Historypin
@Historypin
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We help strengthen communities through local history. Over 4000 cultural orgs use our free digital tools to help tell their story.
Joined May 2010
Thanks to teachers in York, PA for reminding us on this #MLKDay of this great tour of the March on Washington by @USNatArchives
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The civil rights movement in the United States during the late 1950s and 1960s was the political, legal, and social struggle to gain full citizenship rights for black Americans and to achieve racial...
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🚨New NEH Cultural Resilience Grant🚨 Can support: ✨Digital capture of materials endangered by climate events ✨Collection of oral histories related to COVID-19 ✨ Training and planning for rapid-response collecting ... and more. https://t.co/jkIKMlvtLN
NEW NEH GRANT! Cultural & Community Resilience Grants offer up to $150,000 for diverse community-based efforts to document, collect, & safeguard cultures & experiences of climate change & COVID-19. Due Jan. 12, 2023 & May 16, 2023. https://t.co/MpySqlKR4t
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This is our future, so excited!
#ConstitutionDay panel "Equal Power-Sharing at Montpelier" Montpelier's future will include reimagining the visitor experience with greater #technology & expanding interactions @ElizabethChew @Pastor_Larry1 @JAlbertFrench
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Our #randomimagefriday travels through time, showing Downtown Ridgewood 40 years ago vs. what it looks like now. To see more images like these, please visit our HistoryPin page: https://t.co/g52MJUyhGG
#bolgerheritagecenter #localhistory #ridgewoodnj #downtownridgewood #archive
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It is now a part of our HistoryPin collection, which allows you to see how the house looked then vs. now: https://t.co/PCgiyT2xIV
#bolgerheritagecenter #localhistory #ridgewoodnj #ridgewoodherald #househistory #archives
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Look at Prospect Street pinned by Ridgewood Public Library - The Bolger Heritage Center Formerly 174 Prospect Street and home of Thomas James Foster who was a businessman in New York. Part of the...
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Did you know @Historypin is part of Shift Collective? Here are some of the other things we do:
Thankful to our incredible project partners over the past year and the funders who have supported our work. Shift Collective Year End 2021 Updates:
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The @NottsAAhistory project run by @drkatelaw and Lisa Clarkson was recently featured on @bbcemt
https://t.co/MkOlSlL3e8 To learn more about Nottingham's Anti-apartheid history see our interactive @Historypin
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 This collection spotlights places and stories of protest by anti-apartheid activists in Nottingham city and county from the early 1960s to 1994.Apartheid – meaning ‘apartness’ – was the name of the...
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We’ve just added German to the list of languages Historypin is available in, thanks to a partnership with @eurac & university and library partners. Read more here:
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How to sustain and grow a community #Heritage project? Look no further than the marvellous #PotteriesTileTrail, started in 2012 as part of @HeritageFundUK ‘All our Stories’ prog. #MadeInStoke #MyStokeStory #StokeOnTrent
Visiting @BCBfestival #StokeOnTrent & fancy more urban exploration? Check out #PotteriesTileTrail 6 Towns | 6 Trails (1hr walks) FREE download leaflets: https://t.co/SHzaziHwTm Share your tile pics & add to city's ever-growing @Historypin collection! #HiddenGems #SharedStories
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Thanks! A lot more info coming soon about what to expect with a new and improved Historypin in 2022!
Congratulations to the Shift Collective, which has received an @NEH_ODH grant to work with Historypin, a digital platform that expands knowledge of local histories. https://t.co/pah4As9ifL
#NEHGrant #NEH
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A deep dive into the use of @Historypin and mapping as part of higher education pedagogy. Richard Simpson in Lateral, the journal of the Cultural Studies Association:
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In an era when urban space is theorized as an educative science enhancing productivity, business, and management, we witness the emergence of teaching as a dominant productive force for the first...
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Great example of @Historypin in the classroom, thanks for sharing this!
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Finally, #10 is redesigning @Historypin for more collaborative stories about unmapped, unheard and ignored histories. We continue to launch new languages & w/ help of $375k @NEH_ODH award, we will be ready for another 10 years.
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The grant supports redesign and redevelopment of the collaborative public digital humanities platform.
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What can a small team do to make big change in libraries, archives, and museums? A lot, it turns out, when you work collaboratively. Quick update on what we’re up to:
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April 6, 2021 Back when we relaunched as Shift Collective in August, we were already full steam into a year of work to promote equity in the cultural, academic and cultural memory spaces. While it...
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Join #Topothek, #Smapshot, @CWPhotoSleuth, @Historypin and @Ajapaik at a webinar about crowdsourcing platforms dedicated to enriching the metadata of historic images on Feb 25
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Webinar on crowdsourcing platforms for historic images – Topothek, Smapshot, Civil War Photo Sleuth, Historypin & Ajapaik
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Big news! Thanks to our amazing community, we’ve received a $375k grant from @NEHgov @NEH_ODH to redesign & redevelop our collaborative public digital humanities platform in 2021. Read more:
shiftcollective.us
The grant supports redesign and redevelopment of the collaborative public digital humanities platform.
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Think you know your Murrieta History? Browse the collections in our Historypin Channel to find the answers for this fun quiz! Visit https://t.co/W8LfyNLwFy. Adults 18+. $20 gift card to Amazon. Two winners will be drawn.
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Lynn Valley School, ca. 1920 or 1921. The building at left was built in 1912, and the building at right opened in 1920. Nina Patterson, Archives & Community Engagement Intern, discusses our latest @Historypin project about the Lynn Valley School: https://t.co/QlHDa08yq3
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Happy Anniversary @QueensMemory !
To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, we’re revisiting highlights from each year of the Queens Memory Project. Our 2016 highlight features Memories of Migration, a library-based community memory program led by the @SantaAnaLibrary and @Historypin.
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