, the product of forest, mine, and field. This is the internet archives, a Public Digital Library in San Francisco, and mission is universal access to all information forever. This building formerly was the church of christ scientist. The church was an aging congregation and put it on the market. We purchased it and refitted it both as offices and workspaces for our engineers and also a space for scanning and for our servers. This is our scanning center where we convert books, microphone, and Motion Picture films to disk. In this room, people are working on scanning books, also manuscripts, microfilm, and also digitizing home movies. Yvonne is operating a state of the arts film scanner. It is taking a digital image of every frame. Later, the images get knit together into a video. She is doing highdefinition recording. Simple,ine looks quite but its quite sophisticated. She controls brightness and quality of the image. And thats about a terabyte of raw scans per day. A huge amount of da
The corner. I wanted to know what your thought if the sight is not 402nd National Park. What are the plans . Yes, to answer your question joy, i think that is a really good question. The position of the campaign as it has gone over the last two years has been pullman is well positioned to be 402nd National Park sight. Er the status of the campaign, senator who is assistant in the u. S. This senate and senator in the minority has cosponsored legislation to have this if become a National Park. That was first step. Congressional route is one way to go if it doesnt work initially you have the second option, that is using president Antiquities Act created in early 1900s was designed to help preserve the country, the president can step in and designate federally owned property as a National Monument and direct national agencies, such as the National Park service to manage that sight. Where we are in that process is in regular communication with d. C. , with our partners in formulating enough
We have two great authors here who have done great work on biographies, two good books you should pick up, both are available in the vendor area. Once again im from the National Parks association, i have several coloraleagues that will here, raise your hand, thats us. If you have any questions about us who we are, what we do stop by and visit us and pick up our brochure. This ends the opening 99th annual conference. I look forward to being back next year for the 100th. Thank you all. Tl. Good friday. Today were going to be discussing two separate conflicts that took place in north america. We talked about the french indiana wars and queen annes war. Today we will talk about two separate conflicts. One is not actually the french indian war. But actually the war between british colonies in the south and spain. And the war that occurs just before the french indiana war. These are words i put up for spelling. Often times i will mention these and students like to get the right spellings. Ot
Being named George Pullman brotherhood sleeping National Park, then it sounds excluesive, where the sleeping carporters had no significant role. And so do what you can to put them in there. Right. You cant just call it pullman. He was great in a sense of a significant person. Once i found out about him i took my children to the Pullman Museum and to the sleeper carporter museum and that will only become important if both segments of that population are important. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [ cheers and applause ] young person. I am not a millennial. Im a generation x id rather you refer to me as a Philadelphia Eagles fan. I have a question in reference to all of the porters. It has always been my understanding that moeflt st of were men that may have gone to college and came out and for many reasons they arent able do anything else. So is it possible that because it is this group of educated men, that many of them are educated men and then are marrying women attempting to asimula
Privateers are seizing our ships on the high seas, this is an insult and there is an increasing clamor in britain to do something about it. Also some of the tension between british and spanish over something that is basically a slave trading contract. It is a 30 Year Contract that gave britain the right to furnish slaves to spanish colonies. There was specific numbers on that. There was one incident in particular is that later gave this conflict the name, war of jenkins year it was in fact a result of one of the ships, the rebecca, that had been seized by the spanish, the captain was a man named Robert Jenkins and he had his ear cut off. It was severed. Everyone handed it was handed back to him. To him it was symbolic. He gets his ear cut off in 1771 but talks to the government, theres a carton of him talking to the Prime Minister. Theres his wig, they are showing his ear, the Prime Minister dismissing him. He would rather talk to a lady than have to deal with this issue. So it shows t