In March of 2023, four scholars came together to discuss the role that Postal Genealogy can play in historical research, sponsored by the Smithsonian Institution's National (USA) Postal Museum.
Sources like the United States Postal Service's own Publication #119 "Sources of Historical Information on Post Offices, Postal Employees, Mail Routes, and Mail Contractors" are linked from this program recap.
"you should follow the (unofficial) @merlinwisdom. It’s an account that spits out a random entry from Merlin Mann’s Wisdom Project (…) every six hours."
Exhibit #119 of 126 of my 5 year great big graphics project is now all yours.
It's online, annotated for context, indexed, searchable and accessible for the absolute first time ever, the last known surviving copy of this dataset not secured.
There are 48 high resolution images here + such a story behind them as to amaze.
Top search result by its canonical name, more than 8,700 served, some 151 GB of data, 11,500+ high resolution images, 100s completely unique excluded from official copies.
Started work on exhibit #119 of 126 of my great big graphics project.
This one will be the last of its subset and close another chapter in the tale of this extraordinarily rare dataset.
As with all the recent exhibits, I'm working with the only known unsecured instance of this dataset and it will be such a relief to wideband it and assure it is not lost.
This exhibit will be 48 images, no fwippees, so identical to the official dataset this time.
Connected by the colour purple and the subtle use of Truchet tiles as a background pattern, these two artworks are complementary in many other regards.
Connections #119 Sunday 08 October 2023
Link to Connections: www.nytimes.com/games/connections...