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Episode 12: Research Roundup | Carlisle Indian School Research Podcast (zencast.website)
Again, this is just a review of what’s been keeping me busy last week, and helping me procrastinate from reading handwritten documents, which I have to do for the next proper episode.
Thanks to the Smithsonian Institutions’ National Anthropological Archives for allowing me to work with their collection of digitized glass plate negatives of Carlisle-related subjects. You can browse almost all of those here on this DRC site: Browse Images | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center (dickinson.edu)
Also, I mentioned they recently sent a new scan of students and employees working on a roof in the very early days of the school. Here’s a link to the print I mentioned: Indian School students and staff working on roof of a building, 1880 | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center (dickinson.edu) and below is the new, uncropped, scan of the negative:
Also, I expressed my excitement about ordering more scans from the Richard Henry Pratt papers at Yale University’s Beinecke Library. I’d love to be able to be there in person and lug my scanner into the research room, but this is the next best thing.
Book roundup:
Thomas J. Schlereth, Victorian America: Transformation in Everyday Life, 1876-1915
Isabel Wilkerson, Caste: The Origins of our Discontents
Sarah Klotz, Writing Their Bodies: Restoring Rhetorical Relations at the Carlisle Indian School
I mention needing to look into using Scrivener software to manage my research materials. If you have experience with it, love to hear from you.
I’ll probably do a whole episode in the future following up on Gina’s email about students on outing in New Hampton, New Jersey. Here is Charles Paisano’s information card: Charles Paisano Student Information Card | Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center (dickinson.edu). You can see the list of his outings, including to the Marletts and the Riddles.
And, regarding my idea about adding something like an FAQ to this site, in addition to covering issues like who had their photograph taken/before and after photos and haircutting, are there any other topics you think should be included?