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Dazzle

An old post from January 9, 2013Inupic mom

I am completely charmed by the natural beauty and style of this Inupik mom. A century ago she stares into the camera with a poise and pride that seems impossibly elegant and timeless. I visited the Michelangelo exhibition in the Renaissance rooms at the National Gallery last week and was reminded of how important the Madonna and child motif was to the 15th and 16th century European mind. The world seems more complete to me when I think that explorers from Western civilization were about to come face to face with the extreme geography and beauty of the arctic people. She was about to dazzle them.

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This site is about the way history, in this case of a city and it's surrounds, is remembered or recorded in stories and small bits of memory. It's also about the way images and stories go together, how they inform and enrich each other and how we as thinking people fill in the content between a narrative and a visual document. So here is my city in time past, the way it looked and the people and events that create its character. For more than 20 years I have taught a 5 credit course on the History of Tacoma at the University of Washington Tacoma. With an average of 30 or 40 students a year, each doing a research paper as their primary focus for the course, I have benefited from many paths of inquiry and many researched and assembled stories. Here are some of them in the retelling along with the treasures of photographs and images in the collections of the Washington State Historical Society, Tacoma Public Library, University of Washington Digital Archives, Washington State Archives at the Office of the Secretary of State, Library of Congress, Washington State University, Alaska State Library, and many other archives, libraries and private collections.

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