What is this digital public history exhibit about?
This digital public history exhibit is titled “The Adverts 250 Project”. The purpose of the exhibit is to explore different kinds of advertisements that were popular 250 years ago from today.
Who made it, and why?
Carl Robert Keyes is the creator of this digital public history exhibit. It was created to educate the public about things that aren’t tangible. These sources won’t be easily available to the public, so Keye’s exhibit allows the public to get a hold of this information.
What kinds of primary sources did you find?
New paper clippings
*Above is an example of a clipping from The Abvert 250 Project*
Overall, what did the digital public history exhibit do well?
The organization of the digital public history exhibit is very appealing. Posting day by day advertisements was a very clever to help keep things from being confusing. Navigating the website was very easy.
Overall, what could be improved in the digital public history exhibit?
They could make it easier to get to posts from past months. It was hard to look at posts from the beginning of February. It required you to scroll endlessly through posts to find the post you want.
Thinking about digital humanities more broadly, what is gained, and what is lost, when representing the past through this digital public history exhibit?
Digitizing things allows us to preserve our past without the fear of it getting lost. There are many ways to save and share digitized artifacts. The authenticity of an object or artifact is lost when it is digitized. Being able to have an artifact in your hand is very different from looking at it on a screen.