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Elizabeth Palmer (Merrill) Ring’s travel diary, circa 1909

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All Around the World
Elizabeth Palmer (Merrill) Ring’s travel diary, circa 1909
Mother Dearest
All of Jessie Clark (Ring) Garrett’s children wrote to her regularly, and all obviously loved her dearly. I selected this 1906 letter from her daughter, also named Jessie, because of the sweet salutation: “Dearest thing in the world - “
Love Letters
One of the very best parts of processing personal collections like this one are finding love letters. Here are a few examples I’ve found from Pandora Briggs to E. Peter Garrett!
Highlands In the Snow
The Garrett’s Highlands home made the paper in a snowy scene from January 1921. E. I. Garrett sent this clipping to his mother.
Familial Faces
Garrett Family, Cuernavaca, Mexcio, 1970s
Edward Peter Garrett
A visit to Saginaw, MI in the early 1980s.
At Highlands, undated.
Undated.
Cuernavaca, Mexico, 1970s
Odds and Ends
While correspondence makes up most of the collection, there are also plenty of little treasures to be found!
It wasn’t clear to me in the letter that accompanied this baby hair just who it belonged to.
A Smattering of Garrett Correspondence
In The Beginning
The beginning goals of this project have been to obtain intellectual control over the material, re-folder and remove "dangerous" material (like metal or rubber bands), and begin to create a detailed inventory (called a Finding Aid by archivists!) As of April 1, 2020, I've identified material going as far back as 1824 and as recent as the mid-2000s. The bulk of the collection I've processed appears to be correspondence collected by Jessie Emma (Simonton) Garrett (b.1858 - d.1943) and by Jessie Clark (Ring) Garrett (b.1885 - d.1947) The bulk is primarily family correspondence, with hundreds if not over one thousand letters exchanged between the Jessies, their husbands, and their children. The letters come from all over the world, and across at least 6 states including Washington, Louisiana, Michigan, Ohio, Texas, Wyoming, and New York. As I'm processing this collection, with the help of Alden Garrett, I'm also working on fully flushing out a family tree that will include all of the Merrills, Rings, and Garretts. More on that to come!
Most of the material comes in looking like this:
All of the material is removed from the original envelope and rehoused in archival, acid-free folders which give the materials better room to breathe! Luckily, the quality of the paper over-all has been very good. After refoldering, the boxes end up looking like this:
The new Peter Harrington Catalogue 107 includes preview videos for many of the items.
We have this in my department! #Librarylife #winning
the five types of stories
man vs man
man vs klingon
man vs romulan
man vs q
ferengi navigates the intracacies of the free market
Beach bod?
I think it was time for men to see what it was like. And this video, on the set as well, made people a little uncomfortable. It was funny to see that. Even though the treatment was the director’s idea, when we were doing the scene where they wash the cars, right? You’ve seen this scene a million times with girls. They’re in a bathing suit, they’re pouring water on themselves — you’ve seen it in movies even. You’ve seen it everywhere. They’re pouring water and suds all over themselves, they’re rubbing their boobs on the car, the whole thing. When we were doing this with the guys, the crew, the director — and he’ll admit this too — and the guys who had to do it after one take were like, “Well I think that’s enough. I think, you know, that’s cool.” I was like, “No!” Because if a girl were doing this right now, we’d be shooting it for an hour! Meanwhile we’ve done one take and you’re like, “That’s good.” I was like, “No, it’s not good! Rub your butt on the car!” It’s supposed to be funny, people have to get the joke, but they also have to see what it’s like. How absurd it is to do things like that. I asked the guys, “You feel absurd right now? Yes? Good, then we’re doing it right. Now rub your chest on the car and let’s go.” [laughs] For me it was like, I just wanted them to see what it feels like. I wasn’t trying to have some big political conversation about it, but I am trying to say think about what you do.
Jennifer Lopez, when asked about “I Luh Ya Papi” in this interview (via yah-booty)
why don’t they sell short skirts with cute prints anymore this is ridiculous i don’t want another jersey maxi skirt that’ll show off the contours of my underwear and has a color scheme that makes no sense
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Saltfront: Studies in Human Habit(at)
Salt Lake City, UT: Saltfront, 2013. Issue #1. $12
Saltfront is an arts and literary journal for a radically new type of ecological storytelling; searching for the newest and most vibrant eco-lyrical expressions, new ways to tell stories of what it means to be human amidst the monumental ecological transformations taking place on this planet.
Contributors to issue #1: Emerson Andrews, Ty Bain, Frank Carter, Louis Gakumba, Annie Gilliland, Erin Halcomb, Michael McLane, Jeff Metcalf, Julia Pace, Jesse Don Peterson, Eric Robertson, Resford Rouzer, Kelsey Sather, Stinne Storm, Maximilian Werner, Brooke Williams, and Terry Tempest Williams.
Sexism is everyone’s problem, but many continue to ignore the fact that we are not two separate species and paint it as a women’s issue, to the point where you can reliably predict that any given news article about sexism will inevitably talk about how ‘women are outraged.’ No, you know who’s outraged? Anyone with fucking common sense.
Winston Rowntree (via cracked)
Ex-maiko Chikayoshi getting her makeup done.
Chikayoshi retired after her okiya Mifuku has closed. She was training as a future jikata geiko, but unfortunately she has never become one.