This week, I learned how to map the items I uploaded on Omeka from Joyce Murrow’s scrapbook. Mapping some of the items was really time consuming because you can’t always tell just from looking at the items where it was from. For example, I had to do some research for a napkin from the “Harrisbuger Restaurants.” I had to search for a restaurant that isn’t currently still around. After doing more research, I found out that the restaurant was located in a hotel in Harrisburg and was able to find the address. Another item I mapped was a coaster from the Fuhrmann and Schmidt Brewing Company. It already stated on the coaster that it was located in Shamokin, PA. That narrowed the search to that location and I figured out the place had moved around multiple times since opening in 1906. This made it difficult to determine what year the coaster was from. I then found a list of the company’s locations and found the address for the time period of the 1940s. There were a couple items that I absolutely couldn’t find a location for such as a handwritten receipt made out to Joyce Murrow. The receipt was a notecard with 5 payments each of $10, but could give no hints as to where it came from. I also had an item that was a notecard with a devil on it with the name of Bob Newlin. That information wasn’t enough for me to figure out a location as well.
