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When a Log is Not a Log: Behind the Scenes in Exhibit Research
The shelves are metal and packed tightly together in the collections room at The History Center. Near an oversize red dollhouse, careful grey boxes of quilts, and hand-hewn farm implements is what appeared at first glance to be a log. It was an old log, but it wasn’t any old log, it was part of Ithaca’s early infrastructure: its first public water supply.
The log was part of an underground pipeline laid in 1822 by Phineas Bennett and his son, Phineas Bennett Jr., owners of a grist mill on Six Mile Creek above Aurora Street…
The First Look At Online Collections - A Public Access Catalog for the History Center
This is a milestone that has been years in the making — and it represents the beginning of a much larger journey to make our collections accessible to the public in a way they’ve never been before. A public access catalog is exactly what it sounds like: a searchable digital gateway to a museum or archival collection. It allows you to explore what we hold in our vaults, even if you can't visit the History Center in person…
