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Colorized historical photos and more podcast waffling. | Matt Holdzkom

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Readings and experiences in public history. November 7, 2013. Colorized historical photos and more podcast waffling. Recently, I’ve noticed a number of historical black and white photographs, some of them quite famous, which have been digitally colorized floating around on the web. This blog. On the other hand, what does this mean for the future of digital media and museums? Is it feasible to imagine a day in which a museum’s online photo offerings were reinterpreted in color? In my mind it seems similar...

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May | 2015 | Matt Holdzkom

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Readings and experiences in public history. Monthly Archives: May 2015. May 29, 2015. Review: “Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery” by Clifford Edward Watkins (University Press of Mississippi/Jackson), 2003. By this time the United States had experienced a generous exposure to jazz and blues in the somewhat indecorous context of the sideshow annex. (203). These quotes from the book. Ragged But Right: Black Traveling Shows, “Coon Songs,” and the Dark Pathway to Blues and Jazz. 1999) could p...

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August | 2014 | Matt Holdzkom

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Readings and experiences in public history. Monthly Archives: August 2014. August 24, 2014. In front of large picture windows overlooking the Ohio River. As the visitor progressed downwards through the museum, they would be taken further and further back into Louisville’s past. Local and cultural history would gradually give way to anthropological and natural history, and exhibits about the Falls of the Ohio and the region’s geological origins. 8230;…………….and after. This artifact is part of the interpret...

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Parkland Oral History Project, Take One. | Matt Holdzkom

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Readings and experiences in public history. October 21, 2014. Parkland Oral History Project, Take One. The first phase of the project is to record the memories of men and women who had grown up in the neighborhood, and who were there that day. In order to assemble an accurate and balanced history of the day’s events for the historical record, we are conducting interviews with Parkland residents, most of whom have never been asked to contribute to the story of that day. October 23rd, 2014 at 2:55 pm.

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“Oral History Review” Reading Reflection | Matt Holdzkom

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Readings and experiences in public history. November 17, 2014. 8220;Oral History Review” Reading Reflection. 8220;How Edgar Tolson Made It: Oral Sources and Folk Art’s Success” by Julia S. Ardery. The Oral History Review. Vol 23, No. 2 (Winter, 1996), pp. 1-18. How does this happen? 8221; one declared. On the record, however, she believes that the recorded interview, especially on the subject of art, “tends especially toward drama and celebration rather than apathy and indifference.”. Review: “Show...

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Tour of historic West Main Street with Susan Foley | Matt Holdzkom

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Readings and experiences in public history. September 22, 2013. Tour of historic West Main Street with Susan Foley. I think perhaps I was the only one on the tour who didn’t take any pictures. The amount of knowledge about individual buildings and organizations that the collection of oral histories contains is wholly overwhelming. Susan admirably disseminated enough compelling tidbits to send us all home satisfied. I wonder, though, how I would have felt if. Or is their subtle approach intentional? In or...

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If These Walls Could Talk Redux (Oral History in Museums) | Matt Holdzkom

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Readings and experiences in public history. November 4, 2014. If These Walls Could Talk Redux (Oral History in Museums). A year ago, I was assigned a chapter from the 2011 book. Letting Go: Sharing Historical Authority in a User-Generated World. About an interactive exhibit at the Minnesota History Center called “Open House”. You can read my original blog entry about the reading here. This entry was posted on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014 at 8:34 pm and posted in Uncategorized. Leave a Reply Cancel reply.

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More exhibit work | Matt Holdzkom

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Readings and experiences in public history. September 1, 2014. A second full-length display case for years held a mid-century hair curling gizmo along with a seated mannequin in a striking sharkskin dress. My task was to create a new technology display which would meet the Next Generation Science Standards. Eventually I decided to compare traditional phonograph technology with its most advanced and relatively unknown variation, the Capacitance Electronic Disc. The exhibit explains how phonograph technolo...

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Readings and experiences in public history. January 11, 2016. Dithering about Writing about the Circus. Hagenbeck-Wallace concessions men, ca. 1928. Pete Mardo photo. I’d count my change if I were you. Should I try to relate it to more modern times and tailor it to the Midwest Popular Culture Association? What about focusing on the Peru aspect for the Indiana Historical Society’s publication. How would that be received? So that counts, right? June 20, 2015. Reflections on researching the American circus.