Charley Norkus's Blog – September 2009 Archive (3)

The Image Pedlar, ca.1844

by Francis Willam Edmonds (American painter, 1806-1863)

INSTRUMENTAL (resource):

A man balances a tray of plaster-like images on his head while extending an image out toward a woman who is examining it. Other people are there, adults and children, apparently the rest of the family, all of them inside a large room with sparsely decorated plastered walls. A musket and powder horn hang on the wall,… Continue

My main illustration is listed in both HarpWeek and the Library of Congress sites - it's called "Columbia Demands Her Children!" (http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/D?ils:2:./temp/~pp_Likc::)

I ended up comparing it to another similar cartoon called "Columbia Confronts the President" which I found at the Lincoln Institute's site Abraham Lincoln's Classroom (www.abrahamlincolnsclassroom.org).…

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I created my soundscape on old Lassiter's Mill which burned down in 1958. My dad was a volunteer fireman who, now 87, answered the call that night to fight the fire 51 years ago. His interview is included in the soundscape. The file did not exactly download to this blog the way that I had hoped, but you can access it by copying & pasting the entire URL below into your browser. Later I was able to upload the soundscape ("add a song" dee-da-dee) to Teaching Digital History; Dr Lee added a… Continue