Comments on: Territorial Library: Arts, Manufactures, and Domestic Economy; Trade and Commerce http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/08/16/territorial-library-arts-manufactures-and-domestic-economy-trade-and-commerce/ Where our past is never very long ago Mon, 20 May 2013 20:48:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/08/16/territorial-library-arts-manufactures-and-domestic-economy-trade-and-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-2461 Ardis E. Parshall Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:36:59 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=106#comment-2461 By the way, the three catalog sections posted today mark the completion of this part of the project. Now I’m getting down to work on coding the links that Edje and especially Researcher have provided, and then moving all parts of the catalog together to a place which will be perpetually accessible from Keepa’s front page.

]]> By: Ardis E. Parshall http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/08/16/territorial-library-arts-manufactures-and-domestic-economy-trade-and-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-2460 Ardis E. Parshall Sat, 16 Aug 2008 19:34:25 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=106#comment-2460 You’re wiser than I am, Researcher. I had noticed the number of ocean-related books and maps in several parts of the catalog and went ahead and made the jokes. I never even considered that there could be a potential practical value. While I don’t think Bernhisel thought we might be driven from the Great Basin — in 1851 when he worked on this collection, before the end-of-year return of the runaway judges, relations between the Mormons and the federal government were looking pretty bright — still, he was a forward looking man who very well might have considered a Mormon presence on the west coast as well as in the mountains.

Like I said, you’re wiser than I am. But even I am wise enough not to try the glass-blowing thing from a book! “What?!! Why didn’t they say DON’T INHALE at the top of the page?!”

]]> By: Researcher http://www.keepapitchinin.org/2008/08/16/territorial-library-arts-manufactures-and-domestic-economy-trade-and-commerce/comment-page-1/#comment-2459 Researcher Sat, 16 Aug 2008 18:07:13 +0000 http://www.keepapitchinin.org/?p=106#comment-2459 Super cool section. My favorite is Book of the Feet: A History of Boots and Shoes. Not that I would want to read it; it’s just comforting to know that there are such books out there.

(Berzelius. Use of the Blow Pipe) I wonder if you can really learn a craft like glass-making from a book?

(Vicat, J.L. Mortars and Cements) Do you think he has any references to Meso-American building practices? (Vicat was the inventor of the type of cement used before Portland cement.)

(Conversation about Whale Fishery.) I was going to make a joke about this book, but then I started wondering if Bernhisel thought the Saints would end up in California [or on a Pacific Island as discussed previously], and then realized that at the time, a large number of Saints were in California, and would be there another five years.

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