This week we worked on mapping our items in Omeka that we observed in special collections from the Joyce Murrow and Beryl Foster scrapbooks. Mapping was a little interesting because not all the items had specific addresses that it would have written down on them. There was some investigating that had to be done to find the locations of these items. Most of mine were very similar as they were musical programs and all could be traced back to Philips Memorial Auditorium. Most of my items had this location and a couple of those items were like extensions of each other. One was a grocery store that no longer exists on Linden St. which was interesting to see how the location has changed since then as there is no longer a grocery store. One of the items was tricky as it was a paper cut out from a birthday party. This one was extremely hard to come up with a location for it. After we were finished mapping our items we were able to pull a map up of all the marked locations of all the items everyone did. Most of the items were marked on West Chester campus but there were some outliers. There was a couple marked in New York City which I thought was interesting. The most interesting location marked was 2 marked in Tennessee. This was interesting as there wasn’t any items marked that far from West Chester, but these ones were clear outliers.
