Displaying artifacts

I am working on an exhibition right now that involves the multiple use of our materials. I am currently in a Digitization BootCamp that is being sponsored by WNYLRC. A class requirement is to post at least 15 images for use at WNYLegacy.org.

A while back, we were contacted about a bottle that was found at a historical site. Taking the bull by the horns, our Senior Research Fellow Joe Nickell and I were able to establish quite a bit of information on this bottle. Due to this project, we decided that between us, Joe was going to write a report for the archeologist, we were going to write an article, use the materials for a display case, use digital photographs for the Skeptiseum, and use the digital photos and other materials for my digitization project. Many uses but all still regarding the same items.

We have also discussed possibly writing a book expanding a lot on the materials, but giving a history of Dr. R.V. Pierce, the subject of this information.

More Ingersoll!

Tom Flynn, curator of the Ingersoll Birthplace Museum, received a bunch of cool new items from a descendant of RGI. Included are what appears to be the printing plates from the Dresden Edition fronts pieces. Each is a different picture of RGI taken at a different point of his life.

Additionally, there are some rare pictures and a scrapbook put together by the family.

I have been asked to assist with one of the plates that is somewhat different from the others, and I will write more on that when I find out more.

Also, I will be cataloging some more Ingersoll items rather soon as we have a box of materials from the former library director (Gordon Stein) that was acquired about 10 years ago, but never cataloged.

We are also getting ready to put together an exhibition of artifacts from Dr R.V. Pierce, a mail order practitioner of nostrums that may or may not have been effective. This also ties into some articles coming out soon from Senior Research Fellow Joe Nickell, and my digitization project for the WNYLRC.