Born Analog

The musings of a librarian/archivist/historian who has one foot in the museum world as well. Expect a little bit of everything here.

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~ Housekeeping in Old Virginia, by Marion Cabell Tyree, 1879

[bodleianlibs]

This weather is fine. We’re completely fine with how the temperature is working out right now.

[osceolalibrary]

He seems so interested! :)

[bornanalog]

I think we all need this right now.

[daughterofdessalines]

She called him “Sir”

even as her boyfriend lay shot and bleeding ….she still calmly referred to the officer as “sir”. #PhilandoCastile

She had to keep herself alive. Black women have had to implement these survival tactics for generations. They are now implanted in our DNA. 

[micdotcom]

In back-to-back tweet storms, writer and editor Ijeoma Oluo detailed a frustrating reality that many white people angered by the situation frequently overlook. Black people keep dying at the hands of law enforcement because few of those with power are doing anything to prevent it. Sympathetic sentiment, she said, is not enough. In the following tweets, she listed 14 ways to actually enact change.

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The 8th Annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade, Lakeview, 1977, Chicago.

An approximate 3000 people were in attendance, the parade route starting “at Halsted and Addison, going east to Broadway, south to Clark, then south on Clark to Fullerton, east on Fullerton to Stockton Drive, and finally south on Stockton to Lincoln Park.”

This weekend’s parade will be Chicago’s 47th, with an expected 1,000,000+ attendees. 

[bookriot]

As a quiet lot to outsiders, us Indigenous Australians haven’t always been given the opportunity to have our voices heard quite as much as we’d like. In the past we’ve been the token ethnic decoration, running around deserts in traditional dress, and more often than not, having something horrible happening to us. However, there’s been an increase in positive storytelling for Indigenous people, and the show Cleverman is no doubt just the beginning. Cleverman takes place in the post-apocalyptic future, with an ancient race (the “Hairypeople”) wanting to co-exist with humans, only to be refused acknowledgement as citizens and sanctioned into allocated sites set apart from the rest of the general populace, not unlike the way Aboriginal Australians were treated during The Assimilation Process. The main protagonists of this story are two brothers, Waruu and Koen. Then the time comes for their grandfather to pass down ancient knowledge and power to Koen, making him the newly appointed Cleverman, the defender of his people.

Although the creators have used the superhero format with heightened realism with this story, the tales of oppression, ancient traditions and storytelling being passed down, and real warriors overcoming adversity is something that is very true of our culture (or our mob, as you’ll notice us say).

Here is some background reading to really showcase some of the truly great stories, writers, and artists from our country. I have included their Aboriginal nations name and area where they’re from, if not their general state clan.

http://bookriot.com/2016/06/23/not-just-cleverman-books-by-aboriginal-australian-writers-you-should-read/

[projectqueer]

80 percent of LGBT people killed are minorities

When violence strikes the LGBT community, the victims often look like those who died in the Orlando tragedy.

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When people say you can’t racialize Orlando

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When all the white gays said “it could’ve been meeeeee” but they never woulda gone because it was latino night

[amazinghowyoulove]

“It could have been me.”

Grindr profile:  No Blacks, no rice, no beans

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Based on a stamp that was placed in books printed for soldiers on the front lines overseas during WW2.

Adult Services Librarian 

Public Library

Missouri

[thebrainscoop]

Happy 152nd Birthday Carl Akeley!

On this day in 1864, sculptor, writer, inventor, and taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley was born. Starting from humble beginnings - with only 3 years of schooling - he went on to become a pioneer of modern taxidermy. His techniques are still used, and celebrated, today. Akeley was the first chief taxidermist of the Field Museum in 1896, and is responsible for many of the specimens in our African dioramas. He left the Field in 1909 and went on to work at the American Museum of Natural History in New York, which boasts some of his finest work. 

It was a few months early but Happy Birthday Carl Akeley, we made you a brand new diorama for your striped hyenas! :) 

Carl Akeley with bandaged arm and dead leopard that he killed with his bare hands, 8/1/1896 © The Field Museum, CSZ5974c, Photographer Carl Akeley.    Carl Akeley, standing, profile. Portrait painting, circa 1926 © The Field Museum, CSZ62851.  African Elephants Group (Loxodonta africana Proboscidea Elephantidae) front view. Security guard in uniform stands on left side. © The Field Museum, CSZ29277_A, Photographer Charles Carpenter.

Learn More on The Brain Scoop:

Carl Akeley’s Striped Hyenas

Carl Akeley’s Four Seasons

Carl Akeley’s Fighting African Elephants 

[bornanalog]

Happy Birthday Uncle Carl!

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Research and Instruction Librarian at an Art and Design school in Atlanta, GA

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Librarian, academic library, Michigan

I love hiking so I got this a year ago along with “The mountains are calling and I must go” from one of John Muir’s letters. 

[bornanalog]

Full view #pottery #handmade #maker #glaze

[bornanalog]

Making gifts. #pottery #ceramics #ornaments #birds #putabirdonit

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We’re getting into the spirit of the holidays in the archives and thought these pictures of the Eagles Santa Claus party at the Everett Armory were pretty great. These were taken on December 23, 1937 by J.A. Juleen. Some kids look thrilled, while others look pretty disconcerted by Father Christmas. 

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(via In Chicago, Bronzeville School Librarian Layoff Inspires Outrage—and Support | School Library Journal)