Today is the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina’s assault on the city of New Orleans. Of late there have been a lot of news stories about the city’s recovery, or lack of recovery, since those devastating weeks. Over the past several years here at the Center for History and New Media and through the efforts…
Tag: images
History Collages and Image Mining
I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately about how students can begin to sort through the huge databases of historical images now available online. Image mining is still in its infancy, although already we are starting to see some interesting work being done in the field. This work promise to eventually let us do…
Eight Guys from Trenton (cont’d)
Readers of edwired will know that for several years I’ve been pursuing the identities and history of eight guys from Trenton, NJ who happen to live on my office all in a photograph I procured from a junk shop almost three decades ago. Of late I’ve been zeroing in on them just a bit more…
Eight Guys From Trenton (cont’d)
A couple of years ago I wrote a piece for the blog on my favorite eight guys from Trenton. I have updated information on these fellows. I still don’t know who they are, but I know a lot more than I used to about the image itself. I’m not why, but in a fit of…