Lab hours: Spring Break

- 11.5 hrs: work on Parallel Lives display finalization, including group discussions online, image editing, text editing.

- 30 mins: research on George during the 1880's-90's.

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Total: 12 hrs (whew)

More George during the 1880's-90's

I see David and Nathan posting about George, which reminded me of some leads I started to follow some time back but then forgot about in the chaos...

Third Annual Report of the State Mineralogist, 1883.  GFB listed as a donor.  He is listed as a donor in several issues during the 1880's, the same era as he is listed as a donor in the State Museum of CA catalogue posted by David.

Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1890.  George listed as a member (his location is listed as New South Wales [a southeastern state in Australia]).

Transactions of the American Institute of Mining Engineers, 1893.  George publishes an article about the Zeehan and Dundas Smelting Works (there might be some pictures in here we can use, team PL!).

The Mines of N S Wales, 1897.  George patents something to do with "improvements in the extraction of gold and silver bearing pyrites from their containing material..."

Labs hours: Wk 8

- 10 mins: small edits to blog for ease of use

- 15 mins: meeting with group and Fiona from Tasmanian Sojourn

-  40 mins: communications/discussions on group message board, email, and blog


- 20 mins: Reviewing Beardsley-Wellman family trees and drafting genealogy panels

- 20 mins: Protestant Orphan asylum photo sourced at last

- 30 mins: reading class blogs, including reviewing links
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2hr 15min total

**Attention** FULL CIRCLE!

Question from Parallel Lives for you all:
We are planning on including two family trees (one for Alice, one for George) at the beginning of our timelines for them.  We haven't decided whether to make Alice and George the last generation on the tree, or whether to include Ray Wellman and Ruth Farley White, donor of the collection, also.  If your group will be addressing this in the form of a genealogy or family tree, perhaps our group doesn't need to.  Please let us know!

Lab hours: Wk 7

- 5 mins: small edits to blog for ease of use

- 25 mins: group communications, email and discussion board

- 30 mins: reviewing Beardsley family links sent in email

- 50 mins: research and blog entry on Sacramento Protestant Orphan Asylum

-  1 hr: reading class blogs, including reviewing links

- 35 mins: reading Alice's journal in Domestic Science Monthly

- 30 mins: Pinus ponderosa: locating specimen in campus arboretum, posting photos

- 45 mins: finding images for use in GFB's family/early life
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 Total 4hrs 40 mins

Team PL: Point-people

Artifacts:  Mallory
Images:  Jim
Props:  Holly
Text:  Seya

Exhibit image sources: PL: CA map Early George

I'm putting the links here, as it's as good a place as any to compile them.  Am presuming all this material is public domain.

California map, 1860, Samuel A. Mitchell (wikimedia commons, public domain)

This photo of GFB (on the sidebar of Carrie's blog)

George's birth announcement (Sac Daily Union)

Catherine's (G's mother) death announcement (Sac Daily Union)

Sacramento Protestant Orphan Asylum (Center for Sacramento History)

George tries to run away from the asylum ("Found,"about halfway down 2nd column) (Sac Daily Union)

Ponderosa!

I've become enamored of Dr. C's mention that we could use real ponderosa to represent Amos Beardsley Jr.  I found these in our very own charming arboretum on campus, using the arboretum index and map.  Now that I can ID the tree, I will be on the lookout for others around campus.

Beware, the ponderosa cone comes equipped with spikes.  So does the similar-looking Jeffrey pine cone, but those spikes point harmlessly downward.  The classic mnemonic is "gentle Jeffrey, prickly Ponderosa."

Sacramento Protestant Orphan Asylum

PHOTO
This is the picture of the Sacramento Protestant Orphan Asylum which I pointed out during Team PL's presentation today.  I blithely said it was taken in 1868, but on second glance, that was a misreading on my part.  The accompanying blog entry doesn't make clear when or where the picture was taken, but now I'm thinking it was probably taken circa 1900 at the orphanage's second location (input from people more familiar with turn-of-the-century children's attire and with photo quality?).  Here is a very large version.

This picture is featured on a blog entry for MetroEDGE, of which the asylum's present incarnation, the Sacramento Children's Home, is a beneficiary.
And yet another source for the same image, which still doesn't make its provenience readily apparent: PDF with item 12, Sac City Council Agenda 19 Nov 2013.


"Picturesque California: How westerners portrayed the West in the age of John Muir." Near the end (Figure 12), there is an idyllic-looking painting of the asylum...which is another institution by the same name in San Francisco...oops.

PROPOSAL AND FOUNDING
Sac City & County Record of Events, 1867.  References to proposals, constitutions, and elections for the asylum.  Apparently the orphan asylum was proposed in January, and by March the property was already purchased.

Lab hours: Wk 6

- 3 hrs 5 mins: storyboard creation with group

-  2 hours: research, photo selection/printing, and model assembly for my component of group storyboard

-  45 mins: reviewing zip files posted on SacCT

- 55 mins: reading class blogs, including reviewing links

- 20 mins: group discussion board
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7 hrs 5 mins total

The Amos Foster Beardsley pine

So if this exact info was already discovered by Carrie or Dr. C, I seem to have missed it in the overwhelming bounty of links and zipfiles.  I google searched "beardsleyi" until I found Proceedings of the Edinburgh Botanical Society, Feb, 1855.

Pinus beardsleyi, in the present day is classed as a variety or subspecies of Pinus ponderosa, and is considered synonymous with Pinus benthamiana.  Amos Foster is our George's father.

Image:Young P. benthamiana/beardsleyi, wikimedia.

Lab Hours: Wk 5

- 20 mins: Reading class blogs
- 45 mins: Deed of gift assignment and post
- 75 mins: Reviewing, making notes, photographing, and posting about auction catalog
- 10 mins: Exhibit title online discussion
- 10 mins: Group online discussion
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2hrs 40min

Deed of Gift assignment

Mallory and I did our deed of gift assignment on Thursday (see her blog for better photos of the items).  As "donor," I gifted a Complete Works of Shakespeare from 1906 which I got several years ago at a Sacramento thrift store.  As "registrar," Mallory examined the book and noted its dimensions, condition, distinguishing tags/numbers, and history such as I was aware of.

 As "donor," Mallory gifted a framed historical document commemorating her great uncle, a purple heart recipient who served in WWII and went missing at that time.  I noted the dimensions, condition, framer's marks, style of font and seal, and the family history of the item.