Lesson 8: ArchiveGrid and CAMIO

Part 1: ArchiveGrid
1. When I read about Sitting Bull there was not a  whole lot that was new information for me.  I had studied about Sitting Bull in college, so this was a good review paragraph.   The one thing that I did not remember was that he had led his tribe up into Canada  after the battle.

2. For the 2nd part of this excercise I chose to look up Laura Ingalls Wilder.  Once the results were listed I clicked on a link to the Laura Ingalls Wilder family correspondence, 1861-1919.   It was interesting to find out that there still are letter in existence between Laura's mother, Caroline and her sister, Martha from during the time of the Revolutionary War.     These materials are held by the Wisconsin Historical Society.   They have also been transformed to electronic resources.

This is a good resource for those hard to find documents and to find documents you didn't even know existed.  It was very interesting.

Part 2: CAMIO
1. Paul Revere:  I found out that Paul Revere made lots of Silver pieces/dishes.  He seemed to be very skilled as his pieces are very detailed.  I also found a couple of prints that are made by him or of him.  I was not aware that he was a printmaker.

2. Sioux: This search revealed lots of clothes and handmade things along with pictures of Sioux tribes and places they were located.  There were also drawings made by the Sioux. 

3. My favorite artist: I tried to look up a couple of my favorite artists: Terry Redlin and Georgia O'Keefe but the search did not find any results.  So then I tried Ansel Adams and was surprised at how few of his photographs were listed, only 17.   They were some that I had seen before and some that were a little new to me.  It was interesting how limited in subject matter they were.

4. My community could use this to look up famous people from our area and see there were any results found for them.  You could also use it yourself to look up artists that you are doing research on to get a better feel for the types of things they created and their style.  The only drawback is that there are some well known artists who are not included in this resource.

5. I chose to look up Disney to see what there was listed.  Again I was surprised to see the limited selection, only 4 items.  I chose 3 of the items and looked at them in the slideshow.   It was interesting to do this and post them as a website.  This is not something I would use often, but it is nice to get a collection together for research purposes and use them either during a presentation or just for other people to look at.  It was also a very easy process to follow, which made it even better.