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tmaust (50)in #explore1918 • 7 years ago
What would you fund?
As we end the semester, @kenfinkel has posed us a biiiiiiig question. This is in addition to the lingering question of where exactly we want our grant to go, but might offer us a…
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tmaust (50)in #explore1918 • 7 years ago
Budgeting for Conservation of Collections : The Heritage Health Index (2005)
This week our class ( see this post for more context! ) read the 2005 report, A PUBLIC TRUST AT RISK: The Heritage Health Index Report on the State of America’s…
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tmaust (50)in #explore1918 • 7 years ago
Fair Wages, or Why Steemit Isn't Right for Cultural Institutions...Yet.
In my last post I observed that ethics codes for museum environments don't chart a clear path for cultural institutions to keep themselves above the fray of a market…
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tmaust (50)in #history • 7 years ago
Adventures in Ethics
In our ongoing engagement with what non-profit organizations are and what they could be, our class has arrived at the concept of public trust, especially as juxtaposed with the…
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tmaust (50)in #history • 7 years ago
Come for the Happy Hour, Stay for the History! - 3 Suggestions for Historic House Museums
I've been away from Steemit for a little while, focusing on cranking out the last bit of my M.A. thesis, but I'm back! In the meantime, we were asked to think about how cultural…
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tmaust (50)in #history • 7 years ago
Lessons from Crisis at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
After a brief hiatus (Spring Break), we @phillyhistory students are back Steeming ahead. This week, we are discussing the funding ideas we proposed ( Part 1 and Part 2 )…
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tmaust (50)in #loi2018 • 7 years ago
The Row Home Museum: Letter of Intent
Yesterday, I wrote about the gaps I see in Philadelphia's history system . Today I give you, the funders, a mock Letter of Intent for a project that could meet some of those…
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tmaust (50)in #history • 7 years ago
Gaps in the Philadelphia history system
This week our class is describing needs we see in Philadelphia and proposing methods for the cultural sector to meet them. My classmates have already written eloquently about…
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tmaust (50)in #history • 7 years ago
The Many Monuments of Fairmount Park
In the last few years, Americans have had a lot of conversations about monuments. I've heard people on buses and in restaurants trying to tease apart the legacies of…
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tmaust (50)in #history • 7 years ago
Lessons from Historical Conglomerates
This week, @kenfinkel posed this question to the @phillyhistory group: "When it comes to interpreting, preserving, presenting the past, what are the pros and cons of big…
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tmaust (50)in #history • 7 years ago
Collecting Oral Histories of 1918 in 2018
This post is part of the Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory), in which we are blogging about 1918 in order to raise capital to invest in the cultural sector of…
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tmaust (50)in #microloan • 7 years ago
Building Investment Momentum
This post is part of the Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory). This week our class took stock of the experiment so far and continued posing questions about…
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tmaust (50)in #history • 7 years ago
Thirteen Days that Never Were
The Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory) has had a bunch of us exploring the events of 1918. Today I turn to what didn't happen that year: thirteen days in…
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tmaust (50)in #philadelphia • 7 years ago
Cultural Sector Investment Opportunity: School Buses
This post is part of the Philadelphia History Initiative (@phillyhistory). This week our class is considering where we would invest in the cultural sector, what problems we would…
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tmaust (50)in #explore1918 • 7 years ago
“$5000 Man in $1000 City Job is Ousted"
On January 12, 1918, Horace Thompson Carpenter was fired. For two years he had been the superintendent of Independence Hall, accepting the annual salary of $800 (worth around…
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tmaust (50)in #explore1918 • 7 years ago
Feeling Colonial in 1918
The Colonial Revival Looking through the advertisements in the Philadelphia Inquirer from 1918, I kept noticing items described as "Colonial." From "Colonial Water Tumblers"…
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tmaust (50)in #explore1918 • 7 years ago
"To make good citizens": Lessons from the Assimilation Textbook
"A coming realization" In the summer of 1918, James Lynn Barnard and Jessie Campbell Evans sat down to compose the preface of their book, Citizenship in Philadelphia .[1] In…
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tmaust (50)in #explore1918 • 7 years ago
A Contest of Wills on the Home Front - Explore1918
"Camp 1st Casual Btn. Ft. Riley Sept. 16, '18 Dear Friend: Received your letter of the 10th inst. and with a little delay I answer. Unless a man is isolated from this…
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tmaust (50)in #introduceyourself • 7 years ago
Hello Steemit! - Public Historian in the City of Brotherly Love
Hi folks! My name is Ted Maust and I'm getting an M.A. in public history from Temple University. On the water with classmates from Studies in American Material Culture, Fall…
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