Monday, March 11, 2013

Archive Grid and Camio

After putting in there about Sitting Bull and short amount of information came up about him. It also said about what was in the collection. I tried putting Daniel Boone in the search box as he is an ancestor of mine. When I clicked on the genealogy link I got an error page. Then I clicked on the contact information and it took me to Wisc. Hist. Society. That was more confusing. Then I clicked on the read more and got another system error. I did a little more playing around on this site. Wasn't sure how to go about finding the info to read. I guess you contact the lib. that says it is located. I wonder then if there is a charge to see the info.

Camio: after putting in Paul Revere a list came up of different objects from his time as well as paintings of his time and of him and his wife. The paintings of him and his wife were different. She looked really different in the two that were there. If we had an art teacher I could see  her using this site to show different works of art.
After putting in Sioux there were way more items. I wondered if any of the items we have at the Cultural Heritage Center in Pierre and listed in there.
Then I put in Leonardo Da Vinci and several of his painting came up. You can click  on them and make them larger. If you click the little box you can put them in your favorites and if you choose several you can view them like a slide show. What a way to put together art work of different time periods or from one artist to compare. You can get up close on the art work, maybe view brush strokes etc.

1 comment:

  1. Hi, Denise, thanks for your work here. Yes, ArchiveGrid is an index only, with contact information for the sites holding the collections. You can contact those sites and see whether they will photocopy, whether you can visit, etc. CAMIO consists of digitized art images from institutes & museums around the world. In Advanced Search, you can see the list of contributors; none are in SD. The closest is the Walker Art Gallery in Minneapolis. You made some good discoveries about what's there and how to use it. Thanks for your comments!

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