Tag: museums

• The Opposition in the WCTU archives

  The Frances Willard House Museum & Archives has an extensive collection of books, articles, reference material, and other educational media on topics of all kinds. I’ve looked through hundreds of books and boxes in the WCTU archives, which hold some material as old as Willard herself. Among these titles are subjects you’d expect: medical treatises,…

  Sep 12, 2018

  # alcohol, archives, Frances Willard, history, museums, Prohibition, WCTU

• For the records

  Dan Cohen ponders why some recent sci-fi films prominently feature libraries, archives, and museums: Ever since Jyn Erso and Cassian Andor extracted the Death Star plans from a digital repository on the planet Scarif in Rogue One, libraries, archives, and museums have played an important role in tentpole science fiction films. From Luke Skywalker’s library of…

  Jun 4, 2018

  # archives, film, history, libraries, movies, museums, quotes

• Move it, McDonald’s

  The replica of Ray Kroc’s first McDonald’s franchise in Des Plaines, Illinois, where I used to work, will be torn down next month: Kroc, considered by the company to be the founder of the modern chain, built his first restaurant in 1955 after franchising the brand from the original owners, Richard and Maurice McDonald. The…

  Nov 26, 2017

  # history, McDonald’s, museums, Novemblog 2017

• A Hopey Changey Library

  Somehow I missed this story on how the forthcoming Obama Center (above) will be challenging the “scam” of presidential libraries. The author, who wrote a book on the topic, lays out how: The National Archives and Records Administration—which operates presidential library-museums for every president from Herbert Hoover through George W. Bush—won’t be operating either for…

  Nov 16, 2017

  # archives, Barack Obama, Chicago, Chicago Public Library, history, libraries, museums, Novemblog 2017, presidents

• DDC 060-069: Museum’s Rules

  A Teach Me How To Dewey production The Rundown: 060 General organizations & museology 061 Organizations in North America 062 Organizations in British Isles; in England 063 Organizations in central Europe; in Germany 064 Organizations in France & Monaco 065 Organizations in Italy & adjacent islands 066 Organizations in Iberian Peninsula & adjacent islands 067…

  May 19, 2014

  # books, Dewey Decimal Classification, libraries, museums, Teach Me How To Dewey

• Today In Nerdery

  In my continuing work at the Frances Willard House Museum and Archives, I’ve started working with the Willard correspondence, which begins in the mid-1860s and continues through the turn of the century. Because of this, and because of Frances’ high stature as a public figure during that time, there are a few letters I’ve happened upon…

  May 6, 2014

  # archives, Frances Cleveland, Frances Willard, history, John Nicolay, Louisa May Alcott, Lucy Hayes, museums, presidents, suffrage, Susan B. Anthony, WCTU, writing

• Where There’s A Willard…

  I’ve recently started volunteering at the Frances Willard House Museum, specifically in the archives/library, which holds material from and related to the life of Frances Willard, the suffragist and temperance advocate who led the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in the late nineteenth century. I got to see the museum’s recent exhibit, titled “Rights or…

  Jan 30, 2014

  # America, civil rights, feminism, Frances Willard, history, museums, suffrage, temperance, WCTU