Via TulsaGal, we learn of a cool new way to use modern technology to explore local history. In my Government 2.0 feature story for This Land, I mentioned last October's Tulsa Hackathon, in which teams of beer-and-pizza-fueled developers created mobile applications for local agencies and non-profits. One of the apps...
Posted by Michael Bates on April 2, 2012 5:13 PM
Some years ago, I suggested that the Tulsa Library or Tulsa Historical Society put the Beryl Ford Collection on Flickr as a way to make the photos easier to tag and to make it easy to collect comments and annotations that would add context to the pictures. Several world-renowned archives,...
Posted by Michael Bates on February 14, 2012 1:29 AM
Some time ago, I wrote a blog post urging the stewards of the Beryl Ford Collection to post the collection on Flickr, so as to invite public participation in collecting data about people, places, and times depicted in photos and ephemera from Tulsa history. A couple of months later, I...
Posted by Michael Bates on May 17, 2010 12:55 AM
I was sad to learn of the death of Beryl Ford, the collector of historic Tulsa photographs and ephemera. Ford was 83. Every Tulsan with a desire to understand our city's past owes him an immense debt of gratitude. I can't find words strong enough to explain how important his...
Posted by Michael Bates on May 11, 2009 11:47 PM
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