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The title comes from Shakespear’s somewhat overlooked, Titus Andronicus which we thought was fitting for an even more overlooked piece of art.

Read the story of how an old loose canvas painting was identified, the story of the artist, and how the work was ultimately rescued.  This painting was also leveraged as a teaching opportunity for one of the WCSU Archives’ student assistants, Ava Westervelt, when the pandemic made leveraging anything a challenge.

Thanks to Associate Dean of Libraries at WestConn, Veronica Kenausis, for facilitating this work.   Thanks to Ava and Assistant Archivist Stacy Haponik for their research and work on this online exhibit.

https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/relatedObjects/ZoomifyDemo/hunter.html

The WCSU Archives had this in our collections:

It was listed in an inventory as “Japanese; by unknown”.  While accurate to our knowledge of the piece, it wasn’t going to help anyone searching for a Japanese woodblock print of Inukawa Sosuke Yoshinori.

How did we figure out this was Inukawa Sosuke Yoshinori?  First, we used  Google Image Search.  The initial results were other woodblock prints, but not really similar to our image.  We did find one print where the person portrayed looked similar to ours.  So, we threw that search term in with the image, and voila, we in the first 50 results found a gallery that was selling the same print and they had identified the artist, subject, publisher, and date.  Here’s our current record for this piece.

Subsequently, we also found that this same piece is at the MFA in Boston and their record had even more data about the piece.  We also found that there is an app specifically for identifying these woodblock prints:

Japanese Woodblock Print Search: https://ukiyo-e.org/

Based on this discovery, we will be using this to better identify a book of woodblock prints in the WCSU Archive.

Additionally, we found that TinEye search is even better than Google Image Search in this instance at finding a comparable image on the Web.

We also identified a long-unidentified painting (https://archives.library.wcsu.edu/omeka/items/show/1308) from the Marjorie Echols collection.  Is it by Morelli or just a copy?

Cool stuff.

 

We’ve made a video to go with our small exhibit in the Haas Library to mark the centennial of the 19th Amendment’s ratification on August 18.

 This is a virtual program via ZOOM. Participants will receive a link to the meeting at the email address they provided at registration.

The Trung sisters were Vietnamese military leaders who ruled for three years after rebelling in AD 40 against the first Chinese domination of Vietnam. Join Professor Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox for an exciting lecture on the fascinating history, legends, and cultural impact of the Trung sisters.

Dr. Wynn Gadkar-Wilcox, Professor of History and Non-Western Cultures at Western Connecticut State University in historiography of Vietnam and world history, religion and philosophy. He has given many lectures on Vietnamese history and culture. Professor Gadkar-Wilcox is a graduate of Cornell University with a doctorate in Non-Western History.

Free! Registration is Required

Register here: https://danburylibrary.evanced.info/signup/EventDetails?EventId=32427&backTo=Calendar&startDate=2020/07/18

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More potential data sources for manuscript materials:
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/sampling-dna-from-a-1-000-year-old-illuminated-manuscript?utm_source=pocket-newtab

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The 19th Amendment was passed 100 years ago.  Click here to see a list of archival collections in Connecticut that contain materials on the women’s suffrage movement.

This will also show you how important it is to use authoritative subject headings in your finding aids!