15481. Oral History with Dorothy and Robert Waters (Part 2) (11:20)

Date:
2019-12-07
Main contributors:
Waters, Dorothy (narrator), Waters, Robert (narrator)
Summary:
Kay Westhues interviews Dorothy and Robert Waters at their home in Schererville, Indiana, on December 7, 2019. Dorothy Waters is a descendent of the Nimetz family, who settled in the Black Oak area in the 1800s and farmed the land surrounding the Chase Street Spring. Her family home on Calhoun Street was the site of another spring, called the Black Oak Spring, which was open to the public and bottled and sold in the early 1900s. The spring was capped sometime in the 1960s. Waters and her husband, Robert, grew up in the Black oak area, and discuss the springs, the neighborhood, and farming during that time. Part of the Spring at Small Farms Oral History Project. See the full exhibit here: https://iusbarchives.omeka.net/exhibits/show/spring-at-small-farms/home

15482. Queer as Data: Linked Data and Minoritized Digital Archives (37:50)

Date:
2019-09-04
Main contributors:
Watson, Brian M.
Summary:
This presentation is the first step in an answer to Emily Drabinski’s 2013 challenge to library and information science (LIS) professionals to think about ways in which to ‘queer the library catalog,’ and to represent identity as historically constructed and described. Beginning with a brief outline of the troubled history between marginalized groups and LIS classifications, I examine some of the proposals suggested over the past half-decade by researchers—and their limitations. Instead of starting anew, or using ‘uninformed’ social tagging/folksonomies, I propose a ‘turn’ to the catalogs and controlled vocabularies of archives and special collections, which frequently reckon with unclassifiable material. Following through on that turn, I will discuss how linked data and linked data vocabularies are currently being used by several digital archives—along with some possible lessons for the LIS field as a whole. The radical and subversive use of linked data by queer digital archives offers a partial solution to the conundrum of minoritized and historical representation in the catalog. Finally, I will conclude by describing my own experiences and considerations in the construction of a new linked data vocabulary.

15483. Ink Spots' Hall of Fame Video Bio (02:32)

Date:
2006
Main contributors:
Watson, Deek, Fuqua, Charlie, Jones, Hoppy, Kenny, Bill, Daniels, Jerry, Bowen, Billy, Kenny, Herb, McDonald, Adriel
Summary:
Video bio of Ink Spots, inducted to Indiana Broadcast Pioneers Hall of Fame in 2006. Writer/Producer: Howard Caldwell; Post-Production: DreamVision Media Partners; Some Photos Courtesy of: The Indiana Historical Society; Duncan Shiedt; The Ink Spots vocal group had its origin in the early 1930s in Indianapolis and appeared regularly on WLW-AM in Cincinnati. The group bolted to national popularity with its recording of the ballad “If I Didn’t Care” in 1939. Between 1940 and 1949, The Ink Spots had more than 30 hits on the pop charts. --Words from the Indiana Broadcast Pioneers

15486. Target for tonight (48:28)

Date:
1941
Main contributors:
Watt, Harry, 1906-1987
Summary:
Presents an account of an actual air raid by the Bomber Command of the Royal Air Force. Aerial photographs disclose the objective to be raided. Then staff planning, routine preparations, and the tension of the evening take-off are shown. Follows a big Wellington bomber through its bombing of the target, engine trouble, the wounding of its wireless operator, and finally its report back to headquarters.

15487. Wausau Homes "Custom Built" (01:05)

Date:
1977
Main contributors:
Wausau Homes
Summary:
A man talks about the different types of suburban homes that Wausau can make. Wausau can also build a family a home that reflects their needs and price.

15488. Wausau Homes "Looks" (00:33)

Date:
1977
Main contributors:
Wausau Homes
Summary:
A man explains that Wausau homes are built with quality products and are priced fairly.

15489. Wax, Amy (27:54)

Date:
2018-04-11
Main contributors:
Wax, Amy, Shanahan, James
Summary:
In episode 88, Dean James Shanahan interviews Amy Wax, who recently visited IU Bloomington as a guest of the Tocqueville Lecture Series.

15490. 2010 Indiana State Fair Master: Wayne and Helen Drake, Hog Breeders (Wayne County) (05:35)

Date:
2017-08-01
Main contributors:
Wayne and Helen Drake (Masters), Jon Kay (Director), Joe Martinez (Videographer), The Woodstove Flapjacks (Music) Thomas G. Richardson (Project Coordinator), Traditional Arts Indiana
Summary:
Starting with only 30 sows, Wayne and Helen Drake built what would become a multi-generational family hog breeding business now involving thousands of pigs. Far from being an isolated practice, Wayne says he learned a lot from other hog farmers. “I learned a lot from the old people, that’s what I called them. You’d sit around the pens, and chew the fat with them, and you pick up a lot of ideas, and exchange ideas. It was really educational for me as a 4-H kid.” Both Wayne and Helen Drake began showing at the State Fair in the 1940s and have continued nearly every year since. Their children, now running the family business, Drake Purebred Farms, have also been showing hogs their whole lives, and have amassed numerous awards and accolades themselves. For the Drakes, hog breeding and showing has turned into a family tradition with no signs of slowing down.