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2024 rebecca leave a comment today s what s in woodson comes from one of our fantastic student assistants gabriel witkop it s a good day in the woodson when we get the chance to correct an error or omission past archivists made i was going through a collection the woodson research center procured a number of years ago about a german immigrant into texas the reinermann sandman bethje and quensell families of harris county papers ms 339 consists mostly of the papers and business dealings of one wilhelm quensell the immigrant in question my primary goal at this point was to ensure there were no discrepancies between the physical and online finding aid but much of the charm associated with working in an archive is amusing yourself with the material as you go about your job just as i was finishing up i came to a set of items labeled as a series of notebooks pertaining to the operation of a sawmill that quensell was involved with in the 1870s not expecting to find anything i offhandedly opened up one of these leather bound notebooks this one a bit smaller and older than the rest the inside cover identifies itself as a personal diary for the year 1863 as far as i could tell from the rest of the collection the sawmill definitely didn t exist in 1863 flipping through i stop at a random page the entries seem to have departed from the listed dates at the top of each page and have bled into 1864 handwriting has changed dramatically since the u s civil war and although i would consider myself fluent in cursive i am decidedly not fluent in half centimeter tall 150 year old cursive i could however make out discussions of a camp somewhere called pleasant hill after a quick google search i found a battle on pleasant hill that took place on april 9 1864 flip to that entry and i confirm quensell was there cool mystery solved or so i thought i turned my attention to the inside cover of the diary again noting some sort of what looked like identification information after a great deal of squinting i gathered the name of one edwin f stanton from upstate new york as part of the 114th new york infantry huh why is the diary of a union soldier part of a collection we acquired from a german immigrant who fought for the confederate army in the second half of the u s civil war the new york 114th wasn t even at the battle of pleasant hill although the item itself was mislabeled turning to the collection description did indeed yield some insight into this diary as it turns out this was the 1863 diary of edwin f stanton a union soldier from new york for about 6 months that is when stanton s handwriting cuts off and is replaced by quensell s luckily it doesn t seem that this change of ownership was violent there s a couple of months of missing entries and there are records of an edwin f stanton as postmaster in the years after the war it s a shame he lost his diary but i m glad it survived and landed in our hands after an interesting life gabriel witkop will rice 26 student assistant woodson research center homecoming royalty timeline november 1 2023 norieguthrie 3 comments karen ostrum and mike dunn 1976 for those visiting rice for homecoming you ll see a timeline documenting homecoming royalty in the main hallway of fondren library don t fear we have also created an online exhibit that features a timeline keep in mind that all of the data came the campanile the thresher and our photograph files there are definitely years that we have no information for so that s why there are some gaps ben ramey october 10 2023 norieguthrie 1 comment it s been a longtime since we last posted because it has been mighty busy over the summer we got a new collection from the daughter of howard porper a founding member of the houston folklore and music society it s filled with great photographs and fliers documenting the early days of houston s folk scene when the focus was on performing and celebrating traditional folk tunes rather than writing new songs in that collection a person named ben ramey stood out to me the photograph below is of him at the 1948 progressive party convention pumping his fist holding a brochure songs for a new party it s unclear if this is the texas one which he spoke at or the national we also have program from the national convention ramey served on the party rules committee for the state of texas basically this got me incredibly interested and i fell down a rabbit hole a few days later but only found out a bit of the story i fell down another one this weekend and found out even more ben ramey was born on october 7 1921 in dallas at some point in his life he contracted polio which caused him to use a brace this may have been the reason why he did not participate in world war ii he attended smu for his undergrad and ut law he moved to houston in the late 1940s and joined the law firm mandell wright which represented unions like the nmu after mandell wright and ramey s participation in the henry wallace campaign and his visit to texas which caused a stir paul robeson was there the firm lost their nmu contract red scare right wing hysteria fifties fanaticism and their legacy in texas they shifted more strongly into civil rights and also did personal injury law in 1950 ramey represented a group of black men who were attempting to integrate the golf courses run by the city beal v holcombe they lost the case he also represented herman marion sweatt early on in his case that ended up in the supreme court sweatt v painter which aimed to integrate ut law school he attended at least one meeting of the texas naacp ben ramey and his wife may lived in bellaire and were active in the jewish community they pop up in bellaire newspapers via the portal to texas history he gave talks at the jewish community center concerning support for the un and explaining civil rights legislation and participated in a variety of jewish organizations they also participated in a kibbutz as for his creative side he ed badeaux and mack mccormick worked on a folk show called hootenanny he did not perform music but was the host it included performances by mance lipscomb howard porper pete rose jimmie lee grubbs jim mcconnell john a lomax jr and ed badeaux he also performed in a neil simon play directed by niel sandy havens it s the last tidbit of creativity that made my jaw drop he wrote sci fi short stories under the name h h hollis the bellaire newspaper mentions at least a couple of times of ramey overcoming sicknesses like pneumonia he passed at the age of 55 on may 14 1977 and was cremated he and may had no children if you by chance no more about may ramey please let us know refreshed and new online exhibits july 21 2023 norieguthrie leave a comment if you check out our new digital collections website you ll see a tab on the main menu labeled online exhibits we are currently moving our old online exhibits from the platform omeka classic to our new platform this will be happening steadily over the next year below are some that we have already refreshed or are brand new british navy during the napoleonic era houston folk music archive liberty hall ralph fales photography new rice presidents and provosts for those of you interested in the behind the scenes work some of these new exhibits rely on the web page builder that is used throughout the site while others employ an exhibit builder we re looking at each old exhibit and deciding which options work best for it for some a linear exhibit works while for others an a z list will help someone discover something new or something that sparks old memories new features in digital collections part 2 june 16 2023 norieguthrie leave a comment last time we explored in text searching this time we re going to look at audio and video our audio and video items are in the process of receiving new enhancements namely closed captioning a perfect example of this is the task force on slavery segregation and racial injustice friday webinars in the image above you can see the following an auto scrolling transcript closed captions that can be turned on or off adjustable playing speeds a keyword searchable transcript for most of our backlog of already transcribed audio and video we are using a separate ai service sonix to create vtt files that work with our new platform for some of our content without transcriptions we are using the platform s own ai transcription service we ve already taken the news masters from the ktru archive and ran them through this system we haven t cleaned up the transcripts so please forgive the mistakes in general the ai has done a good job transcribing the audio making it more accessible for a larger community it also took about 10 minutes for it to transcribe around 30 40 news masters we hope that you explore our audio and video and will be patient with us while we work to get everything captioned as a handy reminder you can search all of the audio and video by selecting the terms under format at the bottom of the homepage new features in digital collections june 7 2023 norieguthrie leave a comment i wanted to cover some new features that we have in our digital collections site feel free to give them a test drive search terms highlighted in text if typed written text has been enhanced via ocr optical text recognition or gone through an ai application that runs htr handwritten text recognition you can then search the text of a document and keywords will show up on the original page let s look at two examples the campanile here s a search for beer bike you ll get a list of yearbooks that you can select to see more i ve selected the 2010 campanile you can see that the phrase beer bike is highlighted in the text you ll also see it highlighted on a corresponding transcript below your first result there might be more results to explore edwin lunn diary while we haven t run many of our items through the htr process it requires the author to have good penmanship which isn t always the case here is one good example be aware that we haven t cleaned up the ai generated transcript if you didn t know we already have txt transcripts for many of our handwritten letters we are in the process of moving those over to the new system by relying on this type of transcript it won t highlight the words on the actual letter but you can see the words highlighted on the transcript to the right next time we ll look at enhancements to our a v collections searching the new site part 2 may 30 2023 norieguthrie leave a comment today we re going to tackle two other ways you can search the new digital collections website advanced search on the home page underneath the big search bar or in the upper right corner of any page you ll see the option for advanced search by clicking on that option you ll be brought to a new screen you can do a keyword title or description search you can also select from many options below to refine the search for example you could search beer bike and then select the collection that you are interested in like rice images and documents if you are interested in beer bike from the 1990s you can search the term and select 1990s from the time span option when looking for a topic that is broad this can really help you narrow your focus browse categories at the bottom of the home page you can search only by categories for example you could select the subject health and medicine and limit your 205 results by time span 1970s which will give you two results you could also expand your results by adding another decade like the 1980s your results will expand or shrink depending on the combinations that you choose happy searching searching the new site part 1 may 24 2023 norieguthrie 1 comment with our new digital collections website we tried to provide a variety of options to search it i ll highlight two ways to do that on the menu at the top you can select explore collections this will take you to an a z list of all of the collections on the website this method works well if you know the name of the collection that you are looking for if you don t know the name of the collection you want you can also select by themes if you want material that is not related to the university s history select special collections on the menu we have grouped our collections thematically ranging from american civil war to medical humanities and much more we have also highlighted collections that we maintain with stakeholders like the houston asian american archive and the white house scientist and science policy dynamic digital archive after selecting a theme you ll arrive at a page listing the collections with a bit of information about each one finally by clicking on a collection you ll usually encounter a description of the materials a short biography or other background information and ways to access the finding aid inventory for the collection depending on the collection you might even encounter a blue button that will point you to more information the aaron martin letters have been mapped so the button redirects you to a storymap depending on the size of the collection you can decide how to sort the items by title or date you can also filter by date on the left hand side here s a look at the university archives there are fewer themes but we ve tried to select themes that alums faculty staff and more want to find like oral histories videos radio broadcasts yearbooks and the student newspaper next time we ll explore other ways to search the using the search box advanced search and the search categories on the home page new digital collections website may 22 2023 norieguthrie 2 comments if you haven t noticed things have been pretty quiet on the blog one major reason is that we have been undergoing a massive migration of all of our digital items that have live here to here while we have still have work to do we have moved over 16 000 digitized digital items into our new quartex platform please take some time today to kick the tires at digitalcollections rice edu if you d like to learn more about the new system please check out this great rice news and media article upcoming blog posts will be highlighting how to use the new site posts navigation older posts search for follow blog via email enter your email address to follow this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email email address sign me up location and hours 6100 main st houston tx 77005 1 713 348 2586 monday friday 9 00 am 4 00 pm categories houston rare books rice university sammy the owl special collections texas u s civil war woodson services world war i world war ii authors amandafocke additions to the elinor evans art education collection fondren library supporting research in rice s history in relation to slavery destroying digital media dara flinn shepherd school of music digitization project emancipation in mexico may the 4th be with you jeffatthewoodson tech thursday leveling tech thursday college bowl buzzers tech thursday legacy media 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