Friday, January 30, 2009

Western Reserve Historical Society

I ended up not being able to stay the full time for this field trip. So I just ended up staying at the Western Reserve Historical Society.

I really enjoyed the tour we got. Everything I will need for my final project is at the Western Reserve Historical Society. They have a ton of old pictures of industrial structures and they have books on how those structures were created.

For my project I wanted to create new bridges in place of old falling down bridges but I want the brand new bridges to look how they would of in the 1930's or other later dates. The lady that gave us our tour really helped me with finding information. She showed me how to us their database to look up pictures, books or other materials that can be very useful for my project.

If I was made curator I would not change much. I would just make it more eye appealing.

I do plan on going back to work on my project a lot. The Western Reserve Historical Society has just about every resource I could need for my project.

7 comments:

Sethna said...

"would of" should read "would have"

It seems as if eye-catching is a motif.

little miss laura said...

I really like your project idea...that sounds really cool! Kudos for getting started & getting help from the information lady! :]

Alphie said...

Glad you got a lot of information right there.

=)

I'm excited to see your finishing project!

Anna C said...

Its neat that you want to bring history back in the form of bridges. Would you post informational signs about the bridges and the history of their time period?

Lienne said...

It's good you and Laura have gotten started on your project and are making a good headway.

Bridges could really be an interesting way to give people knowledge about the area in the form of the different types of bridges and how and what they were used for.

Jeff said...

Bridges are cool.

First Knight said...

I am glad you are eager to go back and use the resources at WRHS. All of you should go back. We paid for 3 month passes. Perhaps you could carpool with one another. Should we make a trip as a group?