ArchiveGrid: I find it very sad that Sitting Bull was killed for following his traditions. I would have liked to have seen an image of the autograph included with the description. If there was a link to it I did not see it. For my own search I looked up Seth Bullock and came up with 8 hits. One was a diary held by the Montana Historical Society. I never knew that Seth was a Canadian or that he and President Theodore Roosevelt were good friends. It's a good resource for finding out where to look for information on a subject and that it gives you the contact information to the institution is nice. Not really suited for younger patrons, but grad students could find it useful. I realize most people would rather be able to have complete access to materials but that's not always possible.
CAMIO: I love the silver work of Paul Revere! Beautiful. Makes me want to travel to Boston to see it. When searching for "Sioux" there were 63 results, with work types ranging from paintings to sculpture to jewelry. Since I don't really have a favorite artist, I searched for a couple from SD, Jon Crane and Terry Redlin. Needless to say, I didn't get any hits on them ;). I can see art students using this site to compare one artist to another or one movement to another. I did a search on snow (since I'm watching it fall at the moment). If I was doing a paper on this topic it was easy to narrow down my results and put them together into one spot so I would be able to study them at a later date and compare them.
I'm giving CAMIO a thumbs up. It's fun to have a place to go to look at art when you live so far from art galleries. It would be nicer though if you were able to access the site from home. :)
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Hi, Crazy Kat, with ArchiveGrid you did a great job of showing us how we can learn about a person or topic without even seeing the documents! This resource is more for serious researchers who are willing to travel to the owning institutes. We think CAMIO is a great way to bring museums/galleries to us. Our SD artists are not included because none of the place that own their works contributes to CAMIO. In addition to art, CAMIO can be used for social studies and other content areas, too. Thanks for your comments!
Hello! I agree with you on these resources. I enjoyed researching in them. Paul Revere's silver was beautiful.
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