1959 Saga

Mike Andriatch emailed looking for one for an alum, got one and brought over to his office.

"Happiness" statues and fountain history

A student emailed about this. Sent him the .pdf of some images and a very brief history I have, suggested some times I could met him next week.

Jean Linn, Niagara CCC

New cataloger/archivist there, emailed reaching out to area archivists to get help understanding how to organize and run their archives. Have replied, will have a phone chat next week, may go out there sometime too.

Alma Mater score

Tony Dumas, Theatre & Music Studies, emailed asking if had a score other than what appears in the old Stylus' for the Alma Mater. I looked online, the score is that of Gotteschalk's "Last Hope," and found a free version, scan of an old song book. Emailed to him, and saved in the Alma Mater folder in filecity2...

GIS mapping, BCM, Zollweg

Jim Zollweg, Earth Science, contacted us at the Brockport Community Museum, I imagine after seeing my post about the group in the Daily Eagle. He asks about collaboration to do some historical mapping etc online. By a nice coincidence, I am going to a workshop on something related at NYLA in a couple weeks, this is what I emailed Jim, Allan et al:

This is the link to the project, and below the blurb: http://ssmp.skidmore.edu. I'm not sure what Jim has in mind, but I think there are probably a wide range of options, and like Jim suggests, for a virtual museum this could be a great project.

 

Mapping A City: A Collaborative Project

Sponsor: PLS / RASS
Saratoga Springs celebrated its centennial as a city in 2015. To commemorate this anniversary, a group of Skidmore College faculty and students, the Saratoga Springs History Museum, the Saratoga Springs Public Library’s Local History Room, the Saratoga Springs City Historian, and the Saratoga County Historian collaborated to present an exhibit at the history museum that told the story of the city through its rich collection of historical maps. The curatorial team for this two year collaborative project will share their experience in successfully working with their community partners. The map exhibit came about because of a recognized need to create a comprehensive inventory of historic maps of Saratoga Springs located in various collections throughout the city and at the Saratoga County offices. After a number of meetings to discuss strategy, the curatorial team came up with a list of maps to be considered for the exhibit.  In the Fall 2014, Professor Jordana Dym offered a class “Mapping the Americas” that worked with the selected materials, researched Saratoga Springs’ history, and prepared the story behind the maps.  In the spring of 2015, some of the class continued with the project helping to make the exhibit come to fruition. The class also created a website for the exhibit using maps digitized as part of the project.  

Royston & Massi

Two star football players of the '50s, and Massi was on the 1957 team that was the first winning Brockport team in the modern post-WWII era. Kerry Gotham from Advancement contacted me, they're going to be here for homecoming this weekend, Kerry wanted Stylus articles of some of their games, photos too if I can find them... Lot of digging but nice to support this...

1996-97 Men's basketball team

They were NCAA "Sweet 16" contenders that year, Liz Wacienga from athletics needed a pic of the team. The folder of prints didn't have one, and needs to be sorted, but found a negative in the Jim D. books. Scanned and sent to her.