ArchiveGrid and CAMIO

ArchiveGrid - When I searched Sitting Bull I learned that he was also known as Tatanka Lyotake and was the leader of the Hunpapa Sioux. He fought against the Crow and was wounded several times. He moved his tribe to Canada until they surrendered to the U.S. Forces. He traveled with Buffalo Bill Cody for a time. He was killed while resisting arrest for abandoning traditions of his people. His autograph card was at Cornell University.

I looked up Turner County South Dakota. One of the entries was Homestead days, co 1959. The contact information is Montana State University, Bozeman Libraries. This was an article about Jessie Howard Duffield born in Iowa. She moved to a homestead near Parker, SD in 1882 with her family and worked on the ranch while attending school. Toward the end of her life she wrote a short essay on her life as a homesteader. "homestead Days" talks about her childhood experiences in South Dakota and the great blizzard of 1887-1888. These are fun stories.

CAMIO - After I typed in Paul Revere, I refined my search by clicking on creator. He make some interesting things including teapots, coffee urns, sugar urns the liberty bowl and sugar bowls.

There are beautiful things to look at in here. It is also nice to see who the creator is, the date, the type of item and where it can be found. Some of the things are quite amazing. They did some very intricate work.

I searched Vincent Van Gogh. I looked at his paintings, drawings and watercolors and his early prints. I pulled up different things and you could look at the beginning date of the work till the end date.

Our patrons could use this resource to look at different works by different artists. They might have a painting and don't know who the artist is and could possibly find it here. I could also see where students could use it for research.

I put in lakes as a subject to see what kind of art I would get. There were 72 different paintings or prints. I choose four different ones and put into my favorites. Fun to look at the differences in a slide show. You could show many different kinds of art work from different time eras. This could be a great extra for your presentation.