Sshm, Emily Sloan

MDOCS Publications

Emily Sloan (wrote) this pamphlet that introduces visitors to the idea and process that created the Saratoga Springs History Museum exhibition (April 14-December 31, 2015), Mapping a City: Saratoga Springs through 250 Years of Maps.

The exhibition is the result of colalboration between Dym's class, Mapping the Americas, and several area institutions and libraries. Skidmore's History Department, MDOCS (John B. Moore Documentary Studies Collaborative), and the Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum were the principal campus partners.