Did you get handed a box of family photos? Not sure what to do with that box? I can help. Take a breath and let’s consider setting the boundaries of the project before you. First, evaluate what you have. Do you have a precious few images, meticulously annotated...
…like we would if we were religious.” One early client reached out to not just trace, but to establish her family’s path to the present. Some unique markers on that West Coast path came to light. An important job of family traditions is to transport...
If you give a kid a camera, you’re going to be surprised! I was delighted to find this gem on my camera a few summers ago. My dad’s living room, shot from the sleeping loft. Dad saves the Sunday comics all year — on the shelf under that coffee...
We giggled onscreen together when she told me about the ring her grandmother had left her. ”It is so ugly! And I so love it.” My pink-haired tattooed client also knew her great grandmother, which is a little unusual. Indeed, we picked a path through five...
They say we die twice — once when our bodies give out, and again the last time our name is spoken aloud. My high school English teacher was the first woman I had ever heard go by the title “Ms.” I was a high school freshman in 1979, in a small mill...
I spent 18 years as “archivist and senior research scholar” at an academic science library, actively trying to add women to the historical record and looking for the women who were already included almost accidentally. I have degrees in women’s history and cultural theory — the latter means that I see the cultural value of everyday practices such as food, clothing, hobbies, and domestic arrangements. Non-famous people matter.
I spent 18 years as “archivist and senior research scholar” at an academic science library, actively trying to add women to the historical record and looking for the women who were already included almost accidentally. I have degrees in women’s history and cultural theory — the latter means that I see the cultural value of everyday practices such as food, clothing, hobbies, and domestic arrangements. Non-famous people matter.