ArchiveGrid & CAMIO

ArchiveGrid would appear to have a crazy amount of "stuff". When searching "Sitting Bull Autograph Card", I learned that Sitting Bull or Tatanka Iyotake was a Native American leader that fought in many battles including the battle of Little Bighorn and was against the encroachment of the white men. Sitting Bull toured with the Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show and was killed while resisting arrest. After going through all he did, that is ironic to me.

I did a search for Titanic passengers. Many of the results were family papers or correspondence regarding memorial funds for passengers and crew. Sources varied from New York City Department of Records & Information Services to Yale University to Mystic Seaport. I will be thinking about some other things to search. This would come in handy if you were doing research. The proximity search looks interesting too.

In CAMIO, you can put in your search and refine it very easily. You can refine format, subject, date and creator. Paul Revere is quite the silversmith. There are many photos of sterling tea service sets, a tea urn, teaspoons and other pieces. Who knew? Not I!

There were 63 results for Sioux, various formats, creators and times. From pencil drawings to clothing. Amazing.

I searched Georgia O'Keeffe and spelled her name incorrectly. It showed no matches. I knew that wasn't true so tried various spellings until I got it. Through this I learned that CAMIO will only search exactlly what you put in.

 There are 69 results for O'Keeffe. Four of them being Gelatin Silver Prints. Never heard of such a thing! They are photographs of the artist. Therefore telling me that the results show things created by the artist as well as things containing the artist.

I was telling my in-laws about this resource and asked them how they thought it could be used by the community. My father-in-law said that when he was in 1st and 2nd grade his teacher used "masterpieces" to teach basic art concepts such as composition. I believe that would be a great use of this resource. We are far from many museums and such and this resource would be great to see those items we may not be able to see in person. Even if it's just for exposure to them.

The view favorites feature in Camio was very easy to use and fairly extensive. You can zoom in on an item and pan around to focus on a portion of the item. You can compare 2 works next to each other and scroll through others, create a slide show and even a webpage. This feature would be beneficial for someone comparing and contrasting styles or artists or anything really. Pretty neat.