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Tulsa Then and Now: historical photo iPhone app

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

Saving East Germany's near ruins -- and Tulsa's?

Duane Lester, the All-American Blogger, links to an article in Der Spiegel about a photographer, Stefan Koppelkamm, who toured former East Germany in 1990 and 1991, shortly after the fall of the Berlin Wall, and returned a dozen years later, re-photographing the buildings he captured twenty years ago. These buildings...

Posted by Michael Bates on March 14, 2012 12:48 AM

Tulsa's mystery places and mystery faces

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

Airman museum looking for memories, money

During one of my recent trips to San Antonio's Lackland AFB, on a lunch break, I visited the US Air Force Airman Heritage Museum. It's a modest facility with a monumental plans to preserve and display the history of the Air Force's enlisted men and women and the basic military...

Posted by Michael Bates on January 9, 2011 7:08 PM

"The Flickr community is invited to assist in the identification..."

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