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Ty Stump

@ArchivistTy

Archivist at Pennsylvania State Archives, @PHMC. MD native, married to amazing archivist Andra. Views mine obvs. Currently on a break

 Harrisburg, PA
Joined October 2018
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Dang, if it really is almost dead that's a bummer. I'm gonna miss the cool intersection of archives/PA/history folks I met here. I was pretty late to Twitter so I'll prob be late to whatevers next tbh. But I'm always around at the state archives, come see me sometime!
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Lancaster Medical Heritage Museum to open in December wgal.com/article/lancaster-m…

Get a look inside a new medical museum in Lancaster

The Lancaster Medical Heritage Museum is filled with thousands of objects, many of them dating to the late 1800s

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Bought an old used book today and it absolutely reeks of cigarette smoke. The more I read the worse it gets...ugh. I've never had this happen before
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Gahhh every time I flip a page the smell comes galloping back to my nose ☹️
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Sarah@SarahCalise12 Nov 2022
I wrote this for the archivists who love throwing things away. I see you. I love you. @contingent_mag contingentmagazine.org/2022/…
Why Do Archivists Get Rid Of Things (And Enjoy It)?

Why Do Archivists Get Rid Of Things (And Enjoy It)?

Just because something is cool doesn’t mean it belongs in an archive.

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It's #HistoricBridgeAwarenessMonth! Photographed in 1930, this stone eagle was placed on top of a stone pillar located at the western edge of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge, also known as the State Street Bridge, in Harrisburg. A duplicate was placed across the street.
Photographed in 1930, this stone eagle was placed on top of a stone pillar located at the western edge of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge, also known as the State Street Bridge, in Harrisburg, Pa. A duplicate was placed across the street. Lee Lawrie sculpted both eagles.

ALT Photographed in 1930, this stone eagle was placed on top of a stone pillar located at the western edge of the Soldiers and Sailors Memorial Bridge, also known as the State Street Bridge, in Harrisburg, Pa. A duplicate was placed across the street. Lee Lawrie sculpted both eagles.

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Awesome use of archival collections from the Carlisle Digital Resource Center!
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The centre stone of an archway is the KEYSTONE. The two curves either side of the keystone are called HAUNCHES. The inner surface of an arch is the INTRADOS. The wedge-shaped stones from which an arch is built are called VOUSSOIRS. The two lowest voussoirs are called SPRINGERS.
Image from Haggard Hawks 🦅📚 Words | Language | Etymology (@HaggardHawks)
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Tell me you're an archivist without telling me you're an archivist...
My camera roll, which shows thumb nail pics of like 30 photographs of archival documents and boxes

ALT My camera roll, which shows thumb nail pics of like 30 photographs of archival documents and boxes

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Colonial newspapers contributed to the perpetuation of slavery. Advertised 250 years ago today: “RUN AWAY ... a NEGROE slave, called CATO ... broke into a house in York-Town, and stole from, thence upwards of Ninety Pounds.” (Pennsylvania Gazette 10/28/1772)
Image from Slavery Adverts 250 (@SlaveAdverts250)
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#OTD
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@WTAE28 Oct 2022
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Three years ago, the infamous downtown sinkhole partially swallowed a Port Authority bus. Officials said the sinkhole opened up while the bus was stopped at a traffic light. The bus was lifted out of the sinkhole by cranes later that day bit.ly/3SL135a
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PA State Archives is hiring 2 digital archivists, salary range $54,181-$82,387. Taking applications until Nov. 13. imo we're a pretty nice place to work, and you can dm me if you don't believe it. Apply!!!! governmentjobs.com/careers/p…
A job description for the PA state archives digital archivist job. This text is available at the link posted in this tweet too.

ALT A job description for the PA state archives digital archivist job. This text is available at the link posted in this tweet too.

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"Just as it is important to take action to make the archival record as full as possible, it’s also important to understand why and how it became so partial." washingtonpost.com/made-by-h…
Perspective | Trump’s records aren’t all that’s missing from the Archives

Perspective | Trump’s records aren’t all that’s missing from the Archives

America’s archives tell an incomplete version of our story.

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“I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, history was never meant to be drab and dusty, but alive and active in its ever-changing impact”
PA Museums (@PA_Museums) profile picturePA Museums@PA_Museums26 Oct 2022
Cumberland County Historical Society honors reporter with Historian of the Year award cumberlink.com/news/local/5-… via @cumberlink
5 Questions: Cumberland County Historical Society honors reporter with Historian of the Year award

5 Questions: Cumberland County Historical Society honors reporter with Historian of the Year award

The award is presented to a historian who has made a significant contribution to telling the county's story in a variety of ways, but always documented with the highest levels

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There are practically no drawings of rabbits or birds in the margins of books anymore and we're worse off for it tbh
Beinecke Library (@BeineckeLibrary) profile pictureBeinecke Library@BeineckeLibrary24 Oct 2022
Arthurian Romances complete work digitized ca. 1275-1300 bit.ly/2V2e4N3
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Ok nowwww it feels like fall! – at Camp Hill, PA
Packs of Pumpkin head and master of pumpkins beer on a front stoop. An actual pumpkin is nestled inbetween this medley of pumpkin brews.

ALT Packs of Pumpkin head and master of pumpkins beer on a front stoop. An actual pumpkin is nestled inbetween this medley of pumpkin brews.

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Reunited and it feels so good 😀🐢 – at College Park, MD
Ty and andra standing next to a large bronze turtle statue in front of the campus library at the university of Maryland

ALT Ty and andra standing next to a large bronze turtle statue in front of the campus library at the university of Maryland

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That exciting time when the records arrive and you haven't yet started to think about the work it'll take to review and process it all 💙 On my desk today: 2 hefty boxes of Eastern State Penitentiary documents c. 1830-1860!
Two very old metal boxes on a cart. They're marked miscellaneous and board minutes.

ALT Two very old metal boxes on a cart. They're marked miscellaneous and board minutes.

Dozens of antique documents neatly folded and stacked in the box. Some have dates in the 1850s written on them.

ALT Dozens of antique documents neatly folded and stacked in the box. Some have dates in the 1850s written on them.

Dozens of antique documents neatly folded and stacked in the box. Some have dates in the 1850s written on them.

ALT Dozens of antique documents neatly folded and stacked in the box. Some have dates in the 1850s written on them.

A hand written document inventory for the box listing various administrative records from the 1840s and 1850s.

ALT A hand written document inventory for the box listing various administrative records from the 1840s and 1850s.

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"For us to be able to do something very proactive like this, and hopefully bring these things home to the people, really illustrates why archives exist in the first place." hawaiipublicradio.org/the-co…
State moves to block auction of items related to overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani

State moves to block auction of items related to overthrow of Queen Liliʻuokalani

Hawaiʻi's attorney general has put the British auction house Bonhams on notice. At issue are items dating back to the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom that the state maintains belong to the govern...

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