local history online
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A presentation regarding online resources for loacal history research, with a case study for researching the removal of Indians from Spokane, Washington.TRANSCRIPT
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A Northwest Historian’s Tour of the InternetA Northwest Historian’s Tour of the InternetLarry CebulaLarry Cebula
Washington State Digital ArchivesWashington State Digital ArchivesEastern Washington UniversityEastern Washington University
Spokane Mayor Burch with "Biggest Indian" Contest Winner Charles Libby, 1909.
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www.northwesthistory.blogspot.com
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American JourneysAmerican Journeys
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Documenting the American SouthDocumenting the American South
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Fold3.comFold3.com
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Google Book SearchGoogle Book Search
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Washington State Digital ArchivesWashington State Digital Archives
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LOC Digital Collections
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LOC Chronicling America Historic Newspapers Project
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Northwest Digital Archives
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Digital Collections from WSU
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Case Study:
Indians and the City Beautiful in Spokane, 1880-1910
•What online resources are available?
•Where do we look?
•What necessary resources are not available?
•Do we find things that we would have overlooked in traditional research?
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Google Book Search for keyword “Spokane” limited to full text
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C. B. Carlisle, Spokane County as it Is: Solid Facts and Actual Results (Spokane, 1883) 42-43.
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Matsura Collection Images matching the keyword “Spokane.”
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Historical Newspapers in Washington from the Secretary of State
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Advanced Searching of Historical Newspapers in Washington
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Spokane Falls Review » 6/16/1883 » Page 2 » Column 2
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To Be Removed
Spokane Falls Review » 1/19/1884 »
Page 3 » Column 4
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Two Articles from Page 1 of the Spokane Falls
Review:
“Somewhat Tough”
and
“An Indian Ishmaelite”
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The Making of America database has a sophisticated search engine.
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Washington State Digital ArchivesWashington State Digital Archives
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Death Death Certificate Certificate
for Spokane for Spokane Garry, Jan. Garry, Jan. 14, 189214, 1892
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Jeremiah Indian,Jeremiah Indian,
11/20/190411/20/1904
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UVA Historical Census BrowserUVA Historical Census Browser
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Univ. of OK: Univ. of OK: Indian Claims Indian Claims Commission Commission
RecordsRecords
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PDF versus Scanned Text!PDF versus Scanned Text!
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Additional Possible Additional Possible Online SourcesOnline Sources
Census DataCensus Data
Additional Historical Image collectionsAdditional Historical Image collections
Digitized Oral historiesDigitized Oral histories
A good starting point for Spokane history A good starting point for Spokane history is this page at the MAC: is this page at the MAC: http://www.northwestmuseum.org/index.cfm/Research_Resources_Online_Resources.htm
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What are We Missing?What are We Missing?
Modern Secondary SourcesModern Secondary Sources– Ruby and Brown, Ruby and Brown, Children of the SunChildren of the Sun– Youngs, Youngs, Fair and FallsFair and Falls
Most Archival RecordsMost Archival Records
Newspapers not DigitizedNewspapers not Digitized
Holding of Small Historical Societies Holding of Small Historical Societies
Etc. etc.Etc. etc.
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Needs and ProspectsNeeds and Prospects
Digital primary sources have a place in the Digital primary sources have a place in the classroomclassroom
Digital primary sources have a place in Digital primary sources have a place in published scholarshippublished scholarship
Historians need to keep up!Historians need to keep up!
We need a centralized resource page for We need a centralized resource page for “deep” digital archives“deep” digital archives
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