Lesson 7--ArchiveGrid and CAMIO

ArchiveGrid is accessable only within schools, public, and academic libraries, is not full text, and may include notes and summaries. ArchiveGrid is for exploring and doing historical and genealogical research. It provides access to almost a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies, and worldwide archives. ArchiveGrid will tell you where the information is located and how to contact the archival institution.
Discovery Exercise Part 1--ArchiveGrid.
1. "Sitting Bull autograph card" typed in search box resulted in 1 result.
Sitting Bull 1834?-1890 Cornell University Library

Autograph card and envelope for card.
Forms part of the Native American Collection. (NAC)
Digitized for the Vanished Worlds, Enduring People exhibition.
Preferred Citation: Sitting Bull autograph card, #9052.
Division of Rare and manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Contact an archivist to learn more about access to materials in this collection.
Cornell University Location NIC Call Number 9052 Location rmc
Call Number: Archives 9052 Bd. Ms.

A Native American shaman, Sitting Bull was leader of the Hunpapa Sioux [Teton or Lakota]. He was known as Tatanka lyotake or Tatanka lyotanka or Ta-Tanka I-Yotan. Sitting Bull fought the Crow Indians, the advancement of white settlers into Sioux lands, and led his warriors in the battle of Little Bighorn against the U.S. soldiers of the 7th Calvary. Many were killed. Sitting Bull led his people to Canada to live, but later surrendered to U.S. forces. In the U.S. , Sitting Bull became part of Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West Show tour. Unwilling to give up his Sioux traditions and the U.S. outlawed Ghost Dance, Sitting Bull was killed resisting arrest by U.S. soldiers.

2. Do a search of your own.
"Alfred Lyman Musson" = no results.
"Musson" = 59 records

Alfred Lyman Musson is my late father.
The first record #1 was exactly what I was looking for.
1. Musson family genealogical notes, Cell, Robert F.
Library of Virginia
Concerns Musson family. Compiled by Robert F. Cell and Alfred L. Musson.

When I clicked on this first record, I was directed to :
Contact an archivist to learn more about access to materials in this collection.
A direct link to Library of Virginia was supplied.

The Library of Virginia
800 East Broad Street
Richmond, VA 23219
800-692-3500

Name
EMail
The Department you would like to contact (lists 15 choices + unknown/other)

ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of the pages of the 59 Musson results.
ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of the listing of the A to Z 1000+ libraries that hold archived materials.
ArchiveGrid will not allow printing of their home page listing some of the archival institutions.

ArchiveGrid will allow the bare bones contact information page.

Cell, Robert F.. comp.
Musson family genealogical notes.
31 leaves.
Notes and Summaries:
Restrictions on Access: There are no restrictions.
Described in: Hart, Lyndon H., Ill, comp. A Guide to genealogical notes and charts in the Archive Branch, Virginia State Library, Richmond: Virginia State Libray, 1983.
Concerns the Musson family. Compiled by Robert F. Cell and Alfred L. Musson.
Photocopies.

This collection covers:
Musson family
Musson, Alfred L., comp.
OCLC Record ID: 314404216
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In 1993, Robert F. Cell published the book, MUSSON FAMILIES IN AMERICA including allied spellings. This book published the results of my late father's and Robert Cell's joint effort beginning in 1978, of their genealogical searchings. Each man had begun his genealogical researching years earlier. Combining efforts revealed over 4000 names in the "America" portion and "well over that number in the British section." In order to keep track of the various families, they devised and used a number system based on the immigrant to America.

Before his death, my father published in 1986, EMMA BARENDIAN DE YOUNG HEARN .
She is my great, great Grandmother who came to America in a three masted sailing ship in 1847 at the age of 16.

I was unsure where the earlier original manuscript notes of Robert F. Cell and my father had been archived. Now I know, thanks to ArchiveGrid, and I also know how to access them should I ever want/need to do so! My sister wants me to help with continuing the family genealogical records. She is waiting for me to retire, so I can travel to libraries, grave yards, and family members with her!!!

CAMIO is the acronym for "Catalog of Art Museum Images Online".
An online collection that documents images of works of art, prehistory through contemporary, from around the world.
CAMIO allows one to print. All content is rights-cleared for educational use inside libraries, schools, and academic institutions.
One captivating feature of CAMIO's home page, is the slide show of fade-in, fade-out images of famous paintings with their citations.
When searching, I like the 2 choices offered: to view by list with Image, Title, Creator, Date, Type, Museum, or to view by Thumbnails, seeing the images lined up side-by-side on the page.

Discovery Exercise Part 2--CAMIO
1. "Paul Revere" typed, without quotation marks, in the search box revealed 34 items of silver pieces, paintings and prints. Silver pieces include Teaspoon, 1785; Sugar Bowl and Cover, 1795; Tea Urn, 1791; Salver, 1761; Sons of Liberty Bowl, 1768; Teapot, 1789; Two-Handled Covered Bowl, 1785; Coffee Urn, 1793; Sugar Urn, 1793; Teapot, 1770, Teapot, 1787, Sugar Basket, 1798; Sugar Urn, 1799; Creampot, 1799, Sugar Bowl, 1761; Print, black and white, The Boston Massacre; Tankard, 1795; Cann, wine quart, 1787; Goblet, 1782 circa; Sauce Boat, 1780-1800 circa; Sugar Basket, 1780-90.
The print, The Boston Massacre, was engraved, printed and sold by Paul Revere. According to CAMIO, it is entitled, The Bloody Massacre, 1770, or did I read it wrong? A copy of
Paul Revere's portrait by John Singleton Copley, circa 1769, Museum of Fine Arts,
Boston, appears in the 2003 print edition of World Book Encyclopedia, p. 267. I'd looked up the Boston Massacre p. 505, because the print beneath the image on CAMIO was so hard to read. The encyclopedia stated the picture was featured with a patriotic poem.
The CAMIO-listed-painting by Grant Wood, The Ride of Paul Revere, brought to mind, the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Paul Revere's Ride. "Listen, my children, and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eigthteenth of April, in 'Seventy-five; ..."

2. "Sioux" typed in the search box obtained 63 results featuring articles of Clothing (cataloged under the title category of Costume and Jewelry) Book, Doll, Pipe Bowl, and Pipe Stem (cataloged under the title category of Sculpture), Photograph, Blanket Strip (cataloged under title category of Decortive Art and Utilitarian Object), Pouch, Double Saddle Bag, Turban, War Club, a 1871 painting by George Catlin, 1796-1872, and more artifacts.

3. Search for your favorite artist produced No Results for Thomas Kinkade.
I assume he is too contemporary for CAMIO.
I, then, searched several famous artists: Edgar Degas, 1834-1917, French, 166 works; Leonardo Da Vinci, 1452-1519, Italian, 8 works; Pablo Picasso, 1881-1973, Spanish, 994 works; Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French, 98 works, focusing on Edgar Degas.
In the 1950's, my father returned from Paris with a painting one of the customs persons thought was a Degas works, which indeed, certainly looks as if it could be, but another customs person said, according to my late father's story at the time, "Oh, it just a cheap imitation! Let him go!!" The painting is of two ballerina dancers. I searched to see if I could find anything similar and did find 5 works of dancers in similar poses.

Just seeing how each item in CAMIO is cataloged/accessioned by each museum was/is fascinating for me. In its beginning years, I worked on the acquisition committee of the Eureka Pioneer Museum of McPherson County measuring, describing, recording information for each artifact donated or purchased.

4. How would you and your community use this resource?
I will certainly use it to augment/book-talk the Eyewitness books on the famous artists, and tie-in the many works of poetry, available in the Elementary Library, when I do the poetry lessons in library skills classes.
For fourth grade, I read-aloud South Dakota books for the South Dakota curriculum studies. This year, I will also take grade four students to the computer lab and students will be typing in "Sioux" in CAMIO's search box!
All teachers, accept me, (no wall space room in our libraries) have just received SMART Boards this summer. Eureka School's art department was eliminated due to budget cuts 5 years ago. CAMIO can really fill a need here, plus tie-in with lessons presented via SMART Board.
ArchiveGrid and CAMIO can have many uses for history lessons, for the American Revolutionary War, for students in grades 2 and 6 doing family-tree projects, for German-Russian heritage searches here in Eureka.
I need to do more of the teacher meeting showing-the-databases sessions again.
I will be showing ArchiveGrid and CAMIO to the public library's librarian if she is not already aware of or utilizing them! I have never taken the time to explore them until now! Maybe she hasn't either.

5. Subject of your choice.
I chose to search piano, which resulted in 71 works on 4 pages.
I really liked the Workbox piano by Johann Christian Friedrich Gruneberg, European, Northern European, German, 1820.
Mahogany. 33 3/16 x 18 1/2 x 23 13/16/in. It even appears to have a mirror inside the lid.
I compared 4 square pianos, but none were as small as the Workbox piano.
Comparing the legs, elephant vs very delicate; a simple plain box shape vs ornate carvings covering the box; and placement of the key board were all so interesting features on these square pianos from the 1700s and 1800s.
What nice features CAMIO has with the slide show option, and being able to do 2 picture comparisons using the number assigned each image so all can be easily moved. Amazing technology! Web page use will have to be figured out on another day!
My goodness! Did I ever get involved in these two databases! Searching might never end!Enough already!