Aspirin

Risd/Athenaeum:
Ikenson, Ben. Patents : Bubblewrap, Bottlecaps, Barbed Wire, and Other Ingenious Inventions. New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, Incorporated, 2004.

Josiah:
Leighton, Isabel. The Aspirin Age, 1919-1941. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1949.

Risd/Athenaeum:
Jeffreys, Diarmuid. Aspirin : The Remarkable Story of a Wonder Drug. Grand Rapids: Bloomsbury, 2004.

J-STOR:
hun, Beyond Willow Bark: Aspirin in the Prevention of Chronic Disease J. "Beyond Willow Bark: Aspirin in the Prevention of Chronic Disease." Epidemiology 11 (2000): 371-74.

Google:
www.aspirin.com and "the world of aspirin" link

Wikipedia Travels:
Vane, J. R. "The mechanism of action of aspirin." Thrombosis Research 110 (2003): 255-58.

A Time Article: Aspirin Scores Again
http://web.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail?vid=1&hid=17&sid=b15a1400-1982-4182-bb64-a4cd892cce00%40sessionmgr8&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZQ%3d%3d#db=aph&AN=18065366

-George Warner

my baby formula museum

New York Times:

Are poor mothers given infant formula by aid agencies unwittingly starving their children?

Solomon, Stephen. "The Controversy Over Infant Formula," New York Times, December 6, 1981.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E2D61738F935A35751C1A967948260&sec=health&spon=&pagewanted=2

Recent coverage of contaminated formula in China.

Yardley, Jim. "13,000 Babies in Hospital for China Formula," New York Times, September 21, 2008.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/22/world/asia/22china.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=formula&st=cse&oref=slogin

JSTOR:

A broad-ranging feminist analysis of techno-scientific mediation of motherhood, including formula use and breast feeding practices.

"The Virtual Speculum in the New World Order," Donna J. Haraway. Feminist Review, No. 55, Consuming Cultures (Spring, 1997), pp. 22-72.

Academic Search Premier:

The effects on breast feeding of direct-to-consumer advertising of baby formula in hospitals

Johnson, Teddi Dineley "Formula handouts affect breastfeeding," Nation's Health; Mar2008, Vol. 38 Issue 2, p4.

Followed a link on Wikipedia:

History of baby formula with additional links to primary sources.

"The Food Timeline – baby food history notes," The Food Timeline. Lynne Olver 2004
http://www.foodtimeline.org/foodbaby.html

patrick nagle

My Duct Tape Museum

I took a whirlwind tour of JSTOR, Google, Google Scholar, Josiah, Wikipedia, and the depths of my own collection of associations, and here are some things with which I came up:

Apollo 13. Dir. Ron Howard. Perf. Tom Hanks and Kevin Bacon. 1995.

Constantine, Denny G. "Batproofing of Buildings by Installation of Valvelike Devices in Entryways". The Journal of Wildlife Management April 1982: 507-513.

Davis, Jeffrey L.. "A Device to Safely Remove Immobilized Mountain Lions from Trees and Cliffs". Wildlife Society Bulletin Autumn 1996: 537-539.

D.C. "Duct Tape Sticks It to Warts". Science News November 16 2002: 317.

And just in case Apollo 13 doesn't count as a source, here's this, too:

Priest, Dana, and Dan Eggen. "Terror Suspect Alleges Torture: Detainee Says U.S. Sent Him to Egypt Before Guantanamo."Washington Post 6 Jan. 2005: A01.

- Crow Jonah Norlander

My Frame Museum

The Fibonacci Sequence, Pistoletto on frames, Woolf on frames, 16th century conception of frames, framemakers, stolen frames, angry framemakers...

i found mostly everything through josiah

Woolf, Virginia. The Frames of Art and Life
New York: Miller, C. Ruth, 1988

Evans, Michael. Claude Simons and the transgression of modern art.
New York: St Martin's Press, 1988.

Verougstraete-Marcq, Hélène. Cadres et supports dans la peinture flamande aux 15e et 16e siècles
Heure-le-Romain : H. Verougstraete-Marcq, 1989

Heydenryk, Henry. The art and history of frames; an inquiry into the enhancement of paintings
New York, J.H. Heineman, 1963

My Website Museum

A preview of upcoming installations and private collections etc:

Curator: Evan Donahue

Professor discussing place and use of websites and other technology in teaching

Koeber, Charles. "Introducing Multimedia Presentations And A Course Website To An
Introductory Sociology Course: How Technology Shapes Student Perceptions Of Teaching
Effectiveness." Teaching Sociology 33 (2005): 285-300.


Art student makes a website for an african culture public playground near her home and writes article about impetus, process, and result.

Colman, Alison. "The Kwanzaa Playground." The Kwanzaa Playground. 3 May 2000. 30 Sept.
2008 .


Website calling attention to displaced refugees resulting from israel's instantiation.

Sakakini, ed. "Nakba." Nakba. InterTech Co. 30 Sept. 2008 .


Company focused on offering training for design and maintenance of business website.

United Focus, ed. "United Focus." United Focus. 2008. United Focus. 30 Sept. 2008
.


Article concerning China's official policy stance towards web content.

"Chinese websites issue joint proposal for "civilized management" of Internet." BBC 11 Apr.
2006.

My Broom Museum

1) From our libraries:
Swift, Jonathan. A Meditation upon a Broomstick, and Somewhat Beside;of the Same Author's. London: E. Curll, 1710.

2) From LexisNexis:
Mulchrone, Patrick. "Va Va Broom ; Handles Taped to Pedals by Legless Man in Car Chase." The Mirror November 29 2006, sec. NEWS: 27.

3) Also from LexisNexis:
Jr, Frank Morring. "Space Station Crew Pulls Out Spare ' Broom'." Aerospace Daily & Defense Report January 3 2008: 5.

4) Stokowski, Leopold, et al. Fantasia. Deluxe commemorative ed. Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Home Video, 1992.

Specifically, the sorcerer's apprentice scene. Also, here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUCpCimC2f4&feature=related

Jump to ~2:40 for the first broomy appearance.

-Sam Dean

My Pneumatic Tube Museum

A study in mail and technology: New York's pneumatic tube postal system, 1897-1953, which moved mail underneath the city with suction in pipes; its demise and replacement with modern mail trucks; pneumatic systems for human transit, like the Beach subway, 1870; science fiction and conspiracy theories

Arlinghaus, Sandra Lach. Down the mail tubes: the pressured postal era, 1853-1984. Ann Arbor: Institute of Mathematical Geography, 1985.

“Excerpts from the testimony before the Joint commission to investigate the postal service ... also, report of the commission relative to pneumatic-tube service, submitted to Congress January 14, 1901.” United States Commission to Investigate the Postal Service. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1917.

Fuller, Wayne E. Morality and the mail in nineteenth-century America. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.

As the origin of the term “memory hole”:

"In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages, to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating. This last was for the disposal of waste paper. Similar slits existed in thousands or tens of thousands throughout the building, not only in every room but at short intervals in every corridor. For some reason they were nicknamed memory holes. When one knew that any document was due for destruction, or even when one saw a scrap of waste paper lying about, it was an automatic action to lift the flap of the nearest memory hole and drop it in, whereupon it would be whirled away on a current of warm air to the enormous furnaces which were hidden somewhere in the recesses of the building." Orwell, George. 1984. New York: Rosetta Books, 2000.


-Emily Segal

My Rubber Stamp Museum

My Rubber Stamp Museum
Israeli Passport Stamps, Rubber Plantations, Goodyear, Scrapbooking Moms, Librarians and Postal Workers

Newland, H. Osman. The Romance of Commerce: A Popular Account of the Production of Cereals, Tea, Coffee, Rubber, &c.&c &c. London: Seeley, 1920

Stanfield, Michael Edward. Red Rubber, Bleeding Trees: Violence, Slavery, and Empire in Northwest Amazonia, 1850-1933. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico, 1998.

Janssen, Rudd. The TAM Rubber Stamp Archive. 25 September 2008 http://www.iuoma.org/rub_arch.html

Miller, Joni K. and Lowry Thompson. "History of Rubber Stamps." The Rubber Stamp Albumn. New York: Workman, 1978. 28 September 2008 http://www.tealdragon.net/rs/rshist.htm

--Hans Vermy

HAIR

I have chosen to create My Hair Museum.

Wall Street Journal article found on Yale’s website:

Angwin, Julia. “A Head Trip: Indian Hair Finds Parts in Hollywood.” Wall Street Journal. 30  Sept 2008. 21 Aug 2003. http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=2294.

From JSTOR:

Berry, Esther R. “The zombie commodity: hair and the politics of its globalization." Postcolonial Studies. 11.1 (2008): 63-84.

Leach, E. R. “Magical Hair.” The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland. 88.2 (1958): 147-164.

From an English-language German newspaper:

Sandberg, Britta. “Hindu Locks Keep Hair Tradu Humming.” Spiegel Online International.  30 Sept 2008. 19 Feb 2008.  http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/0,1518,536349,00.html.

 

--Nicole Halmi

 

My Flannel Museum

JSTOR

"The Use of the Flannel Board in Teaching German" - Arval L. Streadbeck

"How to Recognize a Lesbian: The Cultural Politics of Looking Like What You Are" - Lisa M. Walker

Google Books

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

- Nupur Shridhar

Hit the Nail on the...

I’ve been collecting material for “My Nail Museum.”

• Perseus Digital Library: a short discussion of iron duties in the colonies found in George Bancroft’s History of the United States from the Discovery of the American Continent.
• ArtStor online search: image of a Congolese nail fetish.
• Google Book search: Gregory Clark’s A farewell to alms: a brief economic history of the world.
• LION search: Galway Kinnell’s poem, “Pulling a Nail”
• Youtube: Blacksmith forging a nail

--Andrew Starner

My Felt Museum

I shall be curating a felt museum. I have been looking into felt as housing, as artwork, as clothing, as industrial product. And, the production of these various felted forms (and forms of felt). 

a few sources from divers locations:

Found via Josiah:

Durini, Lucrezia De Domizio.  The Felt Hat: Joseph Beuys, A Life Told. Milano: Charta Press, 1997. 

Found via Project Gutenberg (a trial from Wikipedia mention of the Mad Hatter):

Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland. 

http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rgs/alice-table.html

Found via NYTimes:

Gardiner, Virginia. "In her hands, felt is fashionable." 

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/08/garden/08claudy.html?scp=1&sq=in%20her%20hands%20felt&st=cse

Found in the trash:

the chapter entitled "Nests" from The Poetics of Space by Gaston Bachelard.

By typing sheep + poety into google, the BBC:

"Wooly writing creates new poetry" 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2541761.stm

Hollis Mickey 

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nail polish

just getting started looking into nail polish...

-some amusing findings on quizilla, what nail polish choices mean about people

-searched nytimes and found some interesting articles, among them following the black nail polish trend dating back to ancient china

-b/c of chemical composition issues, i searched on treehugger and found that there is a solar panel that is made using nail polish/nail polish remover

amanda 

I plan on writing my museum on jars. Though for now most of my sources are on glass canning jars, this will eventually include jars of all types and uses found throughout different points in history.

Fruit Jars, found through Google search:
Lindsey, Bill. “Bottle Typing/Diagnostic Shapes: Food Bottles & Canning Jars”. Historic Glass Bottle Identification and Information Website. 2008. The Society of Historical Archaeology. 29 September 2008. http://www.sha.org/bottle/food.htm#Canning/Fruit%20Jars

About the Ball brothers, found through Google books:
Mayo, Anthony J. and Nitin Nohria. In Their Time: The Greatest Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century. Harvard Business Press, 2005

On the history and growing trend of canning and preserving, found through ProQuest:
Preserving: James Kindall. "Fresh Vegetables, by the Jarful :[Long Island Weekly Desk]. " New York Times [New York, N.Y.] 24 Aug. 2008, Late Edition (East Coast): NJ.3. ProQuest National Newspapers Expanded. ProQuest.

A different kind of jar, Korean Moon jars, found through a LexisNexis search:
“The Korean Moon Jar”. The British Museum. 2007. Accessed 29 September, 2008. http://www.britishmuseum.org/the_museum/news_and_press_releases/press_releases/2007/the_korean_moon_jar.aspx

--Marguerite Preston

Jordan's JStore citations

Thus far, I've made a relatively solid decision to construct my literary museum around glass pipes - including both their history, interplay with marijuana, and subsequent social ramifications. Hence, I have begun my research on these realms - utilizing primarily JStore. 

Citations:

Dell, Deena, and Judith Snyder. "Marijuana: Pro and Con" The American Journal of Nursing 77(1977): 630-635.

Eisen, Gustavus. "The Origin of Glass Blowing." American Journal of Archaeology 20(1916): 134- 143

Navias, Louis. "Review of Scientific and Industrial Glass Blowing and Laboratory Techniques." Science, New Series 109(1949)

Schwarz, Conrad, and John Kaplan. "Effects of Marijuana Use." Science, New Series 180(1973): 1121-1122.

Topic: Bees

JSTOR

Walker, Penelope. "The History of Beekeeping in English Gardens" Garden History 28 (2000): 231-261.

Friend Recommendation

Whynott, Douglas. Following the Bloom: Across America with the Migratory Beekeepers. Boston: Houghton Mifflin: 2004.

Google Books

Horn, Tammy. Bees in America: How the Honey Bee Shaped a Nation. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky: 2005.

Google Scholar

Krell, R. Value-Added Products from Beekeeping. Rome: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: 1996.

—Rafik Salama

My Wine Museum

There are a number of observations about the production, history, use, and culture of wine in ancient Rome in Pliny the Elder's The Natural History.

I got a lead on this source from a Wikipedia article and then used the keyword search in the Perseus Digital Library (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/) to locate relevant passages. The actual text is available online and at our library.

Yeo, Cedric. "The Rise of the Plantation in Ancient Italy and Modern America." The Classical Journal, Vol. 51, No. 8 (May, 1956), pp. 391-395.

JSTOR search

...and a few articles about wine in contemporary economics, found via Google search:

Wallop, Harry. "Wine Buyers defy credit crunch." Available at: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/personalfinance/investing/3067231/Wine-buyers-defy-credit-crunch.html

"Wine = $33 Billion." Available at: http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3488/is_2_81/ai_60015233

Rainey, James. "UFW Wins Contract with Gallo." LA Times. 2 September 2000: A24. Available at: http://articles.latimes.com/2000/sep/02/news/mn-14527


. Jenny Filipetti .

Thanks to Hollis for this splendid blogsite, give or take an anthropologist with a pouffy do.

Please post, by Tuesday, four bibliography items and how you found them.  If you don't know citation style, you can look at MLA style online.  If you know APA or Chicago or any other citation style, go ahead and use it, but choose one and use it consistently.  Please don't invent your own.

Remember that a bibliography item can be a text, image, fieldwork note, etc.  I will expect 10-12 in the final project, 6 of which will be texts of the print culture variety.

By Friday, please make a helpful suggestion to four of your classmates.  I will try to make suggestions to everyone from across the pond.

Read on.

Elaine

Taussig and Tate

TAUSSIG:

Michael Taussig wears an Alexander McQueen cardigan, Olivia Mostacilla shirt, Levi’s jeans and Fernand Footwear sandals.

 From The New York Times

Also, check out all pieces in the Tate collection by Beuys by clicking HERE. 

"Fat Battery," 1963