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